14 March 1795; barrister L.I. 1 June 1821, went the western
circuit 4 years; contributed to Blackwood’s and other magazines;
wrote a cantata Saul and the witch of Endor 1808; studied music
at Mayence 1825–9, and at Carlsruhe, Munich and Vienna 1830–6;
a member of Bristol madrigal society 1837; sold Willsbridge
house, Gloucs. 1837; purchased castle of Wartensee on the lake
of Constance 1837, resided there to his death; received into
the R.C. church and became known as R. L. de Pearsall; composed
many settings of psalms, madrigals, a requiem, etc.; composer
of Great God of love, an eight part madrigal 1840; The hardy
Norseman’s house of yore 1840; O, who will o’er the downs so
free 1853; The bishop of Mentz, a four part song 1863; 24 Choral
songs 1864; Sir Patrick Spens, a ballad dialogue in ten parts
1880; The sacred compositions of R. L. de Pearsall 1880; Lay a
garland, a madrigal 1883; his name is attached to upwards of 80
musical compositions 1840–83; published translations in English
verse of Faust and Wilhelm Tell. _d._ Wartensee castle 5 Aug.
1856. _G.M. Oct. 1856 pp._ 511–2; _Musical Times 1882 p._ 376;
_Grove’s Dict. of music ii_ 678 (1880).
PEARSALL, THOMAS J. (son of a sword maker, Birmingham). _b._ at
the Apple tree and Mitre 30 Cursitor st. Chancery lane, London
10 Feb. 1805; assistant to Michael Faraday at Royal institution,
London some years, resigned 1832; keeper of the museum of the
Philosophical soc. at Hull 1832; sec. to Birkbeck institution,
Southampton buildings, Chancery lane, London; wrote on
Electricity in Royal Institution journal 1831, and On crystals
from the sea-coast of Africa in Report of British association
1853. _d._ London May 1883. _Catalogue of Scientific papers iv_
794 (1870).
PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ 1797; assist. surgeon Madras medical
establishment 1824, and surgeon 25 March 1837; sec. to the
medical board of the presidency 1837–48; superintendent surgeon
Mysore division 1851; principal inspector general of hospitals,
Madras 11 July 1859, retired from the service 20 April 1861;
hon. physician to her majesty Sept. 1861 to death. _d._
Cheltenham 28 March 1885. _Times 2 April 1885 p._ 7.
PEARSE, GEORGE. _b._ Hatherleigh, near Okehampton, Devon 1852;
solicitor at Hatherleigh 1874 to death; ensign 18th Devonshire
volunteers 11 Oct. 1870; major fourth battalion of Devonshire
regiment 10 Jany. 1877 to death; won queen’s prize Wimbledon
1875, and tied for the final 1890; one of the British team in
U.S. America to meet the American National guard, and made
highest aggregate score. _d._ Uplands, Okehampton 4 Jany. 1894.
PEARSE, JOHN. _b._ 17 May 1780; entered R.N. 1793; present at
siege of Copenhagen 1807; commanded Wickham revenue cutter on
Irish coast 1817–20; commander 27 May 1825; contributed to
United service journal 1842 and 1843; author of Papers on naval
architecture, Plymouth 1835. _d._ 1864. _O’Byrne’s Naval biog._
(1849) 882.
PEARSE, RICHARD BULKELEY (son of B. Pearse of Munkham,
Woodford). _b._ 1830; entered navy 14 March 1842; mate of the
Resolute in the Arctic expedition 1850–1; severely frost-bitten
and eventually lost a leg for which granted pension of £150 in
1864; Pearse inlet on the west coast of Bathurst Island was
named after him; served as flag lieutenant in the Baltic during
the Russian war 1854–5; commanded the Acorn during Chinese war
1858–60; captain 15 April 1862, retired 1 April 1870; retired
admiral 19 June 1888; F.R.G.S. _d._ 9 Hyde park st. London 19
Nov. 1895. _Times 22 Nov. 1895 p._ 10.
