from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at
Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the
Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire
in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat
15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864;
Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in
A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty
Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty
Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at
Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4
Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22
Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played
at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother
Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in
Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore
in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept.
1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876,
Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit
in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878,
Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in
The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880,
Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept.
1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s
theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June
1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham
26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court
theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller
at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; _m._ (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at
Boston and Philadelphia; _m._ (2) Mr. Cooke. _d._ 4 Shawfield
st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. _Era 28 Dec.
1895_; _T. A. Brown’s American Stage_ (1870) 281.
PAVER, WILLIAM. _b._ 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4
Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts
of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families
resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of
families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The
heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his
collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British
Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing
in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire
archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882).
_d._ Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.
PAXTON, JAMES. _b._ London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March
1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service;
practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford
1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire
militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and
notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of
human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in
America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of
health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living
streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of
the blood 1855. _d._ Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin,
Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. _E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford_
(1866) 40.
PAXTON, SIR JOSEPH (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near
Woburn, Bedfordshire). _b._ Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener
to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821,
constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural
society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent
of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his
woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid
houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40;
travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey,
Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the
village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the
fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height;
succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the
first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of
1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected;
knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the
re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director
of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the
army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854
to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières,
France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president;
F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844;
edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and
general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany
and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s
magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley,
Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical
dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on
the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. _d._ Rockhills, Sydenham 8
June 1865. _bur._ Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. _Journal
of horticulture viii_ 446 (1865) _portrait_; _G.M. ii_ 247–9
(1865); _Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p._ 491: _Practical
Mag. vi_ 161 (1876) _portrait_; _Catalogue of the library at
Chatsworth iv_ 161 (1879) _view of his house_; _The Crystal
palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior_ (1851); _I.L.N.
xviii_ 343, 344 (1851) _portrait_, _xlvi_ 601 (1865) _portrait_;
_Times 9 June 1865 p._ 9, _16 June p._ 9.
NOTE.--He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling
the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of
railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops.
This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons
in 1855.
PAYN, SIR WILLIAM (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead,
clerk to the Thames comrs.) _b._ 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27
May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug.
1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in
India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856;
in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow;
brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B.
14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of
Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired
list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to
death. _d._ Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. _Daily Graphic
21 June 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_.
PAYN, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). _b._ Dover
1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover
1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837;
coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor
1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16
April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by
the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. _d._
Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. _Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p._
450.
PAYNE, ARTHUR GAY (son of John Robert Payne, _d._ 6 Nov. 1877).
_b._ Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school,
London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his
college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete
1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting
editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and
water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the
Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and
W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery
1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author
of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost
1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery
1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard
news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on
Conjuring, cricketing, etc. _d._ Bay View terrace, Penzance 1
April 1894.
PAYNE, CHARLES. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I.
12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828
to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I.
1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at
Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847
to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ 24 April 1858.
PAYNE, CHARLES. _b._ 1815; in service of Mr. Errington 1830–5;
whipper-in of the Bedfordshire pack 1835–45; first whipper-in
and kennel huntsman of the Pytchley 1845, and huntsman 1849–65;
huntsman of Wynnstay hunt 1865–83. _d._ 30 Dec. 1893. _bur._
Overton, Flintshire 4 Jany. 1894. _Sporting Review xliv_ 14
(1860); _Baily’s Mag. Feb. 1894 pp._ 135–6.
PAYNE, FREDERICK (younger son of W. H. S. Payne 1804–78). _b._
Jany. 1841; first appeared in pantomime of the Forty thieves
at Sadler’s Wells Dec. 1854; played harlequin at Covent Garden
theatre about 1863–73; played harlequin also in the opening of
E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22
Dec. 1874; his mind became affected while playing in pantomine
The yellow dwarf at Alexandra palace Jany. or Feb. 1877. _d._
3 Alexandra road, Finsbury park, London 27 Feb. 1880. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 2 March. _Era 29 Feb. 1880 p._ 6.
PAYNE, GALLWAY BYNG. Second lieut. R.M. 17 May 1831, lieut. col.
11 Aug. 1858, col. 22 May 1862; col. commandant 5 Nov. 1864 to
12 June 1865, when he retired on full pay as major general. _d._
Torquay 19 May 1870.
