_b._ Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796;
commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on
west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron
in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats
at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the
Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of
South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July
1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23
Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec.
1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May
1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde
park, London 18 Nov. 1874. _Prowse’s History of Newfoundland_
(1895) 448 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 252 (1874), _lxvi_ 23 (1875).
PRESCOTT, HENRY JAMES (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 5 July 1802; banker London; director
of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor
1849–50. _d._ Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras
N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut.
col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3
N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept.
1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col.
of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. _d._
Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott,
Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat
with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April
1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 3 June 1865. _Times 3 May 1865 p._ 5, _4 May p._ 11.
PRESS, EDWARD (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) _b._ Barnham
Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56,
and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death,
_d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. _Norwich Mercury 18 May
1878 p._ 5.
PRESSLY, SIR CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pressly). _b._
Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex;
sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board
of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849;
deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to
1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 1 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.
PREST, CHARLES. _b._ Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at
Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull
1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary
reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death;
president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit
1864. _d._ Lee, Kent 25 Aug. 1875. _Illust. Times 23 Aug. 1862
p._ 269 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xli_ 204 (1862) _portrait_.
PREST, EDWARD (eld. son of John Prest). _b._ 1824; educ. St.
John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to
Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of
Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and
master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official
of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and
archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch.
board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881
to death. _d._ Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882.
PREST, EDWARD HENRY. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb.,
rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and
bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones
1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch.
1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death.
_d._ Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893.
PREST, THOMAS PECKETT. Author of a romance entitled The string
of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt
wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it
Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the
Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at
other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard
theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the
village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited
The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most
authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May
26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey
1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine
de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a
father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844;
The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846;
The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins
1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker
or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the
secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.
PRESTON, BENJAMIN (son of a hand loom weaver). _b._ Bradford
10 Aug. 1819; a wool sorter and comber; a publican at Bingley
common May 1865; called the Burns of Bradford; author of The
dialect poems of Benjamin Preston, Saltaire 1872 with a memoir
and portrait; Dialect and other poems 1881. _S. Baring Gould’s
Yorkshire oddities i_ 267–79 (1874).
PRESTON, CHARLES JAMES (4 son of Richard T. Preston of
Liverpool). _b._ Rodney st. Liverpool 1818; educ. Downing coll.
Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1843;
practised in Liverpool many years, also acting as deputy
stipendiary magistrate; stipendiary magistrate for Birkenhead
18 May 1866, resigned 1893. _d._ 9 Southwick place, Hyde park,
London 9 May 1896. _Law Times 16 May 1896 p._ 73.
PRESTON, SIR GEORGE (son of W. Preston, first comr. of court of
appeals in Ireland). _b._ Gloucester st. Dublin 1800; sheriff of
Dublin 1833; knighted by the marquess Wellesley in Dublin 1833;
captain 4 Lancashire militia 1855–9. _d._ 37 Lower Gardiner st.
Dublin May 1870.
PRESTON, JAMES BLAIR. Assistant surgeon Madras army 1821,
surgeon 27 Sept. 1833; inspector general of hospitals 14 Feb.
1854; surgeon general Madras 1 Jany. 1855, physician general 12
Feb. 1856 to death. _d._ near Southampton 28 June 1858.
PRESTON, SIR JOHN (son of Alexander Preston of Dunyrewn,
Loughgall, Belfast). _b._ 12 Jany. 1817; educ. Loughgall school;
linen and yarn merchant 20 Callender st. Belfast as J. Preston
and Co.; president of Belfast chamber of commerce; mayor of
Belfast 1877 and 1878; knighted 8 Jany. 1878. _d._ Dunmore,
Belfast 4 Aug. 1890.
PRESTON, JOSEPH M. _b._ 22 Aug. 1864; a professional cricketer;
played in the Yorkshire eleven for several seasons; a member
of the Shrewsbury team which visited Australia 1887–8; a good
batsman and a fast bowler. _d._ Bradford 26 Nov. 1890.
PRESTON, MATTHEW MORRIS. _b._ 1781 or 1782; fellow of Trin.
coll. Camb. to 1826, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; kept a school at
Aspenden hall, Herts. 1813–25, where lord Macaulay, Henry Maiden
and other eminent men were his pupils; V. of Cheshunt, Herts.
14 April 1826 to death: author of The benefit of scriptural
instruction, illustrated in the case of two beloved sons 1837;
Sermons addressed chiefly to young persons 1837, 2 ed. 1860;
Memoranda of Charles Simeon 1840; Parochial lectures on the book
of Josiah 1840; Cheshunt collection of psalms and hymns 1850;
Sermons 1859. _d._ 18 April 1858. _bur._ in Cheshunt churchyard,
the five-light east window in the church was erected to his
memory.
PRESTON, ROBERT BERTHON. _b._ Liverpool 25 June 1820; educ.
Geneva; principal partner in firm of Fawcett, Preston &
Co., mechanical engineers, Liverpool, made engines for many
steamboats, sugar machinery, and rifled guns; M.I.C.E. 1855;
member of Royal southern and Mersey yacht clubs; a patron of
art; made a collection of modern and antique art; J. Gibson’s
tinted Venus was executed expressly for him 1850–5. _d._
Gloucester 9 April 1860. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx_
157 (1861).
PRESTON, WILLIAM RICHARD. _b._ 1 Oct. 1808; ensign 87 foot 24
Sept. 1829, lieut. 22 Feb. 1833; lieut. 22 foot 1834–9; captain
45 foot 5 Jany. 1841, lieut. col. 1 May 1861, retired on full
pay 31 July 1867; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1
Oct. 1878; honorary general 1 July 1881; colonel of the Queen’s
Own (royal West Kent regiment) 28 Feb. 1888 to 5 Oct. 1890;
colonel of the Royal Munster fusiliers 5 Oct. 1890 to death.
_d._ 6 The Esplanade, Plymouth 6 April 1892.
PRESTWICH, SIR JOSEPH (son of Joseph Prestwich of London). _b._
Pensbury, Clapham, near London 12 March 1812; educ. in Paris and
Univ. coll. London; wine merchant in city of London to 1872;
F.G.S., Wollaston medallist 1849, president 1870–2; F.R.S. 2
June 1853, royal medallist 1865, vice-president 1870–1; served
on the royal coal commission 1866, and on the royal commission
on water supply 1867; Telford medallist of Instit. of C.E. 1874;
name placed in Ch. Ch. Oxf. matriculation register 3 Nov. 1874;
M.A. by decree 11 Nov. 1874; professor of geology at Oxford 29
June 1874 to death; presented with freedom and livery of the
Turners’ company 4 April 1878; corresponding member of French
academy of sciences 1885; honorary D.C.L. Oxford 1888; president
of the Congrès géologique international, which held its fourth
session in London Sept. 1888; knighted by patent 20 January
1896; author of The geology of the water-bearing strata around
London 1851; The geology of Clapham and neighbourhood of London
1858; and of Geology, chemical, physical, and stratigraphical, 2
vols. Oxford 1886–8. _d._ Shoreham, Kent 23 June 1896. _Times 24
June 1896 p._ 7; _G. C. Wallich’s Eminent men of the day_ (1870)
_portrait xiv_; _I.L.N. 11 Jany. 1896 p._ 52 _portrait_.
PRETTEJOHN, RICHARD BUCKLEY. _b._ 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light
dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light
dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the
South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the
Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars
5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1
April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with
hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to
death; C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891.
PRETTY, EDWARD. _b._ Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing
master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton
1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator
of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to
death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May
1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide
to Northampton. _d._ Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. _bur._
Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’
museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. _G.M. Oct. 1865
p._ 516; _C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi_ 311–14 (1868); _Journal
of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii_ 325–6 (1866).
PRETYMAN, GEORGE THOMAS (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of
Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname
of Tomline 1750–1827). _b._ the deanery house, Dean’s court,
St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and
Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church
of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with
Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April
1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary
of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from
ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250.
_d._ Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. _G.M. vii_ 190
(1859).
PREVOST, SIR GEORGE, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost
1767–1816, governor general of Canada). _b._ Roseau, Dominica
20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ.
Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs.
1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death;
rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester
and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death;
archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84
of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have
morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the
Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for
Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited
The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of
daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Stinchcombe 18 March 1893.
_H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii_ 37, 280 (1894); _Daily
Graphic 22 March 1893 p._ 9 _portrait_.
PREVOST, GEORGE PHIPPS (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2
baronet 1804–93). _b._ 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany.
1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept.
1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and
Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant
and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death.
_d._ Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885.
PREVOST, JAMES CHARLES (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral
1771–1855). _b._ 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec.
