28 July 1849; educ. Pembroke coll. Camb.; famous as a fast
left-handed bowler; played against Oxford 1871, 1872, and 1874,
taking 24 Oxford wickets for 153 runs; played for the Gentlemen
against the players at Lords 1872. _d._ at his residence,
Queen’s Walk, Nottingham 8 Jany. 1892.
POYNTER, AMBROSE (2 son of Ambrose Lyon Poynter). _b._ London
16 May 1796; employed by John Nash the architect 1814–8;
travelled in Italy, Sicily, and the Ionian islands 1819–21; an
architect at 1 Poet’s Corner, Westminster 1821–47, and at 12
Park st. Westminster 1847, retired 1860; built the church of
St. Paul in the Hills road, Cambridge 1847; an original member
of Royal institute of British architects 1834, and secretary
1840, 1841 and 1844, his anonymous essay On the introduction of
iron in the construction of buildings, gained the institute’s
silver medal 1842; designed the hospital and chapel of St.
Katherine in the Regent’s park, London 1827, Christ Church,
Westminster 1841, and the French protestant church in Bloomsbury
st. 1845–6; designed Pynes, Devon for sir Stafford Northcote,
Hodsock near Worksop, Notts. for Mrs. Chambers, and Castle
Melgwy, South Wales; architect to National provincial bank of
England; official referee to board of works; the first inspector
for the provinces appointed in connection with the school of
design at Somerset House, one of the committee of management to
supervise the district schools of design 1848, inspector of the
schools 1850; an original member of the Arundel society 1848,
the Graphic society, and the Archæological institute 1843; made
drawings to illustrate F. Sandford’s Genealogical history of
England 1865; contributed illustrations to Knight’s Shakespeare
1851 and Pictorial history of England 1840, and the articles on
literature, science and art to the latter work; author of An
essay on the history and antiquities of Windsor castle, this is
printed in sir J. Wyatville’s Illustrations of Windsor castle
1841. _d._ Dover 20 Nov. 1886. _Proc. of Royal institute of
British architects_ (1887) 113, 137.
POYSER, THOMAS. _b._ 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading
medical practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death;
contributed a succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles
in the Quarterly Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent.
Mag., also contributed to Medico chirurgical review and the
London journal of medicine. _d._ Wirksworth 11 June 1860. _G.M.
ix_ 319 (1860); _Lancet i_ 634 (1860).
NOTE.--He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and
medicine, when as a girl she used to attend the sick poor near his home.
PRAED, BULKELEY MACKWORTH (7 child of William Mackworth Praed,
banker, _d._ 1791). _b._ St. Lawrence, Exeter 21 Nov. 1771;
entered navy 21 Sept. 1780; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A.
10 Jany. 1837; transferred to the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A.
of the White 9 Nov. 1846; purchased Acton castle, Perranuthnoe,
Cornwall. _d._ Acton castle 6 Oct. 1852. _G.M. xxxviii_ 634
(1852).
PRAED, CHARLES TYRINGHAM (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P.
1779–1837). _b._ 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric.
from Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co.
bankers, Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95
Queen’s gate, London. _d._ Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct.
1895. _Graphic xi_ 291, 292 (1875) _portrait_.
PRAED, WILLIAM MACKWORTH (eld. son of William Mackworth Praed,
serjeant-at-law 1756–1835). _b._ 24 May 1797; educ. Eton
1811–14; at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822;
barrister L.I. 17 May 1822; recorder of Barnstaple, Bideford and
South Molton June 1836 to death; judge of county courts, circuit
59 (South Devon) March 1847 to death; chairman of Devon quarter
sessions. _d._ at the London inn, Exeter 25 Sept. 1857.
PRAEGER, FERDINAND CHRISTIAN WILHELM (son of Henry Aloysius
Praeger, violinist and composer). _b._ Leipsic 22 Jany. 1815;
a student of the violoncello and of the piano at Lubeck to
1831; a teacher at the Hague 1831, and in London from 1834;
an overture by him was given by the New Philharmonic Soc.
conducted by Hector Berlioz 1852; his pianoforte trio was played
at the first concert of the London orchestra; naturalised
in England 19 Oct. 1854; performed at important concerts in
London, Paris, and Leipsic; English correspondent of Neue
Zeitschrift für Musik; he translated E. Naumann’s The history
of music 1862; author of Wagner as I knew him 1892; edited F.
