architect). _b._ Russel sq. London July 1789; pupil of Wm.
Starke of Glasgow, architect; architect in Edinburgh 1812 to
death; laid out part of the new town 1815; rebuilt and enlarged
the university buildings 1817–24; designed the Royal and Regent
terraces 1829; designed the observatory 1814–18, advocates’
library 1819, royal institution 1822–36, college of surgeons
1830, St. Stephen’s church 1826–8, and the Free church college
1846–50; constructed Donaldson’s hospital in the Tudor style
1842–8; designed the monument to his uncle professor John
Playfair 1820, and that to Dugald Stewart on the Calton hill
1830; designed the National gallery of Scotland in the classical
style, first stone laid 30 Aug. 1850, and the unfinished
national monument on the Calton Hill 1822–6; his classical
buildings have gained for Edinburgh the sobriquet of the ‘Modern
Athens’; built many country houses and mansions; author of
Report concerning completion of the college of Edinburgh 1816;
Report on laying out the new town between Edinburgh and Leith
1819. _d._ 17 Great Stuart street, Edinburgh 19 March 1857.
_Dictionary of architecture vi_ 134 (1881); _Building News iii_
359–60 (1857).
PLENDERLEATH, CHARLES. Ensign 89 foot 29 May 1796; lieut. 49
foot 6 March 1797, lieut. colonel 4 June 1813 to 1814, when
placed on h.p., sold out Jany. 1826; C.B. 4 June 1815; present
at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; severely wounded at Stoney
creek in America. _d._ Florence 1 Jany. 1854.
PLEON, TOM, stage name of Frederick Pleon Whitehouse. _b._ 1862;
appeared at Drury lane when 3 years old; acted a miniature clown
and sang Hot codlins and Tippertiwichet; was the duke of York
in Richard III; served with the Moore and Burgess minstrels as
Picaninny Tommy; appeared with professor Anderson and Frederic
Maccabe; was seen with his mother madame Pleon at the music
halls under name of general Tom Dot, his brother Henry being
known as major Mite; the brothers Pleon then became Ethiopian
comedians and banjo performers; a banjo player and an acrobatic
dancer with a white face; acted with the Wood family in the
sketch The Organ crank; was in the pantomimes at Drury Lane
1887–91. _d._ Brook st. Kennington park road, Surrey 25 April
1892.
PLEWS, JOHN MACKAY. _b._ 1832; proprietor of the Vale of Mowbray
brewery, Bedale, Yorkshire, founded in 1795; erected a new
brewery at Leeming lane, Bedale, and was his own architect
1868; had branches at Darlington, Middlesbro’, and Durham; was
a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and maltster; brewed ten
varieties of ale and stout; resided Fencote hall, near Bedale.
_d._ Scarborough 13 Dec. 1889, left £131,203 19 9. _A. Barnard’s
Noted breweries iv_ 410–35 (1891); _The Brewers’ Journal 15 June
1890 p._ 385.
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, EDWARD (2 son of 3 earl of Radnor 1779–1869).
_b._ 26 April 1818; educ. Harrow 1828 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
M.A. 1838; précis writer to lord Palmerston Jan. to June 1840;
barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; contested Salisbury 4 May and 24
Nov. 1843; M.P. Kilmarnock 1844–74; contested Berkshire 22 July
1865; contested Kilmarnock 6 Feb. 1874; contested Liskeard 3
April 1880; under secretary of state for home department July
1850 to March 1852; chairman of committees of house of commons
April 1853 to March 1855; vice-president of board of trade March
to Aug. 1855; paymaster general of the forces and treasurer of
navy 1855; P.C. 31 March 1855; president of poor law board
Aug. 1855 to Feb. 1858; one of the committee of council on
education 1857; second church estate comr. Aug. 1859 to Nov.