PEARSE, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1822; V. of Westoning, Beds. 20 June 1823 to death,
68 years; V. of Harlington, Beds. 1826–54; author of An address,
the substance of two sermons in the parish church of Westoning
1848. _d._ Westoning 14 June 1891.
PEARSON, ALFRED. _b._ 1834; a comedian; ruptured himself while
taking a high jump as Miles in the Colleen Bawn at theatre
royal, Oldham, Dec. 1868, on his benefit night. _d._ Oldham 29
Dec. 1868. _bur._ Green cross cemet. 31 Dec. _The Era 3 Jany.
1869 p._ 14.
PEARSON, CHARLES (son of Thomas Pearson, merchant). _b._ London
1794; educ. Eastbourne, Sussex; admitted solicitor 1816;
solicitor to the Irish society 1839 to death; city solicitor
1839 to death; solicitor to city comrs. of sewers July 1859 to
death; M.P. Lambeth 31 July 1847 to July 1850; the original
promoter of Metropolitan underground railway 1859; author of
The subject of an address, a brief history of the corporation
of London as an asylum of English freedom in past ages 1844;
Are the citizens of London to have better gas 1849; An address
on the Fleet valley improvements 1852; City improvements 1853;
A letter in favour of the Metropolitan railway and city station
1859. _d._ Oxford lodge, West hill, Wandsworth 14 Sept. 1862.
_Law Times xxxvii_ 577, 590 (1862).
PEARSON, CHARLES BUCHANAN (eld. son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson
1767–1856). _b._ Elmdon, Warwickshire 1807; educ. Oriel coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; prebendary of Salisbury 7 Nov. 1832
to death; R. of Knebworth, Herts. 17 Nov. 1838, resigned Oct.
1874, rebuilt the chancel of the church at his own cost 1853;
contributed a paper on Hymns and hymnwriters to Oxford essays
for 1858; author of Latin translation of English hymns 1862;
Sequences from the Sarum missal, with English translations
1871; A lost chapter in the history of Bath, Bath 1877. _d._ 2
Catherine place, Bath 7 Jany. 1881.
PEARSON, CHARLES HENRY (4 son of rev. John Norman Pearson
1787–1865). _b._ 12 Barnsbury place, Islington, London 7 Sept.
1830; educ. Rugby 1843–6, and King’s college, London 1847–9;
matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 14 June 1849; scholar of Exeter
coll. 1850–3; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; president of the Union
debating society; fellow of Oriel coll. 1854–73; lecturer on
English literature at King’s college, London 1855, and professor
of modern history 1855–65; edited the National Review 1863;
lectured on modern history at Trin. coll. Camb. 1869–71; a
sheep farmer in South Australia 1871–3; lecturer on history
at univ. of Melbourne 1874–5; head master of the Ladies’
Presbyterian college 1875–7; reported on the state of education
in Victoria 1878, for which he received a fee of £1,000; member
for Castlemaine of the legislative assembly 1878–83, and for
the East Bourke boroughs 1883–92; a minister in the Berry
administration 3 Aug. 1880 to 9 July 1881; minister of education
18 Feb. 1886 to Nov. 1890, introduced many changes into the
system of education; returned to England 1891; permanent
secretary to the agent general of Victoria 3 Jany. 1892 to
death; hon. LL.D. St. Andrew’s; author of Russia by a recent
traveller 1859; The early and middle ages of England 1861;
History of England during the early and middle ages, 2 vols.
1867; Historical maps of England during the first thirteen
centuries 1870; English history in the fourteenth century 1873;
National life and character: a forecast 1893; edited W. H.