1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April
1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary
between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent
of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the
San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital
pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. _d._ 133 Ebury st. London
28 Jany. 1891.
PREVOST, JOHN LEWIS (son of professor Prevost, _d._ Geneva
27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss
confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham
st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death;
resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. _d._ Geneva
4 Nov. 1852. _Quarterly journal of geological society ix_ 25
(1853).
PREVOST, LOUIS AUGUSTINE. _b._ Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796;
educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became
tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages
in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the
European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British
Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. _d._ Great Russell
st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 30
April. _Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum_ (1872) 358–62;
_G.M. July 1858 p._ 87.
PREVOST-PARADOL, LUCIEN ANATOLE (only son of Madame Lucinde
Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). _b._ Paris 8 July 1829;
eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869;
sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian
Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June
1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et
ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; _shot himself_
at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. _Newspaper Press iv_ 194 (1870);
_Appleton’s American biography v_ 116 (1888).
PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, OSMOND DE BEAUVOIR (2 son of Antony de
Preaux). _b._ Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall,
Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the
last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an
active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of
national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones
Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains
of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of
Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. _d._
8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the
college at Guernsey with money for its continued support.
PRICE, ANDREW (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). _b._ Lee,
Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72,
usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained
deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch.
Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of
Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney,
Gloucs. 1778 to death. _d._ Britwell Salome 7 June 1851.
PRICE, ANNIE, her maiden name was Annie Allen. _b._ County
Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards
scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with
Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the
museums about Gotham, New York; _m._ (1) Mr. Pettit, who died
leaving her with 2 children; _m._ (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an
Albino. _d._ New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at
19 Bayard st. New York. _bur._ Greenwood cemetery.
PRICE, ASTLEY PASTON (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). _b._ 1826;
studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took
the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze;
assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry,
London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist
in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a
consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in
chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young _v._ Fernie in
which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil
was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the
treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous
materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May
1865. _d._ Margate 3 April 1886. _Report on Forbes and Price’s
patent process for deodorizing sewage of towns_ (1871); _Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_ 458–60 (1886).
PRICE, BENJAMIN (eld. son of Isaac Price of Builth). _b._ Wales
1804; in a business house in Worcester to 1822; a presbyterian
minister 1830; minister of a Free church, Christ church,
Ilfracombe 1845 to death; the various Free churches of England
united in 1863 and he was elected the first bishop president and
consecrated in London Aug. 1876 by bishop Cridge of the Reformed
episcopal church in America. _d._ Horne villa, Ilfracombe 6
Jany. 1896.
PRICE, BONAMY (eld. son of Frederick Price of St. Peter’s Port,
Guernsey). _b._ St. Peter’s Port 22 May 1807; educ. Worcester
coll. Oxf., scholar 1828–35, double first class 1829; B.A. 1829,
M.A. 1832; mathematical master at Rugby 1830, classical master
1832–8, in charge of the form known as The Twenty 1838–50;
served on the commissions on Scottish fisheries, the queen’s
colleges in Ireland, agriculture and the depression of trade;
Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 6 Feb. 1868
to death; president of economical section of Social science
congress at Cheltenham 1878 and Nottingham 1882; honorary fellow
of Worcester coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; author of Suggestions
for the extension of professorial teaching in the university of
Oxford 1850; The principles of currency, six lectures delivered
at Oxford 1869; Currency and banking 1876; Chapters on practical
political economy 1878, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ London 8 Jany. 1888.
_Temple Bar Aug. 1888 pp._ 494–508; _I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 p._ 58
_portrait_.
PRICE, CHARLES (eld. son of Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott,
near Crewkerne, Somerset). _b._ Merriott 1776; educ. Ilminster
and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, M.B. 1802, M.D.
1804; fellow of his college to 1821; admitted candidate of coll.
of physicians 1 Oct. 1804, fellow 30 Sept. 1805, censor 1807,
delivered the Harveian oration 1820; physician to Middlesex
hospital 19 June 1807 to 16 May 1815, practised at Brighton 1815
to death; physician extraordinary to William 4, 23 Aug. 1832.
_d._ Brighton 8 Sept. 1853. _Munk’s Roll of coll. of Physicians
iii_ 25 (1878).
