_b._ Lisburn 1787; sailed from Plymouth as surgeon of the
Nisus frigate 22 June 1810, served on coast of Africa, the
East Indies and Brazil; flag surgeon; present at the surrender
of Heligoland, and at the surrender of Napoleon 15 July 1815;
staff surgeon to Chatham division of royal marines and to
three of the royal yachts; assistant to director general of
medical department of the navy; deputy inspector general of
hospitals and fleets 1 Aug. 1843; M.R.I.A. 1830; F.S.A. 25 Nov.
1830; knighted at St. James’s palace 11 June 1858; member of
British Archæol. assoc. 1845; author of Memoirs of the life
and character of Edmund Burke 1824, 5 ed. 2 vols. 1854 (Bohn’s
British classics 1854); Life of Oliver Goldsmith, 2 vols. 1837;
The county house and other poems 1846; Life of Edmond Malone
1860; edited The miscellaneous works of Goldsmith, 4 vols. 1837;
resided 20 Norfolk crescent, Hyde park, London. _d._ Brighton 14
Nov. 1869. _Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxvi_ 268 (1870);
_Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 304 (1869).
PRIOR, THOMAS ABIEL. _b._ 5 Nov. 1809; engraved the following
plates from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Heidelberg castle and
town 1846, Zurich 1852, Dido building Carthage 1863, Apollo
and the Sybyl 1873, The sun rising in a mist 1874, and The
fighting Temeraire 1886; engraved plates after Richard Wilson,
James Ward, and John Linnell; engraved Crossing the bridge after
sir Edwin Landseer; and for the Art Journal The Windmill after
Ruysdael, The village fête after David Teniers, and four other
pictures in the royal collection; exhibited two pictures at the
R.A. 1864 and 1874; taught drawing at Calais. _d._ Calais 8 Nov.
1886.
PRITCHARD, ANDREW (eld. son of John Pritchard of Hackney). _b._
London 14 Dec. 1804; apprenticed to his cousin Cornelius Varley,
patent agent; an optician at 18 Picket st., at 312 Strand, and
at 162 Fleet st. London; brought up an Independent but became a
Unitarian about 1840; a microscopist, fashioned a single lens
out of a diamond 1826, also fashioned single lenses of sapphire
and of ruby; F.R.S. Edinb. 1873; author of A practical treatise
on optical instruments 1828; The microscopic cabinet 1832; The
natural history of animalcules 1834, issued as A history of
Infusoria, living and fossil 1842, 3 ed. 1861; A list of all
patents for inventions in the arts, manufactures, etc. during
the present century 1841. _d._ 87 St. Paul’s road, Highbury,
Middlesex 24 Nov. 1882.
PRITCHARD, CHARLES (4 son of Wm. Pritchard, manufacturer). _b._
Alberbury, Shropshire 29 Feb. 1808; educ. Merchant Taylors’
school, Christ’s hospital, and St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow
March 1832; fourth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; head
master of a school at Stockwell 1833–4, and of Clapham gr. sch.
1834–62; ordained deacon 1834; delivered addresses at church
congresses and preached before the British Association; Hulsean
lecturer at Cambridge 1867; select preacher at Cambridge 1869
and 1881, and at Oxford 1876 and 1877; had a small observatory
at Clapham; F.R.A.S. 13 April 1849, member of council 1856–77
and 1883–7, president 1866, gold medallist Feb. 1886; Savilian
professor of astronomy at Oxford 10 Feb. 1870 to death, designed
the new observatory in the Parks, Oxford, completed 1875;
invented the wedge-photometer for determining the magnitude
of stars; F.R.S. 6 Feb. 1840, member of council 1885–7, royal
medallist 1892; F.G.S. 1852; M.A. Oxford 1870, D.D. 1880; fellow
of New coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; hon. fellow of St. John’s coll.
