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Implementing Strategy: The Value Chain, the Balanced Scorecard and

the Strategy Map

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In SWOT analysis, strengths and weaknesses are most easily identified by looking:

A. At the firm as a potential customer.

B. Inside the firm at its specific resources.
C. At the firm's competition.
D. At the firm's product.
E. Outside the firm from a consultant's perspective.

2. In SWOT analysis, opportunities and threats are identified by:

A. Consultation with middle management.

B. Talking with the rank and file workers.
C. Looking outside the firm.
D. Brainstorming techniques.
E. Reviewing our corporate strategy.

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3. Which of the following does not represent a possible opportunity for a manufacturing firm as a
part of SWOT analysis?

A. Demographic trends.
B. Technological advances in the industry.
C. A patent developed by another firm for manufacturing a product.
D. Changes in regulation of the industry.
E. Changes in the economic environment facing all industries.

4. The balanced scorecard:

A. Is not comprehensive, since it doesn't include all the critical success factors which contribute to
competitive success.
B. Helps focus managers' attention to bottom line profits.
C. Is forward looking, stressing nonfinancial measures that can lead to benefits in the future.
D. Fails to reflect environmental and social effects of the firm's operations.
E. Is heavily weighted toward the financial critical success factors.

5. The balanced scorecard can be made more effective by developing it at a detail level so that
employees:

A. Can see how it is put together.

B. Appreciate all the effort that goes into its preparation.
C. Respect management for including them in its formulation.
D. Can see how their actions contribute to the success of the firm.
E. Do not feel left out.

