parish of Tinwald, near Dumfries 18 Oct. 1811; educ. Dumfries
academy; a compositor and reporter on the Dumfries Courier;
partner in a printing firm in London; reporter and sub-editor of
the Glasgow Herald 1839, and editor 1856 to death, he converted
it into a daily paper 1857; the correspondent of The Times
in Glasgow 1857 to death; edited The prospective observer, a
broadsheet; author of Sketches of the history of Glasgow 1847;
History of the cathedral and see of Glasgow 1851, 2 ed. 1883;
Glasgow, past and present, illustrated in dean of guild reports,
3 vols. 1851–6, another ed. 1884; Old Glasgow and its environs
1864; with J. H. Stoddart Relics of ancient architecture in
Glasgow 1885. _d._ Glasgow 11 Feb. 1870. _In memoriam, Mr.
James Pagan_ (1870); _Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii_ 255–60 (1886)
_portrait_; _Newspaper Press iii_ 82, 106 (1870).
PAGAN, JOHN. _b._ Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire 21 May 1842;
assistant surveyor to corporation of Preston 1867–9, and to
corporation of Bradford 1869–72; deputy borough surveyor
Sheffield 1872–5; borough surveyor Wakefield 1875–9, where he
executed the main sewerage extension; A.I.C.E. 2 Feb. 1875;
surveyor general to the Gold Coast, May 1879 to death. _d._
Accra 13 Dec. 1888. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvi_ 348–9
(1889).
PAGAN, JOHN M. (only son of Andrew Pagan, sheep farmer). _b._
Halglenmuir, parish of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Jany. 1802; M.D.
Edinb. 1823; F.F.P.S. Glasgow 1827, hon. librarian some years;
in practice at Preston, Lancs. 1825, removed to Glasgow 1827;
had a class for forensic medicine 1839; regius professor of
midwifery and the diseases of women and children, univ. of
Glasgow 1840 to death; president Glasgow Medico-chirurgical soc.
1860; invented an obstetric forceps known by his name; author of
De syncope anginosa 1823; The medical jurisprudence of insanity
1840. _d._ Blythswood sq. Glasgow 19 May 1868. _Glasgow Medical
journal i_ 129–31 (1869).
PAGANI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. _b._ Borgomanero province of Novara,
North Italy 14 May 1806; a priest 1828; prefect in theological
seminary, Novara 1829; professor of dogmatic theology and canon
law; spiritual director of the young ecclesiastics 1831–6;
served his noviciate at San Michele della Chiusa, near Turin,
in connection with the Institute of Charity 1836–7; joined Fr.
Gentili at Prior park, Bath, July 1837, where he was professor
of theology to 1841; superior of the English province of the
Institute of Charity, established 8 houses with 80 brethren;
elected general of the order of the Institute of Charity at Rome
24 July 1855, visited England every year; translated Liguori’s
Instructions on the religious state 1848; L’ Anima amante or
the soul loving God 1848; Leonardo’s The path to Paradise 1850;
author of The Anima Divota, translated by the rev. J. Shepherd,
Prior Park 1844; The way to heaven, a manual of devotion 1849;
The life of the rev. A. Gentili 1851; The one thing needful,
or the attainment of our last end 1852; A help to devotion, a
collection of novenas 1853, new ed. 1892; The science of the
saints in practice 1853–5, 3 vols.; The end of the world 1855.
_d._ Rome 25–26 Dec. 1860. _G. B. Pagani’s The Anima Divota_
(1891) _memoir pp._ 7–12; _G.M. x_ 230 (1861).
PAGE, AUGUSTINE. _b._ 1783; master of Boys’ hospital, Ampton 6
March 1821 to death; author of Memoranda concerning the Boys’
hospital at Ampton in Suffolk, Ipswich 1838; A supplement to the
Suffolk traveller 1843, another copy is dated 1844. _d._ Bury
St. Edmunds 18 Sept. 1853.
