Magd. coll. Oxf.; rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and
1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s, Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death;
_d._ at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries received in a
fall while mountain climbing. _Times 1 June 1881 p._ 12.
PELHAM, RICHARD WARD. _b._ 1816; was often known as R. W.
Pell; the first to introduce negro entertainments in America
and England, the four original Virginia minstrels were R. W.
Pelham, F. M. Brower, D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took
farewell benefit at Park theatre, New York 19 April 1843,
arrived in England 21 May 1843; gave 5 concerts at Bold st.
hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the Athenæum, Manchester, and 6
nights at Queen’s theatre, Manchester, the first theatre a band
of minstrels ever appeared in; made first appearance at Adelphi
theatre, London 19 June 1843, under John Henry Anderson, at
expense of £100 a week; the oldest manager of negro minstrels
in the world. _d._ 2 Harford st. Liverpool 8 Oct. 1876. _bur._
Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. _G. W. Moore’s Bones_ (1870) _pp._ 3–4,
_Dedicated to R. W. Pelham_.
PELHAM-CLINTON, ROBERT RENEBALD (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle
1785–1851). _b._ Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from
Ch. Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6
July 1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. _d._ Earlswood,
Reigate 25 July 1867.
PELL, GILBERT WARD. _b._ New York 1825; the original “Bones” of
the negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London
under title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell
was bones, Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo
and Germain tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer
in boots was also in the company. _d._ 21 Dec. 1872. _bur._ St.
Helen’s cemetery, Lancs. 24 Dec.
PELL, MORRIS BIRKBECK. _b._ U.S. of America about 1826; educ.
St. John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s
junior prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March
1852; the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy
in univ. of Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a
pension 1877; fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister
of supreme court of N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and
sewerage and the Hunter river floods preventions commissions;
actuary of the Australian mutual provident society; author of
Geometrical illustrations of the differential calculus 1850.
_d._ Sydney 7 May 1879.
PELL, OLIVER CLAUDE (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of
court of review, _d._ 1832), _b._ Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept.
1826; educ. Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone
_v._ Rugby 16 June 1842, a fine back player combined with hard
forward hitting to leg, could throw a ball a great distance;
in the university and All England cricket elevens; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov.
1851; took an active part in the public affairs of Isle of
Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of Isle of Ely
county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting prizes at
Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated Scotland
1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton; author of A
new view of the geldable unit of assessment of domesday, printed
in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i, pp. 227–385.
_d._ Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. _Lillywhite’s Cricket
scores iii_ 81 (1863).
PELL, SIR WATKIN OWEN (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall,
Northamptonshire). _b._ 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his
left leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb.
1800; commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the
defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct.
1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the
coast of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica
station May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at
St. James’s palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the
Howe 1840; superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug.
1841, then at Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke
dockyard 17 Dec. 1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich
hospital 18 Feb. 1845; R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855,
admiral 11 Feb. 1861. _d._ Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869.
_I.L.N. lvi_ 82 (1870).
PELLATT, APSLEY (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the
glass lenses known as deck lights, _d._ 21 Jany. 1826). _b._ 80
High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father
at the Falcon glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a
patent for crystallo-ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took
out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pressed
glass articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for
improvements in the composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb.
1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council
of city of London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested
Southwark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for
facilitating dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his
bill to define the law as to crossed cheques was passed and
became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided
at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862,
and wrote the report on glass manufactures; author of Memoir
on the origin, progress and improvement of glass manufactures
1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and
municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of glass making 1849.
_d._ of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field,
Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxiii_ 511 (1863); _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_ 67–9 (1865);
_Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858) 166; _I.L.N. xxii_ 237
(1853) _portrait_.
NOTE.--In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for
which Venice was so celebrated.
PELLEGRINI, CARLO (son of a land owner). _b._ Capua, Italy
March 1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the
fashion; fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno
and at Capua 1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures
of statesmen and other public characters, these appeared in
Vanity Fair weekly from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first
few caricatures were signed Singe, but all the rest Ape;
executed a statuette in red plaster of Robert Lowe standing on
a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in oils of sir Edwin Watkin,
sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends; exhibited at the R.A.
1878, and several times at the Grosvenor gallery; gave his name
to a cigarette. _d._ 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish sq. London 22
Jany. 1889. _bur._ St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal Green. _Vanity
Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp._ 55, 67, _also 27 April 1889 p._ 309
_portrait_; _Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_;
_London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_.
PELLEW, SIR FLEETWOOD BROUGHTON REYNOLDS (2 son of 1 viscount
Exmouth 1757–1833). _b._ 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799,
commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct.
1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810
and of Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug.
1818, placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25
Jany. 1836; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval
A.D.C. to the queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov.
1846; commander-in-chief on the East India and China stations 6
Dec. 1852, was recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny
on board the Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at
Hongkong Sept. 1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858.
_d._ Marseilles 28 July 1861.
