near Penzance 1768–1834). _b._ 20 Oct. 1808; a settler on the
Huon river in Van Diemen’s land 1835; an adept in recapturing
bushrangers; police magistrate at Hobart Town 1838–46; presented
with a service of plate value £300; chief superintendent of the
convict settlement at Norfolk Island 1846–53; inspector general
of penal establishments and hulks in Victoria 5 June 1854 to
death; struck down with a shovel and struck with stones by the
convicts employed on the jetty at Williamstown, near Melbourne
26 March 1857. _d._ in Dr. Wilkin’s house 27 March 1857, seven
of the convicts were executed for taking part in this murder.
_Biographical memoir of the late Mr. John Price_ (1857).
PRICE, JOHN EDWARD. In business in Cowcross st. City of London
some years; well known archæologist, especially interested in
the Roman occupation of London; F.S.A. 25 May 1871; author of
A descriptive account of the Guildhall of the city of London
1886; and with F. G. Hilton Price A description of the remains
of Roman buildings at Morton near Brading in the Isle of Wight
1881; resided 27 Bedford place, London. _d._ Harvey road,
Leytonstone about 25 Jany. 1892. _Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries
xiv_ 135 (1891–3).
PRICE, MORTON, (stage name of Horton Rhys). _b._ 1823 or 1824;
an amateur actor; went to America with his wife Catherine
Lucette 1859; appeared at the Metropolitan, New York 23 May
1859 as Citizen Sangfroid in Delicate Ground, and Pierre Chase
in All’s fair in love and war, when he failed to please his
audience; concluded his theatrical tour through Canada 15 Dec.
1859; played in the English provinces 1860–8; gave, with his
wife, a musical entertainment called A double courtship at
Sadler’s Wells 27 Sept. 1862; lessee of a small hall, called a
theatre, in Brooklyn, New York 1868; attacked the actors and
managers of America in an English journal over the nom de plume
of “Imported Sparrow”; author of A theatrical trip for a wager,
through Canada and the United States 1861. _d._ Birmingham 8 May
1876.
PRICE, PETER (brother of Benjamin Price). _b._ Builth,
Breconshire 16 Feb. 1824; with a builder at Tredegar; a builder
at Builth; head of firm of Price and Dicksee, builders and
contractors, Cardiff; an advocate of the Free public library
act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first
in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of
Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the
money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet
the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. _d._ 12
Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. _bur._ Cardiff cemetery 7
Oct. _The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p._ 776; _South Wales Daily
News 5 Oct. 1892 p._ 6 _portrait_, _8 Oct. p._ 6.
PRICE, PETER CHARLES (son of David Price of Margate, surgeon and
M.D.) _b._ Margate 29 Dec. 1832; educ. Chatham house, Ramsgate;
entered at royal college of chemistry, London 1849; studied
medicine at King’s college 1850; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant
to William Fergusson 1854; a consulting surgeon 7 Green st.
Grosvenor sq. London from 1858; surgeon to Blenheim free
dispensary, to the Great northern hospital, and to infirmary for
Sick children at Margate; assistant surgeon at King’s college
hospital 1860 to death; made a special study of excision of
the knee joint; competed for the Jacksonian prize essay of the
college of surgeons on A description of the diseased conditions
of the knee which requires amputation of the limb, his essay
refused by three ignorant surgeons; author of Contributions to
the surgery of diseased joints 1859, No. 1 only; On scrofulous
diseases of the external lymphatic glands 1861; The winter
climate of Mentone, with hints to invalids 1862. _d._ Ventnor,
Isle of Wight 13 Nov. 1864. _A description of the diseased
condition of the knee joint which requires amputation_ (1865),
_memoir pp. xiii–xix portrait_; _Medical times and gazette ii_
608–10 (1864).
PRICE, RALPH. _b._ 8 Feb. 1780; master of Ironmongers’ co. 1834
and 1837. _d._ Sydenham 3 April 1860.
PRICE, SIR RICHARD GREEN-, 1 Baronet (son of George Green
1769–1819). _b._ Cannon bridge, Madely, Herefordshire 18 Oct.
1803; practised as solicitor 34 years; assumed the name of Price
28 Feb. 1861; treasurer of Radnorshire 1850–61; M.P. Radnor
boroughs April 1863 to Feb. 1869; contested Radnorshire 13 Feb.
