as an engineer in London 1833; assistant engineer to Galloway
Bey, manager of public works for the viceroy of Egypt March
1836, became a member of the board of public works; helped to
make a survey of the pyramids at Gizeh Jany. to Aug. 1837;
explored and surveyed the pyramids at Abou Roash 1838–9; and
made a trigonometrical survey of the 53 miles of country near
the pyramids; engineering superintendent of the Llanelly railway
docks and harbour 1 March 1841 to 1844; resident engineer of the
East Lancashire railway 1846–59; engineer of the Ribblesdale
railway, constructed the joint lines from Wigan to Blackburn;
one of the engineers of the Manchester city railway; M.I.C.E.
6 Dec. 1853; M.I.M.E. 1856; author of On the engineering of
the ancient Egyptians 6 numbers 1835; The pyramids of Gizeh
from actual survey and admeasurement 1839; _d._ 104 King st.
Manchester 16 Jany. 1869. _R. W. H. H. Vyse’s Operations at the
pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with a survey by J. S. Perring of the
pyramids of Abou Roash_ 3 _vols._ (1840–3) _portrait_; _C. C.
J. Bunsen’s Egypt’s place in universal history ii_ 28–9, 635–45
(1854); _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxx_ 455–6 (1870);
_Proc. of instit. of mining engineering_ (1878) 15.
PERRING, ROBERT. _b._ 1787; edited The Carlisle Patriot from
1815, and again from 1848 to 1868; editor and proprietor of
The Intelligencer at Leeds; sub-editor of the Morning Herald;
he encouraged Robert Anderson “The Cumberland bard” who in his
Poetical Works 2 vols. 1820 acknowledges the help given him vol.
i p. xxxiv. _d._ Carlisle 4 Oct. 1869, _bur._ Embleton 7 Oct.
_Newspaper Press iii_ 249 (1869).
PERROT, JULES JOSEPH. _b._ 1800; pupil of Auguste Vestris;
dancer and ballet master at Grand opera Paris 1828; the teacher
of Carlotta Grisi, whom he married and from whom he was
afterwards separated, she was _b._ Visinida 1821; one of the
most famous dancers of his day, well known at the King’s theatre
London; the inventor of the successful ballets Zingari at the
Renaissance 1841 La fille du Bandit 1857. _d._ Sept. 1892.
PERRY, ALFRED JOHN. _b._ 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A.
1853; C. of Plaistow Essex 1853–6; C. of Stanningfield, Suffolk
1856–8; C. of Lackford, Suffolk 1860–2; chaplain to hospital
Bury St. Edmunds 1862–9; C. of St. Augustine, Wisbech 1869 to
death; 3rd classical master of Royal Naval sch. New Cross;
author of The old year and the new 1864; A few plain words on
the real presence 1865. _d._ St. Augustine’s vicarage 10 July
1876.
PERRY, CHARLES (youngest son of John Perry of Moor hall, Essex,
proprietor of Blackwell dockyard, _d._ 1810). _b._ Hackney 17
Feb. 1807; educ. Harrow Feb. 1819 to June 1823, played in the
eleven against Eton; entered Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, senior
wrangler, first Smith’s prizeman and seventh classic 1828; aided
in establishing the first eight oared boat on the Cam 1825;
B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1847; fellow of Trinity 1837–41,
tutor 1837–41; V. of St. Paul’s, Barnwell, Cambridge 1842–7;
bishop of Melbourne 25 June 1847 to May 1876, consecrated in
Westminster abbey 29 June 1847; reached Melbourne 23 Jany. 1848;
resided at Jolimont 1848–53 and in the palace of Bishop’s court
1853–74; obtained passing of the Church assembly act 1854;
left Victoria 26 Feb. 1874, resigned May 1876; select preacher
at Cambridge 1863–4; attended and addressed all the church
congresses 1874–88; prelate of the order of St. Michael and
St. George 1878 to death; canon of Llandaff 1878–89; author of
Five sermons preached before the university of Cambridge 1856;
Foundation truths, four sermons 1864; The Galatian lapse, six
lectures 1885. _d._ 32 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 2 Dec.