1865; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 1869 to death; member
of corporation of foreign bondholders 1877, chairman of the
corporation 1878, readjusted the debts of Turkey, Spain, and
other countries; director of the Great Western railway company
and of the Peninsular and Oriental company; wrote many letters
in The Times over the initials E. B. P. _d._ 44 Wilton crescent,
London 16 Dec. 1889. _Times 17 Dec. 1889 pp._ 10, 11.
PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, PHILIP (4 son of 2 earl of Radnor 1749–1828).
_b._ Bath 21 Oct. 1788; a banker in London; M.P. Cockermouth
1830–1; M.P. Downton, Wilts. 1831–2; M.P. Berks. 1857–65;
sheriff of Somerset 1843; author of Vindication of a churchman
for desiring the abolition of church rates 1861. _d._ Clyffe
hall, near Devizes 23 May 1872.
PLINT, THOMAS. _b._ 1797; cloth merchant Leeds; statist;
was active in agitation for repeal of the corn laws; sec.
to the Yorkshire union of mechanics’ institutes some years;
a contributor to reviews and newspapers; author of Speech
delivered at West Riding meeting of Anti-corn law deputies
1851; Crime in England, its relation, character, and extent
1851; Voluntaryism in England and Wales, or the census of 1851.
_d._ Springfield place, Leeds 25 Dec. 1857. _R. V. Taylor’s
Biographia Leodiensis_ (1865) 471.
PLINT, THOMAS EDWARD. _b._ 1823; stock and share broker Leeds,
suspended payment 1860; had a collection of paintings, cost
£25,000, including the Black Brunswicker, sold for 780 guineas,
and the Proscribed Royalist by J. E. Millais, 525 guineas, his
pictures were sold by Christies on 7 and 8 March 1862, realising
£18,391. _d._ Leeds 11 July 1861. _R. V. Taylor’s Biographia
Leodiensis_ (1865) 497; _Art Journal Aug. 1861 p._ 255, _April
1862 p._ 105.
PLOW, ANTHONY JOHN (eld. son of Henry Anthony Plow 1809–94,
rector of Bradley, Hants. 1852–82). Educ. Queen’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1855; C. of Staines 1856; P.C. of Todmorden, Lancs. 1863
to death; attacked and terribly wounded with an axe by Miles
Weatherill a check weaver (he had been engaged to one of the
servants who had been sent to her home), he also wounded Mrs.
Plow and the nurse Jane Smith 2 March 1868; he _d._ of his
wounds Todmorden parsonage 12 March 1868. _Annual register_
(1868) 22–4.
PLOWDEN, CHARLES JOSEPH. _b._ 1804; head of firm of Plowden and
Co. the first English bankers established in Rome; created count
by grand duke of Tuscany about 1854. _d._ the Palazetto, Rome 28
Feb. 1884.
PLOWDEN, FLORENCE. _b._ 1851; a pupil of Mrs. Stirling; at the
Court theatre, where she played with John Hare and Charles
Kelly in a Quiet rubber many times; played Lady Melusine in W.
S. Gilbert’s Broken hearts at Court theatre 17 Dec. 1875; at
Southampton theatre; was seen in all Robertson’s dramas at the
Prince of Wales’ theatre and acted Naomi Tighe in School during
Mrs. Bancroft’s absence; leading lady in Wilson Barrett’s No
Escape company to 1881; _m._ Vyner Robinson; a dramatic reciter
and a teacher of elocution at St. Leonard’s 1881. _d._ 3 Royal
terrace, St. Leonard’s 16 Feb. 1890.
PLOWDEN, TREVOR JOHN CHICHELE. _b._ 2 Sept. 1843; ensign Bengal
N.I. 10 Dec. 1859, capt. 12 June 1869, major 10 Dec. 1879;
adjutant 3 Punjab cavalry of the frontier force; assistant comr.
first class Rawul Pindee, Punjab 15 April 1867; deputy comr. and
political agent Kohat district Nov. 1884, also district judge;
C.I.E. 24 May 1881; had an accurate knowledge of Pushtoo, and a
singular command over the Afrides and other Afghan tribes in the
Kohat and Peshawr districts; edited Travels in Abyssinia by W.