Beyer’s Elementary instruction book for the piano 1854, and
H. Rosellen’s Instruction book for the piano 1854; among his
pupils were Madame de Pachman, Herr Schönberger, and Albert
Jeffery; lectured before the Society of Arts on The fusion
of the romantic and classical schools of music; he was the
composer of Morceau brilliant pour le pianoforte, a quatre
mains 1848; Elfenmärchen, a fairy tale for the piano 1852; Le
Buisson pour piano 1858; Airs sung by the Christy minstrels
1860, six numbers; Old English airs 1860, six numbers; Francesca
di Rimini, meditation pour piano 1874; 48 Tonstück für das
Pianoforte 1880; Manfred prelude symphonique 1881; Sonata in
G for piano and violoncello 1883; Six mélodies pour violin
et piano 1889; Three sonatinas for the pianoforte 1889; Two
quartets for two violins, violoncello and piano 1891; his name
is attached to upwards of 100 pieces 1842–91, published in
London, Dover, Brighton, and Leipsic. _d._ 23 Brackenbury road,
Hammersmith, London 2 Sept. 1891. _Biograph iv_ 242 (1880);
_I.L.N. 12 Sept. 1891 p._ 334 _portrait_; _The Times 3 Sept.
1891 p._ 7.
PRALL, RICHARD. _b._ 1832; passed as a solicitor 1854, of the
firm of Nickinson, Prall, and Nickinson at Rochester, Brompton,
Stroud, and Gillingham; town clerk of Rochester 1870 to death;
official receiver in bankruptcy for Kent; clerk to Rochester
school board and to the Medway conservancy board. _d._ Hillside,
Frindsbury, Rochester 20 Oct. 1895.
PRATT, ANNE (2 dau. of Robert Pratt of Strood, Kent, grocer).
_b._ Strood 5 Dec. 1806; educ. Eastgate house school, Rochester;
studied botany under Dr. Dods; formed an extensive herbarium and
made sketches of the specimens, which formed illustrations for
her books; author of The field, the garden, and the woodland. By
a Lady 1838, 3 ed. 1847; Flowers and their associations 1840,
2 ed. 1846; The excellent woman as described in the Book of
Proverbs 1846, anon.; Wild flowers, 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1892;
Our native songsters 1852; The flowering plants and ferns of
Great Britain, 5 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1873; The ferns of Great
Britain and their allies 1855, 2 ed. 1871; Haunts of the wild
flowers 1863; edited By daylight, a translation of Ottilie
Wildermuth’s Im tageslicht 1865; _m._ 4 Dec. 1866 John Pearless
of East Grinstead, Sussex. _d._ Rylett road, Shepherd’s Bush,
London 27 July 1893. _Journal of botany_ (1894) 205–7; _Women’s
Penny paper 9 Nov. 1889 p._ 25 _portrait_.
PRATT, CHARLES COMPTON. _b._ 1790; 2 lieut. R.M. 14 Oct. 1805,
colonel 19 April 1854 to 20 June 1855, when he retired on full
pay as major general. _d._ Vicars close, Wells, Somerset 16 June
1871.
PRATT, FREDERICK THOMAS (3 son of John Pratt of Lambeth,
Surrey). _b._ 1799; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb. 1820, B.A.
1821, M.A. 1825; incorporated at St. John’s coll. Oxf. 8 Dec.
1836; B.C.L. 1836, D.C.L. 1837; advocate at Doctor’s Commons 2
Nov. 1837, stewart 1840–2, librarian 1842–4, treasurer 1847–50;
author of The law relating to ship lights and signals at sea
1858. _d._ Upper Norwood, Surrey 13 April 1868.
PRATT, JERMYN (3 son of Edward Roger Pratt of Ryston Hall
1756–1838). _b._ 6 Feb. 1798; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825; R. of Campsey Ashe, Suff. 1836 to death;
author of Records of the college of Christ Church in Brecon
1847. _d._ 15 May 1867.
PRATT, JOHN (son of Jonas Pratt, music seller and teacher of
music). _b._ Cambridge 1772; chorister of King’s coll. Camb.
1780, organist to the college 1799; organist to univ. of
Camb. 1800; organist to St. Peter’s coll. 1813; published A
selection of ancient and modern psalm tunes for two trebles or
tenors and a bass 1810, republished under title of Psalmodia
Cantabrigiensis 1820; A collection of anthems in score selected
from the works of Handel and others 1825; Plead thou my cause
from twelfth mass of Mozart, and Praise the Lord O my soul, an
anthem, Printed in Novello’s Collection of Anthems, vol. iv, No.
81 and vol. x, No. 208 (1876). _d._ Cambridge 9 March 1855.