Camb. 1886 to death; member of the Solar physics committee
1885; issued 4 numbers of Astronomical observations made at
the university observatory, Oxford 1878–92; wrote many popular
essays including a series in Good Words; author of A treatise on
the theory of couples 1831; Occasional thoughts of an astronomer
on nature and revelation 1889, and of 50 papers in transactions
of learned societies 1873–93. _d._ 8 Keble terrace, Oxford
28 May 1893. _bur._ Holywell cemet. Oxford. _Proc. of Royal
soc. liv pp. iii–xii_ (1894); _Daily Graphic 31 May 1893 p._ 4
_portrait_; _Observatory xvi_ 256 (1893) _portrait_; _Journal of
British Astronom. Assoc. iii_ 434 (1893) _portrait_.
PRITCHARD, EDWARD WILLIAM (son of John White Pritchard, captain
R.N.). _b._ Southsea, Hampshire 1825; studied surgery at
King’s college, London 1843–6; M.R.C.S. 29 May 1846; assistant
surgeon on board steam-sloop Hecate, 4 guns 1846–7; L.S.A.
1847; purchased degree of M.D. from univ. of Erlangen, Germany;
practised at Hunmanby, Yorkshire 1851–4, at Filey, Yorkshire
1854–9, at Edinburgh 1859, and at Glasgow 1860 to death;
suspected of murdering his servant Elizabeth McGirn, who was
found burnt to death in her bedroom at 11 Berkeley terrace,
Glasgow 5 May 1863; purchased the practice of Dr. Corbertt
with his house in Clarence place, Sauchiehall st. Glasgow May
1864; his mother-in-law Jane Cowper Taylor _d._ 25 Feb. 1865,
and his wife Mary Jane Pritchard _d._ 17 March 1865; tried
for the murder of Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Pritchard 3 to 7 July
1865, sentenced to death 7 July 1865, confessed his guilt,
_hanged_ in front of Glasgow gaol 28 July 1865, the last public
execution in Glasgow; author of A visit to Pitcairn Island
1847; Observations on Filey as a watering place 1853; Guide to
Filey and its antiquities 1854; Coast lodgings for the poorer
cities 1854. _Brown and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883)
397–448; _A.R._ (1865) 107, 221–7; _Illust. times 15 July 1865
p._ 24 _portrait_; _A complete report of the trial of Dr. E. W.
Pritchard_ (1865).
PRITCHARD, GEORGE (son of a journeyman brassfounder). _b._
Birmingham 1 Aug. 1796; went to Tahiti as a missionary 27 July
1824; British consul for the Leeward, Navigator’s and Tonga
islands April 1837; adviser of Pomare, queen of the Society
Islands during her quarrel with French government 1836–43;
went to England to advocate the queen’s case 1841, returned
Feb. 1843, seized by the French authorities on the pretence
he encouraged disaffection among the natives 5 March 1844,
released on condition that he should leave the islands and never
return; consul in the Navigator’s islands March 1844, resigned
14 Sept. 1857; author of The missionary’s reward or the success
of the gospel in the South Pacific 1844; Queen Pomare and her
country 1878. _d._ Hove, near Brighton May 1883. _Foreign office
list_ (1885) 214; _I.L.N. v_ 68, 82, 84 (1844) 2 _portraits_.
PRITCHARD, HENRY. _b._ 1 Jany. 1810; ensign Madras army 8
Jany. 1826; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 23 Aug. 1826, major 23 Sept.
1857; lieut. col. Madras infantry 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col.
Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 6 March 1868; general
20 Aug. 1878; placed on retired list 1 Jany. 1880; took part
in the Goomsoor and Kolapore campaigns of 1835 and 1845. _d._
14 Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 20 June 1893.
_Graphic 8 July 1893 p._ 38 _portrait_.