Blaauw’s The baron’s war 1871; edited with H. A. Strong D. Junii
Juvenalis, Satiræ xiii 1887, 2 ed. 1892; _m._ 6 Dec. 1872 Edith
Lucille, dau. of Philip Butler of Tickford abbey, Bucks., she
was granted civil list pension of £100, 16 May 1895; he _d._
at residence of lady Pearson 75 Onslow sq. London 29 May 1894.
_bur._ Brompton cemet. 2 June. _Westminster Gazette 1 June 1894
p._ 4 _portrait_.
PEARSON, SIR EDWIN (son of John Pearson, F.R.S. of Yorkshire).
_b._ 1802; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; F.R.S.
5 Dec. 1833; lieutenant of the yeomen of the guard 13 Feb. 1836,
resigned April 1842; knighted at St. James’s palace 4 May 1836;
vice-president of the French Institut d’Afrique. _d._ Rozel,
Sunnyside, Wimbledon 18 April 1883.
PEARSON, EMMA MARIA (1 dau. of capt. Charles Pearson, R.N. of
Great Yarmouth). Sent out as a volunteer by the Red Cross soc.
under the auspices of the Order of St. John to nurse the sick
at Sedan, at Paris, and at Orleans 1870; nursed the wounded in
Servia 1877; had medals and decorations from Germany, France,
and Servia; wrote for the St. James’ Mag. and other periodicals;
author of From Rome to Mentana 1868; One love in a life, 3 vols.
1874; His little cousin, a tale, 3 vols. 1875; with Louisa
Elizabeth Maclaughlin she wrote Our adventures during the war
1870; Under the red cross 1872; Service in Servia under the red
cross 1877. _d._ Florence 3 June 1893, aged 65. _Times 12 June
1893 p._ 6.
PEARSON, HUGH (4 son of succeeding). _b._ 25 June 1817; educ.
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1841; V. of Sonning,
Berkshire 1841 to death, restored the church; rural dean of
Henley-on-Thames 1864–74, and of Sonning 1874–6; chaplain to
bishop of Manchester 1870; canon of St. George’s, Windsor 26
Feb. 1876; deputy clerk of the closet to the queen 2 Aug.
1881 to death; great friend of dean A. P. Stanley 1836–81,
frequently went abroad with him; declined the deanery of
Westminster 1881. _d._ Sonning vicarage 13 April 1882. _bur._
Sonning church 18 April. _Times 19 April 1882 p._ 12.
PEARSON, HUGH NICHOLAS (only son of Hugh Pearson of Lymington,
Hants.). _b._ Lymington 1777; educ. St. John’s coll. Oxf., B.A.
1800, M.A. 1803, B. and D.D. 1821; proctor 1813; gained the
prize of £500 offered by Claudius Buchanan for the best essay
on Missions in Asia 1807, printed under title of A dissertation
on the propagation of christianity in Asia, Oxford 1808; V.
of St. Helen’s, Abingdon 1822–3; R. of Chiddingfold, Surrey
1826–31; R. of Guildford, St. Nicholas, Surrey 18 June 1832 to
1837, laid first stone of the new church 7 June 1836, finished
Aug. 1837; dean of Salisbury 9 April 1823, resigned June 1846;
domestic chaplain to George IV at Brighton 4 Feb. 1823 to 1830;
author of Memoirs of the life and writings of the rev. Claudius
Buchanan, 2 vols. Oxford 1827; Memoirs of the life of the rev.
Christian Frederick Swartz, to which is prefixed a sketch of
the history of Christianity in India, 2 vols, 1834, 3 ed. 1839.
_d._ Sonning, Berkshire 17 Nov. 1856. _W. H. Jones’s Fasti
Sarisburiensis_ (1879) 325; _Brayley’s Surrey i_ 355–60 (1850).
