Montgomeryshire, saddler). _b._ Newtown 14 May 1771; employed
by James Mc Guffog, draper, Stamford, Northants 1780–5; a
machine maker at Manchester, then a yarn spinner; manager of Mr.
Drinkwater’s spinning business, Manchester 1790–4; founded the
Chorlton Twist company 1794–5; he and his partners purchased
David Dale’s mills at New Lanark on the falls of the Clyde for
£60,000, which he managed from about 1 Jany. 1800, in 1814 he
and six others bought the business for £114,000; founded schools
at his works for all children under twelve, claimed to be the
founder of infant schools 1816; gave up the Lanark works 1823;
at meeting at London tavern 14 Aug. 1817 declared that all the
religions in the world were founded in error; contested the
Lanark district of burghs 31 March 1820; retired from business
1819; started the Economist a paper explanatory of the new
system of society, No. 1 27 Jany. 1821, No. 26 21 July 1821,
succeeded by the Political economist 1823, and The advocate of
the working classes 1827; bought the village of New Harmony in
Illinois and Indiana with 20,000 acres for £30,000 April 1825,
the scheme failed and he retired 1827; edited The Crisis, or
the change from error and misery to truth and happiness, a
penny paper, No. 1 14 April 1832, last issue No. 20, vol. iv 23
Aug. 1834; opened an Equitable labour exchange at The Bazaar
in Gray’s Inn road, London 3 Sept. 1832, which was moved to
Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. 1 May 1833, and ultimately became
bankrupt; took part in the seven cooperative congresses 1830–4,
and in the 14 socialist congresses 1835–46; published The new
moral world 1834–41; presented to the queen by lord Normanby
5 Jany. 1840; published the Rational quarterly June 1853;
author of A statement regarding the New Lanark establishment
1812; A new view of society, or essays on the principle of
the formation of the human character 1813–4, 3 ed. 1817; The
addresses of R. Owen 1830; The book of the new moral world
containing the rational system of society 1836; The catechism of
the new moral world 1840; An outline of the rational system of
society 1840, 9 ed. 1871; Manifesto of R. Owen, the discoverer
of the rational system of society 1840, 8 ed. 1841; The signs
of the times or the approach of the millenium 1841; The future
of the human race 1853; R Owen’s Journal, No. 1, Nov. 2 1850,
No. 104 Oct. 23,1852, 4 volumes. _d._ Bear’s head hotel,
Newtown, Montgomeryshire 17 Nov. 1858. _The Life of R. Owen_,
_written by himself_ 1857, _vol._ 1, _no more published_; _C.
Bradlaugh’s Five dead men whom I knew when living_ (1877) 3–6;
_J. Grants Portraits of public characters ii_ 163–91 (1841);
_H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches_, _4 ed._ 1876 307–15;
_Georgian Era iv_ 37–41 (1834); _The Times 9 Aug. 1817 p._ 4,
_with A view of the Agricultural and manufacturing village of
Unity and Mutual Co-operation_ _8 Jany. 1840 p._ 7, _11 Feb. p._
7, _26 March p._ 4; _S. J. Hall’s Biographical Sketches_ (1873)
275–8; _Reynold’s Miscellany xviii_ 88 (1857) _portrait_; _G.M.
v_ 643–5 (1858).
OWEN, ROBERT DALE (eld. son of preceding). _b._ Glasgow 9 Nov.
1800; educ. at the Swiss college of Hofwyl, near Berne 1820–3;
joined his father’s community at New Harmony 1825; became
a citizen of U.S. of America 1827; published with Francis
Wright at New York The free inquirer Nov. 1828 to 1832; member
of the legislature of Indiana 1835, member of the house of
representatives 1843; chairman of committee for promoting the
Smithsonian institution 1846, one of the regents; United States
chargé d’ affaires at Naples 1853, minister 1853–8; chairman of
a committee to examine into condition of emancipated freedmen
1863; author of Moral physiology 1831, 12 ed. 1870; Darby and
Susan, a tale of Old England 1840; Footfalls on the boundary
of another world 1859; The wrong of slavery, the right of
emancipation, and the future of the African race in the United
States 1864; The debatable land between this world and the next
1872. _d._ at his summer residence on Lake George, New York 17
June 1877. _R. D. Owen’s Threading my way_ (1874); _Appleton’s
American biography iv_ 615 (1888) _portrait_.