PRITCHARD, HENRY BADEN (3 son of Andrew Pritchard 1804–82). _b._
Canonbury, London 30 Nov. 1841; educ. at Eisenach and Univ.
college school, London; employed in the chemical department
at royal arsenal, Woolwich 1861, conducted the photographic
department there to his death; proprietor and editor of the
Photographic News 1878–84; author of A peep in the Pyrenees
1867, anon.; Tramps in the Tyrol 1874; Beauty spots on the
continent 1875; Dangerfield, 3 vols. 1878; Old Charlton, 3 vols.
1879; George Vanbrugh’s Mistake, 3 vols. 1880; The doctor’s
daughter, 3 vols. 1883; The photographic studios of Europe 1882;
A trip to Sahara with the camera 1884. _d._ 1 Kidbrook grove,
Blackheath, Kent 11 May 1884. _bur._ Abney park cemet. 16 May.
_The British journal of photography May 1884 p._ 325 _portrait_;
_The year book of photography_ (1885) _p._ 26 _portrait_.
PRITCHARD, JOHN (2 son of John Pritchard, banker, Bridgnorth,
_d._ 1837). _b._ 24 Sept. 1796; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841;
banker at Bridgnorth and Broseley; M.P. Bridgnorth 1853–68. _d._
Stanmore, Shropshire 19 Aug. 1891.
PRITCHARD, THOMAS SIRRELL (son of Thomas Pritchard, surgeon,
Hereford). _b._ Nov. 1834; educ. Hereford coll. sch., King’s
coll. sch., and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858;
barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1858, went the Oxford circuit; recorder
of Wenlock 10 March 1871 to death; common law editor of Law
Journal reports 1879 to death; author of A handy-book for
executors 1861; The jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in
judicial matters 1875; edited R. Burn’s Justice of the peace,
13 ed. 1869; J. Stone’s Practice for justices, 8 ed. 1877. _d._
44 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 8 Aug. 1879. _Law Journal
lxvii p._ 307 (1879).
PRITCHARD-RAYNER, GEORGE (1 son of Henry Pritchard of Trescawen,
Anglesea, _d._ 1881). _b._ 1843; cornet 5 dragoon guards 7 Nov.
1862, capt. 28 Oct. 1871, sold out 24 April 1872; sheriff of
Anglesea 1879; contested Anglesey April 1880; won horse races in
Ireland and England; a pigeon shooter; master of the Anglesey
harriers 1876; a good all round man in all sports; _m._ 1871
Mary Brady, dau. of John B. Rayner, assumed name of Rayner. _d._
Aug. 1893. _Baily’s Mag. May 1882 pp._ 1–3 _portrait_, _Sept.
1893 p._ 206.
PRITCHETT, JAMES PIGOTT (4 son of Charles Pigott Pritchett
1743–1813, rector of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire from 1781).
_b._ St. Petrox 14 Oct. 1789; architect in London 1812, and at
York 1813 to death in partnership with Mr. Watson; built the
deanery, St. Peter’s school, the Saving’s bank, Lady Hawley’s
hospital, and Lendal and Salem chapels at York; built the asylum
at Wakefield, and the court-house and gaol at Beverley; surveyor
and architect on the estates of three earls Fitzwilliam. _d._
York 23 May 1868. _Pedigree of Pritchett by G. M. G. Cullum and
J. P. Pritchett_ (1892) _pp._ 5, 6.
PRITT, LONSDALE. _b._ 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844;
minister of St. Mark, Auckland, New Zealand; incumbent of
Reumera, Auckland 1870 to death; archdeacon of Waikato 1873 to
death. _d._ St. Mark’s parsonage, Reumera 31 Oct. 1885.
PRITT, THOMAS EVAN. Manager of London and Yorkshire bank;
manager of Leeds joint stock bank; founder of Yorkshire angling
association, and of the Headingley golf club near Leeds; author
of Yorkshire trout flies 1885, 2 ed. 1886; The book of the
grayling 1888; resided Lyntonville, near Leeds. _d._ Torquay 11
Sept. 1895.