PEARSON, SIR JOHN (son of rev. John Norman Pearson of Bower
hall, Essex 1787–1865). _b._ 5 Aug. 1819; educ. Gonville and
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; barrister L.I. 11 June
1844, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1884–5; Q.C. 13
Dec. 1866; judge in chancery division of high court of justice
24 Oct. 1882 to death; knighted at Windsor Castle 30 Nov. 1882;
member of councils of legal education and law reporting; author
of The duty of laymen in the church of England 1856. _d._ 75
Onslow sq. South Kensington, London 13 May 1886. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery. _Law quarterly review ii_ 373–8 (1886); _Law Times 22
May 1886 p._ 69.
PEARSON, JOHN ARMITAGE. Educ. Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals;
L.S.A. 1825; M.R.C.S. 1826, F.R.C.S. 1856; surgeon of Woolton
dispensary, Liverpool 25 years; surgeon of Devonshire hospital
and Bath charity, Buxton to death; author of Reports of cases
treated at the Buxton bath charity and Devonshire hospital 1861.
_d._ St. Anne’s hotel, Buxton 6 June 1863. _bur._ St. John’s
church 11 June.
PEARSON, JOHN HENRY (son of a hotel keeper at Carlisle). _b._
Carlisle; apprenticed to Halling, Pearce and Stone, drapers,
Waterloo house, 1–4 Cockspur street and 15–18 Pall Mall East,
London; apprenticed to the circus business 3 years; made a great
name as a bareback rider; rode at Hengler’s circus, Dale st.
Liverpool, then at Astley’s Amphitheatre, London; performed in
U.S. of America; employed successively in Sanger’s, Newsome’s,
Cooke’s, Keith’s, Ginnett’s, and Culeen’s circuses; ring-master
at Ohmy’s circus, Southport to his death. _d._ Southport 1 July
1887. _bur._ Southport cemet. _Era 10 July 1887._
PEARSON, JOHN NORMAN (son of John Pearson, surgeon 1758–1826).
_b._ 7 Dec. 1787; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., Hulsean prizeman
1807; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812; chaplain to marquess of Wellesley;
the first principal of the Church Missionary society’s college
at Islington 1826–39; V. of Holy Trinity church Tunbridge
Wells 1839–53; author of A critical essay on the ninth book of
Warburton’s Divine legation of Moses, Cambridge 1808; Christ
crucified: or some passages of the sufferings of our Lord Jesus
Christ, devotionally and practically considered 1826; The candle
of the Lord uncovered, or the bible rescued from papal thraldom
by the Reformation 1835; The days in paradise 1854. _d._ Bower
hall, near Steeple Bumpstead, Essex 4 Oct. 1865. _G.M. ii_ 792
(1865).
PEARSON, JOSIAH BROWN (son of Benjamin Pearson). _b._
Chesterfield 1841; educ. Chesterfield gram. sch.; scholar
St. John’s coll. Camb.; a first in the moral science tripos
1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, LL.M. 1871, LL.D. 1874, D.D.
1880; fellow of St. John’s 1864–80, lecturer 1864–71; C. of
St. Michael, Camb. 1865–7; C. of St. Andrew the great, Camb.
1867–9; V. of Horningsea, Cambs. 1871–4; Whitehall preacher
1872–4; Hulsean lecturer and Ramsden preacher 1872; V. of Newark
1874–80; commissioner to bishop of Melbourne 1876–80; bishop
of Newcastle, New South Wales 1880, consecrated in St. Paul’s
cathedral 1 May 1880, resigned Nov. 1890; V. of Leck Kirkby,
Lonsdale 1893 to death; author of The divine personality, the
Burney prize essay 1865; Creed or no creed, three sermons 1871;
Disciples in doubt, five sermons 1879. _d._ Leck vicarage 10
March 1895.
PEARSON, JULIUS ALEXANDER. _b._ 1839; educ. King’s coll. London;
LL.D.; admitted solicitor 1862; practised at 46 Hyde park sq.
London 1864; junior partner in Cope, Rose, and Pearson 26 Great
George st. Westminster 1867 to death; contributed to Gent. Mag.,
and Notes and Queries, chiefly upon heraldic matters; F.S.A.