PRATT, JOHN BURNETT. _b._ Cairnbanno, New Deer 1799; educ.
Aberdeen univ., M.A., hon. LL.D. 1865; episcopal minister of
Stuartfield 1821–5; minister of St. James’s church, Cruden 1825
to death; domestic chaplain to Earl of Errol; examining chaplain
to bishop of Aberdeen; edited the Scottish episcopal communion
service 1866; author of The old paths, where is the good way, 3
ed. Oxford 1840; Buchan, Aberdeen 1858, 3 ed. 1870; The Druids
1861; Letters on the Scandinavian churches, their doctrine,
worship and polity 1865. _d._ St. James’s parsonage, Cruden 20
March 1869. _J. P. Pratt’s Buchan_, _3 ed._ (1870), _memoir pp.
vii–ix portrait_; _Reg. and mag. of biog. May 1869 p._ 398.
PRATT, JOHN HENRY (2 son of Josiah Pratt, secretary of the
Church missionary society 1768–1844). Educ. Caius coll. Camb.,
fellow 1836; third wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; chaplain
H.E.I.Co. 1838; domestic chaplain to bishop Wilson 1839;
archdeacon of Calcutta 1850 to death; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; author
of The mathematical principles of mechanical philosophy 1836,
republished under title of A treatise on attractions, Laplace’s
functions and the figure of the earth 1860, 4 ed. 1871;
Scripture and science not at variance 1856, 7 ed. 1872; edited
his father’s Eclective notes or notes of discussion on religious
topics at the meetings of the Eclectic society, London during
the years 1798–1814, 1865. _d._ Ghazeepore 28 Dec. 1871.
PRATT, JOHN HENRY (younger son of Josiah Pratt, vicar of St.
Stephen’s, Coleman st. London). _b._ 1849; educ. Haileybury
college, where he became head boy, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1872; won the Bell 1869 and Browne scholarship 1871, senior
classic 1872; assistant master at Harrow 1872 to death; fellow
of his college 1873 to death; member of the Alpine club, made
many difficult ascents; edited The story of Achilles 1880;
_drowned_ while bathing in the lake of Como, near Tremezzo 31
Aug. 1878, the body never found.
PRATT, JOHN TIDD (2 son of John Pratt of Kennington, Surrey,
surgeon). _b._ London 13 Dec. 1797; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824;
consulting barrister to comrs. for reduction of the national
debt 1828 to death; counsel to certify the rules of savings’
banks and friendly societies 1834–46, and registrar of friendly
societies 1846 to death; edited J. B. Bosanquet and C. Puller’s
New reports of cases argued in the court of common pleas and
other courts 1826; E. Bott’s Laws relating to the poor, 6 ed.
1827; W. Woodfall’s Law of landlord and tenant 1829; author of
An abstract of the acts of parliament for the establishment of
courts of request 1824; A digested index to the term reports,
analytically arranged 1826; The law relating to friendly
societies 1829; History of the savings’ banks in England and
Wales 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The law relating to highways 1835, 13
ed. 1893; A collection of all the statutes in force respecting
the relief of the poor, 2 vols. 1835–64, 2 ed. 1843; The law
relating to watching and lighting parishes 1850, 5 ed. 1891.
_d._ 29 Abingdon st. Westminster 9 Jany. 1870. _I.L.N. lvi_ 107,
152 (1870) _portrait_; _Law Times 15 Jany. 1870 p._ 214, _12
Feb. p._ 305.
PRATT, JOSEPH. _b._ Manchester; printer in Bridge st.
Manchester; printed The Catholic Phœnix 1822; the Manchester
Advertiser, No. 1, 2 July 1825, this paper was given away, its
revenue being derived solely from advertisements; editor of
The Scrap book, The Protestant witness, and other periodicals;
author of pamphlets. _d._ Nov. 1859.
PRATT, ROBERT (son of rev. Robert Pratt, prebendary of
Desertmore, Cork). _b._ 21 Jany. 1815; ensign 41 foot 16 June
1837; lieut. col. 9 Sept. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856;
lieut. col. 23 foot 27 March 1857, placed on h.p. 3 Sept. 1870;
L.G. 12 Dec. 1877; placed on retired list with hon. rank of
general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 May 1859. _d._ Madeira 27 Dec. 1886.
PRATT, SAMUEL PEACE. _b._ 6 Nov. 1789; educ. at Enfield; lived
at Bath 1823 to about 1839; F.L.S. 1829; F.G.S. 1829; F.R.S.