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 estates in Sardinia and bred cattle, horses and sheep; a great friend
of Garibaldi; made railway lines in Italy, France and India;
purchased Marchwiel hall and estate near Wrexham 1881, where he
had a cricket ground; M.I.C.E. 8 Jany. 1860; a candidate for
Peterborough 1883. d. 15 Portman square, London 24 March 1888.
Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi 333–9 (1889).
PIERREPONT, H M (3 son of Charles Pierrepont, 1 earl
Manvers 1737–1816). b. 18 March 1780; educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A.
1800, D.C.L. 1834; envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to Sweden 20 April 1804 to 19 Jany. 1807; P.C. 20
May 1807; member of the Dandy club of which he was the last
survivor. d. Thoresby park, Ollerton, Notts. 10 Nov. 1851. G.M.
xxxvii 184 (1852).
PIERSON, H H (son of Hugh Nicholas Pearson, dean of
Salisbury). b. Oxford 14 April 1815; educ. Harrow 1829, and Trin.
coll. Camb.; studied music in Germany from 1839; Reid professor
of music in univ. of Edinb. 1 June 1844, but never officiated as
professor; resided in Germany 1844 to death; wrote music under
pseudonym of Edgar Mannsfeldt-Pierson; produced an opera The
elves and the earth king at Brunn, and another opera Leila at
Hamburg 1848; his oratorio Jerusalem, produced at the Norwich
festival 1852, was performed by the Harmonic union at Exeter hall
18 May 1853 and at Wurzburg 1862; composed incidental music to
the second part of Goethe’s Faust produced at Stadt-theater,
Hamburg 1854, printed at Mayence 1856, for which Leopold I of
Belgium gave him the gold medal for art and science; his unfinished
oratorio Hezekiah was performed at Norwich festival 1869; his
opera Contarini in five acts was produced at Hamburg April 1872;
three of his orchestral overtures Macbeth 1860, Romeo and Juliet
1870, and As you like it, have been given at Crystal palace concerts;
wrote All my heart’s thine own, song 1844; Salve eternum, a
Roman dirge 1853; The office for holy communion 1870; Thirty
hymn tunes 1870, Second series 1872; Ye mariners of England, a
part song 1880; Hurrah for merry England 1885. d. Leipzig 28 Jany.
1873. bur. Sonning, Berkshire 6 Feb. Robin Legge’s History of the
Norwich festivals, with portrait; H. H. Pearson’s Collected songs,
Leipzig with portrait; Graphic vii 215, 220 (1873) portrait; Grove’s
Dictionary of music ii 752 (1880).
PIERSON, S W H . b. Plymouth 1782; entered navy 27
May 1796, served in the Belleisle at Trafalgar when he was
wounded; employed on the coast of Spain 1814; knighted by
marquis of Normanby, lord lieut. of Ireland, on the occasion of his
visiting the “Madagascar” at Kingstown, Dublin Oct. 1836; captain
28 June 1838; retired rear-admiral 10 Sept. 1857. d. Langstone, near
Havant 25 March 1858. G.M. May 1858 p. 553.
PIERSON, W H (eld. son of Charles Pierson of Cheltenham).
b. Havre, France 23 Nov. 1839; educ. Cheltenham college 1853–6,
head of the college; won the British Association’s gold medal 1856;
gained the Pollock medal Dec. 1858, and six prizes at Addiscombe
college 1858; a performer on the piano, cornet and concertina; a
chess player; an actor, and a Sanscrit scholar; lieut. Bengal
engineers 10 Dec, 1858, major 25 Nov. 1880 to death; designed and
constructed the new palace of the British legation at Teheran;
director of the Persian telegraph Oct. 1871 to Oct. 1873; secretary
to the Indian defence committee July 1877; military secretary to
lord Ripon, governor general of India, Sept. 1880; commanding
engineer of the field force proceeding against the Mahsoud Waziri
tribe March 1881. d. at Bunnoo 2 June 1881, marble tablet with
medallion relief of his head in Cheltenham college chapel. H. M.
Vibart’s Addiscombe (1894) 185, 643–6, 726.
PIESSE, G W S (7 child of Charles A. J. Piesse,
chief clerk in war office). b. 30 May 1820; a practical optician;
studied chemistry under professor Graham at University college,
London; an analytical chemist; in the employment of J. and E.
Atkinson, perfumers, and then with Francis Henry Breidenbach; in
partnership with Wilhelm Lubin, as perfumers at 2 New Bond st.
London with large cellars under the street 1855, flower farmers near
Nice, lavender gardeners at Mitcham, Surrey, bonded warehouses in
the London docks where the perfumed spirits for exportation were
made; introduced frangipani, kiss-me-quick, the trump card, and
other mixed perfumes; makers of toilet and medicated soaps and of
ribbon of Bruges; an adept in the art of conjuring; an early associate
of Chemical soc., F.C.S. Dec, 1862; wrote the Scientific and useful
column in Family Herald during 25 years; author of Is selenium a
true element 1842; The art of perfumery and the methods of
obtaining the odours of plants 1855, 5 ed. 1891; Chymical, natural
and physical magic 1858; The laboratory of chemical wonders
 1860; Lectures on perfumes, flower farming, and of obtaining the
odours of plants 1865. d. Hughendon house, Grove park, Chiswick
23 Oct. 1882. G. L. M. Strauss’ England’s Workshops (1864) 170–8;
Chemist and Druggist 15 Nov. 1882 p. 496 portrait; Journal of
Chemical Soc. xliii 255 (1883).
PIGEON, R H . b. 22 May 1789; educ. Dr. Willett’s
academy Brixton; apprentice to Fynmore and Palmer, wholesale
druggists 31 Throgmorton st. London 1805, became a partner 1812;
a member of the Wholesale druggists’ club; treasurer of
Pharmaceutical soc. from its commencement 1841 to 1850;
treasurer of Christ’s hospital 1835 when he made great
improvements in the administration, his portrait by J. P. Knight,
R.A. presented to the hospital in 1845. d. London 10 June 1851.
Pharmaceutical Journal xi 46–7 (1852); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s
Pharmacy (1880) 212.
PIGOT, D R (eld. son of David Pigot, M.D. of Kilworth, co.
Cork, physician). b. 1796; educ. Fermoy and Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1819, M.A. 1832, hon. LL.D. 1870; in the office of a
conveyancer 1819–26; called to Irish bar 1826; K.C. 1835; bencher
of King’s Inns 1839; solicitor general for Ireland 11 Feb. 1839,
attorney general 14 Aug. 1840 to 23 Sept. 1841; M.P. Clonmel
1839–46; P.C. Ireland 1840; one of the visitors of Maynooth college
1845; chief baron of Irish court of exchequer 1 Sept. 1846 to death;
a violin player. d. 8 Merrion sq. Dublin 22 Dec. 1873. bur.
Kilworth. J. R. O’Flanagan’s Irish bar (1879) 383–5; Dublin univ.
mag. Feb. 1874 pp. 176–9 portrait.
PIGOTT, E F S (3 son of John Hugh Smyth Pigott
of Brockley hall, Somerset). b. Somerset 1824; educ. Eton and
Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1846, M.A. 1850; lived for sometime in
France; barrister L.I. 21 Nov. 1851; took an active part in The
Leader, No. 1 March 30 1850, which as The Saturday analyst and
leader came to an end 24 Nov. 1860, acted as G. H. Lewes’s deputy