C. Plowden 1868; translated The Kalid-i-Afghani 1875, and The
Ganj-i-Pakkto 1882. _d._ Canterbury 15 Sept. 1887.
PLOWDEN, WALTER CHICHELE (youngest son of Trevor Chichele
Plowden of the Bengal civil service). _b._ 3 Aug. 1820; clerk in
office of Carr, Tagore and Co. in Calcutta 1839–43; travelled in
Abyssinia with J. T. Bell to discover the source of the White
Nile 1843–7; shipwrecked in the Red Sea on his way to England
1847; consul in Abyssinia 21 Nov. 1847 to death; resided in
the interior of Abyssinia till Feb. 1860; attacked by a rebel
chieftain, wounded and taken prisoner near Gondar on the Kaka
river 4 March 1860; ransomed by the authorities of Gondar for
1,000 dollars 4 March and carried into the the town, where he
_d._ 13 March 1860. _W. C. Plowden’s Travels in Abyssinia and
the Galla country_ (1868), _memoir pp. vii–x_; _Foreign office
list July 1860 p._ 146.
PLOWDEN, WILLIAM HENRY CHICHELE (4 son of Richard Chichele
Plowden, a director of the H.E.I. Co., _d._ Jany. 1830). _b._
1790; educ. Westminster; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1805; president
of British factory in China; superintendent of British trade
there 1833; a director of East India company 1841–54; contested
Nottingham 24 July 1837; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1847–52;
contested Newport 9 July 1852; F.R.S. 15 April 1847. _d._
Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, Hants. 29 March 1880.
PLOWMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Oxford 1811; reporter for the Oxford
journal 1829–62; started the Oxford times 1862, which he
transferred to a company 1867; university correspondent of the
Morning post to death; opened the first reading room in Oxford;
a singer and a speaker at public dinners. _d._ Oxford 9 Nov.
1867. _Newspaper Press 2 Dec. 1867 p._ 8.
PLUMPTRE, CHARLES JOHN (eld. son of Edward Hallows Plumptre of
London, solicitor 1785–1851). _b._ London 28 March 1818; educ.
King’s college, London; barrister G.I. 5 June 1844; established
with Edward Wm. Cox and others The Public reading society and
gave the first penny readings for the people 1858–60; lectured
on elocution, especially at the universities and theological
colleges; lecturer on elocution at Oxford 1860–5; professor of
elocution at King’s college, London 1866; lectured on elocution
at Downing coll. Camb. 1878; professor of rhetoric in Hyde park
college and at Crystal Palace school of literature and art;
edited with George Harris The county courts chronicle, vols.
xi and xii 1860–61; author of The principles and practice of
elocution 1861, 5 ed. 18--; King’s college lectures on elocution
1870, 4 ed. 1883; The culture of voice and speech 1874; The
right mode of respiration in regard to speech, song, and health
1886. _d._ 36 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 15 June
1887. _C. J. Plumptre’s King’s college lectures on elocution_
(1882) _portrait_; _Law Times 16 July 1887 p._ 212; _Victoria
Mag. Oct. 1879 pp._ 557–60 _portrait_.
PLUMPTRE, EDWARD HAYES (brother of preceding). _b._ 6 Aug. 1821;
educ. King’s coll. London 1839–40; scholar of Univ. coll. Oxf.
