Modern English biography

PROSSER, JAMES. _b._ 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures 1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. _d._ The Elms, Thame 15 July 1877. PROSSER, RICHARD. _b._ Birmingham 3 April 1800; employed by Penn and Williams of Birmingham, brassfounders; civil engineer; took out patents for a bullion nail of iron 1831, for casting nails 1835, for nail and screw making machinery 1839, for boiler stoves 1839, for rollers in calico printing, for welded tubes 1840, for a new principle of making iron tubes 1845, for anti-welded tubes 1850, on which he spent £20,000, these tubes are still in use; produced buttons, tiles, tesseræ and articles of pottery from clay in a powdered state 1840; with Job Cutler had a patent for engraved grooved rollers 1843; suggested the Indices of Patents which were compiled by Bennet Woodcraft 1857–89; gave evidence before the Small arms committee 1854. _d._ King’s Norton, Worcestershire 21 May 1854. _R. B. Prosser’s Birmingham inventors_ (1881) 5, 245; _Regina v. Prosser 1847 to set aside patents and works of Caledonian tube company_. PROSSER, SOPHIE AMELIA (daughter of Charles Dibdin 1768–1833). _b._ London 17 May 1807; _m._ 1 Jany. 1830 William Prosser, vicar of Ashby Folville, Leicester, who _d._ 28 June 1884 aged 85; wrote in Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home for about 20 years to her death; author of Original fables and sketches 1864; The Awdries and their friends 1868, 2 ed. 1889; Cicely Brown’s trials 1871, 3 ed. 1885; The cheery chime of Garth 1874, 2 ed. 1888; The day after tomorrow 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Amos Fayle 1878; Frog alley and what came out of it 1879; Ludovic or the boy’s victory 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Lined with gold 1884; Michael Airdree’s freehold 1888; Uncle Christie the strange lodger 1889; The face in the shutter 1890; The Crinkles of Crinklewood hall 1892; her name as Mrs. Prosser is attached to upwards of 30 books, almost all of them published by the Religious Tract Society. _d._ St. Luke’s vicarage, the residence of her son, Wolverhampton road, Bilston 14 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Bilston cemetery 17 Feb. _The Bilston Herald 18 Feb. 1882 p._ 4. PROTHERO, GEORGE (4 son of Thomas Prothero of St. Woolos and Malpas court, Newport, Monmouth 1780–1853). _b._ 1819; educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1866; V. of Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire 1847–53; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1853–7, and rector 1857 to death; hon. chaplain in ordinary to the queen 6 July 1865, and chief chaplain in ordinary 22 June 1869; canon of Westminster 1869, and sub-dean 1883 to death; rural dean of East Medina, Isle of Wight 1872; proctor for dean and chapter of Westminster in convocation 1880 and 1886; enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the royal family for many years; author of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a sermon 1881; The armour of light and other sermons preached before the queen