in the navy 1765–1819). _b._ the Court house, St. Arvan’s
Monmouthshire 1 Dec. 1813; entered Merchant Taylor’s school
April 1829; barrister I.T. 9 June 1843; became a leader on the
South Wales circuit; gave evidence before royal commission on
state of corporation of London Nov. 1853; senior comr. under
Metropolitan management act of 1855; a promoter and original
member of Incorporated council of law reporting 1865; revising
barrister for Glamorgan 1857; serjeant-at-law 9 Feb. 1864;
author of A practical treatise on the laws, customs, and
regulations of the city and port of London 1842, 2 ed. 1849; A
practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts
1846; Observations on the disputes in the corporation of the
city of London on internal reform 1847; A summary of the law
of attorneys and solicitors 1849, 3 ed. 1862; The law of joint
stock companies account 1850; The order of the coif 1884. _d._
68 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Jany. 1895. _bur._ Kensal Green
cemet. 19 Jany. _Law Times 26 Jany. 1895 p._ 313.
PULLING, FREDERICK SANDERS (1 son of Frederick William Pulling,
vicar of Pinhoe, Devon). _b._ Modbury, Devon 1854; educ.
Bradfield and Ex. coll. Oxf., Guernsey scholar 12 Dec. 1871;
B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; professor of history Yorkshire coll.
Leeds 1877; edited Oxford study guides 1880, three parts; The
Constitutional magazine 1887; author of Sir Joshua Reynolds
1880; Life and speeches of the marquis of Salisbury, 2 vols.
1885; and with S. J. M. Low The dictionary of English history
1884, 2 ed. 1889. _d._ the vicarage, Pinhoe 6 July 1893.
PULLING, JAMES. _b._ 6 Dec. 1814; educ. Corpus Christi coll.
Camb., fellow 1838–50, master 1850–79; 11 wrangler and B.A.
1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1855; D.C.L. Oxford univ. 7
June 1853; C. of Grantchester, Cambridge 1842–4; V. of Belchamp
St. Paul’s, Essex 1863 to death. _d._ Cambridge 26 Feb. 1879.
_bur._ in the chapel of his college 4 March.
PULLING, WILLIAM. Educ. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., B.A. 1812,
M.A. 1817; R. of Blackmanston, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; R. of
Dymchurch, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; author of Select sermons,
with appropriate prayers translated from the original Danish of
N. E. Balle 1819; Sonnets in the Italian style with an essay
on sonnet writing 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Biographical sketch of M.
de Lamartine, with a translation of Meditations and Religious
harmonies 1849. _d._ 1860.
PULMAN, GEORGE PHILIP RIGNEY (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871).
_b._ Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at
Crewkerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at
Crewkerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857,
owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his
bookselling business; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial
fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western
agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany
1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed.
1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851;
Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East
Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture
on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857;
author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in
the East Devonshire dialect 1860. _d._ The Hermitage, Uplyme,
South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. _John
Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and
recollections_ (1870) _with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman_;
_Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p._ 120.
PULMAN, JAMES. _b._ 1783; portcullis pursuivant 30 May 1822;
yeoman usher of the black rod 1830 to death; Richmond herald 23
July 1838 to 1846; Norroy king of arms 18 April 1846 to 1848;
Clarenceux king of arms 14 June 1848 to death. _d._ East hill,
Wandsworth 29 Oct. 1859. _G.M. Dec. 1859 p._ 655.
PULMAN, JOHN (eld. son of Thomas Pulman of Lampford Brett,
Somerset). _b._ 1803; barrister M.T. 17 Jany. 1845; looked upon
as a pillar of the church; author of A letter of remonstrance
addressed to J. C. Barrow, by a Protestant Father 1859; The
extradition treaty, the church of the poor and church rates
1861; The Anti-state church association unmasked 1864; An
exposure of the fallacies in Mr. Spurgeon’s sermon on baptismal
regeneration 1864, 2 ed. 1864; A letter to the archbishops and
bishops on the civil and ecclesiastical courts 1867; A letter to
the queen on the coronation oath 1869; The subordinate clergy
and the bishops, which of them should bear rule 1870. _d._ 11
April 1888.
PULSFORD, ROBERT (youngest son of Wm. Pulsford of Wimpole st.