PROBERT, CHARLES KENTISH (4 son of Thomas Probert of Newport,
Essex). _b._ Newport 1820; solicitor at Newport 1845 to death;
partner with C. M. Wade of Walden 1850, they opened an office
in St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 1867; member of Essex
Archæological soc.; wrote in Notes and Queries, East Anglian
Mag., Antiquarian Mag., and other journals; author of Arms and
Epitaphs of Essex, etc., 11 vols. quarto of illuminated MSS.
which he bequeathed to the British Museum library, they are
catalogued as Additional MSS. No. 33,520–33,530. _d._ Saffron
Walden, Essex 30 Nov. 1888. _bur._ Newport 4 Dec.
PROBERT, MARTHA. _b._ 1774; wife of Wm. Probert, one of the
murderers of Wm. Weare at Gills lane near Elstree, Herts. 24
Oct. 1823, he turned king’s evidence but was hanged at Newgate
for horse stealing 9 April 1825; she then called herself Heath;
from that time to her death she lived at Cheltenham; _found
drowned_ in the river Chelt, near Barrette’s mill Oct. or Nov.
1857.
PROBERT, WILLIAM. _b._ Painscastle, Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1790;
Wesleyan local preacher at Bolton, Leeds, Liverpool, and in
Staffordshire; stationed at Alnwick, Northumberland where
he became a unitarian 1815; minister of unitarian chapel at
Walmsley, near Bolton, Lancs. 1821 to death; Walmsley chapel
is generally called ‘Old Probert’s chapel’; wrote A history
of Walmsley chapel in the Christian Reformer 1834; author of
Calvanism and Arminianism 1815; The Godolin and the odes of the
month, being translations from the Welsh 1820; The ancient laws
of Cambria 1823; The elements of Hebrew and Chaldee grammar
1832; Hebrew and English concordance 1838; Hebrew and English
lexicon grammar 1850; Laws of Hebrew poetry 1860. _d._ Dimple,
Turton 1 April 1870. _bur._ in graveyard attached to Walmsley
chapel.
PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (eld. child of Bryan Waller Procter
1787–1874). _b._ 25 Bedford sq. London 30 Oct. 1825; contributed
poems to the Book of beauty 1843; joined the Church of Rome
about 1851; wrote poems in Household Words under name of Mary
Berwick 1853–4; all her poems except two in Cornhill mag. and
two in Good Words were first published in Household Words or All
the year round; appointed by the council of National association
for promotion of social science, member of a committee to
consider fresh ways of providing employment for women 1859;
edited a volume of miscellaneous verse and prose set up in type
by women compositors and entitled Victoria Regia 1861; wrote
eight hymns, the best known are I do not ask O Lord, that life
may be, and I thank thee, O my God, who made 1858–62; Legends
and lyrics, a book of verses, 2 vols. 1858–61, 10 ed. with
an introduction by C. Dickens and a portrait 1866; A chaplet
of verses 1862. d. 32 Weymouth st. Portland place, London 2
Feb. 1864. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. _C. J. Hamilton’s Women
writers_, _2 series_ (1893) 268–96 _portrait_; _Bessie R.
Belloe’s In a walled garden_ (1895) 164–78; _C. Bruce’s Book
of noble Englishwomen_ (1875) 445–52; _Julian’s Dictionary of
hymnology_ (1892) 913; _A. H. Miles’ Poets of the century vii_
359–64 (1891); _Atlantic monthly Dec. 1865 pp._ 739–43 _by C.
Dickens_; _Eclectic Mag. lxxxviii_ 759 (1877) _portrait_.
PROCTER, ANNE BENSON (dau. of Thomas Skepper, lawyer, York, by
Miss Benson, a lady who afterwards married Basil Montagu). _b._
York 11 Sept. 1799; saw much of society in Basil Montagu’s house
in Bedford square; _m._ 7 Oct. 1824 Bryan Waller Procter, who
_d._ 1874, they lived for some years in Basil Montagu’s house;
an acquaintance of Keats, Byron, Shelley, and Browning; very
well known in London society, her Sunday receptions were crowded
with visitors; befriended Mrs. Anna B. Jameson in 1854; edited
Letters addressed to Mrs. Basil Montagu and B. W. Procter 1881.