1891. _bur._ Harlow, Essex, portrait by Weigall at Ridley hall,
Cambridge, and a memorial in St. Paul’s cathedral, Melbourne.
_G. Goodman’s Church in Victoria during the episcopate of
bishop Perry_ (1892) _portrait_; _I.L.N. 12 Dec. 1861 p._ 758
_portrait_.
PERRY, CHARLES THOMAS. _b._ Salisbury; a turf commissioner with
a large business in connection with city of London 40 years; in
Blink Bonny, Beadsman and Musjid’s years his settlings were very
heavy; ruined by the failure of Overend, Gurney and co. 1866;
trained and ran some horses under name of E. Hall; chairman of
Victoria club, Wellington st. Strand many years. _d._ 23 Sept.
1890.
PERRY, FREDERICK C. With his son sang and conducted at the
King’s head, Knightsbridge, London, for five shillings a night;
a writer of the following songs, The exhibition lodging house;
I’d a splendid house in Concord crescent, music by William
Wilson 1860; The perfect cure, Young love he plays some funny
tricks, music by Jonathan Blewitt 1865; When these old clothes
were new, eight years ago I looked a swell, music by Frederick
French 1867; The charming young girl. In the arcade one evening,
music by Thomas Fancourt 1868; Herr Von Clarinette’s my name,
music by T. Fancourt 1873; To keep the peace 1876.
NOTE.--He also wrote Daddy’s Knock, a parody on The Postman’s knock,
We’ve taken Sebastopol in which Slap Bang occurs perhaps for the first
time; The Guards of our land, written in honor of the return from the
Crimea, set to music by Mr. Tully at the King’s head music hall.
PERRY, GEORGE. _b._ Norwich 1793; educ. under Dr. John C.
Beckwith; member of the cathedral choir; leader of the band at
theatre royal, Norwich about 1818; his oratorio The death of
Abel was first performed at a Hall concert in Norwich 1841, and
repeated by the Sacred harmonic society London 1841 and 1845;
his oratorio Elijah and the priests of Baal was first performed
in Norwich 12 March 1819; musical director of the Haymarket
theatre London 1822; his opera Morning, noon and night was
produced at Haymarket 9 Sept. 1822; his oratorio The fall of
Jerusalem was produced 1830; organist of Quebec chapel, Old
Quebec st. London 1822–46, and of Trinity church, Gray’s Inn
road 1846 to death; leader of the band of the Sacred harmonic
society 1832–48, conductor 1848; composed Belshazzar’s feast,
a sacred cantata 10 Feb. 1836, Blessed be the Lord thy God, a
festival anthem for the queen’s accession 1837, and an oratorio
Hezekiah 1847; his Thanksgiving anthem for the birth of the
princess royal 1840 was performed with great success by Sacred
harmonic society; wrote additional accompaniments to some of
Handel’s works and for several of them made pianoforte scores.
_d._ 4 Great Marylebone st. London 4 March 1862. _bur._ Kensal
Green cemet. 11 March. _T. D. Eaton’s Musical criticism_ (1872)
197–289.
PERRY, HENRY JAMES. _b._ 9 July 1800; educ. Jesus coll. Camb.,
fellow 1827–44; B.A. 1821 M.A. 1824; barrister L.I. 1 Feb. 1825;
principal secretary to Lord chancellor Lyndhurst 1841–6; comr.
in bankruptcy for Liverpool district 7 July 1846 to death;
author with J. W. Knapp of Cases of controverted elections 1833.
_d._ New Brighton near Liverpool 29 May 1869. _Law Journal iv_
330 (1869).
PERRY, JAMES. Entered Madras army 1805; lieut. 16 Madras N.I. 25
Feb. 1807, captain 28 Feb. 1820; major 31 N.I. 3 Jany. 1826, and
lieut.-col. 13 July 1831 to 31 Oct. 1841; lieut.-col. of Second
European regiment 31 Oct. 1841; brigadier at Jaulna 28 Dec. 1841
to 1843, at Billary 1843–44; col. of 31 light infantry 1843 to
death; commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 12 April 1844 to 20
Sept. 1848; L.G. 6 Dec. 1856. _d._ 21 Bryanston sq., London, 17
March 1863.