1841–4; double first class 1844, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1846; fellow of
Brasenose coll. 1844–8; chaplain of King’s coll. London 1847,
resigned May 1868, professor of pastoral theology 1853–63,
professor of exegesis of Holy scriptures 1864–81; select
preacher at Oxford 1851–3, 1864–6, and 1872–3; dean of Queen’s
coll. Harley st. London 1855–75, principal of the college
1875–7, founded a scholarship in the college; assistant preacher
at Lincoln’s Inn 1851–8; prebendary of St. Paul’s 1863–81; R.
of Pluckley, Kent 1869–73; V. of Bickley. Kent 1873–81; Boyle
lecturer Oxford 1866–7; a member of the Old Testament revision
committee 1869–74 and translator and editor of several portions
of the Bible; Grinfield lecturer and examiner in school of
theology at Oxford 1872–4; dean of Wells 6 Dec. 1881 to death;
author of Lazarus and other poems 1864, 4 ed. 1884; Master and
scholar 1866, poems; Biblical studies 1870, 3 ed. 1885; Theology
and life 1884; The spirits in prison and other studies on life
after death 1884; The divine commedia and canzoniere of Dante
Alighieri, with biographical introduction, notes, and essays,
2 vols. 1886–7; Wells cathedral and its deans 1888; The life
of Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells 1888; translated The
tragedies of Sophocles 1865 and of Æschylus 1868; his name
appears on upwards of 60 publications 1849–90. _d._ the deanery,
Wells 1 Feb. 1891. _bur._ cathedral cemet. _Church portrait
journal iii_ 9 (1882) _portrait_; _Good Words April 1891 pp._
233–37 _portrait_; _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1881 p._ 536 _portrait and 7
Sept. 1891 p._ 167 _portrait_.
PLUMPTRE, FREDERICK CHARLES (3 son of Charles Plumptre of Long
Newton, Durham). _b._ 17 Aug. 1796; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college
1817–36, tutor 1820, dean and bursar 1821, master Dec. 1836
to his death; vice-chancellor 1848–51; took an active part in
university business, delegate of estates and privileges in the
university. _d._ University college 21 Nov. 1870. _bur._ in
college chapel 25 Nov. _I.L.N. 3 Dec. 1870 p._ 578; _Times 22
Nov. 1870 p._ 6, _26 Nov. p._ 6.
PLUMRIDGE, SIR JAMES HANWAY (son of James Plumridge of London,
architect). _b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 1787; entered
navy 6 Sept. 1799; commander 7 June 1814; commanded the Sappho
brig at St. Helena and on the Irish station 1818–21; captain 9
Oct. 1822; captain of the Magicienne frigate in the East Indies
1831–5; superintendent of the Falmouth packets 7 April 1837
to 1841; M.P. Penryn and Falmouth 1841–7; storekeeper of the
ordnance 23 June 1842 to 1847; second in command on the East
Indies station 1847–50; R.A. 7 Oct. 1852; commanded the flying
squadron in the Baltic 7 March 1854 to Feb. 1855; superintendent
of Devonport dockyard 19 Feb. 1855 to 4 Dec. 1857; member of
order of St. John of Jerusalem 12 Dec. 1857; K.C.B. 5 July
1855; V.A. 28 Nov. 1857; admiral of the blue 27 April 1863.
_d._ Hopton hall, near Lowestoft 29 Nov. 1863. _G. B. Earp’s
History of the Baltic campaign from documents furnished by sir
C. Napier_ (1857) 45, 620.
PLUNKET, WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET, 1 Baron (youngest son of
Thomas Plunket, presbyterian minister, Enniskillen, _d._ Dublin;
1778). _b._ Enniskillen 1 July 1764; matric. in univ. of Dublin
1779; scholar Trin. coll. Dublin 1781; B.A. 1784; LL.B 1787,
LL.D. 1799; called to Irish bar Jany. 1787; K.C. 1797; M.P.
Charlemont, co. Armagh, in Irish parliament 1798–1800; appeared
for the prosecution on the trial of Robert Emmett for rebellion
Sept. 1803; solicitor general for Ireland 5 Nov. 1803 to 1805;
attorney general 23 Oct. 1805 to 15 May 1807, and 15 Jany. 1822
to 18 June 1827; M.P. Midhurst 26 Jany. to 29 April 1807; M.P.
