Modern English biography

May 1896 p._ 8. PYM, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1787; in Samuel Jerrold’s company at Sheerness 1812; bag bearer to the registrars of the court of chancery, with charge of the daily cause lists 1815–54; built a private theatre at the rear of his residence in Wilson st. Gray’s inn lane for the use of students for the stage, where he himself with J. Reeve, Strickland, Marston, Selby, Bedford and others often acted; acted Caleb Quotem in The Review 1846; gave up the theatre 1847, but it was used to 1853; the house was also known as the Gough st. amateur theatre, now Havelock hall and used as a London city mission station 1896. _d._ 33 Holford sq. Pentonville, London 16 Sept. 1866. _N. and Q. 8 s_, _vi_ 427, 476 (1894). PYM, SIR SAMUEL (son of Joseph Pym of Pinley, Warwickshire). _b._ 1778; entered navy June 1788; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Atlas, 74 guns, 29 June 1804 to 13 Oct. 1808; served at battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; sent to the Mauritius as senior officer of a small squadron July 1810, seized the Isle de la Passe 13 Aug., capitulated and became a prisoner of war 27 Aug., obtained his release Dec. 1810 when the island was captured by sir Albemarle Bertie, he was tried by court martial but acquitted; commanded the Nieman on the West Indian station 1812–5; commanded the Kent in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; admiral superintendent at Devonport 16 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; commanded the experimental squadron in the Channel Sept. and Oct. 1845; V.A. 12 Feb. 1847; admiral 17 Dec. 1852; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1839. _d._ Royal hotel, Southampton 2 Oct. 1855. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict._ (1849) 943. PYM, SIR WILLIAM (elder brother of preceding). _b._ Edinburgh 1772; educ. univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of the army 1792; present at the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe 1794; served with the army in Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar 1796, medical attendant of the duke of Kent, governor of Gibraltar, present during the outbreaks of yellow fever there in 1804 and 1810; in charge at St. Pierre in Martinique during an outbreak of yellow fever 1794–6, when nearly 16,000 troops died; shipwrecked in the Athénienne on the Skerri shoals between Sicily and Africa 20 Oct. 1806, when 349 persons perished out of a crew of 476; deputy inspector general of army hospitals 20 Dec. 1810; superintendent of quarantine at Malta 1811–12; placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general 25 Sept. 1816; superintendent general of quarantine 1826–55; controlled quarantine arrangements during yellow fever at Gibraltar 1828; K.C.H. 1830; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 21 July 1830; a chairman of central board of health during cholera in England 1832; fellow of Medical and chirurgical soc. 1816; author of Observations upon Bulam fever 1815, 2 ed. 1848. _d._ 38 Upper Harley st. London 18 March 1861. _Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. iv_ 71–6 (1864). PYNE, GEORGE. _b._ 1790; alto singer and musician. _d._ 87 Cambridge gardens west, Notting hill, London 15 March 1877. PYNE, HENRY (eld. son of John Pyne of Somerton, Somerset). _b._ Martock, Somerset 1809; educ. Sherborne and Christ’s hospital; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1841; assistant comr. in tithe office 1841–81; edited A treatise proving that the pope never had any right to supremacy in England 1850; France and England in the fifteenth century 1870; author of Tithe commutation, table of the corn rent in lieu of tithes 1837, 2 ed. continued by G. Taylor 1876. _d._ Hillgrove house, Stroud, Somerset 9 Feb. 1885. PYNE, JAMES BAKER. _b._ Bristol 5 Dec. 1800; a landscape painter at Bristol to 1835, and in London 1835 to death; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 194 at Suffolk st. 1828–70; member of Society of British artists 1842, vice-president some years; there are pictures by him both in oil and water-colour at South Kensington museum; published Views in the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica 1839; Windsor and its surrounding scenery 1840; The English lake district 1853; Lake scenery of England 1859; resided at 203 Camden road, London. _d._ 29 July 1870. _bur._ Highgate cemet., bust at gallery of Society of British artists. _J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii_ 55–7 (1880); _I.L.N. lvii_ 193 (1870) _portrait_. PYNE, JAMES KENDRICK. _b._ 1785; tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane many years; a member of the choir of the Foundling hospital more than 40 years, and the musical instructor of the children. _d._ Francis st. Regent’s sq. London 23 Sept. 1857. _bur._ Highgate cemet. PYNE, SUSANNAH (dau. of George Pyne 1790–1877). Appeared with great success as a singer with her sister Louisa Fanny Pyne (afterwards wife of Frank Bodda) in 1842; sang in U.S. of America 1854–7; sang Adalgisa in Norma at Lyceum theatre, London 3 Oct. 1857; _m._ about 1870 Frank H. Standing, baritone singer known as Frank Celli. _d._ 18 Fitzroy st. London 5 Jany. 1886. PYNN, SIR HENRY. Served as lieutenant with South Devon militia in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ensign 82 foot 1799, captain 30 May 1805, brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; attached to the Portuguese troops 15 Nov. 1809; commanded the 18 Portuguese regiment at Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees and Orthes; K.T.S. 17 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted by prince regent at Carlton house 23 Feb. 1815; brigadier general in Portuguese army, then major general; lieut. governor of town and fortress of Valencia 17 Dec. 1815. _d._ 102A Pall Mall, London 25 April 1855. _G.M. xliv_ 95 (1855). PYPER, WILLIAM. _b._ Rathen, Aberdeenshire 1797; educ. Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parochial schoolmaster at Laurence Kirk 1815–7, afterwards at Maybole; a teacher in Glasgow gr. sch. 1820; head master of Edinburgh high school 1822–44; professor of humanity at St. Andrew’s univ. 22 Oct. 1844 to death; LL.D. Aberdeen; founded a bursary at St. Andrew’s by a bequest of £500; author of Gradus ad Parnassum 1843, still used in schools; Horace with quantities 1843; revised A. Adam’s The principles of Latin and English grammar 1846. _d._ St. Andrew’s 7 Jany. 1861. _M. F. Connolly’s Eminent men of Fife_ (1866) 371. Q QUAGLIENI, ANTONIO. _b._ Italy; served with the Brothers Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune 1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni _d._ 22 Dec. 1882 aged 63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. _d._ Brescia July 1892. QUAIN, SIR JOHN RICHARD (youngest son of Richard Quain of Ratheahy, co. Cork). _b._ Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader 1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany. 1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law 9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system of common law procedure 1852. _d._ 22A Cavendish sq. London 12 Sept. 1876. _bur._ Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. _A generation of judges._ _By their reporter_ (1886) 30–8; _Law Times 23 Sept. 1876 p._ 357. QUAIN, JONES (half-brother of preceding). _b._ in the south of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833; anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3 vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical plates in lithography with references and physiological comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. _d._ London 31 Jany. 1865. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 136; _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 49–50 (1867). QUAIN, RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Fermoy July 1800; studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843, member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834, surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66, consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery 1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844; edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. _d._ 32 Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. _bur._ Finchley, portrait by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there. _British medical journal ii_ 694 (1887); _Lancet ii_ 687 (1887). QUARTLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852, helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and Catskill falls. _d._ New York 5 April 1874. _Appleton’s American Biog. v_ 147 (1888). NOTE.