London). _b._ 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hereford 5
Oct. 1841 to 23 July 1847. _d._ 6 Upper Belgrave st. London 12
June 1888.
PULVERMACHER, ISAAC LEWIS OR LOUIS (son of Meyer Pulvermacher,
_d._ Breslau, Prussia 1854). _b._ Kempen, Prussia 1815;
apprenticed to a jeweller; a jeweller in Vienna and Prague;
commenced studying and working in electricity in Prague;
invented a series of batteries in the form of a chain and
bands made from flexible zinc and copper wire, which give out
a continuous current of galvanism 1844, this is an improvement
of the voltaic pile, and is a producer of galvanism that can be
worn on the body; settled in Berlin 1846 and in Paris 1850; came
to London and opened a place of business at 118 Leadenhall st.
1849, removed to 194 Regent st. 1861, where he sold his galvanic
bands and electric belts; established depôts in Stockholm and
New York; naturalised in England 29 Jany. 1868; author of
Practical guide for the electro-medical treatment of diseases
by Pulvermacher’s hydro-electric chains 1856. _d._ Windmill
hill house, West Hampstead, London 12 Sept. 1884. _bur._ West
Hampstead cemetery 14 Sept. _London Figaro 20 Sept. 1884 p._ 6
_portrait_.
PUMPHREY, THOMAS (son of Stanley Pumphrey). _b._ Worcester
10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his
father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the
Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school
1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in
the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection
of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on
prayer 1828. _d._ Ackworth 31 July 1862. _bur._ 5 Aug. _Annual
Monitor_ (1863) 123–46; _Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends_ (1888)
532–6, 798–802; _J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey_ (1864)
_portrait_.
PUNCHARD, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1835; of the firm of Punchard,
M’Taggart, Lowther and Co., engineers and contractors for public
works, 151 Cannon st. London; among the works he was interested
in constructing were the Bedford and Northampton railway,
the Great Marlow railway, and the West Lancashire railway;
railways in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada, Sweden, Spain,
Malta, Tasmania, South Australia, Uruguay, and Brazil; with
his partners he likewise made tramways in Buenos Ayres and the
harbour of La Guaira in Venezuela; in conjunction with Thomas
Brassey he made the Callao dock, Peru. _d._ 25 Dec. 1891. _Times
1 Jany. 1892 p._ 4.
PUNSHON, WILLIAM MORLEY (only child of John Punshon, mercer,
_d._ 1840). _b._ Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch.
to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40;
joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at
Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52,
at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st.
circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister
at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in
Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June
1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one
of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary
society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference
29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and
an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations
1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal
son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. _d._ Tranby, Brixton
Hill, London 14 April 1881. _bur._ Norwood cemet. 19 April. _F.
W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon_ (1887) _portrait_; _T.
MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon_ (1881); _W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire
ii_ 138–41 (1890) _portrait_; _Leisure hours_. _By A Journalist_
(1878) 79–80; _C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1874) 261–9;
_Drawing room portrait gallery_, _third series_ (1860) _portrait
xv_; _Graphic x_ 150, 153 (1874) _portrait_.
PURCELL, EDWARD (youngest son of Tobias Purcell of Limogue
castle, Queen’s county). Entered navy 9 June 1804; captain 25
Aug. 1828; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. _d._ Bath 3 Dec. 1869.
PURCELL, JOHN BAPTIST. _b._ Mallow, co. Cork 26 Feb. 1800; educ.
Ashbury coll. Baltimore 1818, and Mount St. Mary, Emmettsburg
1820; ordained in Notre Dame, Paris 1826; professor of
philosophy at St. Mary’s coll. 1827, and president 1828; bishop
of Cincinnati, consecrated 13 Oct. 1833; archbishop 1850 with
4 suffragan bishops attached to his see; received the Pallium
from the Pope’s hands in Rome 1851; his later days were troubled
with great financial difficulties 1879 to death; author of A
debate on the Roman Catholic religion between A. Campbell and
the rev. J. B. Purcell 1837; The Vickers and Purcell controversy
1868; Marriage and family duties in general 1881. _d._ in Brown
county, Ohio 4 July 1883. _Appleton’s American biography v_ 136
(1888).
