and Malpas court, Newport, Monmouth 1780–1853). _b._ 1819;
educ. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1843, M.A. 1866; V. of
Clifton-on-Teme, Worcestershire 1847–53; C. of Whippingham,
Isle of Wight 1853–7, and rector 1857 to death; hon. chaplain
in ordinary to the queen 6 July 1865, and chief chaplain in
ordinary 22 June 1869; canon of Westminster 1869, and sub-dean
1883 to death; rural dean of East Medina, Isle of Wight 1872;
proctor for dean and chapter of Westminster in convocation 1880
and 1886; enjoyed the esteem and confidence of the royal family
for many years; author of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, a sermon 1881;
The armour of light and other sermons preached before the queen
1888. _d._ Whippingham rectory 16 Nov. 1894. _Graphic 24 Nov.
1894 p._ 598 _portrait_.
PROTHERO, GEORGIANA MARY (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor
of Salisbury, _d._ 1846). With her father visited at Holland
house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others;
appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of
the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural
history and botany; _m._ 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who
_d._ in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court,
Newport and managed the estate. _d._ Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895.
PROTHERO, THOMAS (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). _b._ 14
Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham,
Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26
Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov.
1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church
of Whippingham 1847. _d._ Malpas court 11 June 1870. _I.L.N.
lvi_ 667 (1870); _Times 14 June 1870 p._ 5, _col._ 3.
PROUDMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate
of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting
large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged
school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter
hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many
thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer
of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I.
Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of
Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and
humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London
chants 1870. _d._ 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21
April 1891. _J. Proudman’s Musical jottings_ (1872) _portrait_;
_Musical Times 1 May 1891 p._ 284.
PROUT, JOHN (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). _b._ South Petherwin,
near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land
at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas
Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842,
carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s
farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till
June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops
of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and
deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical
manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system
of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. _d._
at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex
7 Dec. 1894. _The Cable Aug. 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_.
PROUT, JOHN SKINNER (nephew of Samuel Prout). _b._ Plymouth
1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and
in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of
Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities
of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838;
Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some
of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress
descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol
1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington
Museum. _d._ 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug.
1876. _J. L. Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 406, _ii_ 87
(1891); _I.L.N. lxix_ 218, 253, 255 (1876) _portrait_.
PROUT, SAMUEL. _b._ Plymouth 17 Sept. 1783; educ. Plymouth
gram. school; a water-colour painter in London from 1802;
contributed 23 drawings to John Britton’s Beauties of England
and Wales 1803–13; sold his water-colour drawings to Mr. Palser,
Westminster bridge road 1804; member of Associated artists in
water-colours 1810, exhibited 30 works in their gallery 1810–12;
etched designs for Rudiments of landscape with progressive
studies 1813 anon., and other educational books published by
R. Ackerman of 101 Strand, who also published many detached
etchings by Prout; member of the Oil and water colour society
1819; went abroad in 1820 and succeeding years and made drawings
of churches, streets, etc.; painter in water-colours in ordinary
to the queen 1829; exhibited 28 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I.
1803–27; in a loan collection at the Fine arts society gallery
148 New Bond st. 119 of his drawings were exhibited 1879–80;
published S. Prout’s New drawing book 1819; Facsimiles of S.
Prout’s Views in the North of England 1821; Sketches made
in France and Germany 1833; Interiors and exteriors 1834;
Hints on light and shade, composition, &c. 1838, republished
1848; Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy 1839; Prout’s
Microcosm 1841; Sketches at home and abroad 1844; the sketches
he left were disposed of in a 4 days’ sale at Sotheby and
Wilkinson’s, producing £1788 11s. 6d., May 19–22, 1852. _d._ 5
De Crespigny terrace, Denmark hill, Camberwell 10 Feb. 1852.
_bur._ Norwood cemet., monument St. Andrew’s church, Plymouth.
_J. Ruskin’s Notes on S. Prout and W. Hunt_ (1879); _J. L.
Roget’s Old water-colour society i_ 340, _ii_ 50, 459 (1891);
_G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire_ (1883) 106–17; _Redgrave’s
Century of painters ii_ 487–93 (1866); _Art Journal March 1849
pp._ 76–7 _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 419–20 (1852).
