Sussex _v._ Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for
Lancashire 1877–89; played in Gentlemen _v._ Players at Lord’s
1879, and in Lancashire _v._ Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a
benefit under the Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave
him £1,700, 1889; went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s
first combination 1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which
he never quite recovered, went to Australia with the fourth
combination 1887–88; caught cold in a football match 1890; the
Lancashire club sent him to Australia for his health 1890;
with the exception of Blackham the best wicket keeper of his
day. _d._ at his house in Manchester 28 March 1891. _Wisden’s
Cricketers’ almanack_ (1891) _p. xxxiii portrait_, (1892) _p.
xxxii_; _Times 30 March 1891 p._ 7; _Graphic 4 April 1891 p._
386 _portrait_.
PIM, BEDFORD CLAPPERTON TREVELYAN (only son of Edward Bedford
Pim, lieut. R.N., _d._ 1830). _b._ Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826;
entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald
1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in
the western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21
April 1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6,
and the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon
1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across
the Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now
known as Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861;
captain 16 April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5
July 1885; made three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his
traffic transit scheme March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the
Nicaraguan railway company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was
dissolved July 1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister
G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went the western circuit; contested Totnes
12 July 1865; contested Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend
1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov. 1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of
Anthropological institute 1871 to death, member of council
1871–4; author of An earnest appeal on behalf of the missing
Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857; The gate of the Pacific
1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War chronicle, with
memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king William I 1873;
The Eastern question, past, present and future 1877; Gems from
Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold Seeman of Dottings
on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito 1869. _d._
Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and window at west
end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. _Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii_ 448–54 (1887).
PIM, JONATHAN (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). _b._ 1806;
partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers,
cotton spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William
st. Dublin; M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874;
contested Dublin 7 Feb. 1874; author of The condition and
prospects of Ireland 1848; Ireland and the imperial parliament
1871. _d._ Greenbank, Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.
PIM, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim
Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and
of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market,
Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of
Royal yacht club. _d._ Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.
PINCHIN, ROBERT. _b._ 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph
Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa
1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death;
partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H.
L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by
private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L.
Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ Port
Elizabeth 9 May 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv_ 388
(1889).
PINCKARD, GEORGE HENRY (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court
Barton, Devon, _d._ 1839). _b._ Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary
and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance
co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court,
Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous
as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at
Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church
restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. _d._ Combe court 23
July 1892. _The Times 26 July 1892 p._ 9.
PINCKNEY, FREDERICK GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 73 foot 8 April
1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858.
_d._ off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.
PINCOFFS, PETER. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840,
where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841;
in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond.
1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female
penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari
1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord
Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec.
1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction
of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences
of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. _d._ Munich 17
July 1872. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 165–6 (1872).
PINDER, FRANCIS FORD (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa,
Bath). _b._ 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857,
went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of
inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the
principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth
ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. _d._ 129 Mount st.
Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.
PINDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut.
col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. _d._ Clifton 14 Jany.
1881.
PINDER, JOHN HOTHERSALL (son of Francis Ford Pinder of
Barbadoes). _b._ 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington
college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological
college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to
death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to
death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2
ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures
1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the
ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. _d._
West Malvern 16 April 1868. _bur._ in West Malvern churchyard.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 783.
PINE, SIR BENJAMIN CHILLEY CAMPBELL (eld. son of Benjamin
Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). _b._ 1813; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831,
barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer
1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting
governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war
in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849
to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855,
governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at
Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher,
West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor
of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the
Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31
May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G.
29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the
Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16,
and others. _d._ Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. _The Times 2
March 1891 p._ 7.
PINE, RICHARD. Employed on important missions to native kings
and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk
of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia
1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866;
registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1878.
PINHEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26
Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army
15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending
surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1
May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board
1843–6. _d._ Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.
PINK, CHARLES RICHARD (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester).
_b._ Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled
to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London
1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the
Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an
associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886;
designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly
in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural
association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on
heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. _d._ Hyde, near
Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church.
_Pink memorial_ (1889) _portrait_; _Journal of proc. of royal
instit. of British architects v_ 172, 314 (1889).
PINKERTON, ALLAN. _b._ Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped
to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established
Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the
escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service
division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its
first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps
of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had
branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire
and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of
the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other
books. _d._ Chicago 1 July 1884. _Appleton’s American biography
v_ 25 (1888); _Harper’s Mag. xlvii_ 720–7 (1873).
PINKETT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of
Barnstaple). _b._ about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany.