in dealing with theatrical and musical matters in The Leader and
writing under pseudonym of Le Chat Huant from 19 July 1851; a
member of the staff of the Daily News; examiner of plays in lord
chamberlain’s department 25 Aug. 1874 to death; wrote for the
Saturday review. d. 150 Oxford st. London 23 Feb. 1895, cremated
at Woking 27 Feb. Vanity Fair 11 Jany. 1890 p. 33 portrait;
Fortnightly Review Feb. 1896 p. 222.
PIGOT, E B (dau. of J. Pigot, M.D. of Derby). b.
probably in Derbyshire 1783; lived at Southwell, Northampton
nearly all her life, where she made the acquaintance of lord Byron
about 1803; corresponded with him 1804–11; Byron addressed to
her his poem beginning ‘Eliza what fools are the Mussulman sect’
1806; much of her correspondence with Byron is printed in T.
Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1847) 32, 52–8, 731; a manuscript
parody by her entitled ‘The wonderful history of Lord Byron and
his dog Bosen’ was sold by a London bookseller to professor
Kolbing of Breslau 1892. d. Easthorpe, Southwell 11 Dec. 1866.
Poetical works of lord Byron (1859) 400; Russell’s Memoirs of T.
Moore v 249 (1854).
PIGOTT, F (1 son of Paynton Pigott, who in 1835 took the name
of Stainsby Conant 1780–1862). b. Trunkwell house, Berkshire
1809; educ. Eton, matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 7 March 1826;
lieut. Hants yeomanry cavalry 31 Dec. 1838, resigned 5 July 1861;
contested Winchester 29 June 1841; M.P. Reading 1847–60; lieut.
governor of Isle of Man Oct. 1860 to death, entered Douglas 14
Feb. 1861. d. Heckfield Heath, near Winchester 21 Jany. 1863.
Illustrated Times 23 Feb. 1861 p. 111, view of his reception at
Douglas.
PIGOTT, G G G F (1 son of the rev. George
G. G. F. Pigott rector of Abington). b. Abington Pigotts, Cambs. 16
May 1835; educ. Maryborough 1843–51; in Cambridge militia
1854; ensign 48 foot April 1855, present at fall of Sebastopol,
served in the Indian mutiny, retired Nov. 1859; made
meteorological observations at Abington; F.R.A.S. 9 June 1865. d.
Abington 14 May 1878. Monthly notices of R.A.S. xxxix 237 (1879).
PIGOTT, S G (4 son of Paynton Pigott, who d. Sept. 1862). b.
Oxford 1813; barrister M.T. 3 May 1839, went Oxford circuit;
counsel to Ireland revenue department May 1854; serjeant-at-law
Feb. or March 1856; received a patent of precedence 1857; M.P.
Reading Oct. 1860 to Oct. 1863; recorder of Hereford Dec. 1857 to
Dec. 1862; baron of court of exchequer 2 Oct. 1863 to death;
knighted by patent 1 Nov. 1863; author with B. B. Hunter Rodwell
of Reports of cases in the court of common pleas, on appeal from
the decisions of the revising barristers 1844–6. d. Sherfield Hill
house, Basingstoke 28 April 1875. I.L.N. 31 Oct. 1863 p. 433
 portrait and lxvi 451, 571 (1875); Graphic xi 483, 486, 492 (1875)
portrait.
PIGOTT, H R (2 son of Henry Pigott of Eagle hill, co.
Galway). b. 18 May 1825; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1844;
ensign 83 foot 23 July 1845, major 19 Dec. 1862; major 19 foot 30
June 1863, lieut. col. 25 Aug. 1871; lieut. col. 70 foot 14 Aug.
1872, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Indian mutiny and
in the Afghan war of 1878; brevet colonel 25 Aug. 1876;
commanded the regimental district of Warrington 1 April 1881 to 8
Feb. 1882, when he retired with honorary rank of M.G. d. Elkhorn,
Manitoba 14 Nov. 1889.
PIGOT, S H . Entered navy 1 May 1788; captain 8 May 1804; took
possession of the island of Mariegalante 2 March 1808; commanded
the squadron off Guadaloupe 1809, employed on the American
station; commander-in-chief on Cork station 16 May 1844 to 1 July
1847; admiral 4 July 1853; C.B. 26 Sept. 1841, K.C.B. 10 July
1847; K.C.H. 18 June 1832. d. 96 Ebury street, London 29 July
1857. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. Dict. (1849) 905–6.
PIGOT, H (2 son of Creswell Pigot of Drayton, Salop). b. 1820.
educ. Brasn. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; C. of Hadleigh,
Suffolk 1843–63; V. of Wisbeck St. Mary 1863–9; R. of Stretham,
Cambs. 1869 to death; author of The blessed life, a course of
sermons 1855, 2 ed. 1856; Hadleigh, the town, the church, and the
great men born in or connected with the parish 1860, 2 ed. 1874. d.
Tunbridge Wells 22 Sept. 1884.
PIGOT, R . b. 1774; captain of a new independent company of
foot 21 Dec. 1793; captain 58 foot 21 April 1795; captain 14
dragoons 13 Sept. 1798, major 4 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 21 light
dragoons 1 May 1806 to 30 July 1820, when placed on h.p.; col. 4
dragoon guards 26 Nov. 1849 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851. d.
Chievely, near Newbury, Berks. 21 Nov. 1868.
PIGOTT, R (son of George Pigott, clerk to Peter Purcell, coach
proprietor, Dublin). b. county Meath about 1828; clerk in office of
The Ulsterman newspaper, Belfast, edited by Denis Holland, who
transferred the paper to Dublin July 1858 and changed its name to
The Irishman, manager of the paper and practically controlled it, in
June 1865 the proprietor Patrick James Smith gave the paper to
Pigott; started a weekly magazine entitled The Shamrock 1866, and
 another entitled The flag of Ireland; condemned to 12 months’
imprisonment for publishing seditious matter 1867, and imprisoned
for six months for contempt of court 1871; contested Limerick as a
Fenian 20 Nov. 1868; sold his three publications to the Irish
national newspaper and publishing company 1879; author of
Personal recollections of an Irish national journalist 1882, 2 ed.
1883; sold to the Irish loyal and patriotic union in 1886 papers
accusing Parnell of complicity in the murders of the Land league,
The Times purchased these papers and published a series of articles
on Parnellism and crime 1887, including a letter signed by Parnell
condoning the Phœnix Park murders of 18 April 1887, a
commission of three judges sat July 1888 onward to inquire into the
allegations made by The Times against Parnell; Pigott was
examined as a witness 21 and 22 Feb. 1889, confessed to Henry
Labouchere, M.P. that he had forged the papers 23 Feb., fled from
England same day, shot himself dead in the Hotel de los
Embajadores, Madrid 12 March 1889. Report of trial of A. M.
Sullivan and R. Pigott (1868); James O’Connor’s Recollections of
R. Pigott (1889); J. A. O’Shea’s Roundabout recollections ii 198–9
(1892); Vanity Fair 9 March 1889 p. 177 portrait.
PIGOT, S R , 4 Baronet (2 son of general sir George Pigot, bart.
1766–1841). b. Patshull, co. Stafford 1801; succeeded 24 June
1841; M.P. Bridgnorth 1832 to 1837 and 1838 to 1 July 1852; M.P.
Bridgnorth 8 July 1852 to March 1853 when unseated for bribery;
contested Bridgnorth 26 July 1837; owner of racehorses,
Conyngham won the 2,000 guineas 1847 and the Royal hunt cup. d.
Hillside, Bracknell 1 June 1891.
PIKE, J D G (eld. son of John Baxter Pike,