PELLEW, GEORGE (brother of preceding). _b._ Flushing, Cornwall
3 April 1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815,
M.A. 1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb.
1819; V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh
canon in Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St.
George-the-Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary
of York 1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52;
dean of Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart,
Kent 1852 to death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on
the means of rendering cathedral churches most conducive to
the efficiency of the established church 1837; The life and
correspondence of H. Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols.
1847; Sermons on many of the leading doctrines and duties taught
by the church of England, 2 vols. 1848. _d._ Great Chart rectory
13 Oct. 1866. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii_ 441, _iii_
1307 (1874–82); _Boase’s Collect. Cornub._ (1890) 697; _Church
of England photographic portrait gallery_ 1859, _portrait_ 46.
PELLY, SIR HENRY CARSTAIRS, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry
Pelly, 2 baronet 1809–64). _b._ Balls park, near Hertford 23
April 1844; succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2
Sept. 1862, lieut. 26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct.
1872, retired 25 June 1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May
1875 to death; M.P. Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. _d._ 4 June
1877.
PELLY, HENRY JOSEPH (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil
service 1786–1852). _b._ 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11
July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859;
served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March
1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through
Hereford 9 Dec. _d._ Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec.
1891. _Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p._ 8.
PELLY, SIR JOHN HENRY 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly
of Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818).
_b._ 31 March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806,
deputy governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring
parties under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west
passage and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks
on the map the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait;
elder brother of the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52;
a director of the Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor
1839–41, governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2
April 1835. _d._ Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_
527–8 (1852); _I.L.N. xxi_ 130, 187 (1852).
PELLY, SIR LEWIS (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). _b._
Hyde house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby
1838–40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the
resident at the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general
John Jacob in the Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at
Teheran 1859, chargé d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special
mission through Afghanistan and Baluchistan 1860; political
agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861; political resident on the
Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut. col. Bombay staff
corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an anti-slavery
mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3; chief
comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to
investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he
arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a
commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary
for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March
1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec.
1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The
views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858;
Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play
of Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols.
1879. _d._ Falmouth 22 April 1892. _Graphic xviii_ 508 (1878)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 30 April 1892 p._ 543 _portrait_; _Pictorial
World 30 April 1892 p._ 3 _portrait_.
PELLY, SAVILLE MARRIOTT (brother of preceding). _b._ 28 March
1819; educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841,
F.R.C.S. 1859; assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841;
served in Sind 1843, and with the Sind irregular horse in sir
C. Napier’s campaign 1844–5; with the army of observation at
Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8;
served in Rajpootana during the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior
medical officer was present at attack on Nimbhaira, the action
of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch and the pursuit of Tantia Topee,
Indian medal and clasp for Central India; principal medical
officer of Indian medical department in Abyssinian campaign
1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector general of hospitals
Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867, retired as inspector
general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. _d._ Woodstock
house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.
PEMBERTON, CHRISTOPHER PEACH (elder son of Christopher Robert
Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). _b._ May 1838; ensign
Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22
Aug. 1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The
Times during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps
under the crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat.
By Leo, 2 vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton;
_killed_ by a chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny
and Fond de Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. _bur._ in churchyard of
Newton, Cambs. 3 Dec. _I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p._ 336 _portrait_,
_10 Jany. 1874 p._ 44, _view of monument_; _Times 10 Sept 1870
p._ 6, _11 Oct p._ 6, _2 Dec. p._ 7, _5 Dec. p._ 11.
PEMBERTON, EDWARD LEIGH (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister
of Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown
1793–1867). _b._ 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816;
practised in London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated
law society 24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7,
president 1857–8. _d._ Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12
March 1877. _Solicitors’ Journal 24 March 1877 p._ 399.
PEMBERTON, EDWARD LOINES. _b._ U.S. of America 1844; educ. in
England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps
1859; author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to
detect them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5;
author of The philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp
collector’s handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps
at Southampton to decease. _d._ Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. _The
Philatelic Record i_ 2 (1879–80) _with portrait_.
PEMBERTON, GEORGE (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll.
Oxf. 1743–1831). _b._ 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March
1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold
out 22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. _d._ Bainbridge, Holme,
Durham 6 April 1851.
PEMBERTON, GEORGE RICHARD. _b._ 1790; entered Bengal army 1805;
ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain
56 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut.
col. of 67 N.I. 1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel
19 March 1849 to death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. _d._ York house,
Chertsey 28 April 1866.
PEMBERTON, HENRY LEIGH (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton
1795–1877). _b._ 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of
Pemberton, Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London;
solicitor to the Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec.
1871; official solicitor to chancery division of the supreme
court 1875, and to supreme court of judicature 1876 to death;
solicitor to honourable society of Lincoln’s Inn to death. _d._
20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London 29 March 1895. _Law
Journal 6 April 1895 p._ 238.
PEMBERTON, JOHN. L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical
superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. _d._ Droitwich 4 May
1854.