PAGE, DAVID (son of a mason and builder). _b._ Lochgelly,
Fifeshire 24 Aug. 1814; educ. univ. of St. Andrew’s 1828–34;
lecturer and editor of a Fifeshire newspaper; scientific editor
to W. and R. Chambers in Edinburgh 1843–51; professor of geology
in Durham univ. college of physical science at Newcastle July
1871 to death; F.G.S. 1853; president of Geological society
of Edinb. 1863 and 1865; LL.D. St. Andrew’s 1867; author of
Introductory text book of geology 1854, 12 ed. 1888; Advanced
text book of geology, descriptive and industrial, Edinb. 1856, 5
ed. 1872; Handbook of geological terms and geology 1859, 2 ed.
1865; Introductory text book of physical geography 1863, 12 ed.
1887; The earth’s crust 1864, 6 ed. 1872; Geology for general
readers 1866, 12 ed. 1888; and 13 other books. _d._ Newcastle 9
March 1879, his widow was granted civil list pension of £100, 2
Aug. 1890.
PAGE, JAMES AUGUSTUS. _b._ 1821; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin;
vice-chancellor’s prize 1844, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1865; C. of Lymm,
Cheshire 1845–6, and V. of Tintwistle 1846–73; lecturer at
Rusholme, near Manchester 1873 to death; author of Gathered
leaves 1843; The ruined cities of Central America 1844; My
church 1845; Protestant ballads 1852. _d._ Anson terrace,
Rusholme 25 March 1880.
PAGE, THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Page of City of London,
solicitor). _b._ London 26 Oct. 1803; employed by Edward Blore,
the architect; A.I.C.E. 2 April 1833, M.I.C.E. 18 April 1837;
one of the assistant engineers on the Thames tunnel works 1835,
acting engineer 1836 until completion of tunnel 25 March 1843;
designed the embankment of the Thames from Westminster to
Blackfriars 1842, but the scheme was abandoned; prepared plans
for harbours at Holyhead and Port Denllaen, also for docks at
Swansea; designed and executed the Albert embankment between
Vauxhall and Battersea bridges, and the Chelsea suspension
bridge, opened 28 March 1858, the Albert embankment was opened
24 Nov. 1869; designed Westminster bridge, commenced May 1854,
opened 24 May 1862; engineer for the town of Wisbeach; invented
a system for firing guns under water; author of Report on the
eligibility of Milford Haven for ocean steam ships, and for a
naval arsenal 1859. _d._ Paris 8 Jany. 1877. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xlix_ 262–5 (1877).
PAGE, WILLIAM EMMANUEL (2 son of rev. Wm. Page of Westminster).
_b._ 9 April 1808; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1826,
faculty student 1826–56; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.M. 1834, D.M.
1837; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1838, treasurer; lecturer on theory and
practice of medicine St. George’s hospital, senior physician
at his decease; author of Oratio ex Harveii instituto in
ædibus collegii regalis medicorum Londinensis habita 1860; An
introductory address delivered at St. George’s hospital 1864.
_d._ 106 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 2 Jany. 1868.
_Medical Times and Gazette i_ 49 (1868).
PAGET, ALFRED HENRY (5 son of 1 Marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854).
_b._ 29 June 1816; educ. Westminster; cornet royal horse guards
6 July 1832, lieut. 14 March 1834; captain 7 hussars 3 July
1841, placed on h.p. with rank of major 16 May 1845; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877, placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July
1881; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to
March 1852, Dec. 1852 to March 1858, and June 1859 to Aug. 1874;
clerk marshal to the queen July 1846 to death; his boat the
Mystery 25 tons was the first iron yacht built; M.P. Lichfield
1837–65; _m._ 8 April 1847 Cecilia, 2 dau. of George Thomas
Wyndham, she was one of the Court beauties in 1858; he _d._ on
board his yacht Violet at Inverness 24 Aug. 1888. _bur._ Hampton
churchyard 30 Aug. _H. Vizetelly’s Glances back through seventy
years ii_ 6 (1893); _Yachting_ (_Badmington Library_ 1894) _ii_
15, 185–6.
PAGET, CHARLES (elder son of Joseph Paget). _b._ Loughborough,
Leics. 1799; a manufacturer at Nottingham; sheriff of Notts.