PROUT, THOMAS. _b._ 1785; patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand
1816 to death; a member of the Ballot Society to death; a most
influential elector of city of Westminster 1832 to death. _d._
East Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey 25 July 1859, memorial tablet
erected in St. Clement Danes church by sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.B.
about 1867. _Diprose’s St. Clements i_ 63, 146 (1868).
PROVAN, JOSEPH. _b._ Stonehaven 1799; entered Aberdeen univ.
1811, M.A. 1815; had a literary engagement on the Continent;
parliamentary reporter on Morning chronicle, London; edited the
Macclesfield Courier 1835 to death. _d._ Macclesfield 11 Dec.
1867. _Macclesfield Courier 21 Dec. 1867 p._ 5.
PROVIS, THOMAS (son of Thomas Provis, a carpenter at
Warminster). Educ. Winchester school; called himself Dr. Smith
and became a public lecturer; sentenced to death for stealing a
gelding, but sentence commuted to 18 months’ imprisonment 1811;
called himself sir Richard Hugh Smyth and said he was _b._ Bath
2 Sept. 1797, claimed to be the son and heir of sir Hugh Smyth,
bart., who _d._ 28 Jany. 1824, by his first and secret marriage
in 1796 with Jane, daughter of count John Samuel Vandenbergh;
brought an action of ejectment to recover Ashton court, near
Bristol and certain estates valued at £30,000 a year at
Gloucester summer Assizes 8 to 10 Aug. 1853, his story entirely
broke down on his cross examination; tried for forgery and
perjury at Gloucester 6 to 7 April 1854, condemned to 20 years’
transportation; the case cost the Smyth family £6,000; confined
in Millbank penitentiary 1854. _d._ Dartmoor prison infirmary
27 May 1855. _Annual Register xcv_ 308–30 (1853), _xcvii_ 94
(1855); _Law magazine l_ 294–317 (1851), _li_ 371; _Celebrated
claimants_ (1873) 209–19; _W. O. Woodall’s celebrated trials_
(1873) 115–46; _Impudent impostors_ (1876) 209–18; _E. Austin’s
Anecdotage_ (1872) 129–41; _Sir B. Burke’s Vicissitudes of
families ii_ 300–27 (1869); _G.M. Feb. 1872 pp._ 334–41; _The
victim of fatality, the life of the plaintiff in the trial Smyth
versus Smyth_ (1854) _portrait_.
PROVIS, WILLIAM ALEXANDER (son of Henry Provis, engineer).
_b._ Wimpole, Cambs. 5 May 1792; pupil of his father to 1814;
assistant to T. Telford 1814–34; resident engineer of the
suspension bridge over the Menai strait 1819–26, laid the
first stone 10 Aug. 1819; M.I.C.E. 6 April 1819; author of An
historical account of the suspension bridge over the Menai
strait 1828. _d._ The Grange, near Ellesmere, Salop 29 Sept.
1870. _bur._ Kensal Green cemet. 5 Oct. _Minutes of proc. of
instit. of C.E. xxxi_ 225–30 (1871).
PROWETT, CHARLES GIPPS (eld. son of Charles Prowett, rector of
Stapleford, Herts.) _b._ Topcroft, Norfolk 1818; educ. Richmond
and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; fellow of his
college 1841 to death; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848; editor of
“John Bull” newspaper to 1865; contributor to Gentleman’s and
Fraser’s magazines and Quarterly review; author of Trifolium
Caianum in adventum reginæ 1843; Translations and original
pieces 1881. _d._ Northumberland st. Strand 28 June 1874. _bur._
Stapleford, near Hertford. _Law Times lvii_ 237 (1874).
PROWSE, WILLIAM JEFFERY (son of Isaac Prowse, _d._ 1844).
