Modern English biography

instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 225–30 (1871). PROWETT, CHARLES GIPPS (eld. son of Charles Prowett, rector of Stapleford, Herts.) _b._ Topcroft, Norfolk 1818; educ. Richmond and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his college 1841 to death; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; editor of “John Bull” newspaper to 1865; contributor to Gentleman’s and Fraser’s magazines and Quarterly review; author of Trifolium Caianum in adventum reginæ 1843; Translations and original pieces 1881. _d._ Northumberland st. Strand 28 June 1874. _bur._ Stapleford, near Hertford. _Law Times lvii_ 237 (1874). PROWSE, WILLIAM JEFFERY (son of Isaac Prowse, _d._ 1844). _b._ Torquay 6 May 1836; adopted by his uncle John Sparke Prowse, notary, Greenwich; educ. under Nicholas Wanostrocht at Greenwich; contributed to Chambers’ Journal, the Ladies’ Companion, and the National Mag. 1851 etc.; wrote in the Aylesbury News 1855; engaged on the Daily Telegraph, his first article being on the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1861, his last on the death of Tom Lockyer, cricketer 1870; contributed to Fun the Old Man’s sporting articles, etc. under signature of Nicholas; he wrote The key of the Study pp. 199–237 in A Bunch of keys, ed. by T. Hood 1865, and Like to like, a story told by the water-rate pp. 63–94 in Rates and taxes, ed. by T. Hood 1866; he also contributed with G. L. M. Strauss to England’s Workshops 1864. _d._ Nice or Cimies 17 April 1870. _bur._ Cimies. _Nicholas’ Notes and Sporting prophecies by W. J. Prowse_, _ed. by Tom Hood_ (1870) _memoir pp._ 3–12 _portrait_; _Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 57–64 (1882); _W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 377; _Newspaper Press iv_ 130 (1870). PRYDE, JAMES. _b._ 1802; teacher of mathematics and lecturer on mathematics in the School of arts, Edinburgh; in Chambers’s Educational Course he wrote Exercises and problems in Algebra 1855; Treatise on practical mathematics 1855; Algebra, theoretical and practical 1860; Euclid’s Elements of plane geometry 1860; Navigation 1867; and Mathematical tables, logarithms 1878, 2 ed. 1885; he was also author of Tables for calculating interest 1857; A treatise on mathematics 1868; resided 17 Newton st. Glasgow. _d._ of heart disease in Sauchiehall st. Glasgow 10 Feb. 1879. PRYER, HARRY. _b._ 1850; a merchant; fellow of Entomological soc. of London; went to Japan 1870; a recognised authority on Japanese natural history, helped to establish and maintain the museum at Tokio; made researches on the parasites of silk worms; C.M.Z.S.; author of Rhopalocera Nihonica, the butterflies of Japan, Yokohama, 1886. _d._ Yokohama, Japan 17 Feb. 1888. PRYME, GEORGE (only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, merchant 1739–84). _b._ Cottingham, Yorkshire 4 Aug. 1781; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1799, scholar 25 April 1800, fellow 2 Oct. 1805 to Aug. 1813; sixth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; called Prize Pryme on account of the number of the prizes which he gained; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, leader of the Norfolk circuit; returned to Cambridge Oct. 1808, resided at Barnwell abbey, Cambridge from 1813; lecturer in the university on political economy March 1816, professor 27 May 1828, resigned 29 Oct. 1863; contested borough of Cambridge 1820 and 1826; M.P. Cambridge 13 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, was frequently in the chair in committees of the house on bills introduced by private members; bought an estate at Wistow, Hunts. 1847; a founder of the Reform club 1836; author of Poematia numismatibus annis dignata A.D. 1801–1802, Cambridge 1802; Syllabus of a course of Lectures on political economy 1816, 4 ed. 1859; Memoir of the life of D. Sykes, Wakefield 1834; Jephthah and other poems 1838. _d._ Wistow 2 Dec. 1868. _Autobiographic recollections of G. Pryme_, _edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alicia Bayne_ (1870); _R. W. Corlass’ Sketches of Hull authors_ (1879) 83–90; _Register and Mag. of biography Jany. 1869 pp._ 48–50. PRYOR, ALFRED REGINALD (eld. son of Alfred Pryor). _b._ Hatfield, Herts. 24 April 1839; educ. Tunbridge sch. and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862; joined the R.C. church 1858; wrote many papers on botany in the Journal of botany 1873–81; left his herbarium, books, manuscript flora and £100 to the Hertfordshire Natural history society; author of A flora of Hertfordshire, edited by B. D. Jackson 1887. _d._ Baldock, Herts. 18 Feb. 1881. _bur._ Baldock 24 Feb. _A. R. Pryor’s Flora_ (1887) _memoir pp. v, xliv–xlvi_; _Journal of botany_ (1881) 276–8. PRYCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; an accountant at Bristol; city librarian April 1856 to death; F.S.A. 30 April 1857; author of Notes on the ecclesiastical and monumental architecture and sculpture of the middle ages in Bristol 1850; Memorials of the Canynges family and their times 1854; Westbury college, Redcliffe church and Chatterton about 1856; Fact _versus_ fiction, a descent among writers on Bristol history and biography 1858; A popular history of Bristol 1861. _d._ Bristol 15 March 1868, portrait in reference room of Bristol free library. PRYSE, EDWARD LEWIS (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire). _b._ 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March 1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857; hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master of Peithyll fox hounds. _d._ Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888. PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh language 1841–78. _d._ Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. _Times 3 Oct. 1889 p._ 9. PUCKLE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Smith). _bapt._ Eastwick, Herts. 13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; _m._ Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23 April 1793. _d._ High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872, said to be aged 106. _Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 280–5. PUCKLE, JOHN (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London). _b._ 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849; Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000 copies. _d._ Dover 26 Feb. 1894. PUDNEY, JAMES. _b._ Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking 2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax 13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17 Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859; won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. _Illust. sporting news 24 May 1862 p._ 81 _portrait_. PUGH, DAVID (son of Charles Pugh, _d._ 21 Dec. 1796). _b._ Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29 April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to death. _d._ Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861. PUGH, DAVID (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon, Llandilo). _b._ 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen 1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. _d._ London 12 July 1890. PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE (only child of Augustus Charles Pugin, architect 1762–1832). _b._ 34 Store st. Bedford sq. London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrewsbury the addition to Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament 1836–40; designed the cathedrals of Southwark, Killarney, and Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835; Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and silver smiths 1836; Designs for brass and iron work 1836; The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 1843; Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844, 3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852, removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. _d._ St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14 Sept. 1852. _Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin_ (1861) _portrait_; _J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography_ (1864) 317–60; _Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac_ (1853) 5–10 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_ 281, 282 (1852) _portrait_. PUGIN, EDWARD WELBY (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 11 March 1834; managed his father’s practice from 1851; exhibited 16 designs at the R.A. 1854–79; partner with Mr. Ashlin; partner with James Murray of Coventry, they designed Queenstown cathedral; he designed the church of the Immaculate Conception at Dadizeele, Belgium 1859, for which Pius IX gave him the order of St. Sylvester; designed St. Michael’s priory, Belmont, Herefordshire, the church of S.S. Peter and Paul, Cork, the Augustinian church at Dublin, the college of St. Cuthbert and the schools of St. Aloysius, Ushaw, and many churches; in five years made £40,000; designed the Granville hotel at Ramsgate in which he held a share and lost much money; claimed unjustly that his father was the architect of the houses of parliament 1867; edited some of his father’s works; author of Who was the art architect of the houses of parliament 1867, there were several pamphlets on this subject. _d._ 111 Victoria st. Westminster 4 June 1875. _bur._ St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate 10 June, marble bust in the gardens on the cliff at Ramsgate. _Builder 12 June 1875 pp._ 522–3; _Building News 11 June 1875 p._ 670; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 571 (1875) _portrait_. PULESTON, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Richard Puleston, 1 baronet 1765–1840). _b._ Emral, Flintshire 20 June 1789; succeeded 19 May 1840; colonel of Flint militia 24 Feb. 1846 to 14 May 1855. _d._ 19 Dec. 1860. PULLAN, RICHARD POPPLEWELL (son of Samuel Popplewell Pullan, solicitor). _b._ Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ. Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct. 1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited in London a model of the country and fortifications about Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural history museum; designed churches at Pontresina and Baveno; completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A history of discoveries of Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidæ 1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of W. Burges 1886. _d._ Brighton 30 April 1888. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiq._, _n.s. xii_ 391 (1888); _Athenæum i_ 575 (1888). PULLEINE, JAMES (2 son of Henry Percy Pulleine of Crake hall, Bedale, Yorkshire 1770–1833). _b._ 31 Oct. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832, went northern circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for north riding of Yorkshire 16 years; a director of North Eastern railway company, chairman; sheriff of Yorkshire 1870; F.G.S. _d._ Clifton castle, Bedale, Yorkshire 23 March 1879. _Law Times lxvi_ 471 (1879). PULLEN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., sixth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1830–47, tutor 1842–6; V. of St. Benedict’s, Cambridge 1847–71; professor of astronomy in Gresham college, London 1834–75; author of A lecture on astronomy, read at Gresham college 1843. _d._ 7 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 20 Jany. 1877. PULLEN, THOMAS FRANCIS. _b._ Plymouth 1851; midshipman R.N. 27 July 1866; commander of the Sparrowhawk in a survey of Jamaica 1875–80; employed on the Red sea and Delagoa bay surveys 1881–2, and on the second transit of Venus; senior British comr. to determine boundary line between British and French possessions near Assinie, West coast of Africa 1883; re-established the protectorate of the king of Aowin on the border of Ashantee 1884; in charge of survey of New Guinea; commander of the Stork in surveying east coast of Africa 1888. _d._ Bonny, Upper Guinea 3 Nov. 1889. _I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 p._ 651 _portrait_; _Times 7 Dec. 1889 p._ 10. PULLEN, WILLIAM JOHN SAMUEL (son of W. Pullen, lieutenant R.N.) _b._ 1813; entered navy as a cadet 15 June 1828; assistant surveyor under South Australian company 1836; marine surveyor of the colony; returned to the navy as a midshipman 1844; commander 25 Jany. 1850; commanded the North star in the Franklin search expedition Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; commanded the Falcon in the Baltic fleet 1855; captain 10 May 1856; captain of the Cyclops on the East Indian station Sept. 1857, bombarded Jeddah 1858; captain of the Terror at Bermuda 1863–5; captain of the Revenge coastguard ship at Pembroke 1867–9; placed on retired list 1 April 1870; R.A. 11 June 1874; V.A. 1 Feb. 1879; granted Greenwich hospital pension 19 Feb. 1886. _d._ 15 Jany. 1887. PULLER, CHARLES GILES- (son of Christopher William Puller, M.P. Herts. 1807–64). _b._ 22 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 6 Oct. 1834; educ. at Eton 1847–50, and Trin. coll. Camb., 14 wrangler 1857, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; fellow of Trin. coll. 1859–74; R. of Standon, Herts. March 1862, resigned March 1868; renounced his orders in Ch. of England 18 Sept. 1874; travelled in Brazil; member of Royal Toxophilite soc. 1873–8; a first class amateur chess player; succeeded to the family estate on death of his brother; one of the first members of Herts. county council; had a library of 7,000 volumes; F.S.A. _d._ Youngsbury, near Ware 3 May 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s Register_ (1892) 44–5. PULLIN, CHARLES KING. _b._ 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best umpires of his day; umpired in the match England _v._ Australia at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. _d._ Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893. PULLING, ALEXANDER (4 son of George Christopher Pulling, captain in the navy 1765–1819). _b._ the Court house, St. Arvan’s Monmouthshire 1 Dec. 1813; entered Merchant Taylor’s school April 1829; barrister I.T. 9 June 1843; became a leader on the South Wales circuit; gave evidence before royal commission on state of corporation of London Nov. 1853; senior comr. under Metropolitan management act of 1855; a promoter and original member of Incorporated council of law reporting 1865; revising barrister for Glamorgan 1857; serjeant-at-law 9 Feb. 1864; author of A practical treatise on the laws, customs, and regulations of the city and port of London 1842, 2 ed. 1849; A practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts 1846; Observations on the disputes in the corporation of the city of London on internal reform 1847; A summary of the law of attorneys and solicitors 1849, 3 ed. 1862; The law of joint stock companies account 1850; The order of the coif 1884. _d._ 68 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Jany. 1895. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 19 Jany. _Law Times 26 Jany. 1895 p._ 313. PULLING, FREDERICK SANDERS (1 son of Frederick William Pulling, vicar of Pinhoe, Devon). _b._ Modbury, Devon 1854; educ. Bradfield and Ex. coll. Oxf., Guernsey scholar 12 Dec. 1871; B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; professor of history Yorkshire coll. Leeds 1877; edited Oxford study guides 1880, three parts; The Constitutional magazine 1887; author of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1880; Life and speeches of the marquis of Salisbury, 2 vols. 1885; and with S. J. M. Low The dictionary of English history 1884, 2 ed. 1889. _d._ the vicarage, Pinhoe 6 July 1893. PULLING, JAMES. _b._ 6 Dec. 1814; educ. Corpus Christi coll. Camb., fellow 1838–50, master 1850–79; 11 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1855; D.C.L. Oxford univ. 7 June 1853; C. of Grantchester, Cambridge 1842–4; V. of Belchamp St. Paul’s, Essex 1863 to death. _d._ Cambridge 26 Feb. 1879. _bur._ in the chapel of his college 4 March. PULLING, WILLIAM. Educ. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; R. of Blackmanston, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; R. of Dymchurch, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; author of Select sermons, with appropriate prayers translated from the original Danish of N. E. Balle 1819; Sonnets in the Italian style with an essay on sonnet writing 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Biographical sketch of M. de Lamartine, with a translation of Meditations and Religious harmonies 1849. _d._ 1860. PULMAN, GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871). _b._ Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at Crewkerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at Crewkerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857, owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his bookselling business; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany 1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed. 1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851; Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857; author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in the East Devonshire dialect 1860. _d._ The Hermitage, Uplyme, South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. _John Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and recollections_ (1870) _with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman_; _Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p._ 120. PULMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1783; portcullis pursuivant 30 May 1822; yeoman usher of the black rod 1830 to death; Richmond herald 23 July 1838 to 1846; Norroy king of arms 18 April 1846 to 1848; Clarenceux king of arms 14 June 1848 to death. _d._ East hill, Wandsworth 29 Oct. 1859. _G.M. Dec. 1859 p._ 655. PULMAN, JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Pulman of Lampford Brett, Somerset). _b._ 1803; barrister M.T. 17 Jany. 1845; looked upon as a pillar of the church; author of A letter of remonstrance addressed to J. C. Barrow, by a Protestant Father 1859; The extradition treaty, the church of the poor and church rates 1861; The Anti-state church association unmasked 1864; An exposure of the fallacies in Mr. Spurgeon’s sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864, 2 ed. 1864; A letter to the archbishops and bishops on the civil and ecclesiastical courts 1867; A letter to the queen on the coronation oath 1869; The subordinate clergy and the bishops, which of them should bear rule 1870. _d._ 11 April 1888. PULSFORD, ROBERT (youngest son of Wm. Pulsford of Wimpole st. London). _b._ 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hereford 5 Oct. 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 6 Upper Belgrave st. London 12 June 1888. PULVERMACHER, ISAAC LEWIS OR LOUIS (son of Meyer Pulvermacher, _d._ Breslau, Prussia 1854). _b._ Kempen, Prussia 1815; apprenticed to a jeweller; a jeweller in Vienna and Prague; commenced studying and working in electricity in Prague; invented a series of batteries in the form of a chain and bands made from flexible zinc and copper wire, which give out a continuous current of galvanism 1844, this is an improvement of the voltaic pile, and is a producer of galvanism that can be worn on the body; settled in Berlin 1846 and in Paris 1850; came to London and opened a place of business at 118 Leadenhall st. 1849, removed to 194 Regent st. 1861, where he sold his galvanic bands and electric belts; established depôts in Stockholm and New York; naturalised in England 29 Jany. 1868; author of Practical guide for the electro-medical treatment of diseases by Pulvermacher’s hydro-electric chains 1856. _d._ Windmill hill house, West Hampstead, London 12 Sept. 1884. _bur._ West Hampstead cemetery 14 Sept. _London Figaro 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 6 _portrait_. PUMPHREY, THOMAS (son of Stanley Pumphrey). _b._ Worcester 10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school 1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on prayer 1828. _d._ Ackworth 31 July 1862. _bur._ 5 Aug. _Annual Monitor_ (1863) 123–46; _Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends_ (1888) 532–6, 798–802; _J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey_ (1864) _portrait_. PUNCHARD, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1835; of the firm of Punchard, M’Taggart, Lowther and Co., engineers and contractors for public works, 151 Cannon st. London; among the works he was interested in constructing were the Bedford and Northampton railway, the Great Marlow railway, and the West Lancashire railway; railways in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Malta, Tasmania, South Australia, Uruguay, and Brazil; with his partners he likewise made tramways in Buenos Ayres and the harbour of La Guaira in Venezuela; in conjunction with Thomas Brassey he made the Callao dock, Peru. _d._ 25 Dec. 1891. _Times 1 Jany. 1892 p._ 4. PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY (only child of John Punshon, mercer, _d._ 1840). _b._ Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch. to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40; joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52, at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st. circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June 1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference 29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations 1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. _d._ Tranby, Brixton Hill, London 14 April 1881. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 19 April. _F. W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon_ (1887) _portrait_; _T. MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon_ (1881); _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii_ 138–41 (1890) _portrait_; _Leisure hours_. _By A Journalist_ (1878) 79–80; _C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1874) 261–9; _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _third series_ (1860) _portrait xv_; _Graphic x_ 150, 153 (1874) _portrait_. PURCELL, EDWARD (youngest son of Tobias Purcell of Limogue castle, Queen’s county). Entered navy 9 June 1804; captain 25 Aug. 1828; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Bath 3 Dec. 1869. PURCELL, JOHN BAPTIST. _b._ Mallow, co. Cork 26 Feb. 1800; educ. Ashbury coll. Baltimore 1818, and Mount St. Mary, Emmettsburg 1820; ordained in Notre Dame, Paris 1826; professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s coll. 1827, and president 1828; bishop of Cincinnati, consecrated 13 Oct. 1833; archbishop 1850 with 4 suffragan bishops attached to his see; received the Pallium from the Pope’s hands in Rome 1851; his later days were troubled with great financial difficulties 1879 to death; author of A debate on the Roman Catholic religion between A. Campbell and the rev. J. B. Purcell 1837; The Vickers and Purcell controversy 1868; Marriage and family duties in general 1881. _d._ in Brown county, Ohio 4 July 1883. _Appleton’s American biography v_ 136 (1888). PURCELL, THEOBALD ANDREW. Called to the Irish bar 1840, junior counsel 1865; county court judge and chairman of quarter sessions of county of Limerick and Queen’s county 16 Oct. 1874; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of Kings Inns 1886; author of A summary of the criminal law of Ireland 1848; A summary of the principles of pleading and evidence 1849; A suburb of Yedo 1889. _d._ 71 Harcourt st. Dublin 6 March 1894. PURCHAS, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Jardine Purchas, captain in the navy). _b._ Cambridge 14 July 1823; educ. Rugby and Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; C. of Elsworth, Cambs. 1851–3; C. of Orwell, Cambs. 1856–9; C. of St. Paul’s, West st. Brighton 1861–6; P.C. of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1866 to death; charged before sir Robert Phillimore in the Arches court by colonel Charles James Elphinstone with infringing the law of the established church by using a cope and other ritualistic practices, judgment given against him on eight points with costs 3 Feb. 1870, Elphinstone appealed to the queen in council for a fuller condemnation of Purchas, but dying 30 March 1870, Henry Hebbert of Brighton was permitted to take his place 4 June 1870; the privy council decided against Purchas on practically all the points raised 16 May 1871 and suspended him from the discharge of his clerical office for 12 months 7 Feb. 1872, but he continued his services as usual to his death; upward of 17 works were printed on the Purchas case 1871–7; edited the Directorium Anglicanum 1858; author of The miser’s daughter, or the lover’s curse 1839, a comedy; Ode upon the death of the Marquis Camden 1841; The birth of the prince of Wales, a poem 1842; Poems and ballads 1846; The book of feasts 1853; The priest’s dream: an allegory 1856; The death of Ezekiel’s wife, three sermons 1866. _d._ 7 Montpellier villas, Brighton 18 Oct. 1872. _bur._ in the parochial cemet. 23 Oct. _Annual Register_ (1871) 187–210. PURDAY, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1799; professor of music at 4 Hunter st. Brunswick sq, 1848–51; music publisher at 24 Madox st. Regent st. 1854, at 15 Mill st. Hanover sq. to 1864, and at 24 Great Marlborough st. to 1870; author of A catechism of music 1854; One hundred and one popular psalm and hymn tunes 1860; edited Abyssinian captives, recent intelligence from H. A. Stern 1866; composer of The denounced, a ballad 1830; Jehovah Jireh, sacred song 1847; Elementary exercises on the art of singing 1851; One hundred rounds for two-six voices 1852; A few directions for chaunting 1855; Admiral Blake, a song 1859; For the homes of our fathers, recitative and aria 1880; edited The sacred musical offering 1830; Songs for the young 1851; One hundred tunes for infants and juvenile schools 1855; A church and home tune book 1857; Fifty three popular rounds 1858; Routledge’s Church and home metrical psalter 1860; The royal naval song book 1867; Sinclair & Co.’s Fifty songs for young people 1867; The songs of Wales 1874; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1828–85. _d._ 27 Portland place, Notting Hill, London 23 April 1885. PURDEY, JAMES. Founded the gunmaking business at 4 Princes st. Leicester sq. London 1818, at 314½ Oxford st. 1827–60, removed to South Audly street 1882; had Pigeon shooting grounds at Willesden 1856; made the first express rifles 1857; invented the expanding bullet; made the patent double bolt for breechloaders 1864; patented the rebounding hammerless gun 1881; a maker of weapons of the finest quality. _Shooting, field and covert_ (_Badmington library_) 1886 _pp._ 52, 381; _Sporting Mirror March 1882 pp._ 73–4; _Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 172. PURDY, ELIZABETH (eld. child of Frederick and Elizabeth Purdy). Studied under John Forster, signor Ciabatta and Madame Giacinta Puzzi; first appeared at the Hanover sq. rooms, London 3 May 1871; studied singing at Milan 1876; appeared as Siebel in Faust at Dublin 1877 and at Her Majesty’s, London 19 Nov. 1877 under the name of Lisa Perdi; played Maddalena in Rigoletto; had a mezzo soprano voice with command of contralto and soprano notes. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 29 April 1881. _Musical World 21 May 1881 p._ 323; _Illust. Sp. and Dr. News 22 Dec. 1877 pp._ 327, 347 _portrait_. PURDY, FREDERICK. _b._ 1812; principal of the Statistical department of poor law board; fellow of Statistical soc. 1837 to death; a member of the council, and one of honorary secretaries; author of Summary digest, return to parliament of owners of land, England and Wales 1876; wrote Suggestions on the printing of parliamentary statistics, in Journal R. Statistical soc. xxxiv 21–56 (1871), and ten other papers. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 12 Oct. 1888. PURDY, WELLINGTON. _b._ Killucan, co. Westmeath 24 May 1815; employed under Mr. Vignoles on Manchester and Sheffield railway 1838–40, and under Joseph Locke 1840–5; resident engineer Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway 1846–56; in India reporting on Eastern Bengal railway 1856–7, made the railway 1858 etc.; partner with W. B. Lewis as engineers, London 1864; reported on the Dublin tramways 1871; retired from business 1880. _d._ 14 Feb. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii_ 408–13 (1889). PURKESS, GEORGE (son of George Purkess of 59 Dean st. Soho, London, publisher, _d._ 1862). _b._ Wardour st. Soho, London 1840; publisher and bookseller at 16 St Alban’s place, Edgware road, London 1858–63; proprietor of The Family Doctor and people’s medical adviser, a weekly publication, No. 1 March 7, 1885 to death; proprietor of The Illustrated Police news at 83 Fleet st. 1863–5, at 275 Strand 1865–8, at 286 Strand 1868–90, and at 34 Catherine st. Strand 1890 to death; one of the founders of the old Unity club. _d._ 25 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 10 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Highgate new cemetery 15 Dec. _The Referee 18 Dec. 1892 p._ 7; _Illust. Police News 17 Dec. 1892 p._ 2. PURKISS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1842; educ. City of London school; obtained the first queen’s prize given at South Kensington; matric. at univ. of London 1860, where he took three mathematical scholarships, an M.A. degree, and the gold medal as the best mathematician of his year; scholar Trin. coll. Camb., senior wrangler, first Smith prizeman and B.A. 1864; vice-principal of College of naval architecture South Kensington 1864, principal 1865 to death; editor of The Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin messenger of mathematics to death; _drowned_ while bathing in the river Cam 17 Sept. 1865. _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._ 10, _21 Sept. p._ 4, _22 Sept. p._ 8; _Cambridge Chronicle 23 Sept. 1865 pp._ 4, 7. PURLAND, THEODOSIUS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1805; surgeon dentist Wilson st. Finsbury, London 1830, lived at 7 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. 1850 to death; M.A.; Ph.D.; his library, including his own Recollections of Vauxhall 1814–59, was sold at Hodgson’s, Chancery lane 16 March 1882; his Alsatian eccentricities, cuttings and pictures relating to murders etc. 1700–1782, 2 vols. 1847, 4to is in the British Museum 1243 k. _d._ 7 Mortimer st. London 16 Aug. 1881. _N. and Q. 6 s. v_ 168, 293, 317, _vi_ 154 (1882). NOTE.--In his rooms he had some curious mechanical toys, which served to distract the minds of his youthful patients while he drew their teeth. PURNELL, THOMAS (son of Robert Purnell). _b._ Tenby 1834; matric. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1852; assistant secretary and librarian of Archæological institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1862–6; contributed a series of dramatic criticisms under the signature Q to the Athenæum 1870–1; founded a club known as the Decemviri; invented the nickname tea-cup and saucer comedy for the Robertsonian school of plays; edited James Hind’s Historia quatuor regum Angliæ for the Roxburghe club 1868; and The correspondence and works of C. Lamb, 4 vols. 1870; author of Literature and its professors 1867; Dramatists of the present day. By Q 1871; To London and elsewhere 1881; The Lady Drusilla, a psychological romance 1887; Dust and diamonds, essays 1888. _d._ Lloyd sq. Pentonville, London 17 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro 28 Dec. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_; _Athenæum 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 860. PURNELL, WILLIAM PASTON (2 son of Purnell Bransby Cooper of Stancombe park, Gloucs. 1791–1866, assumed name of Purnell). _b._ 12 June 1821; ensign 90 foot 24 March 1838, lieut. col. 9 Oct. 1855 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in the Crimea and in India; ensign of yeomen of the guard 2 Feb. 1866 to death; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Cookham, Berks. 14 May 1869. PURSER, JOHN. Farmer of Willington, Beds.; a breeder of dogs; a member of the Cardington club; his bitch Pansey and his dog Pilot won numerous stakes and cups at Cardington and Newmarket 1847–9; William Purser, the brother, was a farmer and racer. _Sporting Review Dec. 1850 pp._ 435–7 _portrait_. PURSER, RICHARD (a natural son of Mr. Loveridge, a builder). Claimed to have been _b._ Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. 14 July 1756; a cowman at Hempstead; a day labourer at Cheltenham; the Queen gave him £5 a year from 1863 on the erroneous statements made to her; _m._ 12 Sept. 1808 Ann Rollings. _d._ Cheltenham 12 Oct. 1868, claiming to be 112 but probably about 80. _W. J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 4, 139, 224–35; _G. H. Townsend’s Handbook_ (1869) 127. PURTON, WALTER ONIONS. _b._ 1833; educ. St. Catherine’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1859; C. of Petworth, Sussex 1859–65; C. of Blackpool, Lancs. 1865–6; R. of Coombe, Sussex 1866–70; R. of Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex 1870–88; R. of Poynings, Sussex 1888 to death; chaplain to 7 earl of Shaftesbury; a prominent evangelical who exercised influence in the religious press; held successively three editorships; editor of The Churchman 1879; author of The Communicant 1881. _d._ Poynings rectory 14 Sept.