1844; a practical and scientific farmer; established schools
for his labourers’ children at Ruddington, near Nottingham;
M.P. Nottingham 1856–65; contested Nottingham 11 July 1865;
author of Results of an experiment on the half-time system of
education in rural districts, as carried on at Ruddington 1859;
_drowned_ with his wife off Filey Brigg, Yorkshire 13 Oct. 1873.
_Scarborough Mercury 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 4, _25 Oct. p._ 2.
NOTE.--Mr. and Mrs. Paget while standing on a ridge of rocks known as
Filey Brigg, were washed off by a huge wave, and the bodies were not
recovered.
PAGET, CLARENCE EDWARD (4 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey
1768–1854). _b._ 17 June 1811; educ. Westminster school 1821–3;
entered navy 1827; a midshipman on board the Asia at Battle of
Navarino; captain 26 March 1839; commanded the princess Royal,
91 guns, in the Baltic 1854, and during blockade and bombardment
of Sebastopol 1855; R.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 1 April 1870,
placed on retired list 18 June 1876; M.P. Sandwich 1847–52 and
1857–66; secretary to the admiralty 1859–66; commander-in-chief
in the Mediterranean 28 April 1866 to 28 April 1869; C.B. Feb.
1856, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886; P.C. 9 May 1866;
_m._ 1852 Martha Stuart, dau. of admiral Sir Robert Otway, she
_d._ 23 March 1895; he _d._ Brighton 22 March 1895, they were
both _buried_ at Patcham, near Brighton 28 March. _Illust. news
of the world viii_ (1861) _portrait_.
PAGET, FRANCIS EDWARD (eld. son of sir Edward Paget, general
1775–1849). _b._ 24 May 1806; educ. Westminster school 1817–24
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1825–36; B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; R. of
Elford, near Lichfield 1835 to death, the church was restored
1848; chaplain to Dr. Bagot, bishop of Bath and Wells; author
of Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary, Oxford 1833; St. Antholin’s,
or old churches and new 1841; Milford Malvoisin, or pews and
pewholders 1842; The warden of Berkingholt, or rich and poor
1843; The owlet of Owlstone Edge 1856; The curate of Cumberworth
and the vicar of Roost 1859; Lucretia, or the heroine of the
nineteenth century 1868, a satire on the sensational novel; Some
records of the Ashstead estate and of its Howard possessors,
Lichfield 1873; A student penitent of 1695, 1875; Homeward bound
1876; edited The Juvenile Englishman’s library, and wrote for it
5 volumes, namely, Tales of the village children 1845, 2 vols.;
The hope of the Katzekopfs 1845, also issued separately under
pseudonym of William Charme of Staffordshire; Luke Sharp 1845;
Tales of the village 1860. _d._ Elford 4 Aug. 1882. _Guardian 16
Aug. 1882 p._ 1124; _Church congress_ (1883) 55.
PAGET, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK (brother of Clarence E.
Paget 1811–95). _b._ Burlington st. London 16 March 1818; educ.
Westminster school 1829; cornet 1 life guards 25 July 1834,
lieut. 1837–41; captain 4 light dragoons 17 June 1842, lieut.
col. 29 Dec. 1846, placed on h.p. 1 May 1857; served at battles
of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman; commanded the light brigade
in the Crimea 25 Feb. to 29 July 1855; brigadier general in the
Crimea 30 July 1855 to 14 May 1856, and at Aldershot 1 April
1860 to 31 Aug. 1861; commanded the Sirhind division of the
Bengal army 26 Dec. 1862 to 23 March 1865; inspector general of
cavalry at head quarters 1 April 1865 to 31 March 1870; col. of
7 dragoon guards 28 Jany. 1868, and of 4 hussars 7 Jany. 1874 to
death; general 1 Oct. 1877; M.P. Beaumaris 1847–57; C.B. 5 July
1855, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; author of The light cavalry brigade in
the Crimea, 1875, 2 ed. 1881. _d._ Farm st. Mayfair, London 30
June 1880. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 461 (1858) _portrait_; _Times 2 July
1880 p._ 5.