_b._ Torquay 6 May 1836; adopted by his uncle John Sparke
Prowse, notary, Greenwich; educ. under Nicholas Wanostrocht
at Greenwich; contributed to Chambers’ Journal, the Ladies’
Companion, and the National Mag. 1851 etc.; wrote in the
Aylesbury News 1855; engaged on the Daily Telegraph, his first
article being on the Oxford and Cambridge boat race 1861, his
last on the death of Tom Lockyer, cricketer 1870; contributed
to Fun the Old Man’s sporting articles, etc. under signature
of Nicholas; he wrote The key of the Study pp. 199–237 in A
Bunch of keys, ed. by T. Hood 1865, and Like to like, a story
told by the water-rate pp. 63–94 in Rates and taxes, ed. by
T. Hood 1866; he also contributed with G. L. M. Strauss to
England’s Workshops 1864. _d._ Nice or Cimies 17 April 1870.
_bur._ Cimies. _Nicholas’ Notes and Sporting prophecies by W. J.
Prowse_, _ed. by Tom Hood_ (1870) _memoir pp._ 3–12 _portrait_;
_Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii_ 57–64 (1882); _W. H. K.
Wright’s West country poets_ (1896) 377; _Newspaper Press iv_
130 (1870).
PRYDE, JAMES. _b._ 1802; teacher of mathematics and lecturer
on mathematics in the School of arts, Edinburgh; in Chambers’s
Educational Course he wrote Exercises and problems in Algebra
1855; Treatise on practical mathematics 1855; Algebra,
theoretical and practical 1860; Euclid’s Elements of plane
geometry 1860; Navigation 1867; and Mathematical tables,
logarithms 1878, 2 ed. 1885; he was also author of Tables
for calculating interest 1857; A treatise on mathematics
1868; resided 17 Newton st. Glasgow. _d._ of heart disease in
Sauchiehall st. Glasgow 10 Feb. 1879.
PRYER, HARRY. _b._ 1850; a merchant; fellow of Entomological
soc. of London; went to Japan 1870; a recognised authority on
Japanese natural history, helped to establish and maintain the
museum at Tokio; made researches on the parasites of silk worms;
C.M.Z.S.; author of Rhopalocera Nihonica, the butterflies of
Japan, Yokohama, 1886. _d._ Yokohama, Japan 17 Feb. 1888.
PRYME, GEORGE (only child of Christopher Pryme of Hull, merchant
1739–84). _b._ Cottingham, Yorkshire 4 Aug. 1781; entered Trin.
coll. Camb. Oct. 1799, scholar 25 April 1800, fellow 2 Oct.
1805 to Aug. 1813; sixth wrangler 1803; B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806;
called Prize Pryme on account of the number of the prizes which
he gained; barrister L.I. 15 Nov. 1806, leader of the Norfolk
circuit; returned to Cambridge Oct. 1808, resided at Barnwell
abbey, Cambridge from 1813; lecturer in the university on
political economy March 1816, professor 27 May 1828, resigned 29
Oct. 1863; contested borough of Cambridge 1820 and 1826; M.P.
Cambridge 13 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841, was frequently in the
chair in committees of the house on bills introduced by private
members; bought an estate at Wistow, Hunts. 1847; a founder of
the Reform club 1836; author of Poematia numismatibus annis
dignata A.D. 1801–1802, Cambridge 1802; Syllabus of a course of
Lectures on political economy 1816, 4 ed. 1859; Memoir of the
life of D. Sykes, Wakefield 1834; Jephthah and other poems 1838.
_d._ Wistow 2 Dec. 1868. _Autobiographic recollections of G.
Pryme_, _edited by his daughter, Mrs. Alicia Bayne_ (1870); _R.
W. Corlass’ Sketches of Hull authors_ (1879) 83–90; _Register
and Mag. of biography Jany. 1869 pp._ 48–50.
PRYOR, ALFRED REGINALD (eld. son of Alfred Pryor). _b._
Hatfield, Herts. 24 April 1839; educ. Tunbridge sch. and Univ.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1862; joined the R.C. church 1858; wrote many
papers on botany in the Journal of botany 1873–81; left his
herbarium, books, manuscript flora and £100 to the Hertfordshire
Natural history society; author of A flora of Hertfordshire,
edited by B. D. Jackson 1887. _d._ Baldock, Herts. 18 Feb. 1881.