PERRY, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ 3 May 1802; educ. St. Bartholomew’s
hospital, and a governor 1834 to death; F.R.C.S Eng. 1843;
surgeon St. Marylebone infirmary many years; surgeon Great James
st., Bedford row, London, retired 1843; surgeon to Foundling
Hospital 1829–43, a governor 1834; hon. sec. Royal medical
and chirurgical soc. 6 years and reporter at their meetings;
a medical inspector of prisons 1843 to death; a visitor of
Parkhurst prison for juvenile offenders and a commissioner of
Millbank prison; F.R A.S., made observation with a 3½ inch
telescope; took part in the Himalaya expedition and made some
observations at Burgos. _d._ 12 Westbourne st., Hyde park
gardens, London, Jany. 1870. _Medical Times 22 Jany. 1870 p._
107; _Monthly Notices R. Astronom. soc. 10 Feb. 1871 p._ 102.
PERRY, RICHARD DAVIS. _b._ 1848; educ. as a surgeon; ran through
and spent all his means, very intemperate, allowed £130 a year
by his relations; wrote several plays; author of In and out of
fashion, a novel 3 vols. 1885; _shot himself_ at Phœnix coffee
house 6 Praed st., Paddington, London, 6 Jany. 1892.
PERRY, STEPHEN JOSEPH (son of Stephen Perry of Red Lion sq.
London, steel-pen manufacturer). _b._ London 26 Aug. 1833; educ.
Gifford hall 1843, and Douay college, France 1845–51; studied
theology in the English college at Rome 1851–3; entered society
of Jesus at Hodder house, near Stonyhurst 12 Nov. 1853; studied
philosophy at Stonyhurst 1856–8; matric. at univ. of London
1858; professor of mathematics at Stonyhurst and director of
the observatory 1860–3 and 1868–87; ordained 23 Sept. 1866;
made magnetic surveys of western and eastern France 1868–9, and
of Belgium 1871; F.R.A.S. 9 April 1869, sent by the society
to San Antonio, near Cadiz to observe the total solar eclipse
of 22 Dec. 1870; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; sent to Kerguelen island
to observe the transit of Venus 8 Dec. 1874, and to Nos Vey a
coral reef close to south-west coast of Madagascar 6 Dec. 1882;
took part in the Royal society’s expedition to Carriacou in
the West Indies for the solar eclipse of 19 Aug 1886; observed
the eclipse of 19 Aug. 1887 at Pogost on the Volga; author of
very numerous papers in Philos. Trans., Astronomical register,
Nature, The Month, etc.; photographed the eclipsed sun at Salut
Islands off Guiana 22 Dec. 1889. _d._ on board her majesty’s
ship Comus 27 Dec. 1889. _bur._ Georgetown, Demerara. _Father
Perry, the Jesuit astronomer, by A. L. Cortie, S.J. 2 ed._
(1890) _portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. xlviii pp. xii–xv_
(1890); _The Month lxviii_ 305–23, 474–88 (1890); _Nature xli_
279–80, 301 (1890); _Sidereal messenger (Northfield, Minnesota)
ix_ 197 (1890) _portrait_; _Tablet 11 Jany. 1890 p._ 55, _25
Jany. pp._ 128, 137; _I.L.N. 18 Jany. 1890 p._ 67 _portrait_.
PERRY, SIR THOMAS ERSKINE (2 son of James Perry 1756–1821,
proprietor and editor of the Morning Chronicle). _b._ Wandlebank
house, Wimbledon 20 July 1806; educ. Charterhouse and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1829; student of Lincoln’s Inn 3 Feb. 1827
to 30 May 1832; studied at univ. of Munich 1829–31; honorary
secretary to National political union of London 1831; founded
the Parliamentary candidate society 21 March 1831; contested
Chatham, but defeated after a six month’s contest 14 Dec. 1832,
student of Inner Temple 2 June 1832, barrister I.T. 21 Nov.