Trinity college, Dublin univ. 1812–27; succeeded Henry Grattan
as champion of the Roman Catholic claims 1820; P.C. 10 May
1827 and 23 March 1831; chief justice of Irish court of common
pleas 18 June 1827 to 23 Dec. 1830; created baron Plunket of
Newton, co. Cork 1 May 1827; lord chancellor of Ireland 23 Dec.
1830 to Nov. 1834, and 30 April 1835 to 17 June 1841. _d._ Old
Connaught, co. Wicklow 4 Jany. 1854. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet.
Dublin 7 Jany. _D. Plunket’s Life of lord Plunket_, 2 _vols._
(1867) _portrait_; _W. H. Curran’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
127–53 (1855); _O’Flanagan’s Lord chancellors of Ireland ii_
403–621 (1870); _R. L. Sheil’s Sketches of the Irish bar i_
98, 119, _ii_ 377 (1854); _Dublin Univ. mag. xv_ 258–66 (1840)
_portrait_; _J. Whiteside’s Early sketches of eminent persons_
(1870) 157–210; _O. J. Burke’s History of lord chancellors of
Ireland_ (1879) 210–45; _Law Review xix_ 225–48 (1854); _Law
mag. and review xix_ 44–9 (1865); _W. C. Taylor’s National
portrait gallery iv_ 80 (1848) _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxiv_ 38,
58 (1854) _portrait_; _J. C. Hoey’s Speeches of lord Plunket_
(1856).
PLUNKET, THOMAS SPAN PLUNKET, 2 Baron (eld. son of preceding).
_b._ Dublin 1792; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1814,
and at Trin. Dublin, M.A. 1822, B.D. and D.D. 1840; dean of
Down 8 Oct. 1831; bishop of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 1839 to
death, consecrated at Ch. Ch. Dublin; P.C. Ireland 1846; an
ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland 1851 to death; succeeded as 2
baron 5 Jany. 1854. _d._ Lommakeady lodge, co. Galway 19 Oct.
1866.
PLUNKET, JOHN SPAN PLUNKET, 3 Baron (brother of preceding). _b._
10 July 1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1822;
called to Irish bar 1817; Q.C. 1 July 1837; leading counsel
for the crown in Dublin and on the Munster circuit; assistant
barrister for co. Meath; bencher of King’s Inns 1849; succeeded
as 3 baron Plunket 19 Oct. 1866. _d._ St. Valarey, Bray, co.
Dublin 16 April 1871. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery. _Irish Law
times v_ 200 (1871); _I.L.N. lviii_ 427 (1871).
PLUNKETT, CHARLES DAWSON (3 son of 11 baron Louth 1757–1823).
_b._ 1813; ensign 1 foot 11 Oct. 1833, lieut. col. 26 June 1866,
retired on full pay with hon. rank of M.G. 18 Nov. 1868; served
in Crimean war 1855; knight of the legion of honour 1857. _d._
Killiney, co. Dublin 19 May 1886.
PLUNKETT, JAMES. Called to Irish bar 1826, Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849.
_d._ 47 Mountjoy square, Dublin 5 Aug. 1872.
PLUNKETT, JOHN HUBERT (younger twin son of George Plunkett of
Roscommon). _b._ Mount Plunkett, co. Roscommon June 1802; educ.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1826, went
Connaught circuit; solicitor general of New South Wales Oct.
1831 to 1836, attorney general 1836–56; member of legislative
council 1831–56; chairman of National school board 1848–56;
retired on a pension 1856; member for Argyle in legislative
assembly 1856; member of legislative council 1857–8, and
president Jany. 1857 to Feb. 1858; president of the board
of education to Feb. 1858; minister without a portfolio of
the Martin government Oct. 1863 to Feb. 1865; author of The
Australian magistrate, or a guide to the duties of a justice
of the peace, Sydney 1840, 4 ed. 1866; The magistrate’s pocket
book 1859; On the evidence of accomplices 1863. _d._ Burlington
terrace, East Melbourne 9 May 1869. _bur._ Sydney 15 May.