OWEN, ROBERT HENRY. Educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1836, M.A.
1863; called to Irish bar 1839; Q.C. 23 Feb. 1867. _d._ 15 Lower
Pembroke st. Dublin 8 Jany. 1869 aged 64.
OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ Drayton, Shropshire 1774; introduced steam
boats to Sweden. _d._ Stockholm 15 Feb. 1853. _Historiskt
Bildergalleri_, _No. iii_, _Samuel Owen_ (_Norrkoping_ 1863)
_portrait_.
OWEN, SAMUEL. _b._ about 1769; water-colour painter; exhibited
2 paintings and 6 drawings at the R.A. 1794–1807; member of
the Associated artists in water-colours 1808, resigned 1810,
exhibited 29 pictures; made 84 drawings, engraved by W. B.
Cooke, for his work The Thames 1811, and 7 drawings for the
Picturesque tour on the river Thames, published by Wm. Westall
and himself 1828; his Shipping in a calm, and 9 other river
and sea pieces are in South Kensington museum. _d._ Sunbury,
Middlesex 8 Dec. 1857.
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (brother of Joseph Butterworth Owen
1778–1870). Architect at Portsmouth; surveyor for the
South Hampshire district; helped to develop Southsea as a
watering place; designed the French protestant church at St.
Martin’s-le-Grand, London 1842–3, and the church of St. Jude’s,
Southsea 1851. _d._ 1862.
OWEN, WILLIAM (son of Luke Owen, maltster). _b._ Rotherham 1810;
apprentice to Sandford and Yates, Phœnix foundry, Greasborough
road, Rotherham 1823, a partner 1832, sole proprietor to March
1864, when the Wheathill foundry works were transferred to a
limited liability co., chairman and managing director 1864–72;
chairman of Midland wagon co.; a judge of machinery at Royal
agricultural society’s meetings; A.I.C.E. 3 March 1857; member
of Instit. of Mechanical engineers 1847; author of several
inventions for making solid wrought-iron wheels and tires.
_d._ Clifton house, Rotherham 20 Jany. 1881. _Min. of Proc.
of Instit. C.E. lxiii_ 333 (1881); _Proc. of Instit. of M.E._
(1882) 10.
OWEN, WILLIAM FITZWILLIAM (son of Wm. Owen, captain R.N., _d._
1778). _b._ 1774; entered navy 4 June 1788; explored the Maldive
Islands Sept. 1806, discovered the Sea-flower channel between
Si-biru and Si-pora on the west coast of Sumatra; captain 2
May 1811; surveyed the Canadian Lakes 1815–6; captain of the
Leven Aug. 1821, surveyed the coast of Africa 1821–5; settled
the colony at Fernando Po 1827; R.A. on h.p. 21 Dec. 1847, V.A.
on h.p. 27 Oct. 1854; granted a pension 6 Feb. 1855; author of
Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia,
and Madagascar in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta, 2 vols. 1833.
_d._ St. John’s, New Brunswick 3 Nov. 1857.
OWEN, WILLIAM GEORGE. _b._ 5 May 1817; ensign 11 Madras N.I. 7
Aug. 1835, major 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col Madras infantry 30
April 1866, colonel 30 April 1878; M.G. 4 Aug. 1866; commanded
the Ceded districts 1874–6; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 1 Dec. 1888. _d._ Folkestone 1 May
1895.
OWENS, JOHN EDWARD (son of a shoemaker). _b._ Liverpool 4 May
1824; taken to Philadelphia 1834; first appeared on the stage
at National theatre, Philadelphia, where he acted until 1843;
played at Peak’s museum, Baltimore 1844–7; one of proprietors
of Baltimore museum 1849–53; opened the Charles st. theatre
with Uncle Tom’s cabin, playing Uncle Tom 1853; manager of the
Varieties in New Orleans 1858–60; played with great success at
the Broadway, New York 29 Aug. 1864 to 14 April 1865; played
Solon Shingle at Adelphi theatre, London 3 July 1865; acted
at Broadway theatre again 8 Jany. to 28 April 1866; played in
California 1880, where he lost most of his fortune in mining
speculations; acted in Esmeralda in many American cities 1882;
owner of the Academy of music, Charleston, South Carolina to his
death. _d._ near Towson, Baltimore county, Maryland 6 Dec. 1886.
_Atlantic xix_ 750 755–8 (1867); _T. A. Brown’s American stage_
(1870) 270 _portrait_.