1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the
Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T.
19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of
Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement
June 1880, administered government of the West African
settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883;
acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative
councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements
31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical
index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. _d._ Freetown,
Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. _Law Times 11 June 1887 p._ 108.
PINKS, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29
Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde,
bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in
London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries,
the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals;
a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now
the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a
History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition
appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country
trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of
Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country
trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i,
no more published. _d._ at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 19 Nov.,
memorial stone erected by subscription. _Memoirs of W. J. Pinks_
(1861); _W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell_, _2 ed._
(1881) _memoir pp. v–viii portrait_.
PINNEY, CHARLES (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed
surname of Pinney 1762). _b._ 29 April 1793; partner with E.
Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received
£3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833;
mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the
mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion
house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military
fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the
captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol
Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried
in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the
riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol
1836. _d._ Camp house, Clifton 17 July 1867. _W. C. Townsend’s
Modern state trials ii_ 273–355 (1850); _Trial of Charles
Pinney_ (1833); _Latimer’s Annals of Bristol_ (1887) 146–79,
188, 212; _Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii_ 325–38 (1882);
_P. C. Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger_ (1877)
350–402.
PINNOCK, WILLIAM HENRY (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author
1782–1843). _b._ 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D.
1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts.
1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in
charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner,
Herts. 1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England
made easy, new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s
Abridgment of Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858;
edited Clerical papers on church and parishioners, 6 vols.
1852–63; author of The laws and usages of the church and clergy,
the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed. 1854; Rubrics for communicants
explanatory of the holy communion office 1863; The law of the
rubric and the transition period of the church of England 1866;
The church key, belfry key and organ key 1870; The Bible and
contemporary history: an epitome of the history of the world
from the creation to the end of the old testament, edited by E.
M. B., 2 vols. 1887. _d._ Pinner vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. _The
Times 5 Dec. 1885 p._ 9.
PINSENT, SIR ROBERT JOHN (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge
in Newfoundland). _b._ Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of
Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council
1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873;
judge of the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12
June 1890; D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881;
author of Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of
Royal Colonial institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles
in magazines upon the French treaty question 1889. _d._ Bintry
rectory, Norfolk 27 April 1893.
PINSON, ALBERT. Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I.
29 Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844
to 20 April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of
2 N.I. 1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37
N.I. 1858 to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G.
_d._ 12 Nov. 1865.
PINSUTI, CIRO ERCOLE. _b._ Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829;
educ. in Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry
Drummond, M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the
tuition of Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist;
studied at Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848;
professor at Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3
operas Il merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and
Margherita; composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior,
a romance 1850; Te Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part
song 1865; After the rain, two part song 1867; Tell me not in
mournful numbers 1869; Dreams only dreams, song 1873; I fear
no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where is fancy bred, a part song
1884; author of Hints to teachers on singing 1880; his name is
attached to upwards of 500 pieces of music. _d._ of cerebral
apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence 10 March 1888. _The
Times 15 March 1888 p._ 6.
PINTI, RAFFAELLE. _b._ near Rome 1826; came to London when a
young man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London
1860 to death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures,
etc. and his connection with Italy enabled him to bring many
important works of art to England; picture restorer. _d._ 28
Langham st. London 30 July 1881. _Academy ii_ 128 (1881); _Times
11 Aug. 1881 p._ 10, _col._ 3.
PINWELL, GEORGE JOHN. _b._ London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for
the brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863;
illustrated the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week,
and other periodicals; associate of Society of painters in
water-colours 1869, member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery
1865; an honorary member of Belgian society of painters in
water-colours; his picture entitled Strolling players was
engraved by Charles Cousen for the Art Journal 1873, and The
elixir of love was etched by R. W. Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885;
he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy home 1864; R. W.
Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866; and Jean
Ingelow’s Poems 1867. _d._ Adelaide road, Haverstock hill,
London 8 Sept. 1875. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. _A
catalogue of pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at
Birmingham March 1895_, _with an essay by H. Quilter_ 1895;
_Roget’s History of the old water-colour society ii_ 396–9
(1891); _Good words xxix_ 814 (1888); _I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p._
285 _portrait_; _Graphic xii_ 328 (1875) _portrait_.
PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, SIR JOHN SALUSBURY (2 son of Giambattista
Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). _b._ Brescia 1793;
assumed additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of
Flintshire 1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on
presenting an address to the Prince Regent. _d._ Cheltenham 18
Dec. 1858. _G.M. Feb. 1859 p._ 208.