schoolmaster 1745–1811). b. Edmonton 6 April 1784; educ.
Wymondley college Herts. 1802–6; became a particular baptist
Aug. 1804; classical assistant in the school of his uncles G. and R.
Gregory at Lower Edmonton 1806–9; pastor of the baptist church
Brook st. Derby 1810, a new chapel was opened for him 1815,
enlarged 1819, and rebuilt on a new site 1842, pastor to his death;
kept a boarding school at Derby about 1810–8; the first secretary of
the General Baptist missionary society June 1816; trained young
missionaries in his family; edited The general baptist repository and
missionary observer Jany. 1822 to death; author of A catechism of
scriptural instruction for young persons 1816; The consolations of
 gospel truth 1817, 2 ed. Derby 1818, vol. ii Derby 1820;
Persuasives to early piety, 7 ed. 1865; Swedenborgianism depicted
1820; A guide for young disciples of the Holy Saviour 1823, 2 ed.
1880; Religion and eternal life 1834; Christian liberality in the
distribution of property 1836. d. Derby 4 Sept. 1854. A memoir of J.
D. G. Pike, edited by his sons (1855) portrait; Amos Sutton’s
Mission to Orissa (1833) vii and 1–10; Repository and missionary
observer (1854) 463–8; The works of J. G. Pike (1862–3), memoir
pp. 11–24.
PIKE, W (youngest son of Wm. Pike of Bucknowle, Church
Knowle, Dorset). b. Bucknowle 1818; educ. Univ. coll. London;
student of Middle Temple 7 June 1837; certificated special pleader
1840 to death; published Translations from Dante, Petrarch,
Michael Angelo, and Vittoria Colonna 1879; A translation of
Dante’s Divine comedy, Inferno 1881. d. the Grove, Highgate 29
Jany. 1882. bur. at Church Knowle.
PILCH, F (eld. son of Nathaniel Pilch). b. Horningtoft, near
Fakenham, Norfolk 17 March 1803; a tailor by trade; played his
first match at Lord’s, Norfolk against Marylebone club 24 July
1820; member of the Bury St. Edmunds eleven 1825–30; played for
England against Sussex at Lord’s 1827, when he made the highest
score, 38 runs, against the new roundhand bowling; resided at
Norwich 1829–35; beat at single wicket Thomas Marsden the
Yorkshire champion at Norwich 18 July 1833 and again at Sheffield
before 20,000 people 5–7 Aug. 1833; one of the Kent eleven with
salary of £100 a year 1836–54; member of Clarke’s All England
eleven 1841–51; the finest batsman in England 1825–50; landlord
of a tavern at Town Malling, Kent 1835; a tailor at Canterbury; kept
a shop for sale of cricket implements at Canterbury 1842 to death;
landlord of Saracen’s head inn Canterbury 1860. d. Canterbury 1
May 1870. bur. St. Gregory’s churchyard. Baily’s Mag. xxvii 270–9
(1875); Denison’s Sketches of the players (1846) 64–9; Pycroft’s
Cricket field, 3 ed. (1859) 135 portrait; Lillywhite’s Cricket scores i
434 (1862), v page xiii (1876); F. Gale’s Game of cricket (1887) 11–
26; Illust. London life 16 July 1843 p. 236 portrait; W. G. Grace’s
Cricket (1891) 24 portrait; R. Daft’s Kings of cricket (1893) 26
portrait; I.L.N. iii 45 (1843) portrait.
PILCH, W (brother of preceding). b. Horningtoft, Norfolk 4 Nov.
1794; a tailor and bat maker; first match at Lord’s, Marylebone v.
 Norfolk 24 July 1820; a slow bowler with a delivery between
underhand and round; resided successively at Holt in Norfolk,
London, and Norwich; went to King’s Lynn in 1860. d. Sheffield 4
Sept. 1866. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores i 434 (1862).
PILCHER, G (son of Jeremiah Pilcher of Winkfield, Berkshire). b.
30 April 1801; M.R.C.S. 2 April 1824, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843, member
of council 1849 to death; surgeon in Dean st. Soho, London 1824;
lecturer on anatomy, physiology, and surgery at the Webb st. school
of medicine Snow’s Fields, Bermondsey; consulting surgeon to the
Surrey dispensary many years; president of Medical society of
London 1842, received the Fothergill gold medal; lecturer upon
surgery at St. George’s hospital 6 July 1843; one of the best aural
surgeons in England; author of Essay on the physiology of the
excito-motory system 1835; A treatise on the structure, economy,
and diseases of the ear 1838, 2 ed. 1842; On some points in the
physiology of the tympanum 1854. d. 2 Harley st. London 7 Nov.
1855. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Nov. G.M. Jany. 1856 p. 92;
Medical times and gazette ii 510 (1855).
PILCHER, J M . Second lieut. R.M. 15 Jany. 1801, lieut.
col. 11 May 1841, col. commandant 3 Nov. 1851 to 9 June 1854,
when placed on retired full pay; hon. M.G. 20 June 1855. d. at his
residence near Worcester 18 Nov. 1873.
PILGRIM, T . b. 1800; associated with Francis Petit Smith and the
introduction of the screw propeller 1836 to death; engineer of the
Archimedes, the first ship ever sent to sea propelled by the screw
1838. d. at his son’s residence Plumstead, Kent 6 Oct. 1871. The
Times 11 Oct. 1871 p. 7.
PILKINGTON, S A . b. about 1767; ensign Elford’s corps 7
March 1783, placed on h.p. 1783; lieut. independent company 24
Jany. 1791, placed on h.p.; lieut. 2 foot 19 Feb. 1793, captain 2
March 1795; lieut. 3 foot guards 11 Jany. 1800, placed on h.p. 1802;
captain 48 foot 9 July 1803; commanded the light company on
board Royal George in lord Howe’s action 1 June 1794; employed
in the West Indies, present at capture of Trinidad 1795–7; served in
suppression of the Irish rebellion 1798; served in the expeditions to
the Helder 1799 and 1805; assistant A.G. at the horse guards 1807–
8, and D.A.G. in Nova Scotia 1809–15; col. of 82 foot 10 May 1841
and of 20 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 19
 July 1838; L.G. 23 Nov. 1841; purchased Catsfield place, Battle,
Sussex, from James Eversfield. d. Catsfield place 23 Feb. 1853.
Royal military calendar iv 261 (1820); G.M. xxxix 436 (1850).
PILKINGTON, L S (only son of Redmond Wm. Pilkington,
architect, London 1789–1844). b. Kensington, London 5 May 1831;
educ. Rugby 1844; resided at Hatfield, Ash Hill, near Doncaster
1844 to death; served sir Joseph Henry Hawley as groom 1851, and
was known as Jack Hawley for the rest of his life; clever in
disguising himself; served as a sailor, as a butcher, and as a groom
to several trainers; a Roman catholic, went to Rome and presented 2
horses to the Pope and received from him a cross; always dressed
himself as a groom and refused to associate in any good society,
although he owned much property. d. Hatfield 25 Dec. 1875. bur. in
his hunting costume in his paddock in the midst of the graves of his
horses and cattle, left his Hatfield property to his groom John
Harris, and his London property to Wiggins, the son of an old
servant. Life and eccentricities of Lionel Scott Pilkington alias Jack
Hawley (1876) portrait; W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire iii 126–8 (1882).
PILLANS, J (son of James Pillans, printer). b. Edinburgh April
1778; educ. Edinb. high school and univ., M.A. 30 Jany. 1801,
LL.D. 22 April 1863; a private tutor at Eton college; rector of the
high school Edinb. Jany. 1810 to Aug. 1820; introduced a
monitorial system and attracted pupils from all parts of the world;
professor of humanity and laws in univ. of Edinb. 17 Aug. 1820,
resigned 11 April 1863; made tours to inspect the educational
systems of France, Ireland, Prussia, and Switzerland; gave evidence
before the committee of house of commons on education 1834; an
early advocate for compulsory education; edited Eclogæ
Ciceronianæ 1845; Excerpta ex Taciti annalibus 1848; The five
latter books of the first decade of Livy 1849; author of Outlines of
geography, principally ancient, Edinb. 1847; First steps in the
physical and classical geography of the ancient world, Edinb. 1853,
13 ed. 1882; Elements of physical and classical geography 1854;
Contributions to the cause of education 1856; Educational papers,
Edinb. 1862. d. 41 Inverleith row, Edinburgh 27 March 1864. bur.
in graveyard of St. Cuthbert’s church, Edinb. 1 April. Memoir of
James Pillans By an old student (1869); Grant’s Story of the univ. of
Edinb. ii 80, 84, 320–2 (1884); Proc. of Royal soc. of Edinb. v 303
(1866).
PILLING, R . b. Bedford 5 July 1855; played in a match Sussex v.
Lancashire at Old Trafford 1877; wicket keeper for Lancashire
1877–89; played in Gentlemen v. Players at Lord’s 1879, and in
Lancashire v. Surrey at Liverpool 1885; had a benefit under the
Lancashire cricket club auspices which gave him £1,700, 1889;
went to Australia with Shaw and Shrewsbury’s first combination
1881–82, when he had a sun stroke from which he never quite
recovered, went to Australia with the fourth combination 1887–88;
caught cold in a football match 1890; the Lancashire club sent him
to Australia for his health 1890; with the exception of Blackham the
best wicket keeper of his day. d. at his house in Manchester 28
March 1891. Wisden’s Cricketers’ almanack (1891) p. xxxiii
portrait, (1892) p. xxxii; Times 30 March 1891 p. 7; Graphic 4 April
1891 p. 386 portrait.
PIM, B C T (only son of Edward Bedford
Pim, lieut. R.N., d. 1830). b. Bideford, Devon 12 June 1826;
entered navy 1842; made a voyage round the world in the Herald
1845–51; lieut. 2 Oct. 1850; served under sir Edward Belcher in the
western division of his Arctic search expedition from 21 April
1852; commanded the gunboat Magpie in the Baltic 1854–6, and
the Banterer in the Chinese war 1857–8; commanded the Gorgon
1859–61; originated and surveyed the Nicaraguan route across the
Isthmus 1860; purchased a bay on the Atlantic shore, now known as
Gorgon or Pim’s Bay 1860; commanded the Fury 1861; captain 16
April 1868, retired 1 April 1870; retired R.A. 5 July 1885; made
three journeys to Nicaragua in reference to his traffic transit scheme
March 1863, Oct. 1863, and Nov. 1864; the Nicaraguan railway
company limited was registered Nov. 1866, was dissolved July
1868; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1873, barrister G.I. 19 Feb. 1873; went
the western circuit; contested Totnes 12 July 1865; contested
Gravesend 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Gravesend 1874–80; F.R.G.S. Nov.
1851; A.I.C.E. 9 April 1861; member of Anthropological institute
1871 to death, member of council 1871–4; author of An earnest
appeal on behalf of the missing Arctic expedition 1857, 5 ed. 1857;
The gate of the Pacific 1863; An essay on feudal tenures 1871; War
chronicle, with memoirs of Napoleon III and of the emperor king
William I 1873; The Eastern question, past, present and future
1877; Gems from Greenwich hospital 1881; author with Beethold
Seeman of Dottings on the roadside in Panama, Nicaragua, and
 Mosquito 1869. d. Deal 30 Sept. 1886, memorial brass tablet and
window at west end of church of Seamen’s institute, Bristol. Min. of
proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxviii 448–54 (1887).
PIM, J (son of Thomas Pim, merchant, Dublin). b. 1806;
partner in firm of Pim Brothers & Co. poplin manufacturers, cotton
spinners, linen weavers, and flour millers 22 William st. Dublin;
M.P. Dublin city 17 July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; contested Dublin 7
Feb. 1874; author of The condition and prospects of Ireland 1848;
Ireland and the imperial parliament 1871. d. Greenbank,
Monkstown, co. Dublin 6 July 1885.
PIM, T (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim Brothers
& Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and of
Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market,
Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of
Royal yacht club. d. Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.
PINCHIN, R . b. 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph Bazalgette
to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa 1846, where he
laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death; partner with G. W.
Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H. L. Spindler acquired the
lands for the government railways by private agreements with the
owners 1872–9; partner with H. L. Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.;
A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. d. Port Elizabeth 9 May 1888. Min. of proc. of
Instit. of C.E. xcv 388 (1889).
PINCKARD, G H (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court Barton,
Devon, d. 1839). b. Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary and actuary
of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance co. 1839–58, a
director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court, Chiddingfold, near
Godalming from 1862, where he was famous as a breeder of Devon
cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at Islington took the chief
prize; a liberal contributor to church restoration funds in Surrey and
Devonshire. d. Combe court 23 July 1892. The Times 26 July 1892
p. 9.
PINCKNEY, F G A . Ensign 73 foot 8 April
1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858. d. off
Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.
PINCOFFS, P . M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840,
where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841; in
 Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond. 1847; in
Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female penitentiary;
civil physician to English hospital at Scutari 1854–6, established a
medical school at Pera; attached to lord Dufferin’s mission to
Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec. 1861; author of Military
sanatoria, letter on the introduction of mineral water establishments
for the army 1856; Experiences of a civilian in Eastern military
hospitals 1857. d. Munich 17 July 1872. Medical times and gazette
ii 165–6 (1872).
PINDER, F F (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa, Bath).
b. 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844;
special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857, went western
circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of inland revenue Jany.
1872 to death; edited A treatise on the principles of pleading in civil
actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder
1860. d. 129 Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.
PINDER, G . b. 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut. col. 2
Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. d. Clifton 14 Jany. 1881.
PINDER, J H (son of Francis Ford Pinder of Barbadoes).
b. 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius coll. Camb., B.A.
1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington college, Barbadoes
1830–5; principal of Wells theological college 1840–65; precentor
of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to death; prebendary of Wells
1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to death; author of Sermons on
the Book of common prayer 1837, 2 ed. 1844; The candidate for the
ministry, a course of lectures 1837; Sermons for holy days 1850;
Meditations and prayers on the ordination service for deacons and
priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. d. West Malvern 16 April 1868. bur. in West
Malvern churchyard. G.M. May 1868 p. 783.
PINE, S B C C (eld. son of Benjamin Chilley
Pine of Tunbridge Wells). b. 1813; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A.
1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831, barrister 28 April
1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer 1885; queen’s advocate
at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting governor of Sierra Leone
1848–9, when he put down the civil war in the Sherbro river
district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849 to March 1856; enforced
the submission of the Amabacas 1855, governor of the Gold Coast
colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857;
 lieut. governor of St. Christopher, West Indies May 1859; acting
governor of Antigua 1866; governor of Western Australia 10 Sept.
1868; governor-in-chief of the Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May
1873; governor of Natal 31 May 1873, retired on pension of £750,
10 April 1875; K.C.M.G. 29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the
African colonies in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape
of Good Hope x 711–16, and others. d. Wimpole st. London 25 Feb.
1891. The Times 2 March 1891 p. 7.
PINE, R . Employed on important missions to native kings and
chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk of the
councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia 1855–62;
governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866; registrar of
courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870. d. 6 Feb. 1878.
PINHEY, R . b. 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26 Aug.
1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army 15
Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending
surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1 May
1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board
1843–6. d. Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.
PINK, C R (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester). b.
Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled to
Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London 1873–
4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the Chilworth
and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an associate of
Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886; designed many
houses and schools and a few churches chiefly in Hampshire 1875–
88; served on committee of Architectural association till 1885,
president 1885–6; author of Notes on heraldy 1884; Architectural
education 1886. d. Hyde, near Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial
brass in Soberton church. Pink memorial (1889) portrait; Journal of
proc. of royal instit. of British architects v 172, 314 (1889).
PINKERTON, A . b. Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped to
America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established
Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the
escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service division
of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its first chief;
added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps of night watchmen
called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had branches at New
 York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire and the detective
1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of the rebellion 1883;
Thirty years a detective 1884; and other books. d. Chicago 1 July
1884. Appleton’s American biography v 25 (1888); Harper’s Mag.
xlvii 720–7 (1873).
PINKETT, F F (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of
Barnstaple). b. about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany. 1855,
lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the Ionian
Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T. 19 Nov.
1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of Sierra Leone
April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement June 1880,
administered government of the West African settlements 3 May to
27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883; acting chief justice and
member of executive and legislative councils May 1881; chief
justice of the West Africa settlements 31 Aug. 1882 to death; author
of Numerical and alphabetical index of the ordinances of Sierra
Leone 1887. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. Law Times 11
June 1887 p. 108.
PINKS, W J . b. Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29 Sept.
1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde, bookbinder
8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in London a few
years; contributed articles to Notes and queries, the Builder,
Illustrated London news, and other periodicals; a permanent paid
contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now the Daily Chronicle);
employed in collecting materials for a History of Clerkenwell 1854
to his death, the first edition appeared in 1865 after his death; his
articles entitled Country trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches,
and the Streets of Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News;
author of Country trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860,
volume i, no more published. d. at Wm. Green’s residence 30
Granville sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. bur. Highgate cemet. 19
Nov., memorial stone erected by subscription. Memoirs of W. J.
Pinks (1861); W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell, 2 ed. (1881)