OXBERRY, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Oxberry, actor 1784–1824).
_b._ Brownlow st. Bloomsbury, London 21 April 1808; educ.
Merchant Taylors’ school; with an artist; with an attorney;
apprenticed to Septimus Wray, surgeon, Fleet st. to 1824; first
appeared on the stage at the Olympic 17 March 1825 as Sam
Swipes in The high road to marriage; served under Leigh Hunt in
connection with The Examiner; played in the provinces 1826–32;
acted at the Strand 1832, and at the Italian opera, Paris 1833;
played four years at the English opera house 1833–7 where he
was manager, then lessee in 1842 and lost everything; played
the hero of A lost letter at Princess’s Jany. 1843; played in
Bombastes Furioso at Strand Sept. 1843, and Wamba in The maid of
Judah at Princess’s 1844; the original Mrs. Caudle in Mr. and
Mrs. Caudle at Princess’s July 1845; managed the Windsor theatre
for a time; edited Oxberry’s Weekly budget of plays, No. 1 20
March 1843, No. 78 30 Nov. 1844; Oxberry’s Budget of plays, 39
original dramas 1844; and Oxberry’s Dramatic chronology 1850; he
wrote The actress of all work, a sketch produced at the Surrey
theatre; Matteo Falcone or the brigand and his son, English
opera house June 1836; Delusion or is she mad, a drama, Queen’s
theatre 4 Feb. 1836; The Pacha’s pet, a farce, Victoria theatre
Sept. 1838; The Idiot boy or the castle of Heidelberg, Victoria
March 1839; Norma travestie, a burletta, Adelphi theatre 6 Dec.
1841; with J. Gann Mr. Midshipman Easy, a drama, Surrey theatre
March 1837; with Madame Laurent The Truand chief, a melodrama,
Victoria 9 Oct. 1837; _m._ (1) 11 Dec. 1834 Ellen M. Lancaster;
_m._ (2) 11 Jany. 1844 Louise Blanche, dau. of a master
shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard, she was _b._ Portsmouth 28
April 1826, and was a dancer at the Lyceum and Strand theatres
and in the provinces. _d._ on 28 February 1852. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 5 March. _Dramatic and musical review_ 1842 _p._
102 _et seq._; _Theatrical times 20 Feb. 1847 pp._ 49–50
_portrait, and iv_ 25–6 (1849) _portrait of his second wife_;
_Actors by gaslight_ (1838) 129–30 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xx_ 194
(1852).
OXENDEN, ASHTON (5 son of sir Henry Oxenden, 7 baronet
1756–1838). _b._ Broome park, Canterbury 20 Sept. 1808; educ.
Ramsgate, Harrow and Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1859,
D.D. 1869; C. of Barham, Kent Dec. 1833, resigned 1838; R. of
Pluckley with Pevington, Kent 1848–69; hon. canon of Canterbury
1864 to death; bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada
(nine dioceses) May 1869, resigned April 1878, consecrated in
Westminster Abbey 1 Aug. 1869, installed in Montreal cathedral
5 Sept.; V. of Hackington or St. Stephen’s, near Canterbury 30
May 1879 to 1884; dean of Canterbury 1879 to 1884; author of
The cottage library, 6 vols. 1846–51; The pathway of safety
1856, circulated 350,000 copies; The Barham tracts, 49 numbers,
collected and published as Cottage readings 1859; My first year
in Canada 1871; The Christian life 1877; his name is attached to
upwards of 50 works. _d._ Biarritz 22 Feb. 1892. _A. Oxenden’s
History of my life: an autobiography_ (1891); _A. Oxenden’s
Plain sermons_ (1893) _memoir pp. xiii–lxxxv with portrait_;
_Graphic 5 March 1892 p._ 298 _portrait_.
OXENFORD, HENRY. Last survivor of the official agents in H.M.’s
Customs Long Room, Custom house, London. _d._ Putney 26 Nov.
1883, in his 100 year.