7 June 1866. _d._ Surbiton, Surrey 29 April 1871. _Solicitors’
Journal xv_ 511 (1871).
PEARSON, RICHARD LYONS OTWAY (son of Henry Shepherd Pearson).
_b._ 1831; educ. Eton and at Sandhurst; ensign 95 foot 10 Dec.
1847; captain 7 foot 29 Dec. 1854; lieut. grenadier guards
20 July 1855, captain 27 Dec. 1864, sold out 2 Jany. 1869;
aide-de-camp to sir George Brown during Crimean war 1854–5,
present at Alma, Inkerman, the expedition to Kertch, and the
siege of Sebastopol, medal with 3 clasps; assistant commissioner
of metropolitan police 1 July 1881 to death; C.B. 21 June 1887.
_d._ 57 Warwick sq. London 30 May 1890.
PEARSON, THOMAS HOOKE (son of John Pearson, advocate-general of
India). _b._ June 1806; educ. Eton; cornet 11 light dragoons
14 March 1825; served at siege of Bhurtpore Nov. 1825; captain
59 foot 23 Aug. 1831; captain 16 lancers 9 Dec. 1831, major 23
April 1847, placed on h.p. 7 April 1848; served at battle of
Maharajpore 29 Dec. 1843 and in the first Sikh war; commanded
his regiment during latter part of battle of Aliwal (and saved
the battle by a spirited cavalry charge) 28 Jany. 1846, and
at Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; on retired list as L.G. 1 Oct. 1877;
honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel 12 lancers 4 Feb. 1879 to
death; C.B. 2 June 1869; won the One thousand guineas, Great
Yorkshire stakes, St. Leger and Doncaster cup with Achievement
1867, her foals did not live and she died in 1872. _d._ The
Hasells, Sandy, Beds. 29 April 1892. _Times 3 May 1892 p._ 10.
PEARSON, WILLIAM (son of capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N.) _b._ Hilton,
Kilmany, Fifeshire 20 Sept. 1818; a squatter in Gippsland,
Australia 1841, owning Lindenow and Kilmany park stations;
member for North Gippsland to legislative assembly 1868 and
1871; member for the Eastern province in legislative council;
largest shareholder in Long tunnel gold mine, Walhalla; a
breeder of race horses from 1842; a winner of several hundred
races; great supporter of the turf in Victoria; an exceedingly
wealthy man. _d._ Melbourne Sept. 1893.
PEARSON-GEE, ARTHUR BEILBY (elder son of Wm. Pearson, Q.C., _b._
1824). _b._ 2 Nov. 1855; educ. Rugby and Trin. hall, Camb., B.A.
1877; barrister I.T. 25 June 1879; went north eastern circuit;
member of joint legal board of examiners 1881 to death; assumed
additional surname of Gee by R.L. 15 Jany. 1885; edited J. P.
Benjamin’s Treatise on the law of sale of personal property, 3
ed. 1883, and 4 ed. 1888; author with H. F. Boyd of Factors acts
1823 to 1877, 1884, and alone of The new factors acts annotated
1890. _d._ 19 Portland place, London 9 Jany. 1896. _Times 11
Jany. 1896 p._ 6.
PEASE, EDWARD (eld. son of Joseph Pease, woollen manufacturer).
_b._ Darlington 31 May 1767; in his father’s business at
Darlington 1782; retired from the business about 1817; projected
George Stephenson’s railway from Darlington to Stockton, first
rail was laid 23 May 1823 and the line was opened for traffic 27
Sept. 1825, chiefly managed by him to 1830; advanced Stephenson
money to start an engine factory at Newcastle, where was
constructed the first engine used on the line 1823; an elder
in the society of Friends and an active worker to his death.
_d._ Northgate, Darlington 31 July 1858. _Annual Monitor_
(1859) 123–64; _S. Smiles’s Lives of the engineers G. and R.