PAYNE, GEORGE (only son of George Payne of Sulby hall,
Northamptonshire, who was shot in a duel 6 Sept. 1810). _b._
3 April 1803; educ. Eton 1816–22; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
12 April 1823; came into £17,000 a year and a sum of about
£300,000 in 1824, spent this and two other large fortunes in
a few years; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1826; master of the
Pytchley hounds 1835–8 and 1844–8; owner of racehorses 1824 to
death; his first partner on the turf was Edward Bouverie, whose
colours were all black, Payne’s were all white, they amalgamated
them and originated the famous magpie jacket; partner afterwards
with Charles C. F. Greville; lost £33,000 when Jerry won the
St. Leger 1824; won the One thousand guineas with Clementine
1847, and the Cesarewitch with Glauca; a witness against baron
de Ros in the card cheating case 10 Feb. 1837. _d._ 10 Queen
st. Mayfair, London 2 Sept. 1878. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet.
6 Sept. _Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 4, 99, 117–48
_portrait_; _Rice’s British turf ii_ 296–388 (1879) _portrait_;
_Famous racing men_. _By Thormanby_ (1882) 113–20 _portrait_;
_Baily’s Mag. i_ 183–6 (1860) _portrait_, _xli_ 148–53 (1883);
_Westminster Papers x_ 139 (1878) _portrait_; _Racing in
Badminton library_ (1886) 75, 198, 204–5; _Illust. sp. and dr.
news iv_ 475, 496 (1876) _portrait_; _Sporting Times 8 May 1875
pp._ 305, 308 _portrait_.
PAYNE, HENRY EDWARD (1 son of W. H. Payne 1804–78). _b._ 1831;
first appeared as Moth in Midsummer night’s dream, Lyceum 184–;
played with his father in the provinces; acted in the openings
of pantomimes in London and then took part of harlequin, being a
noted dancer; harlequin in Little Red riding hood, Covent Garden
Dec. 1858; clown at Covent Garden 1860–73 and 1878; acted
Charles the wrestler in As you like it at Haymarket 9 Oct. 1871;
clown in Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874; clown at
Drury Lane 1881–91 and 1893. _d._ Norfolk house 322 Camden road,
London 27 Sept. 1895. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 2 Oct., left £5,858
16 6. _Black and white 30 Dec. 1893 p._ 832, 2 _portraits_;
_Illust. sporting news v_ 808 (1866) _portrait_; _Illust. sp.
and dr. news xx_ 432 (1884) _portrait_; _St. James’s Budget 4
Oct. 1895 p._ 33 _portrait_; _Era 28 Sept._, _5 Oct._, _24 Nov.
1895_; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 214, 403, 721.
PAYNE, JOHN. Officer in charge of H.M. Indian mails 31 years;
his grandfather René Payne was the founder of the banking house
of Smith, Payne and Smiths’, London 1759. _d._ Dove’s Nest,
Margate 17 Dec. 1893.
PAYNE, JOHN HOWARD (son of William Payne, schoolmaster). _b._
New York 9 June 1791; in a counting house 1805; first appeared
at Park theatre, New York as Young Norval 24 Feb. 1809; first
appeared in London at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval 4 June
1813; played in principal cities of Great Britain; edited The
opera glass, for peeping into the microcosm of the fine arts and
more especially of the drama, London, 26 numbers 2 Oct. 1826
to 24 March 1827; resided in London and Paris, where he wrote
dramas, chiefly adaptations from the French; his tragedy of
Brutus was produced at Drury Lane 3 Dec. 1818 with Edmund Kean
as Brutus; The accusation at Drury Lane 1 Feb. 1816; his dramas,
Ali Pacha 19 Oct. 1822; The two galley slaves 6 Nov. 1822, and
Charles the Second 3 May 1824, all at Covent Garden; his name is
attached to upwards of 50 dramas; his song of Home sweet home,
sung by Miss Tree in his Clari or the Maid of Milan, produced at
Covent Garden 2 May 1823, made him famous all over the world,
more than 100,000 copies were sold in twelve months; a friend
and correspondent of Coleridge and Charles Lamb; returned to
U.S. of America 1832; had a benefit at the Park theatre, New
York 29 Nov. 1832 producing 4,200 dollars; American consul at
Tunis 1841–4, and May 1851 to death. _d._ Tunis 10 April 1852,
memorial monument in St. George’s cemet. Tunis, his body was
reinterred in Oak Hill cemet. Washington June 1883, where is
monument, colossal bust in Prospect park, Brooklyn. _C. H.
Brairard’s John Howard Payne_ (1885); _Memoirs of J. H. Payne,
the American Roscius_ (1815) _portrait_; _Appleton’s American
biog. iv_ 68 (1888) _portrait_; _The Theatre vi_ 211–6 (1885).
PAYNE, JOSEPH (son of Wm. Payne of St. Alphage, London). _b._
13 Nov. 1797; matric. from St. Edmund’s hall, Oxf. 6 May 1818;
barrister L.I. 14 June 1825; migrated to Middle Temple; deputy
assistant judge of court of sessions for Middlesex May 1859
to death; author of Lines written to commemorate the opening
of London bridge 1831; An Easter Monday ode 1837; with F. A.
Carrington Reports of cases at nisi prius 1825; and with J.
B. Moore Reports of cases in the common pleas and exchequer
chambers 1828. _d._ Westhill, Highgate 29 March 1870. _bur._
Highgate cemetery, where is marble memorial 16 feet high erected
by friends of ragged schools and temperance societies. _Illust.
Times 19 Nov. 1870 p._ 333, _view of memorial in Highgate
cemetery_; _Lectures edited by J. F. Payne_ (1883) _portrait_;
_Christian cabinet illustrated almanac for 1860 pp._ 37–8.
PAYNE, JOSEPH. _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 2 March 1808; assistant
master in a school in New Kent road, London 1828, a believer
in Joseph Jacotot’s style of teaching; with Mr. Fletcher kept
the Denmark Hill grammar school 1828–45; kept the Mansion
house school at Leatherhead with great success 1845–63; member
of council of Social science association 1871; chairman of
council of Philological society 1873–4; chairman of the central
committee of the Women’s education union 1871–5; professor of
education at the College of preceptors, London Dec. 1872 to
death; author of A compendious exposition of professor Jacotot’s
celebrated system of education 1830; C. F. Lhomond’s Universal
instruction, Epitome historiæ sacræ, a Latin reading book on
Jacotot’s system 1831; Select poetry for children 1839, 18 ed.
1874; Studies in English poetry 1845, 8 ed. 1881; Studies in
English prose 1868, 2 ed. 1881; A visit to German schools 1876;
The works of Joseph Payne, edited by his son Dr. J. F. Payne, 2
vols. 1883–92, two portraits. _d._ 4 Kildare gardens, Bayswater,
London 30 April 1876, portrait in common room of college of
preceptors. _Educational Times 1 June 1876._
PAYNE, LOUISA. First appeared theatre royal Birmingham; under
Mrs. Nye Chart at Brighton theatre many years, where she was
a favourite; acted in The world Drury Lane 31 July 1880, and
played Maligna in E. L. Blanchard’s pantomime Mother Goose at
Drury Lane 27 Dec. 1880; played Ursula in Much ado about nothing
11 Oct. 1882, and Bessy in Faust 19 Dec. 1885, at Lyceum. _d._
from cancer at Elm Bank, Malvern 11 April 1887.
PAYNE, WILLIAM (2 son of Wm. Payne of London). _b._ 1799;
coroner of London and Southwark 1829 to death, revived the
ancient practice of holding an inquest touching fires 22 Aug.
1845; chief clerk at the Guildhall, London 1833, resigned Oct.
1843; student G.I. 13 June 1832; barrister G.I. 22 Nov. 1843;
high steward of Southwark and judge of borough court of record
1850 to death; serjeant-at-law 11 May 1858. _d._ 26 Brunswick
sq. London 25 Feb. 1872. _I.L.N. lx_ 207 (1872).
PAYNE, WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD. _b._ City of London 1804;
played small parts at T.R. Birmingham; studied pantomime and
clowning under Grimaldi and Bologna at Sadler’s Wells theatre
1823; played small parts at Pavilion theatre 1825–31; played
Medow Mawr the Welsh ogre in Charles Farley’s pantomime Hop
o’ my thumb and his brothers at Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1831,
and Tasnar in Puss in boots 26 Dec. 1832; played harlequin to
Grimaldi’s clown at Sadler’s Wells 1827, and dandy lover to
young Joe Grimaldi’s clown; danced in grand ballet with Cerito,
Grisi, and the Elsslers, and played in state before George IV,
Wm. IV, Victoria, and Napoleon III; played Guy, earl of Warwick,
in the pantomime at Covent Garden Dec. 1841; danced in a ballet
at Vauxhall gardens 31 March 1847; played at T.R. Manchester
1848–54; in pantomime of the Forty thieves at Sadler’s Wells
Dec. 1854; at Covent Garden about 1860–73; in E. L. Blanchard’s
pantomime Cinderella at Crystal palace 22 Dec. 1874. _d._
Calstock house, Dover 18 Dec. 1878. _E. Stirling’s Old Drury
Lane ii_ 204–5 (1881); _Spectator 28 Dec. 1878 pp._ 1633–4; _Era
22 Dec. 1878 p._ 12; _E. L. Blanchard’s Life_ (1891) 57, 444,
721; _The Sun 27 Dec. 1893 p._ 1.
PAYNE, WILLIAM JOHN (eld. son of William Payne, serjeant-at-law
1799–1872). _b._ 1822; barrister L.I. 7 June 1844; counsel of
the Southwark court of record 1852–72; steward of Southwark
and judge of the Southwark court of record 1872 to death;
coroner for duchy of Lancaster Jany. 1857 to death; recorder of
Buckingham 10 Feb. 1866 to death; deputy coroner for the city of
London and borough of Southwark Aug. 1843, coroner July 1872 to
death. _d._ Fonthill, Reigate at midnight 14 April 1884. _bur._
Highgate cemet. 19 April. _Law Times 26 April 1884 p._ 465.
PAYNE-SMITH, ROBERT (1 son of Robert Smith, land agent, _d._
1827). _b._ Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 7 Nov. 1819; educ. Campden
gr. sch. and Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1837; Boden Sanskrit scholar
1840, Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1843; B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1843, B. and D.D. 1865; fellow of Pemb. coll. 1843–50;
a well known Syriac scholar; C. of Crendon, Oxf. and C. of
Thame Bucks.; classical master at Edinburgh academy 1847–53;
incumbent of Trinity chapel, Edinb. 1848–53; head master
of Kensington proprietary school 1853–7; sub-librarian at
Bodleian library, Oxford 1857–65; regius professor of divinity
at Oxford and R. of Ewelme 1865 to Jany. 1870; delivered the
Bampton lectures on Prophecy a preparation for Christ 1869,
2 ed. 1871; helped to found Wycliffe hall 1877, chairman of
council 1877 to death; canon of Christ Church 1865–71; dean of
Canterbury Jany. 1870 to death; member of the Old Testament
revision committee 1870–85; the intermediate church schools
at Canterbury have been rechristened the Payne-Smith schools;
edited Commentarii in Lucæ evangelium quæ supersunt Syriace
1858; Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ
pars sexta codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendacos, complectens
1864; An Old Testament commentary for scripture readers in
Genesis 1882, new ed. 1885; translated The third part of
the Ecclesiastical history of John, bishop of Ephesus 1860;
author of The authenticity and messianic interpretation of
the prophecies of Isaiah vindicated 1862; Thesaurus Syriacus
1868–91; An exposition of the historical portion of Daniel 1886.
_d._ the deanery, Canterbury 31 March 1895. _bur._ St. Martin’s
churchyard 3 April, memorial in cathedral. _Church portrait
journal_, _v i_ (1884) _portrait_; _Times 1 April and 3 April
1895_.
PAYNTER, HOWEL (1 son of David Renwa Paynter). _b._ 1812; ensign
56 foot 21 Nov. 1828; lieut. 24 foot 5 April 1833, lieut. col.
14 Jany. 1849 to 8 Aug. 1851; wounded at Chillianwallah 13 Jany.
1849; C.B. 17 Aug. 1850. _d._ Bath 13 Nov. 1851.
PAYNTER, JAMES AYLMER DORSET (2 son of David Renwa Paynter of
Dale castle, Pembroke). _b._ 21 Oct. 1814; entered navy 1 Jany.
1826; captain 17 April 1854; retired V.A. 22 March 1876; mayor
of Bath 1874–6; author of Notes on night quarters and boat
service 1848. _d._ 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 17 Dec. 1876.
PAYNTER, JOSHUA (son of Joshua W. Paynter). L.S.A. 1837,
M.R.C.S. 1837; assistant surgeon 60 foot 7 June 1839; surgeon
73 foot 11 Feb. 1848; surgeon 13 light dragoons 16 Aug. 1850
to 9 Feb. 1855, placed on h.p. 31 July 1857; deputy inspector
general of hospitals 31 Dec. 1858; inspector general at Malta 4
Sept. 1867, retired 19 Oct. 1872; C.B. 20 May 1871; served in
Kaffir war 1846 and Crimean war 1854–5. _d._ The Croft, Tenby 19
June 1883.
PAYNTER, THOMAS (2 son of James Paynter of Boskenna, Cornwall
1748–1800). _b._ Boskenna 24 July 1794; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.,
senior optime Feb. 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1821; barrister L.I. 23
Nov. 1824; revising barrister Suffolk and Norfolk 1833; recorder
of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 1838–41; police magistrate
Kensington and Wandsworth 1840–5, at Hammersmith and Wandsworth
1845 to Dec. 1855, and at Westminster Dec. 1855 to death;
author of The practice at elections, instructions for sheriffs
and other returning officers 1837, 4 ed. 1852. _d._ 53 Thurloe
square, London 20 April 1863.
PEABODY, GEORGE (2 son and 3 child of Thomas Peabody). _b._
Danvers, Massachusetts 18 Feb. 1795; managed his uncle’s
business at Georgetown, Columbia 1812–4; opened with Elisha
Riggs dry goods’ warehouse at Georgetown 1814, moved to
Baltimore 1815, opened branches in New York and Philadelphia
1822; resided in London 1837 to death; retired from his
American business 1843; a merchant and banker in London 1843
to death; negotiated in London a loan of £1,600,000 for the
state of Maryland 1835; gave £2,000 for the Kane expedition
in search of Franklin 1852; founded the Peabody institute at
Baltimore 1857, gave it £200,000; gave Harvard university
£60,000, 1866; gave £700,000 for negro education in the south
1866–9; presented £150,000 to the city of London in 1862 for
the poor, gave altogether half a million to London from which
the Peabody dwellings have been built, the first block was
opened in Spitalfields 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 26 June 1867; bronze
statue of him by W. W. Story, on east side of royal exchange
unveiled by prince of Wales 28 July 1869; voted freedom of
city of London 22 May 1862, admitted 10 July 1862; declined a
baronetcy and the grand cross of the Bath. _d._ at the house
of sir C. M. Lampson 80 Eaton sq. London 4 Nov. 1869, body lay
for a month in Westminster abbey, taken to America and _bur._
at Danvers 8 Feb. 1870; personalty sworn under £400,000, 25
Nov. 1869. _I.L.N. lv_ 498, 517–18, 519–20, 645, 648, 655, 661,
664–5 (1869), _lvi_ 277–8 (1870); _L. S. Mockett’s Men of our
day_ (1868) 540–5; _James Dafforne’s The Pictorial table book_
(1873) 121–22; _H. N. F. Bourne’s Famous London merchants_
(1869) 285–300 _portrait_; _Illust. Times 5 April 1862 p._ 217,
_whole page portrait_; _Leisure hour xi_ 776 _portrait_, _xv_
471 _portrait_; _S. T. Wallis’s Discourse on character of G.
Peabody_ (1870); _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 688–9 (1888)
_portrait_.
PEACE, CHARLES (son of John Peace of Sheffield, shoemaker). _b._
Nursery st. Sheffield 14 May 1832; a tinsmith and a workman at
a rolling mill; appeared on the stage at Worksop as the modern
Paganini, playing a violin with one string 1853; became a
portico robber; robbed a residence at Sheffield, sentenced to 4
years’ penal servitude 1854; committed a burglary at Rusholme,
received 6 years’ penal servitude 1859; committed a burglary
at Manchester, had 10 years’ penal servitude 1864, while in
prison joined a mutiny, was flogged and sent to Gibraltar; a
picture frame dealer at Sheffield 1872; murdered Arthur Dyson
at Bannercross near Sheffield 29 Nov. 1876, eluded capture in a
wonderful manner, assuming many disguises and still committing
burglaries; removed his residence to Greenwich, then to Evelina
road, Peckham, Surrey; captured by policeman Robinson 10 Oct.
1878; under the alias of John Ward, sentenced to penal servitude
for life for shooting and wounding Robinson 19 Nov. 1878; an
associate Mrs. Thompson betrayed his real identity to the
police; attempted suicide while in custody by jumping out of a
railway carriage window between Retford and Sheffield 22 Jany.
1879; executed Armley gaol, Leeds for murder of A. Dyson 25
Feb. 1879. _The life of C. Peace_ (_London_ 1878) _portrait_;
_M. Williams’s Leaves of a life_ (1891) 257–63; _Times 26 Feb.
1879 p._ 10, _cols._ 1–3; _Illustrated police news 1, 8, 15,
22 Feb._, _1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March_, _5 April 1879 portraits_;
_Graphic xix_ 121 (1879) _portrait_; _A. Griffiths’ Secrets of
the prison house i_ 30, _ii_ 137, 218, 230, 232, 284 (1894).
NOTE.--Nicholas Cock a policeman was shot by a burglar at Whalley
Range, Manchester on 1 Aug. 1876, and William Habron, chiefly on the
evidence of the police, was convicted of the offence and sent to penal
servitude. Peace afterwards confessed that he had committed the murder
and Habron was released 18 March 1879. _Did Peace commit the Whalley
Range murder_ (_Manchester_ 1879).
His folding ladder by which he could ascend to a first floor window is
in the criminal museum at the convict office, New Scotland yard, Thames
Embankment.