Modern English biography

1894 p._ 598 _portrait_. PROTHERO, GEORGIANA MARY (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor of Salisbury, _d._ 1846). With her father visited at Holland house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others; appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural history and botany; _m._ 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who _d._ in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court, Newport and managed the estate. _d._ Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895. PROTHERO, THOMAS (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). _b._ 14 Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26 Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov. 1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church of Whippingham 1847. _d._ Malpas court 11 June 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 667 (1870); _Times 14 June 1870 p._ 5, _col._ 3. PROUDMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I. Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London chants 1870. _d._ 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21 April 1891. _J. Proudman’s Musical jottings_ (1872) _portrait_; _Musical Times 1 May 1891 p._ 284. PROUT, JOHN (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). _b._ South Petherwin, near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842, carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. _d._ at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex 7 Dec. 1894. _The Cable Aug. 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_. PROUT, JOHN SKINNER (nephew of Samuel Prout). _b._ Plymouth 1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838; Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol 1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington Museum. _d._ 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug.