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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Welfare economics
A) examines the social desirability of alternative economic states.
B) does not depend on market interactions.
C) uses only concepts of efficiency to evaluate the alternatives.
D) only looks at the poorest parts of the economy.
Answer: A
2) The absolute value of the slope of the production possibilities curve is the
A) contract curve. B) marginal rate of transformation.
C) marginal rate of substitution. D) offer curve.
Answer: B
7) A public good is
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B) excludable and rival in consumption.
C) a good that the public must pay for.
D) nonexcludable and nonrival in consumption.
Answer: D
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8) Merit goods
A) increase in costs as demand increases.
B) are provided for those who are well behaved and earn them.
C) should be provided even if there is no demand for them.
D) none of these answers is correct.
Answer: C
10) Movement from an inefficient allocation to an efficient allocation in the Edgeworth Box will
A) decrease the utility of all individuals.
B) increase the utility of all individuals.
C) increase the utility of one individual, but cannot decrease the utility of any individual.
D) increase the utility of at least one individual, but may decrease the level of utility of another
person.
Answer: D
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14) According to the Second Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics,
A) production must be twice as large as consumption.
B) society can attain any Pareto efficient allocation of resources.
C) not all points along the utility possibilities curve are attainable.
D) equity cannot be achieved without inhibiting efficiency.
Answer: B
15) Welfare economics is concerned with individual desirability of alternative economic states.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: B
16) The contract curve is the collection of points where indifference curves are tangent in the Edgeworth
box.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
17) The utility possibilities curve is derived from the contract curve.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
18) When the First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics doesn't hold, there is a market failure.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
19) An example of an activity that generates an externality is pursuing a graduate degree in economics.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
20) Social indifference curves are the same as a social welfare function.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
21) A utility possibilities curve need not incorporate the utility of every individual.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: A
22) For Pareto efficiency, the MRT should not equal the MRS of all individuals.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: B
23) Thegovernment must intervene in markets in order to move the economy to the welfare maximizing
point.
A) True B) False C) Uncertain
Answer: B
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Peckham before Micklethwait by R.L. 1824; cr. baronet 27 July
1838 for a personal service rendered to her majesty and the duchess
of Kent at St. Leonard’s Nov. 1832; sheriff of Sussex 1848. d. Iridge
place, Hurst Green, Sussex 2 Sept. 1853.
PECKOVER, A (son of Jonathan Peckover of Wisbech,
Cambridge, d. 1833). b. 25 Nov. 1803; banker of the firm of
Gurney, Birkbeck, Peckover, and Buxtons of Wisbech and other
places; lord of the manors of Richmond and Vaux; of Sibald’s
Holme house, Wisbech, St. Peter’s, Isle of Ely, Cambridge. d. 10
Dec. 1893, will proved Jany. 1894 for £1,163,286 14 5.
PEDDER, J . b. Newport, Isle of Wight 29 July 1775; went to U.S.
of America about 1832 and engaged in the manufacture of sugar in
Philadelphia; conducted the Farmer’s cabinet, an agricultural
journal, 7 years; edited the Boston Cultivator 1844 to death; author
of a book of conversations entitled Frank, which ran to several
editions; The yellow shoestrings, or obedience to parents 1814, 17
editions; Report made to the beet sugar society of Philadelphia on
the culture in France of the beet root 1836; The farmer’s land
measure, New York 1854. d. Roxbury, Massachusetts 30 Aug. 1859.
PEDDER, J . b. 1825; educ. Univ. coll. Durham, fellow and tutor,
B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; principal of Hatfield hall, Durham Dec.
1853 to 1859; R. of Meldon, Northumberland 1859–70; R. of North
Stoke, near Bath 1870–7. d. 13 Somerset place, Walcot, Bath 12
July 1890.
PEDDER, S J L (eld. son of John Pedder of the Middle
Temple, barrister). b. 1784; educ. Trin. hall, Camb., LL.B. 1822;
barrister M.T. 16 June 1820; first chief justice of Van Diemen’s
Land 1824, retired on a pension Aug. 1854; had a dispute with sir
William Denison the governor of Van Diemen’s Land in 1848;
knighted by patent 26 Nov. 1838; resided at 8 Bedford square,
Brighton. d. 24 March 1859.
PEDDIE, J . Ensign 38 foot 26 Sept. 1805; captain 23 Sept. 1813;
captain 97 foot 25 March 1824; major 95 foot 16 June 1825, placed
on h.p. 25 Oct. 1826; lieut. col. on h.p. 28 Aug. 1827; lieut. col. 31
foot 26 Oct. 1830; lieut. col. 72 foot 20 April 1832; lieut. col. 90
foot 23 Feb. 1838, sold out 17 July 1840; K.H. 1832. d. 1873.
PEDDIE, J C . b. 1795; 2 lieut. 21 foot 4 May 1814, major 5
Dec. 1843 to 2 March 1849; lieut. col. 41 foot 2 March 1849, sold
out 27 Dec. 1850. d. Douglas, Isle of Man during a service in St.
Thomas’ church 13 Nov. 1859.
PEDDIE, J D (son of James Peddie, writer to the signet). b.
Edinburgh 1824; educ. Edinb. univ.; studied law 5 years; architect
1848; built Queen st. hall, Edinb.; designed Cockburn st. Edinb., the
Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A.
10 Feb. 1870, secretary 1870–6, member of council; M.P.
Kilmarnock burghs 1880–5; contested Kilmarnock burghs 1885; a
leader in the disestablishment movement 1880. d. 33 Buckingham
terrace, Edinb. 12 March 1891. Scotsman 13 March 1891 p. 5.
PEDDIE, W (son of James Peddie, presbyterian minister 1758–
1845). b. 15 Sept. 1805; educ. high school and univ. of Edinb. and
Secession divinity hall at Glasgow; licensed to preach May 1827;
colleague to his father at the Bristo street secession chapel, