Modern English biography

1391. PURVES, DAVID LAING. _b._ 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. _d._ 214 Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873. PURVES, JOHN (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). _b._ 1840; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6; lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872; Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose 1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides. _d._ Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. _Times 31 Jany. 1890 p._ 6. PURVIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June 1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. _d._ Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859. PURVIS, JOHN BRETT (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R N. 1747–1825). _b._ 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799; captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct. 1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853. _d._ Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 941–2. PURVIS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailor). _b._ Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819, travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his autobiography 1850. _d._ Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. _The life of Billy Purvis, Newcastle-on-Tyne_ (1875) _portrait_; _Life and adventures of Billy Purvis_, _by J. P. Robson_ (1850); _Illustrated sp. and dr. news ii_ 283 (1874). PUSELEY, DANIEL (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). _b._ Bideford, Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed. 1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. _d._ 21 Rochester road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Frank Foster’s The age we live in_ (1863) _portrait_; _Academy 28 Jany. 1882 p._ 63. PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (2 son of Philip Bouverie 1745–1828, who assumed the name of Pusey 3 April 1784). _b._ Pusey house, near Great Farringdon, Berkshire 22 Aug. 1800; educ. Mitcham, Surrey 1807–12, and at Eton 1812–9; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1819; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1836; fellow of Oriel coll. 2 April 1823; studied at Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn 1825–7; regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford 9 Nov. 1828 to death; founded with his brother Philip Pusey and Dr. Ellerton the three Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships 1832; the prime mover with John Keble and John Henry Newman in the Oxford movement which was called Puseyism or Newmania 1833; contributed to Tracts for the times 1833–41 and wrote seven tracts; founded The Oxford library of fathers of the holy catholic church, anterior to the division of east and west 1836, of which 48 volumes were published 1838–85; preached on the Holy Eucharist at Ch. Ch. 14 May 1843, condemned for heresy by the vice-chancellor and suspended for two years from his office as a preacher before the university 2 June 1843; founded at cost of £6,000 St. Saviour’s church, Leeds, foundation stone laid 14 Sept. 1842, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845; established an Anglican sisterhood in London 26 March 1845, and in Devonport 1849; revived the practice of private confession and encouraged the spread of ritualism 1846; member of the new hebdomadal council at Oxford Oct. 1854; published 3 appeals in An Eirenicon in a Letter to J. Keble 1865, and two Letters to J. H. Newman 1869 and 1870 on A possibility of reunion with the Church of Rome, a book which gave rise to 18 replies; author of A letter to the archbishop of Canterbury on circumstances connected with the crisis in the church of England 1842, to which 7 replies were made; The holy eucharist a comfort to the penitent 1843 to which 8 replies were published; Do all to the Lord Jesus, a sermon 1849, 5 ed. 1855; The church of England leaves her children free to open their griefs 1850; The presence of Christ in the holy eucharist 1853; Daniel the prophet, nine lectures 1864, 2 ed. 1868; Eleven addresses during a retreat of the Companions of the Love of Jesus, Plymouth 1868; Lenten sermons to young men 1874; Hints for a first confession 1884, 2 ed. 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 110 works, and his works and the literature connected with them consist of upwards of 220 published volumes; his library was purchased for the Pusey House, an institution at Oxford, founded in his memory to carry on his work 1884. _d._ in the Convalescent hospital, Ascot priory, Berkshire 16 Sept. 1882. _bur._ in the cathedral at Oxford 21 Sept., portrait by George Richmond, R.A. at Ch. Ch. Oxford. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey_, 3 _vols._ (1893–4) _two portraits_; _J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua_ (1873) 60 _et seq._; _T. Mozley’s Reminiscences of Oriel ii_ 146–9 (1882); _The church goer i_ 221–30 (1847); _R. H. Horne’s A new spirit of the age i_ 199–212 (1844); _Fortnightly Review March 1883 pp._ 335–48; _Jackson’s Oxford Journal 23 Sept. 1882 p._ 5; _I.L.N. ii_ 410 (1843) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 328 (1882) _portrait_. PUSEY, PHILIP (brother of preceding). _b._ Pusey, Berkshire 25 June 1799; educ. at Eton 1812; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22 Oct. 1817; M.P. Rye 1 March 1830, but unseated on petition 17 May 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to 23 April 1831; M.P. Cashel 16 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Berkshire 21 Dec. 1832; M.P. Berkshire 1835–52; F.R.S. 27 May 1830; chairman of select committee on compensation to tenants for unexhausted improvements 1848; one of chief founders of Royal agricultural society of England 1840, president 1840–1 and 1853–4, edited the Journal of the society; a practical agriculturalist and breeder of sheep at Pusey, Berkshire; McCormick’s reaping machine was first introduced into this country at Pusey Aug. 1851; one of the best whips in England, drove a four-in-hand over the Alps; chairman of Agricultural implement department of Great Exhibition 1851, wrote a report on the implement section; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of An historical view of the sinking fund 1828; The new constitution 1831; The improvement of farming