PAGET, SIR GEORGE EDWARD (7 son of Samuel Paget of Great
Yarmouth, merchant). _b._ Great Yarmouth 22 Dec. 1809; educ.
Charterhouse 1824–7, and Gonville and Caius coll. Camb. 1827,
scholar 1828, eighth wrangler Jany. 1831; fellow of his college
1832 to 11 Dec. 1851, elected fellow again 2 May 1881; B.A.
1831, M.B. 1833, M.L. 1836, M.D. 1838; studied medicine at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital and in Paris; physician to Addenbrooke’s
hospital, Cambridge 1839–84; Linacre lecturer on medicine at
St. John’s college, July 1851 to 1872; president of Cambridge
philosophical society 1855–6; member of council of the senate
of Cambridge univ. 1856, and their representative on general
council of medical education 27 Nov. 1863 to 9 July 1869,
president 9 July 1869 to 18 July 1874; president of British
medical association 1864; regius professor of physic at
Cambridge 15 Feb. 1872 to death; delivered Harveian oration at
royal college of physicians 1866; F.R.S. 12 June 1873; K.C.B.
19 Dec. 1885; author of Notice of an unpublished manuscript
of Harvey 1850; The Harveian oration 1866. _d._ St. Peter’s
terrace, Cambridge 29 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of royal society l_,
_p. xii_ (1892); _Some lectures by sir G. E. Paget_, _edited by
C. E. Paget_, _Cambridge_ (1893) _memoir pp._ 1–26 _portrait_;
_Graphic 6 Feb. 1892 p._ 174 _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs
of medical men_ (1865) _portrait_ 6.
PAGET, JOHN (son of John Paget). _b._ Thorpe Satchville, Leics.
1808; a lay student in Manchester college, York 1823–6; studied
medicine in univ. of Edinb. 1826, M.D. 1830 but never used title
of doctor; studied medicine in Paris and Italy; _m._ at Rome
1837 baroness Polyxena Wesselingi, widow of baron Ladislaus
Bánffy, she _d._ 1878; developed his wife’s estates in Hungary,
where he introduced an improved breed of cattle, and paid
special attention to viniculture; member of the Unitarian church
of Transylvania; author of Hungary and Transylvania, 2 vols.
1839, 2 ed. 1855; Unitarianism in Transylvania, in J. R. Beard’s
Unitarianism exhibited 1846, pp. 296–315. _d._ Gyeres, Hungary
10 April 1892. _bur._ Kolozsvár 12 April. _Keresztény Magretö_
(1893) _pp._ 90 _et seq._, _memoir and portrait_; _Inquirer 30
April 1892 p._ 278.
PAGET, THOMAS TERTIUS (1 son of Thomas Paget, M.P.) _b._ 27 Dec.
1807; proprietor of banking firm of T. T. Paget, Leicester;
M.P. South Leicestershire Nov. 1867 to Nov. 1868; contested S.
Leicestershire 26 Nov. 1868, 13 June 1870 and 14 Feb. 1874;
M.P. S. Leicestershire 1880 to death; sheriff of Leicester
1869; proprietor of the opera-house in Leicester; well known in
the hunting field; author of Talbot _v._ Talbot, a statement
of facts 1855; A letter on the judgement of the high court of
delegates in Talbot _v._ Talbot 1856. _d._ Humberstone, near
Leicester 16 Oct. 1892, will proved 1 Nov., personalty amounted
to over £589,000.
PAGET, WILLIAM (2 son of 1 marquess of Anglesey 1768–1854).
_b._ Wigmore st. London 1 March 1803; entered navy 1 April
1817, captain 18 Oct. 1826; M.P. for Carnarvon 1826–30, and for
Andover 1841–7. _d._ Boulogne 17 May 1873. _A.R._ (1844) 21–4,
25; _I.L.N. lxii_ 523 (1873).
PAGLIARDINI, TITO. _b._ Italy 1817; second French master St.