1834; lost his fortune by failure of a bank 1840; a judge of
supreme court of Bombay 16 Jany. 1841, sworn in at Bombay 10
April 1841, chief justice 18 Sept. 1847, retired Nov. 1852;
knighted at Buckingham palace 11 Feb. 1841; president of Indian
board of education 1842–52; a Perry professorship of law was
established at Bombay with a sum of £5,000, subscribed by the
natives as a testimonial to him; contested Liverpool 9 July
1853; M.P. Devonport 1854–9; member of council of India 8 Aug.
1859, resigned 1882, chairman of its judicial and legislative
committee 1860–82; P.C. April 1882 but never sworn in; author
with Sandford Nevile of Reports of cases relating to magistrates
determined in the king’s bench, 2 parts 1837; Reports of cases
argued in the king’s bench, 3 vols. 1837–9; author with Henry
Davison of Reports of cases argued in the king’s bench 1838–41,
4 vols. 1839–42; author of Cases illustrative of oriental life
decided in supreme court at Bombay 1853; A bird’s-eye view of
India 1855; translated Savigny’s Treatise on possession 1848.
_d._ 36 Eaton place, London 22 April 1882. _Biograph iii_ 129–37
(1880); _New monthly mag. cxvii_ 382–91 (1880) _portrait_; _Law
Times lxxiii_ 34 (1882).
PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1780; founded Perry’s Bankrupt and
insolvent gazette at 76 Cornhill, London 1826, proprietor to
1856. _d._ St. George’s house, Clapton high road, Upper Clapton
22 Dec. 1868.
PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college
1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London
1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael,
Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon.
canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on
ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments
before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878;
Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful
church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._
Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of
non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical
considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863;
Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877.
_d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.
PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ.
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent
there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts
of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1
April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided
at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_
236, 547 (1874).
PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a
navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher
from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles
Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec.
1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought
him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38
rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman
was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of
consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years
and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67
rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the
police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in
152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side,
23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846;
presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847;
beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking
17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the
champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a
side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall
29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again
1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom
Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in
102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857
when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s
novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments
at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old
leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._
Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_
157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9.
PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and
teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her
father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence
1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da
Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia
di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12
Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina
1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18
notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris
alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847;
sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda,
Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death.
_d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict.
of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_
(1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73
(1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The
prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888).
PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal
States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed
several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo
come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera
Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana
savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against
Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one
of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent
Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag.
of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_
3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_
196–204 (1888).
PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin,
_killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse,
Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a
journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de
Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s
Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account
entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis,
London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten
knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis
Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848;
minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860
to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and
May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16
June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in
England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits
politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly
Reporter xi_ 146 (1863).
PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). _b._ Plymouth 1841; clown
and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre,
London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London
and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in
partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. _d._ of cancer of
the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Edgbaston old church, Birmingham
5 Feb. _Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p._ 689 _portrait_.
PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode
castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway
1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway
hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode
castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885).
PESTER, HENRY. _b._ 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28
Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept.
1864. _d._ 8 Great Quebec st. London 23 Oct. 1870.
PETER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Henry Peter, _d._ 1821). _b._
Harlyn, St. Merryn, Cornwall 22 March 1788; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; barrister L.I. 28 May 1813; M.P. Bodmin
11 Dec. 1832 to 29 Dec. 1834; British consul in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey 13 March 1841 to death; author or editor of
Thoughts on the present crisis in a letter from a constituent
to his representative 1815; Speeches of sir Samuel Romilly
in the house of commons, 2 vols. 1820; Sacred songs being an
attempted paraphrase of some portions of the psalms by W. Peter
1828, new ed. with other poems by a Layman 1834; Poems by Ralph
Ferrars (i.e. Wm. Peter) new ed. 1833; William Tell from the
German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1839, 2 ed. Lucerne 1867; Mary
Stuart from the German of Schiller, Heidelberg 1841; Maid of
Orleans, Cambridge 1843; Agamemnon of Æschylus, Philadelphia
1852; Specimens of the poets of Greece and Rome by various
translators, Philadelphia 1847. _d._ Philadelphia 6 Feb. 1853.