PURCELL, THEOBALD ANDREW. Called to the Irish bar 1840, junior
counsel 1865; county court judge and chairman of quarter
sessions of county of Limerick and Queen’s county 16 Oct. 1874;
Q.C. 8 Feb. 1865; bencher of Kings Inns 1886; author of A
summary of the criminal law of Ireland 1848; A summary of the
principles of pleading and evidence 1849; A suburb of Yedo 1889.
_d._ 71 Harcourt st. Dublin 6 March 1894.
PURCHAS, JOHN (eld. son of Wm. Jardine Purchas, captain in the
navy). _b._ Cambridge 14 July 1823; educ. Rugby and Christ’s
coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; C. of Elsworth, Cambs.
1851–3; C. of Orwell, Cambs. 1856–9; C. of St. Paul’s, West st.
Brighton 1861–6; P.C. of St. James’s chapel, Brighton 1866 to
death; charged before sir Robert Phillimore in the Arches court
by colonel Charles James Elphinstone with infringing the law of
the established church by using a cope and other ritualistic
practices, judgment given against him on eight points with costs
3 Feb. 1870, Elphinstone appealed to the queen in council for a
fuller condemnation of Purchas, but dying 30 March 1870, Henry
Hebbert of Brighton was permitted to take his place 4 June 1870;
the privy council decided against Purchas on practically all the
points raised 16 May 1871 and suspended him from the discharge
of his clerical office for 12 months 7 Feb. 1872, but he
continued his services as usual to his death; upward of 17 works
were printed on the Purchas case 1871–7; edited the Directorium
Anglicanum 1858; author of The miser’s daughter, or the lover’s
curse 1839, a comedy; Ode upon the death of the Marquis Camden
1841; The birth of the prince of Wales, a poem 1842; Poems and
ballads 1846; The book of feasts 1853; The priest’s dream: an
allegory 1856; The death of Ezekiel’s wife, three sermons 1866.
_d._ 7 Montpellier villas, Brighton 18 Oct. 1872. _bur._ in the
parochial cemet. 23 Oct. _Annual Register_ (1871) 187–210.
PURDAY, CHARLES HENRY. _b._ 1799; professor of music at 4
Hunter st. Brunswick sq, 1848–51; music publisher at 24 Madox
st. Regent st. 1854, at 15 Mill st. Hanover sq. to 1864, and
at 24 Great Marlborough st. to 1870; author of A catechism of
music 1854; One hundred and one popular psalm and hymn tunes
1860; edited Abyssinian captives, recent intelligence from H. A.
Stern 1866; composer of The denounced, a ballad 1830; Jehovah
Jireh, sacred song 1847; Elementary exercises on the art of
singing 1851; One hundred rounds for two-six voices 1852; A few
directions for chaunting 1855; Admiral Blake, a song 1859; For
the homes of our fathers, recitative and aria 1880; edited The
sacred musical offering 1830; Songs for the young 1851; One
hundred tunes for infants and juvenile schools 1855; A church
and home tune book 1857; Fifty three popular rounds 1858;
Routledge’s Church and home metrical psalter 1860; The royal
naval song book 1867; Sinclair & Co.’s Fifty songs for young
people 1867; The songs of Wales 1874; his name is attached to
upwards of 50 pieces of music 1828–85. _d._ 27 Portland place,
Notting Hill, London 23 April 1885.
PURDEY, JAMES. Founded the gunmaking business at 4 Princes st.
Leicester sq. London 1818, at 314½ Oxford st. 1827–60, removed
to South Audly street 1882; had Pigeon shooting grounds at
Willesden 1856; made the first express rifles 1857; invented the
expanding bullet; made the patent double bolt for breechloaders
1864; patented the rebounding hammerless gun 1881; a maker of
weapons of the finest quality. _Shooting, field and covert_
(_Badmington library_) 1886 _pp._ 52, 381; _Sporting Mirror
March 1882 pp._ 73–4; _Puseley’s Commercial companion_ (1858)
172.
PURDY, ELIZABETH (eld. child of Frederick and Elizabeth Purdy).