_bur._ Baldock 24 Feb. _A. R. Pryor’s Flora_ (1887) _memoir pp.
v, xliv–xlvi_; _Journal of botany_ (1881) 276–8.
PRYCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1801; an accountant at Bristol; city
librarian April 1856 to death; F.S.A. 30 April 1857; author of
Notes on the ecclesiastical and monumental architecture and
sculpture of the middle ages in Bristol 1850; Memorials of
the Canynges family and their times 1854; Westbury college,
Redcliffe church and Chatterton about 1856; Fact _versus_
fiction, a descent among writers on Bristol history and
biography 1858; A popular history of Bristol 1861. _d._ Bristol
15 March 1868, portrait in reference room of Bristol free
library.
PRYSE, EDWARD LEWIS (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan,
Cardiganshire). _b._ 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March
1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold
out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan
liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857;
hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master
of Peithyll fox hounds. _d._ Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888.
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took
an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and
Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is
given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r
Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh
language 1841–78. _d._ Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. _Times 3
Oct. 1889 p._ 9.
PUCKLE, ELIZABETH (dau. of John Smith). _bapt._ Eastwick, Herts.
13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; _m._ Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23
April 1793. _d._ High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872,
said to be aged 106. _Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 280–5.
PUCKLE, JOHN (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London).
_b._ 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5;
B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to
death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese
of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to
death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of
Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849;
Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover
castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor
visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000
copies. _d._ Dover 26 Feb. 1894.
PUDNEY, JAMES. _b._ Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile
at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking
2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax
13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17
Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859;
won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of
upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. _Illust.
sporting news 24 May 1862 p._ 81 _portrait_.
PUGH, DAVID (son of Charles Pugh, _d._ 21 Dec. 1796). _b._
Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29
April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder
of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832,
unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to
death. _d._ Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861.
PUGH, DAVID (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon,
Llandilo). _b._ 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter
sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire
1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern
division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen
1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. _d._ London 12 July
1890.
PUGIN, AUGUSTUS WELBY NORTHMORE (only child of Augustus Charles
Pugin, architect 1762–1832). _b._ 34 Store st. Bedford sq.
London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the
furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery
for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect
at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at
Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with
a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of
Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrewsbury the addition to
Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other
buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles
Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament
1836–40; designed the cathedrals of Southwark, Killarney, and
Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author
of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835;
Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and
silver smiths 1836; Designs for brass and iron work 1836; The
true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An
apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England
1843; Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844,
3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A
treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian
liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852,
removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list
pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. _d._ St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14
Sept. 1852. _Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin_ (1861)
_portrait_; _J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography_
(1864) 317–60; _Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac_
(1853) 5–10 _portrait_; _I.L.N. xxi_ 281, 282 (1852) _portrait_.
PUGIN, EDWARD WELBY (eld. son of preceding). _b._ 11 March
1834; managed his father’s practice from 1851; exhibited 16
designs at the R.A. 1854–79; partner with Mr. Ashlin; partner
with James Murray of Coventry, they designed Queenstown
cathedral; he designed the church of the Immaculate Conception
at Dadizeele, Belgium 1859, for which Pius IX gave him the
order of St. Sylvester; designed St. Michael’s priory, Belmont,
Herefordshire, the church of S.S. Peter and Paul, Cork, the
Augustinian church at Dublin, the college of St. Cuthbert and
the schools of St. Aloysius, Ushaw, and many churches; in five
years made £40,000; designed the Granville hotel at Ramsgate in
which he held a share and lost much money; claimed unjustly that
his father was the architect of the houses of parliament 1867;
edited some of his father’s works; author of Who was the art
architect of the houses of parliament 1867, there were several
pamphlets on this subject. _d._ 111 Victoria st. Westminster
4 June 1875. _bur._ St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate 10 June,
marble bust in the gardens on the cliff at Ramsgate. _Builder
12 June 1875 pp._ 522–3; _Building News 11 June 1875 p._ 670;
_I.L.N. lxvi_ 571 (1875) _portrait_.