OXENFORD, JOHN (son of William Oxenford of H.M. customs, _d._
London 30 Jany. 1867, aged 84). _b._ Camberwell 12 Aug. 1812;
educ. by S. T. Friend; solicitor in London 1837; assisted
his uncle, Mr. Alsager of Birchin lane, some years; wrote on
commercial and financial matters; taught himself German,
Italian, French and Spanish; dramatic critic to the Times
newspaper 1850–75; he wrote A day well spent, a farce, first
performed at English opera house 4 April 1835; My fellow clerks,
a farce, English opera house 20 April 1835; Twice killed, a
farce, Olympic theatre 26 Nov. 1835; The reigning favourite, a
drama, Strand 9 Oct. 1849; A doubtful victory, a comedietta,
Olympic 20 April 1858; The porter’s knot, a drama, Olympic 2
Dec. 1858; The magic toys, a ballet farce, St. James’ 24 Oct.
1859; Uncle Zachary, a drama, Olympic 8 March 1860; The world of
fashion, a comedy, Olympic 17 March 1862; Bristol diamonds, a
farce, St. James’ 11 Aug. 1862; An allegorical masque, Freya’s
gift in honor of marriage of prince of Wales, Covent Garden 10
March 1863; Beauty or the beast, a farce, Drury Lane 2 Nov.
1863; The monastery of St. Just, a play, Princess’ 27 June 1864;
Neighbours, a comedy, Strand 10 Nov. 1866; The last days of
Pompeii, drama, Queen’s 8 Jany. 1872; The two orphans, a drama,
Olympic 14 Sept. 1874; and with Horace Wigan A life chase, a
drama, Gaiety 6 Nov. 1869; his name is attached to upwards of
40 dramatic pieces; he wrote the librettos to G. A. Macfarren’s
operas Robin Hood 1860 and Helvellyn 1864, and to J. Benedict’s
Richard Cœur de Lion 1863 and The Lily of Killarney 1862; he
translated G. A. Buerger’s Leonora 1855; Goethe’s Autobiography
1848, vol. i only; J. P. Eckermann’s Conversations of Goethe
1850; J. M. Callery’s History of the insurrection in China 1853;
F. C. W. Jacobs’s Hellas 1855; Kuno Fischer’s Francis Bacon
of Verulam 1857; edited Flügel’s Dictionary of the German and
English languages 1857, 2 ed. 1880, and The illustrated book of
French songs 1851. _d._ 28 Trinity sq. Southwark 21 Feb. 1877.
_bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 28 Feb. _Life of E. L. Blanchard
ii_ 465 (1891) _portrait_; _Tinsley’s Magazine March 1874 pp._
270–2; _Illust. sp. and dr. news vi_ 553 (1877) _portrait_;
_Graphic xv_ 236 (1877) _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxx_ 229 (1877)
_portrait_; _Hatton’s Journalistic London_ (1882) 78 _portrait_;
_The theatre i_ 55–57 _and_ 68 (1877); _You have heard of them
by Q_ (1854) 121–27; _E. Yates’s Recollections i_ 307–10 (1884);
_Wednesday Programme 22 Nov. 1876 p._ 5 _portrait_; _Illust.
Times 1 Dec. 1866 p._ 340 _portrait_; _The Period 11 Feb. 1871
p._ 55 _portrait_; _The Mask_ (1868) 42 _portrait_.
OXENHAM, HENRY NUTCOMBE (eld. son of Wm. Oxenham 1800–63, second
master of Harrow school). _b._ Harrow 15 Nov. 1829; educ. Harrow
and Balliol col. Oxf., classical scholar 27 Nov. 1846, B.A.
1850, M.A. 1854; president of the Union 1852; C. of Worminghall,
Bucks. 1854; C. of St. Bartholomew’s, Cripplegate, London 1857;
entered the Church of Rome Nov. 1857; a member of the London
oratory; took the minor orders as far as Ostiarus; a professor
at St. Edmund’s college, Ware; a master at the Oratory school,
Birmingham; author of The sentences of Kaires and other poems,
Oxford 1854, 3 ed. entitled Poems 1871; The tractarian party and
the Anglican church 1858; The Catholic doctrine of the atonement
1865, 2 ed. 1869; Catholic eschatology and universalism 1876;
Short studies, ethical and religious, 2 vols. 1884–5; translated
Döllinger’s First age of Christianity and the church, 2 vols.
1866, 3 ed. 1877; and his Lectures on the reunion of the
churches 1872; edited and translated the second volume of bishop
C. J. Von Hefele’s A history of Christian councils 1876. _d._
42 Addison road, Kensington, London 23 March 1888. _bur._ St.
Mary’s R.C. church, Chislehurst 27 March. _Tablet 31 March 1888
p._ 534, _7 April pp._ 571–2; _Saturday Review lxv_ 380 (1888).