PRICE, DAVID. _b._ 1790; entered navy 1 Jany. 1801; present
at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; captain 13 June 1815;
commanded the Portland in the Mediterranean 1834–8; granted the
order of the Redeemer of Greece; superintendent of Sheerness
dockyard 1846–50; R.A. 6 Nov. 1850; commander-in-chief in the
Pacific 17 Aug. 1853 to death; _shot himself_ on board the
President, 50 guns, off Petropaulovski in Kamchatka 30 Aug.
1854. _bur._ on shore on the opposite side of the bay 1 Sept.
_A.R._ (1854) 403, _Part ii pp._ 199, 540.
PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 10 June 1816; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1834,
colonel 31 Aug. 1865, col. commandant 27 June 1883 to death;
inspector and purchaser of horses for the remounts of the R.A.
4 April 1865 to 31 March 1876; M.G. 28 June 1868, L.G. 27
May 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1
July 1881; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ 13 Gledhow gardens, South
Kensington, London 13 Aug. 1887.
PRICE, EDWARD. _b._ 1840; a printer in Birmingham; a member of
Mrs. Jessie Pollock’s stock company in Aberdeen where he became
a favourite; a member of Chatterton’s company at Drury Lane;
_m._ Emma Ryder, dau. of Mrs. Pollock by her first husband
Corbet Ryder; with his wife lessees of the old theatre Marischal
st. Aberdeen 1869–73, where he produced Little Em’ly (in which
he acted with success Micawber). The Rivals, and The Prompter’s
box; travelled with Isabel Batemen’s company; acted at Greenock
John Grist in Jane Shore, Cheal in The Profligate, and David
Deans in Jeanie Deans. _d._ from a fracture of his ankle
Greenock infirmary 8 Feb. 1895. _bur._ Greenock. _J. K. Angus’ A
Scotch play-house,_ Aberdeen (1878) 49; _Life of E. L. Blanchard
i_ 272, 340, _ii_ 490, 722 (1891).
PRICE, GEORGE UVEDALE. _b._ 3 April 1821; ensign 1 Bombay N.I.
2 May 1840, captain 5 July 1849; captain 3 Bombay European
regiment 15 Nov. 1853, major 16 July 1864; lieut. col. Bombay
staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. _d._ St.
Leonard’s 7 Dec. 1891.
PRICE, JAMES. _b_. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; from an early
age a contributor to the Dublin evening packet, with which he
was officially connected, for many years as editor, 1838 to
death. _d._ Dublin 14 Jany. 1853. _The Evening Packet 15 Jany.
1853 p._ 3.
PRICE, JAMES (son of Robert Price, vicar of Shoreham, Kent).
_b._ 1804; landscape painter; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 7 at
B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1842–76. _d._ 14 Woodland villas,
Blackheath, Kent 23 June 1879.
PRICE, JAMES. Formed a collection of pictures at his residence,
Barcombe, Paignton, Devon chiefly of the early English school,
these 91 pictures were sold at Christie’s 15 June 1895 and
produced £87,143 15s., Gainsborough’s portrait of Lady Mulgrave
brought 10,000 guineas, Turner’s Helvoetsluys made 6,400
guineas, and Reynold’s Lady Melbourne fetched 2,300 guineas; the
dispersion of this, the finest collection of the kind ever in
the market, excited great interest and the bidding was so rapid
that the sale occupied only three hours; his books were sold by
auction on 25–28 June 1895. _d._ 25 Berkeley sq. London 23 Jany.
1895, will proved for £149,382. _Times 15 June 1895 p._ 11;
_Athenæum 22 June 1895 p._ 813–4; _Catalogue of collection of
pictures formed by J. Price_ (1895) _with_ 60 _illustrations_.
PRICE, JAMES (2 son of James Price of Newton park, Monkstown).
_b._ 18 Jany. 1831; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851;
engineer in chief of the Midland great western railway of
Ireland 1862–77; one of three engineers to report on the
purification of the Liffey 1874; an engineer in Dublin from 1877
to death; reported to government on light railways and tramways
in Ireland; deputy professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin
1887; president of Institution of civil engineers, Ireland 1895;
M.I.C.E. England 1 March 1870, Telford medal and premium for a
paper On the testing of rails 1871, and a second Telford medal
for a paper on Movable bridges 1879; introduced the bascule
bridge into Ireland. _d._ Dublin 4 April 1895. _Min. of Proc. of
Instit. C.E. cxxi_ 327–9 (1895).