Stephenson_ (1874) 123–32, 385 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 1 Aug. 1858
p._ 121; _Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888)
487–95.
PEASE, EDWARD (2 son of Joseph Pease 1799–1872). _b._ 24 June
1834; a woollen manufacturer; established the Gardeners’
institute at Darlington and the model fruit farms at Bewdly;
chief promoter of British and foreign training college for
female teachers at Darlington, and of the Darlington grammar
school; left by will £10,000 to establish a library at
Darlington, library was opened 23 Oct. 1885. _d._ Lucerne 13
June 1880. _bur._ Darlington, personalty sworn at £500,000, 25
Sept. 1880. _First Report of E. Pease public library_ (1887).
PEASE, HENRY (5 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ 4 May 1807;
helped his father in his railway projects 1823 etc.; opened in
1861 the line across Stainmoor, called the backbone of England,
the summit of which is 1374 feet above sea level; accompanied
Joseph Sturge and Robert Charleton to Russia as a deputation
from the society of Friends, they presented the emperor Nicholas
with an address urging him to abstain from the Crimean war
10 Feb. 1854; M.P. for South Durham 1857–65; the founder of
Saltburn, Yorkshire 1858; visited Napoleon III with a deputation
from the Peace society 1867, president of the Peace society
1872 to death; chairman of the Darlington school board 1871;
the first mayor of Darlington 1868–9; chairman of the Railway
jubilee held at Darlington 27 Sept. 1875. _d._ while attending
the yearly meeting of Friends at 23 Finsbury sq. London 30 May
1881. _bur._ at Darlington, personalty sworn at £360,489, 13
Aug. 1881. _Fortunes made in business i_ 331–78 (1884); _I.L.N.
xxiv_ 201 (1854) _portrait_; _J. Sturge’s Some account of a
deputation from the Friends to the emperor of Russia_ (1854);
_London Society_ (1881) 431–46.
PEASE, JOHN (son of Edward Pease 1767–1858). _b._ Darlington
1797; a partner in the woollen manufactory, retired 1837; a
minister among the Friends 1819, visited the Friends’ meetings
in Great Britain, Ireland and America in 46 journeys; in U.S.
of America 1843–5; chairman of Darlington board of health; an
original director of the Stockton and Darlington railway 1825;
a founder of the North of England agricultural school at Great
Ayton, Yorks. 1841. _d._ Darlington 29 July 1868. _Biog. Cat. of
lives of Friends_ (1888) 495–500.
PEASE, JOSEPH (2 son of Edward Pease 1767–1858, woollen
manufacturer). _b._ Darlington 22 June 1799; clerk in his
father’s business, then a partner; helped his father to project
the railway from Stockton to Darlington 1819–20, and became the
treasurer 27 Sept. 1833; founded the Great Middlesborough estate
co. 1829; M.P. South Durham 1832–41, the first quaker member,
objected to take the oath 8 Feb. 1833, a committee was appointed
to inquire into precedents and he was allowed to affirm 14 Feb.;
assisted Joseph Lancaster in his educational work; president
of the Peace society 1860 to death; became totally blind
before 1865; republished and distributed many Friends’ books;
had Jonathan Dymond’s Essays on the principles of morality
translated into Spanish for which he received the grand cross of
Charles III, 2 Jany. 1872: author of On slavery and its remedy
1841. _d._ Southend, Darlington 8 Feb. 1872, personalty sworn
under £350,000, 16 March 1872, statue in High st. Darlington
unveiled 1875. _J. H. Bell’s British folks and British
India_ (1891) 39, 42, 131; _Joseph Pease, a memoir_ (1872);
_Biographical catalogue of lives of Friends_ (1888) 503–7;
_I.L.N. lx_ 163, 181, 189, 267 (1872) _portrait_; _Leisure Hour
xxi_ 375 _portrait_; _J. S. Jeans’s Jubilee memorial of railway
system_ (1875); _Graphic 2 Oct. 1875 pp._ 321, 328, _view of
statue_.