OXENHAM, WILLIAM (2 son of William Oxenham, prebendary of Exeter
1771–1844). _b._ Paul, Mount’s bay, Cornwall 13 Dec. 1800; educ.
Harrow 1813–19, and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826;
assistant master Harrow 1826–41, lower master 1841 to death;
author of English notes for Latin elegiacs 1842, 4 ed. 1862;
Death the christian’s gain 1861. _d._ Somers villa, Reigate 13
Oct. 1863. _bur._ Harrow ch. yard 20 Oct. _G.M. xvi_ 660 (1863).
OXFORD, EDWARD (3 child of Mr. Oxford, the best gold chaser in
Birmingham, who d. 10 June 1829, his widow kept a coffee shop
in the Borough road, London). _b._ Birmingham 19 April 1822;
discharged two pistols at queen Victoria and prince Albert
as they were driving up Constitution hill, London in an open
phaeton 10 June 1840, tried at the Old Bailey 10 July 1840,
found to be insane, sent first to Bethlehem hospital, and then
to Broadmoor, Surrey; released from Broadmoor Nov. 1867, but
not permitted to live in the United Kingdom. _Reports of state
trials iv_ 498–555 (1892); _W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials
i_ 102–50 (1850); _L. Benson’s Book of remarkable trials_
(1871) 528–45; _A. Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 285–9 (1884); _The
Reginacide_ (1840).
NOTE.--The pistol with which he shot at the queen is in the criminal
museum at the convict office, New Scotland Yard, Victoria embankment,
London.
OXFORD, JACOB. _b._ 1834; only 4 feet high; played the
concertina outside National gallery, London every evening for
28 years, 1854 to death; he is the subject of a poem of 100
lines entitled In Trafalgar Square, see Songs of the world in
The works of Lewis Morris (1890) pp. 16–18. _d._ Morpeth court,
Waterloo road, London 7 Nov. 1882.
OXLEE, JOHN (son of a farmer). _b._ Guisborough in Cleveland,
Yorkshire 25 Sept. 1779; second master of Tunbridge gr. sch.
1802–5; C. of Egton, near Whitby Jany. 1806; C. of Stonegrave
1811; R. of Scawton 1815–26; R. of Molesworth, Hunts. 8 July
1836 to death; learnt 120 languages and dialects, being 60
more than cardinal Mezzofanti; contributed to the Anti-Jacobin
review, Valpy’s Classical Journal, the Christian remembrancer,
and other periodicals; author of The christian doctrines of
the Trinity, the incarnation and the atonement considered and
maintained on the principles of Judaism, 3 vols. 1815–50; Six
letters to the archbishop of Canterbury on the futility of any
attempt to convert the Jews, 2 vols. 1842–5. _d._ Molesworth
rectory 30 Jany. 1854. _Smith’s Old Yorkshire_ (1882) 55–6
_portrait_; _Horne’s Manual of biblical bibliography_ (1839)
183, 184; _Church review 22 March 1862 pp._ 175–6; _G.M. April
1854 p._ 437, _and Feb. 1855 pp._ 203–4; _G. Smales’s Whitby
authors_ (1867) 105–11.
OXLEY, RICHARD. _b._ Chertsey, Surrey 1803; successor of Charles
Knight in the possession and control of the Windsor and Eton
Express; official printer of the Windsor race cards, employed
pigeons to convey the daily Ascot scratchings for the race
cards; printer of the cards for the fashionable yearly meetings
at Hawthorn hill; printer to the queen and royal family at
Windsor; the oldest follower of the queen’s stag hounds; printed
Oxley’s Windsor guide to the castle and Eton college 1889. _d._
13 Selborne road, Brighton 9 Aug. 1893.
OXTOBY, THOMAS. Served with lord Henry Bentinck; second whip to
Tom Day at Quorn; first whip to Ben Bontheroyd; kennel huntsman
to capt. Percy Williams at Rufford many years; whipper-in to
Mr. Hodgson in the Holderness country to 1853; huntsman of Fife
fox hounds 1853–9. _Babington’s Records of the Fife fox hounds_
(1883) 92 _portrait_.