_d._ 19 Albert hall mansions, Kensington Gore, London 5 March
1888. _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii_ 249–51 (1891); _Academy 17
March 1888 pp._ 187–8; _Times 7 March 1888 p._ 9, _8 March p._ 8.
PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER (son of Nicholas Procter, _d._ 1816). _b._
Leeds 21 Nov. 1787; educ. at Finchley and Harrow under the name
of William Bryan Procter 1801 etc. in company with sir R. Peel
and Byron; articled to Nathaniel Atherton of Calne, Wiltshire,
a solicitor; in a conveyancer’s office in London; resided in
London from 1807; solicitor in partnership with Wm. Henry Slaney
1817–23; contributed about 200 poems to the Literary Gazette
under name of Barry Cornwall from 1815; a friend of Leigh Hunt
and Charles Lamb; his tragedy of Mirandola produced at Covent
Garden theatre 9 Jany 1821, ran 16 nights; barrister G.I. 4 May
1831, had many pupils in conveyancing; a metropolitan comr. in
lunacy 12 Sept. 1832, retired on pension Feb. 1861, honorary
comr. Feb. 1861 to death; edited The works of Ben Jonson, with
memoir 1838; The works of Shakespeare, with memoir and essay on
his genius 1840; edited with John Forster Selections from the
poetical works of R. Browning 1873; author under pseudonym of
Barry Cornwall of Dramatic scenes and other poems 1819, 2 ed.
1820; Marcian Colonna, a tale 1820; A Sicilian story 1820, 3 ed.
1821; Poetical works, 3 vols. 1822; The flood of Thessaly 1823;
Effigies poeticæ or the portraits of the British poets 1824;
English songs 1832, 3 ed. 1851; The life of Edmund Kean 1835;
Charles Lamb, a memoir 1866. _d._ 32 Weymouth st. London 4 Oct.
1874. _bur._ Finchley cemetery. _Bryan Waller Procter_ (_Barry
Cornwall_), _an autobiographical fragment_ (1877) _preface
signed C. P.[atmore]_; _T. H. Wade’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_
489–94 (1883); _Wm. Howitt’s Homes and Haunts ii_ 447–51 (1847);
_The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _ii_ 539–62; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (_4 ed._ 1876) 475–87; _A.
H. Miles’ Poets i_ 351–62 (1891); _I.L.N. lxv_ 353 (1874)
_portrait_; _Graphic x_ 367 (1874) _portrait_.
NOTE. He is referred to by Lord Byron in Don Juan, canto xi, verse lix,
“Then there’s my gentle Euphues, who they say,
Sets up for being a sort of moral me,
He’ll find it rather difficult some day
To turn out both, or either, it may be.”
His only son Montagu Mitchell Procter, lieut. col. Bengal staff corps
31 Aug. 1878, retired with honorary rank of M.G. 24 Feb. 1885, _d._
Dinan, France 6 Oct. 1885.
PROCTER, RICHARD WRIGHT. _b._ Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs.
19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his
death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent
verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of
Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855;
The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses
and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862;
Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester
streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. _d._ 133
Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. _R. W. Procter’s
Barber’s shop_, _2 ed._ (1883) _memoir and portrait_; _Palatine
note-book i_ 165–7 (1881) _portrait_.
PROCTOR, HARRY (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of
Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878;
played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880,
Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie
Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable
literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. _d._
55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.
PROCTOR, HENRY ADOLPHUS. _b._ 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14
Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to
26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted
distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29
Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aberhafesp hall,
Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.
PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY (youngest child of Wm. Proctor,
solicitor, _d._ 1850). _b._ Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ.
coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar
1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler
1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a
private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal
astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873,
and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated
magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly
1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the
northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of
Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866;
Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on
astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed.