_Heads of the people_, _Sydney_, _i_ 93 (1847) _portrait_; _P.
Mennell’s Australian biography_ (1892) 374.
PLUNKETT, PATRICK. Called to Irish bar 1824; bencher of King’s
Inns 1851 to death; judge of court of bankrupts and insolvents 1
Nov. 1857 to death. _d._ Kingstown, Dublin 31 July 1859.
PLUNKETT, RANDAL EDWARD SHERBORNE (1 son of 16 baron Dunsany
1808–89). _b._ Sherborne, Gloucs. 15 Nov. 1848; educ. Eton
1862–5, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1872; took honours 3 class Mods
1869 and second law and history 1871; captain Gloucestershire
rifle volunteers 8 July 1874; M.P. West Gloucestershire 1874–80.
_d._ Madeira 25 Dec. 1883.
PLUNKETT, THOMAS OLIVER WESTENRA (2 son of 12 baron Louth
1809–49). _b._ 1 April 1838; ensign 1 foot 5 Jany. 1855,
captain 20 May 1864, sold out 27 July 1866; served at siege
of Sebastopol from 29 Aug. 1855, and in campaign in China
1860; resident magistrate at Cork 1866, divisional magistrate
in charge of Cork, Kerry and Limerick 1881–6; assisted sir
Redvers Buller in reorganising the constabulary patrols and the
methods of criminal investigation; magistrate and divisional
commissioner in Cork, Limerick and part of Kerry, the Ponsonby
and Kingston estates were in Kerry, had much to do with
evictions of tenants and the affair at Mitchelstown 1887;
quelled disturbances at Youghall, Midleton and Cork; struck
on the head while opposing a Plan of campaign meeting on the
Ponsonby estate. _d._ Cork 6 Dec. 1880. _bur._ Louth 9 Dec.
_Times 7 Dec. 1889 p._ 10, _10 Dec. p._ 7, _11 Dec. p._ 5.
POCHIN, HENRY DAVIS (eld. son of William Pochin of Wigston,
Leicester). _b._ 1824; studied chemistry at Pharmaceutical
society’s laboratory London; head of firm of H. D. Pochin and
Co. Salford; mayor of Salford 1866–8; contested Stafford 11 July
1865; M.P. Stafford 10 Nov. 1868 to March 1869, when unseated
on petition; contested Stafford 3 Feb. 1874; contested Monmouth
6 Feb. 1874; member of Stafford school board March 1871; his
process of decomposing silicate of alumina produced aluminous
cake used by paper makers; discovered a method of distilling
resin with steam at a high temperature, used for making yellow
and fancy soaps; purchased coal, iron and steel industries,
which he converted into limited liability companies; held large
shares in Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., John Brown and Co., the
Armour-plate makers of Sheffield, the Tredegar iron and coal
Co., Palmer’s Shipbuilding and iron Co., and the Staveley iron
and coal Co.; with sir Edward Watkin redeemed Metropolitan
railway Co. from insolvency; a director of Manchester, Sheffield
and Lincolnshire railway Co.; _m._ 1852 Agnes, dau. of George
Gretton Heap, she wrote The right of women to exercise the
elective franchise 1855, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ Bodnant hall, Conway,
Denbighshire 28 Oct. 1895. _Times 2 Nov. 1895 p._ 6.