27 Jany. 1842, withdrew 1859. _d._ Mellone villa, Fulham road,
London 22 Sept. 1863.
PRATT, SIR THOMAS SIMSON (son of captain James Pratt). _b._
1797; educ. St. Andrew’s univ.; ensign 26 foot 2 Feb. 1814,
lieut. col. 28 Aug. 1841, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1843; commanded
his regiment in the attacks on Canton 24 May to 1 June 1841;
deputy adjutant general at Madras 5 Sept. 1843 to 23 Oct. 1855;
commanded the forces in Australia 1856–61; conducted the war
against the Maories in New Zealand 1860–1; commanded the forces
in Victoria 8 Jany. 1860 to May 1862; colonel of 37 foot May
1862 to death; retired from active service Oct. 1877; general
26 May 1873; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841, K.C.B. 16 July 1861, invested
with the ribbon and badge of the order by sir Henry Barkly at
Melbourne 15 April 1862, the first ceremony of the kind in
Australia. _d._ England 2 Feb. 1879. _Times 6 Feb. 1879 p._ 10.
PRATTEN, CATHARINA JOSEPHA (daughter of M. Pelzer). _b._
Mulheim on the Rhine; appeared at the King’s theatre, London
as a guitar player at eight years of age; taught the guitar in
London; _m._ 24 Sept. 1854 Robert Sidney Pratten 1824–68; author
of Instruction for the guitar, 3 ed. 1861, 10 ed. 1882; Four
Italian songs for the guitar 1861; Repertoire for the concertina
1861; Repertoire for the guitar, vocal 1861–91, one hundred
and twenty numbers; Repertoire for the guitar, instrumental
1861; Guitar tutor 1881; Learning the guitar simplified 1881;
The scale and pieces for the gigelera, learning the gigelera
simplified 1882; Twelve easy songs for the guitar 1888; Sketches
for the mandoline with guitar or pianoforte accompanyment 1891;
her name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces 1860–91. _d._
London 10 Oct. 1895.
PRATTEN, ROBERT SIDNEY (2 son of Mr. Pratten, flautist at
Bristol theatre). _b._ Bristol 23 Jany. 1824; first appeared as
a flautist at Clifton 25 March 1835; first flute at the T.R.
Dublin; came to London 1846; studied composition in Germany, his
piece for the flute entitled L’Espérance published at Leipzig
1847; returned to London 1848 and became the leading player;
played first flute at Royal Italian opera 1846, English opera,
Sacred harmonic, Philharmonic, and other concerts; composer
of A complete series of studies for the patent diatonic flute
1848: Concert-Stück for the flute and orchestra and piano 1852;
Christmas song 1853; Complete instruction for the concertina
1856; A complete series of scales and exercises for R. S.
Pratten’s perfected flute 1857; Recreations for the flute,
melodies for flute and piano 1858; Tutor for the flute with a
selection of melodies 1856; Francesca romance for concertina
and piano 1859; Boosey’s One hundred dances for the flute 1859;
Give me the harp, a song 1862; The merry beggars, a song 1879;
his name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1847–90;
_m._ Catherina Josepha Pelzer; he _d._ Ramsgate 10 Feb. 1868.
_Grove’s Dictionary of music iii_ 27 (1883).
NOTE.--His brother Frederick Sydney Pratten, a contrabassist in the
orchestra of the Royal Italian opera _d._ London 3 March 1873.
PREEDY, GEORGE WILLIAM (son of Robert Preedy of Hampton,
Worcestershire). _b._ 1817; entered the royal navy 12 Nov. 1828;
served in West Indies 1828–34; commander 10 Feb. 1853; served in
Duke of Wellington in the Baltic 1854–5, and commanded gun boats
in bombardment of Sveaborg; captain 29 Sept. 1855; commanded the
Agamemnon and was concerned in laying the first transatlantic
cable 1857–8; C.B. civil 22 Sept. 1858, C.B. military 2 June
1869; received captain’s good service pension 1867; put on
retired list 1 April 1870; vice-admiral 30 Jany. 1879. _d._ Park
house, Budleigh Salterton 30 May 1894. _The Times 6 June 1894
p._ 10.
PRENDERGAST, HARRIS (eld. son of general sir Jeffrey Prendergast
of Newcastle Prendergast, Tipperary 1769–1856). _b._ Madras
1805; educ. East Sheen, Harrow 1816, and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1826, LL.B. 1829; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1829, bencher 11
Jany. 1867 to death; equity draftsman and conveyancer; edited
Court Circular, started 1856; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; author of The
law relating to officers in the army 1849, 2 ed. 1855; and with
J. Stewart The practice of conveyancing 1846. _d._ Brighton 30
Sept. 1878. _Law Times lxv_ 424 (1878).