P
PACIFICO, DAVID. _b._ Gibraltar 1784; in business at Lagos,
Portugal 1812, subsequently resided at Mertola, where his
property was confiscated by Don Miguel; Portuguese consul in
Morocco 28 Feb. 1835; Portuguese consul-general in Greece 5
Jany. 1837, dismissed from the service 21 Jany. 1842; a merchant
at Athens, where his house was burnt down by the mob Easter,
4 April 1847, claimed £26,618 from the Greek government, who
delaying to make compensation, lord Palmerston sent the British
fleet to the Piræus 18 Jany. 1850, French and English comrs.
endeavoured to arrange terms at Athens, but the attempt resulted
in a quarrel, and the French ambassador left London 15 May 1850;
Pacifico eventually received 120,000 drachmas for the plunder
of his house, and £500 for his personal sufferings; settled in
London and _d._ 15 Bury st. St. Mary Axe, London 12 April 1854.
_bur._ Spanish burial-ground, Mile End 14 April. _Correspondence
respecting the demands made upon the Greek government, in
Parliamentary papers 1850 and 1851_; _Hansard’s Debates 25
June 1850_, _cols._ 380–444; _Ashley’s Life of lord Palmerston
i_ 176–227 (1876); _Finlay’s History of Greece vii_ 209–14
(1877); _Gordon’s Thirty years of foreign policy_ (1855) 412–25;
_McCarthy’s History of our own time ii_ 41–62 (1879); _G.M. June
1854 p._ 666.
PACKE, CHARLES WILLIAM (1 son of Charles James Packe of
Prestwold hall, near Loughborough). _b._ 23 Sept. 1792; M.P.
South Leicestershire 1836 to death; chairman of Leicestershire
quarter sessions to death. _d._ 7 Richmond terrace, Whitehall,
London 27 Oct. 1867.
PACKE, GEORGE HUSSEY (brother of preceding). _b._ 1 May 1796;
educ. Eton; cornet 13 dragoons 24 June 1813; captain 21 light
dragoons 27 June 1816, placed on h.p. 25 March 1817, sold out
1861; sheriff of Lincs. 1843; chairman of Sleaford quarter
sessions; deputy chairman of Great northern railway company
1851, chairman 1865 to death; contested Newark 31 July 1847;
M.P. South Lincolnshire 1859–68. _d._ 41 Charles st. Berkeley
sq. London 2 July 1874.
PACKER, SIR CHARLES (3 son of John Culling Packer of Barbados).
_b._ Barbados 1816; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1839;
barrister I.T. 29 Jany. 1841; solicitor general of Barbados 12
March 1847 to 1874; escheator general 1859; vice-chancellor,
judge of the admiralty court, and chief justice 30 Oct. 1874 to
1886; member of general assembly 1846–67, speaker 1861–7; member
of legislative council 1868–76; knighted by patent 29 Oct. 1879.
_d._ Ruttal house, Barbados 21 Feb. 1888. _Law Times lxxxiv_ 396
(1888), _lxxxvi_ 265 (1889).
PACKER, JOHN GRAHAM. _b._ 1812; educ. Eton and Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840; C. of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green,
London 1837–41; V. of St. Peter, Bethnal Green 1841–73; R.
of Wootton, Kent 1873–9; V. of Arreton, Isle of Wight 1879
to death; author of Companion to Euclid 1835; Plain sermons
1838; Bethnal Green sermons, sermons on the Lord’s prayer
1848; Theopolis 1850; Sermons on death 1856. _d._ St. Audries,
Bridgwater, Somerset 1 Aug. 1883. _Guardian 8 Aug. 1883 pp._
1168, 1169.
PADDOCK, THOMAS. _b._ Redditch, Worcs. 1824; beat Elijah Parsons
in 23 rounds 3 Dec. 1844; beat Nobby Clarke in 42 rounds 27
Jany. 1846, and again in 35 rounds 6 April 1847; beaten by Wm.
Thompson, the champion known as Bendigo, at Mildenhall 5 June
1850, £200 a side, 49 rounds in 59 minutes; beaten by Wm. Perry
at Woking 17 Dec. 1850, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes;
beaten by Harry Paulson at Sedgebrook, near Grantham 23 Sept.
1851, £25 a side, 71 rounds in 95 minutes; beat Paulson at
Belper, Derbyshire 16 Dec. 1851, £50 a side, 86 rounds in 95
minutes, sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment with hard labour
for this fight March 1852; beat Paulson at Mildenhall 14 Feb.