POCKLINGTON, EVELYN HENRY FREDERICK (3 son of Roger Pocklington
of Carlton house, Notts. 1775–1847). _b._ 18 Jany. 1811; ensign
52 foot 10 Feb. 1829, captain 24 May 1839, placed on h.p. 13
July 1847; assistant Q.M.G. at headquarters 21 Sept. 1860 to 1
Jany. 1865; member of council of military education 1 Jany. 1865
to 1870; director general 1874 to death; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. _d._
28 Rutland gate, London 10 Aug. 1879.
POCOCK, ALFRED. _b._ 1821 or 1822; vice-president of liberal
registration Southwark, assisted in formation of Southwark
liberal association 1877, treasurer 1877, president 1878–88;
first president of West Southwark liberal and radical
association; a member of the St. George the martyr vestry 1861
to death; member of Metropolitan board of works for St. George
the martyr, Southwark 1875 to death; claimed to be the inventor
of the fire plug system and helped to secure the adoption of
portable fire stations. _d._ Chairsholme, Palace road, Streatham
13 May 1887.
POCOCK, FREDERICK PEARCE (youngest son of rev. George Pocock).
_b._ 1819; educ. King’s coll. London, associate 1837; at St.
Peter’s coll. Camb., B A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of All Saints,
Mile end, London 1842–4; chaplain of city of London union
1844–60; C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Great Portland st. London
1865–72; C. of St. Paul’s, Haggerston 1874–7; C. of Bartholomew
the Great, London 1877–81; edited Bishop Burnet’s Pastoral care
1839; Dr. T. Bisse’s The Beauty of holiness in the common prayer
1842; John Bowdler’s Theological essays 1844. _d._ The Limes,
St. Mark’s road, North Kensington 6 April 1889.
POCOCK, SIR GEORGE BARTHOLOMEW (son of Thomas Pocock, of
Langley, Berks.) _b._ 1779; standard bearer to Band of gentleman
pensioners 5 Sept. 1820 to May 1836; knighted at Whitehall 27
July 1821. _d._ 1 York st. Portman sq. London 11 Aug 1868.
_I.L.N. liii_ 187 (1868).
POCOCK, ISAAC JOHN INNES (only son of Isaac Pocock, painter and
dramatist, of Ray lodge, Maidenhead 1782–1835) _b._ 28 July
1819; educ. Eton and Merton coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842; barrister
I.T. 19 Nov. 1847; J.P. for Berks.; printed privately Franklin
and other poems 1872. _d._ Curtisfield, Maidenhead 28 May 1886.
POCOCK, LEWIS (youngest son of Thomas Pocock). _b._ South London
17 Jany. 1808; chief founder of Art union of London 1837,
one of the honorary secretaries 1837 to death; contributed a
bibliographical chapter to an edition of the Pilgrim’s progress,
edited by himself and George Godwin 1844; a director of the
Argus life assurance office many years; patented a scheme for
electric lighting 1852; collected Johnsoniana, which were sold
before his death; treasurer of the Graphic soc. some time;
author of A familiar explanation of the nature of assurances
upon lives, with an extensive bibliographical catalogue of works
on the subject 1842. _d._ 70 Gower st. London 17 Oct. 1882.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Graphic 23 Dec. 1882 p._ 693 _portrait_.
PODMORE, RICHARD. _b._ 1780; entered Madras army 1793; lieut.
10 Madras N.I. 1 Jany. 1800, lieut. col. 1816–20; lieut. col.
21 N.I. 1820; lieut. col. commandant 44 N.I. 1 May 1824, col.
5 June 1829 to 1869; general 20 June 1854. _d._ Osborne house,
Cheltenham 24 July 1870.
POGGI, DOMINIC JOSEPH. _b._ Tuscany 1811; ordained deacon in
Church of England 1833; priest 1834; D.D. univ. of Florence
1838; naturalised in England 5 Nov. 1852; principal of Seacombe
house school, near Liverpool 1852–3; principal of New Brighton
college, Cheshire 1853–64; head master of Audlem endowed gr.
sch. Cheshire 1870 to death; author of The various branches of
the Catholic church 1868; Roman catechism, accompanied by a
Catholic reply 1868; Reflections on the religious state of Italy
1868; The Roman council judged by the English bishops 1870; On
the abrogation of concordats 1872; The old Catholics and the
Anglican bishops 1872. _d._ Audlem 15 Oct. 1880.