1874; M.P. co. Radnor 1880–5; created a baronet 23 March 1874;
sheriff of Radnorshire 1876. _d._ Norton manor, Presteign,
Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Norton 14 Aug.
PRICE, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Uvedale Price,
1 baronet 1747–1829). _b._ Foxley, co. Hereford 3 Aug. 1786;
M.P. co. Hereford 1818–41; M.P. city of Hereford 1845 to Jany.
1857; succeeded his father 14 Sept. 1829. _d._ 11 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 5 Nov. 1857.
PRICE, WALTER. _b._ Ruddington, Notts. 9 Oct. 1834; played in
the Notts’ cricket eleven 1869–70; member of the ground staff at
Lords’ 1868–76; cricket coach at Rugby 1876; one of the regular
umpires of the Marylebone cricket club latterly. _d._ 4 Sept.
1894.
PRICE, WILLIAM. _b._ near Rhydri, near Caerphilly,
Glamorganshire 4 March 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and the
London hospitals; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1821; in practice at
Treforest and then at Llantrissant, near Cardiff; joined the
Chartist agitation of Nov. 1839, after the defeat of John
Frost escaped to France disguised as a woman; studied ancient
Welsh literature so assiduously that his mind became weakened,
imagined that he was the archdruid in direct descent from
Treharne Brydydd, who flourished in 1300; on his head he wore a
whole fox skin, the head ears and tail included, he had light
green trousers, a scarlet vest with gold buttons, and a light
green cloak deeply scolloped around the border; took Gwenllian
Llewellyn to be his housekeeper and wife 1882, named his son
Iesus Grist, the son dying he attempted to cremate the body at
the High Green fields near Llantrissant, the police interfered
and took him into custody, tried at Cardiff assizes where Mr.
Justice Stephen ruled that he had not violated any law and he
was discharged; spent much money in litigation; had two other
children Iesus Grist and Penelopen Elizabeth. _d._ Ty Cletar,
near Llantrissant 23 Jany. 1893, his body cremated at Cae’r Llan
hill 31 Jany. in presence of many people, the ashes distributed
over the ground, personal estate sworn under £100. _Western
Mail, Cardiff 24 Jany. 1893 p._ 6 _portrait_, _25 Jany. p._
6, _27 Jany. p._ 7, _1 Feb. p._ 6 _two views of cremation,
likenesses of widow and 2 children_; _Graphic xxix_ 100 (1884)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 138 _portrait_; _Black and
White 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 154 _portrait_; _Times 25 Jany. 1893 p._
6, _1 Feb. p._ 10; _Law Reports, Queen’s bench division xii_
247–56 (1884).
PRICE, WILLIAM EDWIN (only son of William Philip Price, railway
commissioner). _b._ 10 Jany. 1841; educ. Eton 1850–6; matric.
from univ. of London 1857, B.A. 1859; at royal military academy
Woolwich; lieut. 36 regt., retired Feb. 1865; capt. Royal south
Gloucester militia 27 Dec. 1867, major 21 June 1880 to death;
M.P. Tewkesbury 1868–80; M.P. Tewkesbury April 1880 but election
declared void. _d._ Tibberton, near Gloucester 10 Feb. 1886.
_Times 11 Feb. 1886 p._ 12.
PRICE, WILLIAM PHILIP (son of William Price of Gloucester). _b._
1817; a timber merchant of Gloucester and Grimsby, the firm
being Price, Walker and Co. limited; sheriff of Gloucester 1848;
M.P. city of Gloucester 1852–9; M.P. Gloucester 30 April 1859,
unseated on petition; M.P. Gloucester 1865–73; deputy chairman
of Midland railway 1864–70, chairman 1870, resigned May 1873; a
railway commissioner 2 Aug. 1873 to death. _d._ Tibberton court,
near Gloucester 31 March 1891.