Paul’s sch. London 28 July 1853, head French master 4 Feb. 1859
to 1879; member of the order of the Corona d’Italia 1893; a
member of Workman’s Peace association, of the National Education
association, of the National health soc., of the Paddington
parliament, and of the Social science congresses; translated L.
Manzotti’s Excelsior, a ballet at Her Majesty’s theatre 1885;
C. Lisei’s Giovanni Bottesini 1886; L. Manzotti’s Amor love, a
choreographic poem 1886; author of Le petit précepteur; Le petit
grammairien 1868. _d._ 21 Alexander st. Westbourne park, London
26 March 1895.
PAICE, WILLIAM. _b._ 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric.
Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a
journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both
here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and
motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. _d._ 1 Portman
mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.
PAIN, JAMES (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). _b._
Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the
architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as
architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George
at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of
Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and
Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near
Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork,
for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of
first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the
churches and glebe houses; George _b._ London 1793, _d._ 1838,
_bur._ St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James _d._ Limerick 13 Dec.
1877. _bur._ Limerick cathedral. _Dictionary of architecture
vi_, _Letter P_, 6–7 (1881).
PAINTER, EDWARD. _b._ Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a
brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas,
near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J.
Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813;
beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the
lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815;
beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817;
beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten
by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April
1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds
7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820;
landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many
years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. _d._
at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept.
1852. _bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. _Miles’
Pugilistica ii_ 74–88 (1880) _portrait_: _The Fancy._ _By An
Operator i_ 393–400 (1826) _portrait_.
PAKENHAM, CHARLES REGINALD (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of
Longford 1744–1835). _b._ 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June
1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5
March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and
accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and
gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the
order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of
our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855;
visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of
the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known
as Father Paul Mary. _d._ Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857.
_bur._ in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. _The Tablet 7 March
1857 p._ 148.
PAKENHAM, EDWARD WILLIAM (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham
1781–1850). _b._ Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852
to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24
Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the
Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first
jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he
defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the
Sand-bag battery and _fell_ pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854.
_bur._ 6 Nov. _G. Ryan’s Our heroes_ (1855) 167–8.
PAKENHAM, JOHN (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836).
_b._ 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the
Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired
1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. _d._ Cannes 1 June
1876. _O’Byrne’s Naval Biog._ (1849) 851.
PAKENHAM, SIR RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Pakenham
hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll.
Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the
legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in
Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United
Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of
the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec.
1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension
22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent
on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England
Oct. 1855, granted pension. _d._ Coolure, Castle Pollard 28
Oct. 1868. _Men of the time_ (1868) _p._ 630; _I.L.N. liii_ 459
(1868).
PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of
Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., _d._
1850). _b._ Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and
St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at
St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden
society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed
to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor
to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50;
tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in
the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a
private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4;
professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ.
college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of
London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D.
Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies
separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes;
published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven
miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A
manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii
Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies
of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The
tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of
Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad
of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. _d._
Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. _bur._ R.C.
churchyard, Boscombe.
PALEY, GEORGE BARKER (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe
and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). _b._ 28 Oct. 1799; educ.
St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825,
B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St.
Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R.
of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form
of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for
the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of
Tarsus, a drama 1855. _d._ 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880,
personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. _Times 14 Feb. 1880
p._ 10.
PALGRAVE, SIR FRANCIS (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the
stock exchange). _b._ London July 1788; articled to Loggin and
Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing
clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822;
barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before
the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; _m._ 13 Oct. 1823
Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau.
of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by
R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his
plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug.
1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and
writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the
court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199,
2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the
treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents
and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in
the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St.
James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one
of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld
his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s
records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the
national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued
22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1
only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth,
Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original
authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records
illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for
travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60;
The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. _d._
The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19
March 1834. _Proc. of royal soc. xii_ 13–20 (1862); _G.M. Oct.
1861 pp._ 441–5; _Palgrave family memorials_, _edited by C. J.
Palmer and S. Tucker_ (1878) 91, 108, _portrait of sir F. and
lady Palgrave_; _Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp._ 731–47.