PIPER, ROBERT SLOPER. _b._ 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany.
1809, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848;
served six campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders
March 1810 to Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian
provinces during insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868;
he wrote A memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the
chain pier at Brighton have been executed, in _Papers of Corps
of Royal engineers ii_ 122–7 (1844). _d._ 7 New Steine, Brighton
26 Dec. 1873.
PIPER, STEPHEN EDWARD. _b._ Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll.
London; L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the
army medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain,
where he was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington
1841; consulting surgeon Darlington hospital; president North
of England British medical association. _d._ Orwell house,
Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. _The Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p._ 601.
PIPON, JAMES KENNARD. _b._ 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug.
1826, captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed
on h.p. 31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet
colonel 20 June 1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863
to death; officiating judge advocate at the court martial on
colonel Thomas Robert Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov.
to 23 Dec. 1863; author with John Francis Collier of Manual of
military law for all ranks of the army, militia, and volunteer
services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. _d._ Alne vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June
1868. _Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p._ 345 _portrait_.
PIRIE, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse,
Berwickshire). _b._ Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept.
1781; merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley,
London 1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman
of ward of Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841;
created baronet 13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a
prince of Wales during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s
hospital, London 1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June
1841. _d._ Champion hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. _G.M. xxxv_
551 (1851); _I.L.N. 8 March 1851 p._ 200.
PIRIE, WILLIAM ROBINSON (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister
of Slains, Aberdeenshire). _b._ manse of Slains 26 July 1804;
studied at Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and
1821–5, D.D. 1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon
1825; minister of parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars
church, Aberdeen 1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal
college and univ. of Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon.
professor of divinity and biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15
Sept. 1860 to 1876, and principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator
of the general assembly 19 May 1864; the chief advocate for the
abolition of patronage in the Church of Scotland, which was
abolished by act of parliament 1874; author of The independent
jurisdiction of the church vindicated 1838; Some notice of the
rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An inquiry into the constitution, power,
and processes of the human mind 1858; The position, principles
and duties of the church of Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an
inquiry into the fundamental principles of religions, moral and
political science 1867. _d._ Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. _In memoriam,
W. R. Pirie_ (1888); _Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ iii_, _part ii_,
_p._ 501, 516, 898.
PIRRIE, WILLIAM (son of George Pirrie, farmer). _b._ near
Huntly, Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ.
Aberdeen, and univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825;
M.D. Edinb. 1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and
physiology in the joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal
colleges, Aberdeen 1830–9; regius professor of surgery in
Marischal college 1839–60; professor of surgery in univ. of
Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading surgeon in north Scotland for 20
years; known by sobriquet of The Baron; author of The principles
and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed. 1873; On hay asthma and hay
fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of Acupressure an excellent
method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage 1867. _d._ 253 Union st.
Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 681 (1882).
PISTRUCCI, BENEDETTO (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of
the high criminal court of Rome). _b._ Rome 29 May 1784; a
gem-engraver at Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to
London 1815; designed the St. George and the dragon on the
reverse of the gold coinage 1817, which is still in use; an
outside assistant at the mint 1816, acted as chief engraver
from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist 1828; engraved part of
the coinage at end of reign of George III, and all the coins
of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation medal of
George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver seal
of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his
invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and
intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the
duke of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for
the famous Waterloo medallion 1850. _d._ Flora lodge, Englefield
Green, near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. _A. Billing’s Science of
gems_ (1875) 3, 224; _F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists_
(1894) 62–7; _N. Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon_ (1837) 43 _etc._;
_G.M. Oct. 1856 pp._ 653–6.
NOTE.--In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A
collection of letters, etc. from newspapers and magazines on B.
Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.
PITCAIRN, DAVID. _b._ 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian
minister of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May
1830 to 29 Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867;
resided at Torquay from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his
parishioners 1840, 2 ed. 1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial
of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed. 1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s
king, the second Psalm expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a
memoir of E. H. M. Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862;
The ages of the earth 1868. _d._ 4 Jany. 1870. _Scott’s Fasti
Scoticanæ_, _vol._ 3 _part_ 1 _p._ 382.
PITCAIRN, SIR JAMES (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of
Englishcombe, Somerset). _b._ Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776;
F.R.C.S. 7 June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and
in Egypt 1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in
Ireland 1803, and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852,
when he retired on half pay; knighted 1837. _d._ 3 Haddington
road, Dublin 12 Jany. 1859.