PRICHARD, HENRY (son of George Prichard of Clapham, Surrey,
solicitor). _b._ 1811; educ. Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich;
admitted solicitor 1834; secretary to Society for suppression
of vice, London 1836–69; chief clerk to V.C. sir Richard Malins
1869 to death. _d._ 14 Stanley gardens, Kensington park, London
5 March 1873. _Law Times liv_ 409 (1873).
PRICHARD, ILTUDUS THOMAS (5 son of James Cowles Prichard, M.D.
of Bristol). _b._ 16 Dec. 1826; educ. Rugby 1843; ensign 15
Bengal N.I. 16 April 1846, lieut. 15 Nov. 1848 to 1859; edited
the Delhi gazette with great success; a pleader in the high
court at Agra; barrister G.I. 9 June 1865; author of How to
manage it, a novel, 3 vols. 1864; The mutinies in Rajpootana,
being personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with
residence at Jodhpore 1860; The administration of India from
1859 to 1868, 2 vols. 1869; The chronicles of Budgepore, or
sketches of life in Upper India, 2 vols. 1870; translated and
supplemented J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871.
_d._ Dera Doon, Himalayas 23 Dec. 1874.
PRICKETT, LANCELOT GEORGE (son of Thomas Prickett of
Bridlington, Yorkshire). _b._ 15 Dec. 1856; educ. Engineering
coll. at Cooper’s hill 1875, fellow 1878; assistant engineer in
public works department, India 1879; his service lent to the
Indian midland railway co. 1887; assistant sec. to government in
the railway branch of public works department May 1892 to death;
executive engineer Nov. 1892; a member of Calcutta light horse;
hon. sec. to Simla Fine arts club; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1883. _d._
Calcutta 27 Feb. 1895. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxii_
399–400 (1895).
PRIDEAUX, CHARLES GREVILE (son of Neast Grevile Prideaux,
solicitor, Bristol). _b._ 19 Dec. 1810; educ. Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. and M.T. 2 May 1836;
Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 11 Jany. 1867 to
death, and treasurer 1884; recorder of Helston June 1868 to Nov.
1876; recorder of Exeter 15 Nov. 1876 to Dec. 1879; recorder
of Bristol Dec. 1879, with a salary of £500 a year, to death;
author of A practical guide to the duties of church-wardens
1841, 16 ed. 1895; The act to amend the law for the registration
of voters 1843, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Holland lodge, Portland
terrace, Regent park, London 18 June 1892.
PRIDEAUX, FANNY ASH (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House,
Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). _m._ at Clifton 14 April 1853
Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine
days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other
poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia
1892. _d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 2 Sept. 1894.
PRIDEAUX, FRANCES HELEN. _b._ 1858; educ. Queen’s coll.
London; matriculated at univ. of London 1878, honor division;
educ. at London sch. of medicine for women, demonstrator of
anatomy there; gained exhibition and gold medal of anatomy at
intermediate M.B. exam. of London univ. 1881; took honours in
each subject in final M.B. exam. 1884; B.S. 1884; L.K.Q.C.P.I.
1883; for sometime at the Royal free hospital; assist. physician
to the New hospital for women, Marylebone road, London; house
surgeon at the Paddington hospital for children Oct. 1885 to her
death. _d._ of diphtheria 22 Woburn sq. London 29 Nov. 1885, a
sum of money raised to found a Prideaux prize. _Lancet 5 Dec.
1885 p._ 1063, _19 Dec. p._ 1174.
PRIDEAUX, FREDERICK (5 son of Walter Prideaux of Plymouth,
banker). _b._ 1 Portland sq. Plymouth 27 April 1817; educ.
Plymouth gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1840; practised at
Bristol 1840–64, and in London 1864–75; reader in real and
personal property to the inns of court 1866–75; a conveyancer at
Torquay 1875–80, at Totnes 1880–6, and at Taunton 1886 to death;
originally a quaker, then a member of church of England, finally
a Baptist; author of Judgments as they affect real property
1842, 4 ed. 1854; The handbook of precedents in conveyancing
1852, 2 ed. under title of Precedents in conveyancing with
dissertations on its law and practice 1856, 16 ed. 2 vols. 1895.
_d._ Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 21 Nov. 1891. _bur._ Trull
church 26 Nov. _In memoriam, F. P. by Mrs. Prideaux_ (1891);
_Taunton Courier 2 Dec. 1891 p._ 5.
PRIDEAUX, WALTER (brother of preceding). _b._ Bearscombe, near
Kingsbridge, Devon 15 April 1806; educ. Plymouth gram. sch.;
admitted a solicitor 1829, partner with John Lane, Foster lane,
City of London 1835–51; a founder of the Assam tea co. 1840,
secretary, director, deputy chairman, and chairman to 1888;
clerk and solicitor of Goldsmiths’ co. 1851–82; a member of the
Garrick club and intimate with Thackeray; author of Poems of
chivalry, faery and the olden times 1840; resided Faircrouch,
Wadhurst, Sussex, _d._ 30 March 1889. _bur._ Great Stanmore,
Middlesex. _W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 375.
PRIDHAM, RICHARD. _b._ 1779; entered navy Aug. 1790; adjutant
to the naval brigade at the reduction of Minorca Nov. 1798;
wrecked in the Hussar and a prisoner in France 8 Feb. 1804 to
May 1814; commander 15 June 1814; on the water guard service in
Lincolnshire 1819–24; captain 22 July 1830; retired V.A. 4 Oct.
1862. _d._ West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 3 May 1864. _O’Byrne’s
Naval biography 1849 p._ 929.
PRIDHAM, WILLIAM. _b._ Plymouth 1795; one of the 4 original
projectors of the Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald
1820, editor for sometime. _d._ Plymouth Oct. 1870.
PRIESTLEY, EDWARD RAMSDEN (eld. son of major Priestley, K.H.)
_b._ 1819; ensign 45 foot 27 Nov. 1835; captain 25 foot 20 Oct.
1843; major 42 foot 17 July 1857, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1858 to
death; served against the insurgent Boers 1842, and in the
Indian mutiny 1857–8; brevet colonel 10 Aug. 1863. _d._ Stirling
25 March 1868.
PRIESTLEY, FREDERICK J. B. _b._ 1819; ensign 82 foot 2 March
1838; ensign 25 foot 11 May 1838, lieut. 8 April 1842; captain
74 foot 22 July 1854; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861,
lieut. col. 2 March 1864; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. _d._ 22 Park st. Bath
17 Jany. 1894.
PRIESTLY, RICHARD. _b._ 1771; bookseller in High Holborn, London
many years, his stock mainly consisting of classical works;
was worth upwards of £30,000 in 1815; printed many editions
of classical works, employing editors of great ability; he
eventually failed in business and became bankrupt 3 Aug. 1827.
_d._ the Charterhouse, London 4 Feb. 1852. _Willis’s Current
notes Aug. 1854 p._ 68.
PRIESTMAN, JOHN (son of Joshua Priestman of Thornton, near
Pickering, Yorkshire). _b._ Thornton 1805; educ. Ackworth,
Yorkshire; joined his brother-in-law James Ellis in the Old corn
mill, Bradford 1824, they founded the first ragged school in
Bradford 1846; a founder of the Friends’ Provident institution
1832; represented Bradford at many of the conferences called
by the anti-corn-law league; refused to pay church rates which
were found to be illegal, and abolished in Bradford 1835;
manufacturer of worsted goods 1838, removed to larger premises
1845; gave up corn-milling 1855; a total abstainer from 1834;
supported Cobden in opposing the Crimean war 1854. _d._ Whetley
Hill, Bradford 29 Oct. 1866. _H. Thompson’s Ackworth scholars_
(1879) _p. xix_; _Biographical catalogue of portraits at
Devonshire house_ (1888) 527–32.
PRIM, JOHN GEORGE AUGUSTUS (son of John N. Prim, solicitor,
Kilkenny). _b._ Kilkenny 1821; connected with The Moderator,
Kilkenny as editor, reporter and proof reader, and afterwards
the proprietor to his death; hon. sec. of Royal historical and
archæological association of Ireland, and a contributor to the
Transactions; author of Memorials of the family of Langton
of Kilkenny 1864, and with James Graves The history of the
cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. _d._ Dunbell on
the Hudson river 2 Nov. 1875. _The Kilkenny Journal 29 Dec. 1875
p._ 3.
PRIMROSE, ARCHIBALD (elder son of 4 earl of Rosebery 1783–1868).
_b._ Bixley hall, Norfolk 2 Oct. 1809; styled lord Dalmeny from
1814; M.P. Stirling district of burghs 1832–47; one of lords
of admiralty 25 April 1835 to 8 Sept. 1841; vice lieut. of co.