Studied under John Forster, signor Ciabatta and Madame Giacinta
Puzzi; first appeared at the Hanover sq. rooms, London 3 May
1871; studied singing at Milan 1876; appeared as Siebel in
Faust at Dublin 1877 and at Her Majesty’s, London 19 Nov. 1877
under the name of Lisa Perdi; played Maddalena in Rigoletto;
had a mezzo soprano voice with command of contralto and soprano
notes. _d._ 35 Victoria road, Kensington, London 29 April 1881.
_Musical World 21 May 1881 p._ 323; _Illust. Sp. and Dr. News 22
Dec. 1877 pp._ 327, 347 _portrait_.
PURDY, FREDERICK. _b._ 1812; principal of the Statistical
department of poor law board; fellow of Statistical soc. 1837 to
death; a member of the council, and one of honorary secretaries;
author of Summary digest, return to parliament of owners of
land, England and Wales 1876; wrote Suggestions on the printing
of parliamentary statistics, in Journal R. Statistical soc.
xxxiv 21–56 (1871), and ten other papers. _d._ 35 Victoria road,
Kensington, London 12 Oct. 1888.
PURDY, WELLINGTON. _b._ Killucan, co. Westmeath 24 May 1815;
employed under Mr. Vignoles on Manchester and Sheffield railway
1838–40, and under Joseph Locke 1840–5; resident engineer
Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford railway 1846–56; in India reporting
on Eastern Bengal railway 1856–7, made the railway 1858 etc.;
partner with W. B. Lewis as engineers, London 1864; reported on
the Dublin tramways 1871; retired from business 1880. _d._ 14
Feb. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. xcvii_ 408–13 (1889).
PURKESS, GEORGE (son of George Purkess of 59 Dean st. Soho,
London, publisher, _d._ 1862). _b._ Wardour st. Soho, London
1840; publisher and bookseller at 16 St Alban’s place, Edgware
road, London 1858–63; proprietor of The Family Doctor and
people’s medical adviser, a weekly publication, No. 1 March 7,
1885 to death; proprietor of The Illustrated Police news at 83
Fleet st. 1863–5, at 275 Strand 1865–8, at 286 Strand 1868–90,
and at 34 Catherine st. Strand 1890 to death; one of the
founders of the old Unity club. _d._ 25 Avenue road, Regent’s
park, London 10 Dec. 1892. _bur._ Highgate new cemetery 15 Dec.
_The Referee 18 Dec. 1892 p._ 7; _Illust. Police News 17 Dec.
1892 p._ 2.
PURKISS, HENRY JOHN. _b._ 1842; educ. City of London school;
obtained the first queen’s prize given at South Kensington;
matric. at univ. of London 1860, where he took three
mathematical scholarships, an M.A. degree, and the gold medal
as the best mathematician of his year; scholar Trin. coll.
Camb., senior wrangler, first Smith prizeman and B.A. 1864;
vice-principal of College of naval architecture South Kensington
1864, principal 1865 to death; editor of The Oxford, Cambridge
and Dublin messenger of mathematics to death; _drowned_ while
bathing in the river Cam 17 Sept. 1865. _Times 19 Sept. 1865 p._
10, _21 Sept. p._ 4, _22 Sept. p._ 8; _Cambridge Chronicle 23
Sept. 1865 pp._ 4, 7.
PURLAND, THEODOSIUS. _b._ 6 Jany. 1805; surgeon dentist Wilson
st. Finsbury, London 1830, lived at 7 Mortimer st. Cavendish
sq. 1850 to death; M.A.; Ph.D.; his library, including his
own Recollections of Vauxhall 1814–59, was sold at Hodgson’s,
Chancery lane 16 March 1882; his Alsatian eccentricities,
cuttings and pictures relating to murders etc. 1700–1782, 2
vols. 1847, 4to is in the British Museum 1243 k. _d._ 7 Mortimer
st. London 16 Aug. 1881. _N. and Q. 6 s. v_ 168, 293, 317, _vi_
154 (1882).
NOTE.--In his rooms he had some curious mechanical toys, which served
to distract the minds of his youthful patients while he drew their
teeth.