PEMBERTON, MORDAUNT (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St.
Kitts, West Indies). _b._ 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ.
Brighton college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868,
practised in Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of
Nevis July 1870; deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward
islands 1880, and acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887;
barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1886. _d._ Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec.
1887. _Law Times 31 Dec. 1887 p._ 162.
PEMBERTON, SHOLTO THOMAS (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis,
West Indies). _b._ Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis
about 1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis
1848, solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua
1859; chief justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of
Leeward islands 1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death;
acting president of Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of
British Honduras and of the Bahamas. _d._ Queen’s house, Nevis
29 June 1889. _Law Times 28 Sept. 1889 p._ 359.
PEMBROKE, GEORGE ROBERT CHARLES HERBERT, 13 Earl of (1 son of
Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). _b._ 5 Carlton
gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron
Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl
of Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of
state for war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley
travelled in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result
being a volume entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and
the Doctor 1872, 3 ed. 1895; also author of Roots, a plea for
tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888 anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he
also wrote Yachts’ Sailing boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40
(Badmington library 1894); hereditary visitor of Jesus coll.
Oxf.; high steward of Wilton; captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers
2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a county councillor for
Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque ports yacht club Dover
1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. _d._ Bad-Neuheim, Frankfort,
Germany 3 May 1895. _bur._ at Wilton. _Waagen’s Treasures of art
iii_ 142–65 (1854); _Baily’s Mag. xxvi_ 249 (1875) _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p._ 570 _portrait_; _The new budget 9 May
1895 p._ 3 _portrait_; _Times 4 May 1895 p._ 11.
PENDARVES, EDWARD WILLIAM WYNNE (2 son of John Stackhouse of
Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). _b._ 6 April
1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796,
sub-warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32;
M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed
additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that
of Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815.
_d._ Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.
PENDER, DANIEL. _b._ 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff
commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the
Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station
in various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic
department of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant,
and then assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb.
1879, retired captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. _d._ 20 Oxford
gardens, London 12 March 1891.
PENDLEBURY, SIR RALPH (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport,
bleacher). _b._ Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at
Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of
chartist disturbances of 1839. _d._ Mersey bank house, Heaton
Mersey, near Manchester 1861.
PENDLETON, FREDERICK HENRY SNOW. _b._ 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ.
of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s,
Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey
Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May
1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives
of the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by
French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic
of yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31
Dec. 1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C.
of Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882
to death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. _d._ St. Sampson’s
rectory, Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. _Times 19 Sept. 1888 p._ 4.
PENFOLD, CHARLES. _b._ 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author
of Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of
rating to the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc.
1847, 8 ed. 1893; The Union assessment committee act 1863;
A practical treatise on the best method of repairing roads,
printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–27 (Library of useful
knowledge 1840). _d._ Twickenham 23 May 1864.
PENGELLY, WILLIAM (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting
vessel 1788–1861). _b._ Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany.
1812; opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped
to found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay
Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a
founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of
literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught
mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various
parts of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which
was purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of
the univ. of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at
Bovey-Tracey, at Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay
1860–80; F.G.S. 1860, Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863;
president of geological section of British Association meeting
1877, and of the anthropological department 1883; presented with
a testimonial of about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait
in oils by A. S. Cope 1882 for his services as secretary of
the Torquay Natural history society, the portrait is now in
the society’s museum; author of The march of the red lions, by
M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating to Devonshire, four
parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to the antiquity
of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his name is
attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and antiquarian
periodicals. _d._ Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. _bur._ Torquay
cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been added to
Torquay natural history society. _Quarterly journal of Geol.
soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii_; _Geol. Mag._ (1894) 192, 238–9;
_Natural science May 1894_; _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub._
(1874–82) 446–50, 1307–8.
PENGILLY, RICHARD. _b._ Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a
Wesleyan methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in
the Jordan chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7;
minister at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first
nonconformist Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new
testament on its own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on
baptism 1809; The christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed.
1836; An affectionate address to the inhabitants of Newcastle
and Gateshead on the cholera 1832. _d._ Newcastle 22 March 1865.
_S. A. Swaine’s Faithful baptist men_ (1884) 224–5.
PENLEAZE, JOHN STORY. _b._ 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17
Feb. 1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832
and 2 April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants.
_d._ Hereford 12 April 1855.
PENLEY, AARON EDWIN. _b._ 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and
landscapes at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70;
member of the New water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856,
reinstated 1859; water-colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and
queen Adelaide; assistant professor of drawing at Addiscombe
college 1850, professor 1855 to its dissolution June 1861;
master for landscape drawing at Woolwich royal military academy
to death; author of The elements of perspective 1851; The
English school of painting in water colours, in theory and
practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water colours 1869;
A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869. _d._ 5
Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. _H. M. Vibart’s
Addiscombe_ (1894) 210–2 _portrait_.
NOTE.--His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and
teacher of painting, he became paralysed and _d_. 1866.