Linlithgow 1844. _d._ Dalmeny park, co. Linlithgow 23 Jany.
1851. _G.M. xxxv_ 433 (1851); _I.L.N. xviii_ 75 (1851).
PRIMROSE, JAMES MAURICE. _b._ 19 Feb. 1819; ensign 43 foot 6
Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 20 March 1857, placed on h.p. 12 Oct.
1863; served with 43 regt. in Kaffir war 1851–3, medal; in
expedition to Orange river and present at the action of the
Berea; lieut. col. of 43 regt. in march to Calpee 1858, was
in the operations in Bundelcund and commanded 1 division of
Candahar field force in Afghanistan 1879, and then the whole
force in 1880; took part in battle of 1st Sept. 1880; commanded
one of the seven columns under brigadier Wheeler against rebel
chiefs; in the Indian mutiny, at surrender of Kirwee, the action
of Sahew and the attack on Gopalpore 1858; D.A.G. Madras 1861–3;
adjutant general Madras 1863–8; C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; lieut.
general 4 March 1880; retired as general 1 April 1882. _d._ 9
Herbert st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1892.
PRINCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1848; with his brother James Prince trained
horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. _d._
Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. _bur._ Lewes cemetery 25 July.
_The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p._ 2, _23 July p._ 2, _26 July p._
2.
PRINCE, JAMES. Proprietor with his brother George Prince of a
cigar divan at 14 Regent st. London; they started the Ottoman
club 1855, from which sprang the Raleigh club; they were
proprietors of Prince’s racquet and tennis club Hans place,
Chelsea 1856–71, and of Prince’s cricket club at same address
1871–86; courts were made for tennis, badminton and other games,
and a skating rink with artificial ice was constructed, became
very select and exclusive, the prices of admission were raised
and the grounds were closed 1886, the houses in the Pavilion
road now cover the site. _d._ Frathay house, Albert road,
Battersea park, London 2 April 1886.
PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY (son of a reed-maker for weavers). _b._
Wigan, Lancs. 21 June 1808; worked with his father at Wigan, at
Manchester and at Hyde in Cheshire 1820–30; a factory operative
at Hyde; a postman at 15/-a week at Southampton 1842; kept a
small shop in Long Millgate, Manchester; a reed-maker; reed
maker and heald knitter, Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne 1851;
edited the Ancient shepherds’ quarterly magazine published at
Ashton-under-Lyne 1845–51; author of Hours with the muses,
Manchester 1840, 6 ed. 1857; Dreams and realities 1847; The
poetic rosary 1850; Autumn leaves, Hyde 1856, 2 ed. 1866;
Miscellaneous poems 1861; Poetical works of J. C. Prince, 2
vols. 1880. _d._ Hyde 5 May 1866. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials
of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 146, 172–92, 395 _portrait_;
_Procter’s Literary reminiscenses_ (1860) 117–21 _portrait_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 208–12.
PRINCE-SMITH, JOHN. _b._ England; a teacher of English in
Germany; naturalised there; an active politician; author of
J. P. Smith’s Uber censur Königsberg 1843; J. P. Smith’s Uber
den politischen Fortschnill Preussens, Zurich 1844; Ueber die
quellen der Massenarmuth, Redecte, Leipzig 1861; Der staat und
der volkshaushalt, eine skizze, Berlin 1874; translated C. H.
Hagen’s System of political economy 1844. _d._ about 8 Feb. 1874.
PRING, DANIEL. _b._ Taunton 5 June 1789; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1811;
M.D. St. Andrew’s 1822; an eminent surgeon and physician at Bath
1811–40; resided at Taunton from 1840; author of A view of the
relations of the nervous system in health and in disease 1815;
General indications which relate to the laws of the organic
life 1819; An exposition of the principles of pathology 1823;
Sketches of intellectual and moral relations 1829. _d._ of
paralysis, Middle st. Taunton 3 June 1859. _Lancet 9 July 1859
p._ 51.