PEASE, JOSEPH WALKER (son of Joseph Robinson Pease 1789–1866).
_b._ Hull 24 May 1820; educ. Rugby; banker at Hull; captain 1
East York volunteers 9 Nov. 1859, lieut. col. 11 Aug. 1860 to
July 1876; M.P. Hull 24 Oct. 1873 to Jany. 1874; contested Hull
7 Feb. 1874. _d._ Hesselwood, near Hull 22 Nov. 1882.
PEAT, DAVID. _b._ Kirkaldy, Scotland 21 June 1795; entered navy
2 April 1810; while in command of the Severn 1816–21 he had
frequent encounters with smugglers on the coast of Kent and was
several times severely wounded; granted pension for wounds 29
July 1822 of £91 5 per annum; inspecting commander in coastguard
1836–9 and 1840–7; captain 1 Jany. 1847, retired captain 1 Aug.
1860; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. _d._ end of Dec. 1880.
PEBODY, CHARLES (son of Charles Pebody). _b._ Watford or
Leamington 3 Feb. 1839; a reporter in London; newspaper editor
at Taunton and at Rochdale; on the staff of the Chelmsford
Chronicle; edited the Barnstaple Times 1860; edited the Flying
Post at Exeter and then the Bristol Times and mirror, presented
with a service of silver plate; edited the Yorkshire Post at
Leeds 1 Oct. 1882 to death, it became a leading provincial
paper, he organised an evening edition; author of Authors at
work 1872; English journalism and the men who have made it 1882;
wrote articles entitled Across the walnuts and the wine, under
signature of The Tyke in Mufti, in The Yorkshire weekly post.
_d._ Towerhurst, 20 De Grey ter. Leeds 30 Oct. 1890. _bur._
Lawnswood cemetery 3 Nov. _Yorkshire Post 31 Oct. 1890 p._ 5, _4
Nov. p._ 4.
PECHELL, SIR GEORGE RICHARD BROOKE, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir
Thomas Brooke Pechell, 2 baronet 1753–1826). _b._ London 30 June
1789; entered navy Sept. 1803; commander 30 May 1814; commanded
the Bellette on the Halifax station May 1818 to Oct. 1820;
commanded the Tamar frigate Oct. 1820; captain 26 Dec. 1822;
gentlemen usher of the privy chamber July 1830; equerry to queen
Adelaide April 1831 to her death 2 Dec. 1849; contested Brighton
13 Dec. 1832; M.P. Brighton 10 Jany, 1835 to death; succeeded
his brother as 4 baronet 3 Nov. 1849; retired R.A. 17 Dec. 1852,
and V.A. 5 Jany. 1858; author of A visit to St. Domingo 1820.
_d._ 27 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 29 June 1860.
PECHELL, HORACE ROBERT (3 son of Augustus Pechell of Marylebone,
London 1752–1820, receiver general of the customs). _b._ 12 May
1792; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; fellow of All
Souls’ coll. 1814–26; P.C. of Nettleden, Bucks. 1820–2; R. of
Bix, near Henley-on-Thames 1822–72; chancellor and prebendary
in the collegiate church of Brecon 9 Sept. 1829 to death. _d._
Moorlands, Bitterne, Southampton 22 Feb. 1882.
PECHEY, WILLIAM CRISP. _b._ Biggleswade, Beds. 17 Dec. 1838;
educ. London hospital; M.D. St. Andrews 1861; M.R.C.S. Eng.
1860; L.S.A. 1861; a surgeon at Rockleigh and afterwards at Fort
Bourke, N.S.W. 1863–8; a cotton planter in Fiji islands 1868
to death; made a large collection of birds; author of The Fiji
islands 1871. _d._ at his mother’s residence, St. James’s st.
Walthamstow 22 June 1871. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 236
(1871).