memoir pp. v–viii portrait.
PINNEY, C (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed
surname of Pinney 1762). b. 29 April 1793; partner with E. Case at
Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received £3,572 as
compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833; mayor of
Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the mob at Bristol 29
 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion house, bishop’s palace,
custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military fired on the people killing
about 16 and wounded 100, the captured rioters were tried by a
special commission at Bristol Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and
22 transported; he was tried in court of king’s bench for neglect of
duty as mayor during the riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2
Nov.; alderman of Bristol 1836. d. Camp house, Clifton 17 July
1867. W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii 273–355 (1850); Trial
of Charles Pinney (1833); Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 146–
79, 188, 212; Nicholls and Taylor’s Bristol iii 325–38 (1882); P. C.
Scarlett’s Memoir of James, first lord Abinger (1877) 350–402.
PINNOCK, W H (son of Wm. Pinnock, publisher and author
1782–1843). b. 1813; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1850, LL.D.
1855; admitted LL.D. at Oxford 1859; C. of Somersham, Hunts.
1846–70; English chaplain at Chantilly, France 1870–6; C. in
charge of All Saints, Dalston, London 1876–7; V. of Pinner, Herts.
1879 to death; edited W. Pinnock’s History of England made easy,
new ed. 1847; wrote a continuation of Pinnock’s Abridgment of
Goldsmith’s History of England, 46 ed. 1858; edited Clerical papers
on church and parishioners, 6 vols. 1852–63; author of The laws
and usages of the church and clergy, the unbeneficed clerk, 2 ed.
1854; Rubrics for communicants explanatory of the holy
communion office 1863; The law of the rubric and the transition
period of the church of England 1866; The church key, belfry key
and organ key 1870; The Bible and contemporary history: an
epitome of the history of the world from the creation to the end of
the old testament, edited by E. M. B., 2 vols. 1887. d. Pinner
vicarage 30 Nov. 1885. The Times 5 Dec. 1885 p. 9.
PINSENT, S R J (son of Robert John Pinsent, a judge in
Newfoundland). b. Newfoundland 1834; called to the bar of
Newfoundland 1856; Q.C. 1865; member of legislative council
1859; acting attorney general 1869; solicitor general 1873; judge of
the supreme court 1880 to death; knighted by patent 12 June 1890;
D.C.L. from the archbishop of Canterbury Feb. 1881; author of
Newfoundland, our oldest colony in Proceedings of Royal Colonial
institution 1884–85, pp. 215–72, and of articles in magazines upon
the French treaty question 1889. d. Bintry rectory, Norfolk 27 April
1893.
PINSON, A . Entered Madras army 1817; lieut. 21 Madras N.I. 29
Oct. 1818; captain 46 N.I. 3 June 1826, major 31 Dec. 1844 to 20
April 1853; lieut. col. 17 N.I. 20 April 1853 to 1854, of 2 N.I.
1854–6, of 32 N.I. 1856–7, of 39 N.I. 1857–8, and of 37 N.I. 1858
to 31 Dec. 1861, when he retired with rank of M.G. d. 12 Nov.
1865.
PINSUTI, C E . b. Sinalunga, near Siena 9 May 1829; educ. in
Rome, where he gave a concert when aged 11; Henry Drummond,
M.P. brought him to London and placed him under the tuition of
Cipriani Potter at Royal academy of music; pianist; studied at
Bologna conservatoire 1845; returned to England 1848; professor at
Royal academy of music, London 1856–85; wrote 3 operas Il
merccante de Venezia 1873, Mattia Corvino 1877, and Margherita;
composer of There is a reaper 1844; Excelsior, a romance 1850; Te
Deum 1860; The sea hath its pearls, part song 1865; After the rain,
two part song 1867; Tell me not in mournful numbers 1869; Dreams
only dreams, song 1873; I fear no foe, a song 1876; Tell me where
is fancy bred, a part song 1884; author of Hints to teachers on
singing 1880; his name is attached to upwards of 500 pieces of
music. d. of cerebral apoplexy while playing the piano at Florence
10 March 1888. The Times 15 March 1888 p. 6.
PINTI, R . b. near Rome 1826; came to London when a young
man; dealer in Italian works of art 46 Berners st. London 1860 to
death; his knowledge of Italian pictures, sculptures, etc. and his
connection with Italy enabled him to bring many important works
of art to England; picture restorer. d. 28 Langham st. London 30
July 1881. Academy ii 128 (1881); Times 11 Aug. 1881 p. 10, col. 3.
PINWELL, G J . b. London 26 Dec. 1842; worked for the
brothers Dalziel as a designer and drawer on wood 1863; illustrated
the Sunday magazine, Good words, Once a week, and other
periodicals; associate of Society of painters in water-colours 1869,
member 1870; exhibited at Dudley gallery 1865; an honorary
member of Belgian society of painters in water-colours; his picture
entitled Strolling players was engraved by Charles Cousen for the
Art Journal 1873, and The elixir of love was etched by R. W.
Macbeth, A.R.A. 1885; he illustrated H. Lushington’s The happy
home 1864; R. W. Buchanan’s Ballad stories of the affection 1866;
and Jean Ingelow’s Poems 1867. d. Adelaide road, Haverstock hill,
London 8 Sept. 1875. bur. Highgate cemet. 11 Sept. A catalogue of
 pictures by G. Mason and G. Pinwell exhibited at Birmingham
March 1895, with an essay by H. Quilter 1895; Roget’s History of
the old water-colour society ii 396–9 (1891); Good words xxix 814
(1888); I.L.N. 18 Sept. 1875 p. 285 portrait; Graphic xii 328 (1875)
portrait.
PIOZZI-SALUSBURY, S J S (2 son of Giambattista
Piozzi of Brescia, Lombardy, merchant). b. Brescia 1793; assumed
additional surname of Salusbury 4 Dec. 1813; sheriff of Flintshire
1816; knighted at Carlton house 21 April 1817, on presenting an
address to the Prince Regent. d. Cheltenham 18 Dec. 1858. G.M.
Feb. 1859 p. 208.
PIPER, R S . b. 1790 or 1791; 2 lieut. R.E. 10 Jany. 1809,
lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1841, retired on full pay 2 Feb. 1848; served six
campaigns in the Peninsula, France, and Flanders March 1810 to
Jany. 1816; commanding engineer in the Kandian provinces during
insurrection of 1817–18; general 1 Jany. 1868; he wrote A
memorandum of the manner in which the repairs of the chain pier at
Brighton have been executed, in Papers of Corps of Royal
engineers ii 122–7 (1844). d. 7 New Steine, Brighton 26 Dec. 1873.
PIPER, S E . b. Ipswich 1813; educ. Univ. coll. London;
L.S.A. 1838; M.R.C.S. 1838, F.R.C.S. 1853; joined the army
medical staff 1836; served against Don Carlos in Spain, where he
was shot in the chest 1836; settled at Darlington 1841; consulting
surgeon Darlington hospital; president North of England British
medical association. d. Orwell house, Darlington 24 Aug. 1894. The