PRING, RATCLIFFE (2 son of Thomas B. Pring of Crediton,
solicitor). _b._ Crediton 17 Oct. 1825; educ. Crediton gr. sch.
and at Shrewsbury; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; went to Sydney
1853; crown prosecutor Brisbane 1857; member of legislative
assembly Queensland from 1860; attorney general Dec. 1859
to Aug. 1865, July to Aug. 1866, Nov. 1869 to May 1870, and
May 1879 to June 1880; Q.C. Queensland 1866; puisne judge of
Queensland June 1880 to death; edited Statutes in force in the
colony of Queensland 1862. _d._ Brisbane 22 March 1885.
PRINSEP, CHARLES CAMPBELL. _b._ 1824; educ. Warfield and
Wimbledon; with a mercantile firm in Calcutta 1843–6; assistant
traffic manager Great western railway 1846–9; a writer
H.E.I.C.S. 16 Jany. 1853; junior clerk treasury department 1850,
assistant secretary 1857; statistical reporter and keeper of
the records 1879; compiler of the annual statistical abstract
1867–74 and 1880, and of the navigation statement for India
1869–70; author of The moral and material progress report of
India 1866–67 and 1867–68; Records of services of the honourable
East India company’s civil servants in the Madras presidency
1741–1858, 1885. _d._ 2 Frascati, Claremont road, Surbiton,
Surrey about 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 9.
PRINSEP, CHARLES ROBERT (son of John Prinsep, merchant,
afterwards M.P. Queenborough). _b._ 1789; pensioner of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 23 May 1806; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, LL.D.
1824; barrister I.T. 20 June 1817; advocate general of Bengal;
standing counsel to H.E.I.Co. Calcutta; author of An essay on
money 1818; translated J. B. Say’s A treatise on Political
economy, with notes, 2 vols. 1821; edited H. T. Prinsep’s
A narrative of the transactions in British India under the
marquess of Hastings 1820. _d._ Chiswick 8 June 1864.
PRINSEP, HENRY THOBY (4 son of John Prinsep, merchant, M.P. for
Queenborough). _b._ Thoby priory, Essex 15 July 1793; educ.
at Knox’s school at Tunbridge; entered Bengal civil service
1809; assistant to the magistrate at Murshidáhad, Bengal 1811;
superintendent and remembrancer of legal affairs; Persian
secretary to the government 16 Dec. 1820; member of council of
India 1835 and 1840–3; retired from the service 1843; contested
Kilmarnock burghs 29 May 1844, Dartmouth 3 July 1845, and Dover
30 July 1847; M.P. Hawick 5 March 1851, but election void as he
could not prove his qualification May 1851; contested Hawick 28
May 1851; contested Colchester 10 July 1852 and Barnstaple 30
March 1857; a director of the East India company 31 July 1850 to
1858; one of the 7 directors of the council of India 21 Sept.
1858, retired 1874; author of A narrative of the political and
military transactions of British India under the administration
of the Marquess of Hastings 1820, 2 ed. enlarged, 2 vols. 1825;
Origin of the Sikh power in the Punjab 1834; Tibet, Tartary and
Mongolia, their social and political condition 1851; The code of
criminal procedure in the criminal courts of British India 1868,
7 ed. 1884; translated Memoirs of the Puthan soldier of fortune,
the Nuwab Amer-ood-Doulah Mohummud Ameer Khan 1832. _d._ at
house of G. F. Watts, R.A., Freshwater, Isle of Wight 11 Feb.
1878. _Royal Asiatic Society report 1878 p._ 11.
PRIOR, CHARLES. _b._ 1805; ensign 64 Bengal N.I. 13 April 1824;
colonel Bengal infantry 17 Sept. 1871; general 20 Aug. 1878.
_d._ 21 April 1881.
PRIOR, HENRY. Entered Madras army 1821, cornet 27 April 1822;
lieut. 23 Madras N.I. 8 Oct. 1824, lieut. col. 12 March 1846
to 1847; lieut. col. of 15 N.I. 1847–8, of 47 N.I. 1848–9; of
46 N.I. 1849–51, of 23 N.I. 1851–3, and of 37 N.I. 1853–7;
commanded Nagpore subsidiary force 14 March 1856 to 1859; col.
of 19 N.I. 30 Dec. 1859 to 1863, and of 23 N.I. 1863–9; M.G. 2
Dec. 1857. _d._ Cotteshall, Norfolk 10 Jany. 1870.