--His son Arthur Quartley, _b._ Paris 24 May 1839, a well known artist, _d._ New York 19 May 1886. QUARTLY, FRANCIS (3 son of James Quartly, cattle breeder 1720–93). _bapt._ 26 Oct. 1764; a famous breeder of North Devon cattle 1794–1836, when he sold the herd and retired; visited by Arthur Young 1796; presented by Bath and West of England soc. with a silver teapot for ploughing 60 acres of land with the double furrow plough in a new district 1801; received from his friends his full length portrait (standing by the side of the cow Cherry) 1850. _d._ Great Champson estate, Molland-Botreaux, North Devon 23 July 1856. _Journal Royal Agricultural soc. of England_ (1850) 680–1; _Jas. Sinclair’s Devon breed of cattle_ (1893) 42–61, 386–8. QUAYLE, MARK HILDESLEY (only child of Mark Hildesley Quayle, clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1770–1804). _b._ 4 July 1804; educ. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; called to Manx bar 1825; clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1847 to death. _d._ Castletown, Isle of Man 19 March 1879. _Law Times lxvi_ 456 (1879). QUEENSBERRY, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM DOUGLAS, 7 Marquess of (only son of 6 marquess of Queensberry 1779–1856). _b._ Edinburgh 18 April 1818; educ. Eton; styled viscount Drumlanrig 1837–56; cornet 2 life guards 27 July 1838, sold out 19 Jany. 1844; M.P. Dumfriesshire 1847–56; comptroller of H.M.’s household 4 Jany. 1853 to July 1856; P.C. 7 Feb. 1853; colonel of Dumfriesshire militia; lord lieut. of Dumfriesshire 28 Aug. 1856 to death; succeeded as 7 marquess 19 Dec. 1856; a huntsman, shooter, pugilist, horse racer, deer stalker, and fisher; a frequent otter hunter; a good swimmer, crossed the Thames below Greenwich; kept hounds at Kinmount; backed horses extensively but was very unfortunate, bet £10,000 to £500 on Saunterer for the Goodwood cup July 1858 which he lost; _shot himself_ accidentally at Kinmount, co. Dumfries 6 Aug. 1858. _Sporting Times 13 June 1885 p._ 2; _Sporting Review xl_ 158–59 (1858); _G.M. v_ 309 (1858); _Times 10 Aug. 1858 p._ 10, _16 Aug. p._ 10. QUEKETT, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Wm. Quekett 1767–1842, master of Langport gr. sch. 1790–1842). _b._ Langport, Somerset 11 Aug. 1815; educ. at King’s coll. London and London hospital; L.S.A. 1840; assistant conservator of Hunterian museum at royal college of surgeons Nov. 1843, conservator 1856 to death, demonstrator of minute anatomy 1844, professor of histology 1852 to death, his collections of 2,500 microscopic preparations were purchased by the college; secretary of the Microscopical society 1841–60, president 1860; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; the Quekett Microscopical club was established 1865; author of A practical treatise on the use of the microscope 1848, 3 ed. 1855; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series in the museum of the royal college of surgeons, 2 vols. 1850–5; Lectures on histology, 2 vols. 1852–4; Catalogue of plants and invertebrates 1860; author with John Morris of Catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants in the museum of the royal college of surgeons 1859. _d._ Pangbourne, Berkshire 20 Aug. 1861. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xii_ 25–7 (1863); _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv_ 79 (1864); _I.L.N. 31 Aug. 1861 p._ 227 _portrait_. QUEKETT, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Langport 3 Oct. 1802; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1831; C. of South Cadbury, Somerset 1825; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East, London 1830–41; incumbent of Ch. Ch. Watney st. London 1841–54; founded with Sidney Herbert the Female emigration society 1849; R. of Warrington, Lancs. June 1854 to death; his work in London is described by Charles Dickens in an article entitled What a London curate can do if he tries, in Household Words 16 Nov. 1850 pp. 172–6; he is also depicted as Dr. Lyman