PULESTON, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Richard
Puleston, 1 baronet 1765–1840). _b._ Emral, Flintshire 20 June
1789; succeeded 19 May 1840; colonel of Flint militia 24 Feb.
1846 to 14 May 1855. _d._ 19 Dec. 1860.
PULLAN, RICHARD POPPLEWELL (son of Samuel Popplewell Pullan,
solicitor). _b._ Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ.
Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct.
1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited
in London a model of the country and fortifications about
Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the
expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in
Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti
on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro
and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural
history museum; designed churches at Pontresina and Baveno;
completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author
of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities
and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian
architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies
in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A
history of discoveries of Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidæ
1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he
edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of
W. Burges 1886. _d._ Brighton 30 April 1888. _Proc. of Soc. of
Antiq._, _n.s. xii_ 391 (1888); _Athenæum i_ 575 (1888).
PULLEINE, JAMES (2 son of Henry Percy Pulleine of Crake hall,
Bedale, Yorkshire 1770–1833). _b._ 31 Oct. 1804; educ. Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832,
went northern circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for north
riding of Yorkshire 16 years; a director of North Eastern
railway company, chairman; sheriff of Yorkshire 1870; F.G.S.
_d._ Clifton castle, Bedale, Yorkshire 23 March 1879. _Law Times
lxvi_ 471 (1879).
PULLEN, JOSEPH. _b._ 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., sixth
wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1841; fellow of his
college 1830–47, tutor 1842–6; V. of St. Benedict’s, Cambridge
1847–71; professor of astronomy in Gresham college, London
1834–75; author of A lecture on astronomy, read at Gresham
college 1843. _d._ 7 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 20 Jany.
1877.
PULLEN, THOMAS FRANCIS. _b._ Plymouth 1851; midshipman R.N. 27
July 1866; commander of the Sparrowhawk in a survey of Jamaica
1875–80; employed on the Red sea and Delagoa bay surveys 1881–2,
and on the second transit of Venus; senior British comr. to
determine boundary line between British and French possessions
near Assinie, West coast of Africa 1883; re-established the
protectorate of the king of Aowin on the border of Ashantee
1884; in charge of survey of New Guinea; commander of the Stork
in surveying east coast of Africa 1888. _d._ Bonny, Upper Guinea
3 Nov. 1889. _I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 p._ 651 _portrait_; _Times 7
Dec. 1889 p._ 10.
PULLEN, WILLIAM JOHN SAMUEL (son of W. Pullen, lieutenant R.N.)
_b._ 1813; entered navy as a cadet 15 June 1828; assistant
surveyor under South Australian company 1836; marine surveyor
of the colony; returned to the navy as a midshipman 1844;
commander 25 Jany. 1850; commanded the North star in the
Franklin search expedition Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; commanded the
Falcon in the Baltic fleet 1855; captain 10 May 1856; captain
of the Cyclops on the East Indian station Sept. 1857, bombarded
Jeddah 1858; captain of the Terror at Bermuda 1863–5; captain
of the Revenge coastguard ship at Pembroke 1867–9; placed on
retired list 1 April 1870; R.A. 11 June 1874; V.A. 1 Feb. 1879;
granted Greenwich hospital pension 19 Feb. 1886. _d._ 15 Jany.
1887.
PULLER, CHARLES GILES- (son of Christopher William Puller, M.P.
Herts. 1807–64). _b._ 22 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 6 Oct.
1834; educ. at Eton 1847–50, and Trin. coll. Camb., 14 wrangler
1857, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; fellow of Trin. coll. 1859–74; R.
of Standon, Herts. March 1862, resigned March 1868; renounced
his orders in Ch. of England 18 Sept. 1874; travelled in Brazil;
member of Royal Toxophilite soc. 1873–8; a first class amateur
chess player; succeeded to the family estate on death of his
brother; one of the first members of Herts. county council; had
a library of 7,000 volumes; F.S.A. _d._ Youngsbury, near Ware 3
May 1892. _F. T. Follett’s Archer’s Register_ (1892) 44–5.
PULLIN, CHARLES KING. _b._ 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the
Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best
umpires of his day; umpired in the match England _v._ Australia
at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. _d._ Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893.