PURNELL, THOMAS (son of Robert Purnell). _b._ Tenby 1834;
matric. at Trin. coll. Dublin 1852; assistant secretary and
librarian of Archæological institute of Great Britain and
Ireland 1862–6; contributed a series of dramatic criticisms
under the signature Q to the Athenæum 1870–1; founded a club
known as the Decemviri; invented the nickname tea-cup and saucer
comedy for the Robertsonian school of plays; edited James Hind’s
Historia quatuor regum Angliæ for the Roxburghe club 1868; and
The correspondence and works of C. Lamb, 4 vols. 1870; author of
Literature and its professors 1867; Dramatists of the present
day. By Q 1871; To London and elsewhere 1881; The Lady Drusilla,
a psychological romance 1887; Dust and diamonds, essays 1888.
_d._ Lloyd sq. Pentonville, London 17 Dec. 1889. _London Figaro
28 Dec. 1889 p._ 11 _portrait_; _Athenæum 21 Dec. 1889 p._ 860.
PURNELL, WILLIAM PASTON (2 son of Purnell Bransby Cooper of
Stancombe park, Gloucs. 1791–1866, assumed name of Purnell).
_b._ 12 June 1821; ensign 90 foot 24 March 1838, lieut. col. 9
Oct. 1855 to 13 Jany. 1860; served in the Crimea and in India;
ensign of yeomen of the guard 2 Feb. 1866 to death; C.B. 24
March 1858. _d._ Cookham, Berks. 14 May 1869.
PURSER, JOHN. Farmer of Willington, Beds.; a breeder of dogs;
a member of the Cardington club; his bitch Pansey and his dog
Pilot won numerous stakes and cups at Cardington and Newmarket
1847–9; William Purser, the brother, was a farmer and racer.
_Sporting Review Dec. 1850 pp._ 435–7 _portrait_.
PURSER, RICHARD (a natural son of Mr. Loveridge, a builder).
Claimed to have been _b._ Redmarley d’Abitot, Worcs. 14 July
1756; a cowman at Hempstead; a day labourer at Cheltenham; the
Queen gave him £5 a year from 1863 on the erroneous statements
made to her; _m._ 12 Sept. 1808 Ann Rollings. _d._ Cheltenham
12 Oct. 1868, claiming to be 112 but probably about 80. _W.
J. Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1879) 4, 139, 224–35; _G. H.
Townsend’s Handbook_ (1869) 127.
PURTON, WALTER ONIONS. _b._ 1833; educ. St. Catherine’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1859; C. of Petworth, Sussex 1859–65; C. of
Blackpool, Lancs. 1865–6; R. of Coombe, Sussex 1866–70; R.
of Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex 1870–88; R. of Poynings, Sussex
1888 to death; chaplain to 7 earl of Shaftesbury; a prominent
evangelical who exercised influence in the religious press; held
successively three editorships; editor of The Churchman 1879;
author of The Communicant 1881. _d._ Poynings rectory 14 Sept.
1892. _Times 21 Sept. 1892 p._ 4; _Guardian 21 Sept. 1892 p._
1391.
PURVES, DAVID LAING. _b._ 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader
writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited
The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English
circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life
of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. _d._ 214
Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873.
PURVES, JOHN (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). _b._ 1840;
educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A.
1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6;
lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872;
Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and
Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of
Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose
1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides.
_d._ Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. _Times 31 Jany. 1890 p._ 6.
PURVIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June
1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. _d._
Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859.
PURVIS, JOHN BRETT (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R
N. 1747–1825). _b._ 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799;
captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct.
1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the
East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the
South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853.
_d._ Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval
Biog._ (1849) 941–2.
PURVIS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
tailor). _b._ Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a
drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John
Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle
theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and
afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years
from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester
of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819,
travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in
Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his
autobiography 1850. _d._ Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in
St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. _The life of Billy Purvis,
Newcastle-on-Tyne_ (1875) _portrait_; _Life and adventures of
Billy Purvis_, _by J. P. Robson_ (1850); _Illustrated sp. and
dr. news ii_ 283 (1874).
PUSELEY, DANIEL (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). _b._ Bideford,
Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk
merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to
Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few
years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday
early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise
and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An
Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record
of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed.
1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author
under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the
world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New
Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and
short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. _d._ 21 Rochester
road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Frank Foster’s The age we live in_ (1863) _portrait_; _Academy
28 Jany. 1882 p._ 63.