Lancet 8 Sept. 1894 p. 601.
PIPON, J K . b. 1806 or 1807; ensign 94 foot 3 Aug. 1826,
captain 6 March 1835; captain 85 foot 15 July 1836, placed on h.p.
31 March 1843; major on h.p. 8 April 1859; brevet colonel 20 June
1857; inspector general of militia 8 May 1863 to death; officiating
judge advocate at the court martial on colonel Thomas Robert
Crawley, held at Aldershot camp 17 Nov. to 23 Dec. 1863; author
with John Francis Collier of Manual of military law for all ranks of
the army, militia, and volunteer services 1860, 3 ed. 1863. d. Alne
vicarage, Yorkshire 7 June 1868. Illust. times 28 Nov. 1863 p. 345
portrait.
PIRIE, S J , 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Pirie of Dunse,
Berwickshire). b. Berwick upon Tweed or Aberdeen 18 Sept. 1781;
 merchant ship broker and shipowner at 5 Pope’s Head alley, London
1807; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1831; alderman of ward of
Cornhill 1834 to death; lord mayor of London 1841; created baronet
13 April 1842, in consequence of the birth of a prince of Wales
during his mayoralty; president of St. Thomas’s hospital, London
1842 to death; contested city of London 28 June 1841. d. Champion
hill, Camberwell 26 Feb. 1851. G.M. xxxv 551 (1851); I.L.N. 8
March 1851 p. 200.
PIRIE, W R (2 son of George Pirie, D.D. minister of
Slains, Aberdeenshire). b. manse of Slains 26 July 1804; studied at
Univ. and King’s college, Aberdeen 1817–21, and 1821–5, D.D.
1844; licensed to preach by presbytery of Ellon 1825; minister of
parish of Dyce 1830; minister of Greyfriars church, Aberdeen
1846–7; professor of divinity in Marischal college and univ. of
Aberdeen 30 Dec. 1843 to 1860; hon. professor of divinity and
biblical criticism Aberdeen univ. 15 Sept. 1860 to 1876, and
principal Dec. 1876 to death; moderator of the general assembly 19
May 1864; the chief advocate for the abolition of patronage in the
Church of Scotland, which was abolished by act of parliament
1874; author of The independent jurisdiction of the church
vindicated 1838; Some notice of the rev. Andrew Gray 1840; An
inquiry into the constitution, power, and processes of the human
mind 1858; The position, principles and duties of the church of
Scotland 1864; Natural theology, an inquiry into the fundamental
principles of religions, moral and political science 1867. d.
Aberdeen 3 Nov. 1885. In memoriam, W. R. Pirie (1888); Scott’s
Fasti Scoticanæ iii, part ii, p. 501, 516, 898.
PIRRIE, W (son of George Pirrie, farmer). b. near Huntly,
Aberdeenshire 1807; educ. Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen, and
univ. of Edinb. and in Paris; M.A. Aberdeen 1825; M.D. Edinb.
1829, hon. LL.D. 1875; lecturer on anatomy and physiology in the
joint medical schools of King’s and Marischal colleges, Aberdeen
1830–9; regius professor of surgery in Marischal college 1839–60;
professor of surgery in univ. of Aberdeen 1860–82; the leading
surgeon in north Scotland for 20 years; known by sobriquet of The
Baron; author of The principles and practice of surgery 1852, 3 ed.
1873; On hay asthma and hay fever 1867; author with Wm. Keith of
Acupressure an excellent method of arresting surgical hæmorrhage
 1867. d. 253 Union st. Aberdeen 21 Nov. 1882. Medical times and
gazette ii 681 (1882).
PISTRUCCI, B (2 son of Federico Pistrucci, judge of the high
criminal court of Rome). b. Rome 29 May 1784; a gem-engraver at
Rome 1800; went to Paris Dec. 1814, and to London 1815;
designed the St. George and the dragon on the reverse of the gold
coinage 1817, which is still in use; an outside assistant at the mint
1816, acted as chief engraver from 22 Sept. 1817, chief medallist
1828; engraved part of the coinage at end of reign of George III,
and all the coins of early part of George IV; engraved the coronation
medal of George IV 1820–1, and of Victoria 1838; made the silver
seal of the duchy of Lancaster in 15 days by a new process of his
invention 1838; resided at the Mint 1817–49; made cameos and
intaglios for which he obtained high prices; made busts of the duke
of Wellington and of Pozzo di Borgo; was paid £3,500 for the
famous Waterloo medallion 1850. d. Flora lodge, Englefield Green,
near Windsor 16 Sept. 1855. A. Billing’s Science of gems (1875) 3,
224; F. P. Weber’s Medals by foreign artists (1894) 62–7; N.
Carlisle’s Memoir of W. Wyon (1837) 43 etc.; G.M. Oct. 1856 pp.
653–6.
N .—In the British museum with the shelf mark 10825 d. 28 is A collection of letters, etc.
from newspapers and magazines on B. Pistrucci and W. Wyon as medallists.
PITCAIRN, D . b. 1800; licensed 6 Oct. 1824; presbyterian minister
of Evie and Rendall, Kirkwall, Orkney islands 13 May 1830 to 29
Sept. 1846; D.D. of Edinb. univ. 24 April 1867; resided at Torquay
from 1846; author of Pastoral letters to his parishioners 1840, 2 ed.
1847; Perfect peace, letters memorial of J. W. Howell 1844, 10 ed.
1852; Christ our rest 1845; Zion’s king, the second Psalm
expounded 1851; The bud of promise, a memoir of E. H. M.
Graeme 1854; Pentecostal blessings 1862; The ages of the earth
1868. d. 4 Jany. 1870. Scott’s Fasti Scoticanæ, vol. 3 part 1 p. 382.
PITCAIRN, S J (eld. son of Robert Pitcairn, vicar of
Englishcombe, Somerset). b. Little Bedwin, Wilts. 1776; F.R.C.S. 7
June 1798; surgeon to the forces in Holland 1799, and in Egypt
1801; deputy inspector general of military hospitals in Ireland 1803,
and inspector general 2 July 1847 to 24 Aug. 1852, when he retired
on half pay; knighted 1837. d. 3 Haddington road, Dublin 12 Jany.
1859.
PITCAIRN, R (2 son of Robert Pitcairn, writer to the signet and
principal keeper of the register of deeds). b. Edinburgh 1793; a
writer to the signet 21 Nov. 1815; assistant to the deputy clerk
register in H.M.’s register house a long time, one of the four official
searchers of records for incumbrances in the register house 1853 to
death; employed in making an Abridgment of the register of the
great seal of Scotland 1824, for the Record commission; edited for
the Abbotsford club Historical memoirs of Mary, queen of Scots
1836; for the Bannatyne club Criminal trials in Scotland 1833, and
3 other works; for the Wodrow society The autobiography of J.
Melvill 1842; he also edited Collections relating to the funeralls of
Mary, queen of Scots 1822; Historical account of the principal
families of Kennedy 1830. d. 9 Northumberland st. Edinburgh 16
July 1855. Record commission, the case of Robert Pitcairn (1835).
PITCAIRN, T (son of Alexander Pitcairn, merchant). b.
Edinburgh 6 Feb. 1800; educ. Edinb. divinity hall; assistant
presbyterian minister at Cockpen, Dalkeith 1828, then minister
1833–43; clerk to the synod of Lothian and Tweddale 1836; clerk of
Free church general assembly 1843; minister of Free church at
Bonnyrig, Dalkeith 1843 to death; edited Acts of the general
assembly of the church of Scotland 1843. d. Bonnyrig 21 Dec.