PRENDERGAST, SIR JEFFREY (son of Thomas Prendergast of Dublin).
_b._ Clonmel 1769; entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 18 Madras
N.I. 17 June 1800, major 4 Aug. 1812; military auditor general
Madras army 3 Oct. 1812; lieut. col. 7 Madras N.I. 7 Nov. 1818
to 1819; lieut. col. 8 N.I. 1819; lieut. col. 39 N.I. 3 Jany.
1825, and col. 5 June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854;
knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Brighton 4
July 1856.
PRENDERGAST, JOHN PATRICK (eld. son of Francis Prendergast
1768–1846, registrar of Irish court of chancery). _b._ 37
Dawson st. Dublin 7 March 1808; educ. Reading school and Trin.
coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1830; agent of lord Clifden’s
estates 1836; a comr. for selecting papers relating to Ireland,
which papers with rev. C. W. Russell he edited as Calendar of
state papers, Ireland 1603–25, 5 vols. Record publications
1872–80; replied in the Nation newspaper 1872–4 to Froude’s
lectures in America on Irish history; opposed Parnell’s general
policy from 1878; edited C. Haliday’s The Scandinavian kingdom
of Dublin 1884; author of The history of the Cromwellian
settlement of Ireland 1863, 2 ed. 1870; The Tory war in Ulster,
Dublin 1868; Ireland from the restoration to the revolution
1887. _d._ 127 Strand road, Sandymount, Dublin 6 Feb. 1894.
_Times 8 Feb. 1894 p._ 4.
PRENDERGAST, MICHAEL (son of Michael Prendergast). _b._ Cloth
Fair, London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school
1806, Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821;
barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk
circuit; recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec.
1848 to death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London,
sheriff’s court April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856.
_d._ Highgate rise 20 March 1859. _Law Times xxxiii_ 19, 45, 78
(1859).
PRENDERGAST, THOMAS (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856).
_b._ 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826;
acting sub-collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831;
acting assistant judge at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of
Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838; collector and magistrate at
Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund 1859; resided at
Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind about 1861;
invented the mastery system of learning languages based upon
the process pursued by children in learning to speak; author
of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign
tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery
series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed.
1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery
series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew
1871, 3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884.
_d._ Meldon cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886.
PRENTICE, ARCHIBALD (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington
Mains, in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). _b._ Covington
Mains 17 Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame,
Glasgow 1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner
in the business on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a
weekly paper entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed,
published, and edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824,
bankrupt 1826, the Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester
Times 17 Oct. 1828, of which he was sole manager to 1847, when
he sold the paper; chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at
York hotel, Manchester 24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the
Manchester gas office 1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester
temperance league 1857; edited The life of Alexander Reid,
a Scottish covenanter 1822; author of A tour in the United
States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-law league 1853. _d._ Park
view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24 Dec. 1857. _A. Prentice’s
Historical sketches of Manchester_ (1851); _Macmillan’s Mag.
Oct. 1889 pp._ 435–43; _John Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850)
204–8.
PRENTICE, SAMUEL (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh,
Essex). _b._ 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov.
1866, and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court
judge of circuit No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884,
resigned July 1892; a commissioner for municipal election
enquiries; common law examiner in the inns of court 1879;
recorder of Maidstone March 1879, resigned June 1892; edited
J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the court of queen’s bench, 9
ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An elementary view of
the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and the editions
to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence 1858; Sir
W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C. Abbott’s
A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed.
1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of
Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed.
1880; Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences
1882. _d._ Greystoke, Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1893.
PRENTICE, THOMAS RIDLEY. _b._ Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July
1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly
popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny
concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham
and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at
Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of
The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part
song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874;
Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble
voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882;
edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history
of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for
pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. _d._ Wedderburn house,
Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895.
PRENTIS, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A.
1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British
artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled
The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were
engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series
of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were
engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s
Monuments of Nineveh 1849. _d._ 11 Upper Phillimore place,
Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. _Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p._ 221,
_June p._ 656.
PRENTIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he
privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology
for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the
Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge,
or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the
Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war
1854–5. _d._ Dinan 12 June 1862.
PRESCOTT, ARTHUR. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833,
lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light
cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. _d._ near London 23
May 1866.