1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars
1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and
new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works;
his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension
of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. _d._ Willard Parker hospital, New York
12 Sept. 1888. _Eclectic Mag. lxxxii_ 371 (1874) _portrait_;
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix_ 164–8 (1889);
_Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp._ 265–6 _portrait_; _Illust. Review Aug.
1873 pp._ 189–92 _portrait_.
PROCTOR, SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas
Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). _b._ Langley park near Acle,
Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the
expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in
East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841,
V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Langley
park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. _O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p._
985.
PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM BROGRAVE, 4 Baronet (1
son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). _b._ Broome
place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct.
1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk
artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded
14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle
volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869;
he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862.
_d._ Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_
379 (1874).
PRODGERS, CAROLINE GIACOMETTI (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). _b._
1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the
cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London
and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of
the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually
summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct,
as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was
wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a
Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife
of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy
who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. _d._ 54 Queen’s
road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.
PROPERT, JOHN (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill,
Cardigan). _b._ 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct.
1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large
practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal
Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their
widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel
opened 1857. _d._ 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867.
_Medical circular i_ 9 (1852) _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs
of medical men i_ 39–42 (1865) _portrait_; _Medical Times ii_
334–5 (1867); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi_ 62
(1871); _In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton_ (1867).
PROSSER, GEORGE WALTER. _b._ 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812,
lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822,
placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and
superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842,
lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June
1854. _d._ Windsor 12 April 1859.
PROSSER, JAMES. _b._ 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of
Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures
1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the
Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book
of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee
grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. _d._ The Elms,
Thame 15 July 1877.
PROSSER, RICHARD. _b._ Birmingham 3 April 1800; employed by
Penn and Williams of Birmingham, brassfounders; civil engineer;
took out patents for a bullion nail of iron 1831, for casting
nails 1835, for nail and screw making machinery 1839, for
boiler stoves 1839, for rollers in calico printing, for welded
tubes 1840, for a new principle of making iron tubes 1845, for
anti-welded tubes 1850, on which he spent £20,000, these tubes
are still in use; produced buttons, tiles, tesseræ and articles
of pottery from clay in a powdered state 1840; with Job Cutler
had a patent for engraved grooved rollers 1843; suggested the
Indices of Patents which were compiled by Bennet Woodcraft
1857–89; gave evidence before the Small arms committee 1854.
_d._ King’s Norton, Worcestershire 21 May 1854. _R. B. Prosser’s
Birmingham inventors_ (1881) 5, 245; _Regina v. Prosser 1847 to
set aside patents and works of Caledonian tube company_.
PROSSER, SOPHIE AMELIA (daughter of Charles Dibdin 1768–1833).
_b._ London 17 May 1807; _m._ 1 Jany. 1830 William Prosser,
vicar of Ashby Folville, Leicester, who _d._ 28 June 1884 aged
85; wrote in Leisure Hour and Sunday at Home for about 20 years
to her death; author of Original fables and sketches 1864; The
Awdries and their friends 1868, 2 ed. 1889; Cicely Brown’s
trials 1871, 3 ed. 1885; The cheery chime of Garth 1874, 2
ed. 1888; The day after tomorrow 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Amos Fayle
1878; Frog alley and what came out of it 1879; Ludovic or the
boy’s victory 1879, 2 ed. 1883; Lined with gold 1884; Michael
Airdree’s freehold 1888; Uncle Christie the strange lodger
1889; The face in the shutter 1890; The Crinkles of Crinklewood
hall 1892; her name as Mrs. Prosser is attached to upwards
of 30 books, almost all of them published by the Religious
Tract Society. _d._ St. Luke’s vicarage, the residence of her
son, Wolverhampton road, Bilston 14 Feb. 1882. _bur._ Bilston
cemetery 17 Feb. _The Bilston Herald 18 Feb. 1882 p._ 4.