_bur._ St. Peter’s churchyard, where is monument.
PETERKIN, ALEXANDER (elder son of Alexander Peterkin of
Edinburgh, lawyer and author of many works 1780–1846). _b._
1814; editor of the Berwick Advertiser; shorthand reporter and
sub-editor of the Edinburgh Advertiser; on the staff of The
Times, retired about 1853; author of The study of art 1870, a
poem. _d._ 1889.
PETERMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH. _b._ Bleichrode near Nordhausen,
Saxony 18 April 1822; a pupil of Dr. Heinrich Berghaus at
the Potsdam cartographic institution 1839; came to Edinburgh
1845 to assist Dr. Keith Johnstone in an English edition of
Berghaus’ Atlas of physical geography 1847; came to London 1847;
physical geographer royal; returned to Germany 1854; professor
of geography Gotha university, and in charge of Perthes’
Geographic institution at Gotha to his death; all the German
expeditions to Africa and to the Poles he planned, described and
mapped; contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, the English
Cyclopædia, and the Athenæum; author of The search for Franklin,
a suggestion 1852; An account of the expedition to Central
Africa by Richardson, Barth, Over and Vogel 1854; and other
works published at Gotha and Vratislaviæ; _committed suicide_
at Gotha 25 Sept. 1878. _The Times 28 Sept. 1878 p._ 5; _The
Athenæum 5 Oct. 1878 p._ 437.
PETERS, MARY (dau. of Richard Bowly). _b._ Cirencester,
Gloucs. 17 April 1813; _m._ John McWilliam Peters, rector
of Quennington, Gloucs. and afterwards vicar of Langford,
Oxfordshire, _d._ 1834; contributed hymns to the Plymouth
Brethrens’ Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs 1842; author of
Hymns intended to help the communion of saints 1847, selections
from this book were printed in various hymnals 1855–72;
Universal history, or the world’s history from the creation to
the accession of queen Victoria, London, S. Bagster and Sons,
7 vols. 1862, anon., this work is also known as Bagster’s
Universal history. _d._ Clifton 29 July 1856. _Julian’s
Hymnology_ (1892) 891–2.
PETERS, WILLIAM CUMMING. _b._ Woodbury, near Exmouth, Devon 10
March 1805; opened a music store in Louisville, Kentucky 1829;
established branch houses in Cincinnati 1839 and in Baltimore
1849; a leader of concerts and choirs; revised and enlarged J.
F. Burrowes’ Pianoforte primer 1849; wrote Mass in G for soprano
and bass voices 1863, and other music published in Baltimore,
New York and Cincinnati 1841–71; compiled The Catholic harmonist
1850; The eclectic piano instructor 1855; and The Catholic harp
1862. _d._ Cincinnati 20 April 1866.
PETERSDORFF, CHARLES ERDMAN (3 son of Christian Frederick
Petersdorff of 14 Gough sq. Fleet st. London, furrier). _b._
London 4 Nov. 1800; student of Inner Temple 24 Sept. 1818;
barrister I.T. 25 Jany. 1833; one of the counsel to the
admiralty; serjeant-at-law 20 May 1858; judge of county courts,
circuit 57, North Devon and Somerset 1 Jany. 1865, resigned
Dec. 1885; author of A general index to the precedents in civil
and criminal pleadings 1822; A practical treatise on the law of
bail 1824; A practical abridgment of cases in the king’s bench,
common pleas, exchequer and nisi prius from the restoration,
15 vols. 1825–30; A practical abridgment of the common law, 5
vols. 1841–4, 2 ed. 6 vols. 1861–4, supplement 1870, 2 ed. 1871;
The principles and practice of the law of bankruptcy 1861, 2
ed. 1862; Law students and practitioners’ commonplace book of
law and equity. By A Barrister 1871; A practical compendium of
the law of master and servant 1876; _killed_ by falling into
the area of his house 23 Harley st. London 29 July 1886. _Law
Journal 7 Aug. 1886 p._ 467.