1854, £100 a side, 102 rounds in 2½ hours; beat Aaron Jones
at Long Reach, Kent 18 July 1854, £100 a side, 121 rounds in
2 hours and 24 minutes; beat Aaron Jones again at Mildenhall
26 June 1855, £100 a side, 61 rounds in 89 minutes; beat Harry
Broome at Bentley, Suffolk 19 May 1856, £200 a side, 51 rounds
in 63 minutes; beaten by Tom Sayers, the champion, at Canvey
island 16 June 1858, £150 a side, 21 rounds in 80 minutes;
fought Samuel Hurst for £200 a side, near Aldermaston, Berkshire
5 Nov. 1860, when Hurst won in five rounds and obtained the
champion belt. _d._ 41 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 30
June 1863. _bur._ Finchley 5 July, his widow _d._ 9 July 1863.
_Bell’s Life in London 5 July 1863 p._ 6, _12 July p._ 7; _H.
D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_ 271–307 (1881) _portrait_; _F. W.
Henning’s Prize Ring_ (1888) 130–9, 168–81; _J. Hannan’s British
Boxing_ (1850) 15–26.
PADMORE, RICHARD (1 son of Thomas Padmore of Ketley, Salop).
_b._ Ketley 28 Sept. 1789; educ. Wellington school; came to
Worcester as a working man, became member of firm of Hardy and
Padmore, iron founders, retired some years before his death;
sheriff of Worcestershire 1845; alderman of Worcester 1838,
mayor 1848 and 1852, retired from the corporation 1874; M.P.
Worcester 1860–8; managing director of Worcester City and
County banking co.; gave £5,000 to the Royal Albert asylum,
Worcester. _d._ Henwick hall, near Worcester 12 Jany. 1881.
_bur._ Worcester cemetery 19 Jany. _Berrow’s Worcestershire
Journal 15 Jany. 1881 p._ 5, _22 Jany. p._ 5.
PADWICK, HENRY (2 son of William Padwick, butcher, _d._ 1834).
_b._ Horsham, Sussex 1805; a solicitor at 38 Davis st. Berkeley
sq. London 1846, retired 1855; resided at 2 Hill st. 1855–68,
at 4 Hill st. 1868 to death; commenced horse racing 1849 under
the name of Howard; his horses were trained at Danebury, then
transferred to Findon under John Barnham Day 1853; with Virago
won the 1,000 guineas 1854; sold Kangaroo to the marquess of
Hastings for £12,000 in 1865, and Oulston to Mr. Elwes for
£8,000; won £80,000 on Virago, and lost the money the same year
on the stock exchange 1854; J.P. for London and Westminster;
deputy lieutenant for Sussex; deputy keeper of Holyrood palace,
Scotland; a well known money lender. _d._ 4 Hill st Berkeley
sq. London 23 Sept. 1879. _J. Rice’s History of British Turf i_
371–80 (1879); _W. Day’s Reminiscences_, _2 ed._ (1886) 1–34;
_Times 25 Sept. 1879 p._ 9.
PAE, DAVID (son of a miller). _b._ Amulree, Perthshire 6 May
1828; was with Thomas Grant, publisher, Edinburgh 1848; wrote
stories for the Penny Post and the North Briton, Edinb.; editor
of The Theatre, Edinburgh, 12 Numbers 1851–2; edited for some
years the People’s Journal, Dundee, a weekly paper; wrote 27
works of fiction, printed in instalments in the Journal from 5
Sept. 1863 to his death; wrote the dramatic criticisms for the
Evening Telegraph, Dundee, from 1877; wrote Mrs. Macgregor’s
Levee for W. C. Gourlay, the Comedian, and other dramas; author
of The coming struggle among the nations of the earth 1853, 2
ed. 1854, five replies were made to this work; The coming rest
for the nations of the earth 1853; The mission and destiny of
Russia as delineated in scripture prophecy 1853; Jessie Melville
or the double sacrifice 1856; The merchant’s daughter 1857;
Fraud and friendship 1857; Two years after and onward, or the
approaching war among the powers of Europe 1864; The present war
among the powers of Europe 1866; Hard times, or the trials of
the Linwood family, 2 ed. 1886. _d._ Craigmount, East Newport,
Fife 9 May 1884. _bur._ Western cemet. Dundee 13 May. _Dundee
Advertiser 10 May 1884 p._ 5, _12 May p._ 5, _14 May p._ 3.