in Battledon rectory. _d._ Warrington rectory 30 March 1888. _Wm. Quekett’s My sayings and doings_ (1888) 2 _portraits_. QUENTIN, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS (eld. son of George Quentin of Göttingen). _b._ 1760; served in the Gards du Corps, Hanover 1786–93; cornet in 10 Hussars 25 Feb. 1793; lieut. col. 13 Oct. 1808 to 18 March 1824; aide-de-camp to Prince Regent and George 4 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; tried by a court martial at Whitehall 17–31 Oct. 1814 for neglect of duty and allowing relaxed discipline in his regiment and was reprimanded; equerry to the crown stables 1825 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 8 Dec. 1821. _d._ 11 Great Cumberland st. London 7 Dec. 1851. _The trial of colonel Quentin_ (1814); _G.M. xxxvii_ 190 (1852); _Royal military calendar_, _3 ed. iv_ 226–31 (1820). QUICK, HENRY. _b._ Zennor, Cornwall 4 Dec. 1792; related in verse all the local calamities and crimes from 1830 to his death; printed most of his poems as broadsides; author of A new copy of verses, an account of the accident at Pendeen cove 1830; A new copy of verses on the scarcity and famine in Ireland 1847; A new copy of verses on the church erecting at Pendeen 1850; The Brison shipwreck 1851. _d._ Mill Hill Down, Zennor 9 Oct. 1857. _bur._ Zennor 12 Oct. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 541, 1320 (1878–82); _G. B. Millett’s Penzance, past and present_ (1880) 36 _portrait_; _Life and progress of Henry Quick_ (1836). QUICK, ROBERT HEBERT (eld. son of James Carthew Quick, merchant). _b._ London 20 Sept. 1831; educ. Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; worked as an unpaid curate with rev. J. Llewellyn Davies, first at St. Mark’s, Whitechapel 1855, and afterwards in Marylebone; a master in Lancaster gr. sch. 1858, then at Guildford gr. sch., Hurstpierpoint, and Cranley; assistant master at Harrow Jany. 1870 to Dec. 1874; head of a preparatory school Orme square, London, and then at Guildford 1874–81; appointed by univ. of Camb. 1881 to give the first course of lectures on the history of education under the newly formed syndicate for training of teachers; V. of Sedbergh, Yorkshire 1883–7; author of Essays on educational reformers 1868, 2 ed. 1890; Essentials of German 1882; edited J. Locke’s Thoughts concerning education 1880; reprinted R. Mulcaster’s Positions 1888; his article on Frœbel in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1879) was published separately; resided Earlswood cottage, Redhill, Surrey. _d._ at the residence of John Robert Seeley at Cambridge 9 March 1891. _Journal of education April 1891 pp._ 188, 221–7, 257, 297; _Education April 1891 portrait_. QUILLINAN, EDWARD (son of Edward Quillinan of Ireland, a wine merchant at Oporto). _b._ Oporto 12 Aug. 1791; educ. Sedgley park school, Staffs. 1800; a clerk to his father at Oporto 1805–7; cornet 2 dragoon guards 14 July 1808, present at Walcheren; lieut. 23 light dragoons 14 July 1810; lieut. 3 dragoon guards 24 June 1813, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut. 3 dragoon guards again 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 31 May 1821; served in Spain 1812; wrote a satirical poem The ball room votaries 1810; his connection with The whim, a magazine, Canterbury 1810–11 involved him in two duels; author of Dunluce castle, a poem 1814; The sacrifice of Isabel 1816; The conspirators, 3 vols. 1841; translated 5 books of Camoens’s Lusiad, published by John Adamson 1853. _d._ Loughrigg Holme, Ambleside 8 July 1851. _bur._ Grassmere churchyard 12 July. _E. Quillinan’s Poems_, _edited by Wm. Johnston_ (1853); _W. Knight’s Life of Wm. Wordsworth_, _iii_ 114, 380, 521 (1889); _Irish monthly_, _xv_ 285–8 (1887). NOTE.--He _m._ 11 May 1841 Dorothy, 2 dau. of William Wordsworth, she was _b._ Dove cottage, Grassmere 16 Aug. 1804, _d._ Rydal Mount 9 July 1847, she wrote Journal of a few months’ residence in Portugal and glimpses of the south of Spain 1847, new ed. 1895. QUILLINAN, JEMIMA K. (1 dau. of the preceding). _b._ near Dublin 1819; much beloved by William Wordsworth; a friend of all the Lake circle; attended by 3 of Wordsworth’s descendants and Dr. Arnold’s youngest daughter, she _d._ Loughrigg Holme 28 Jany.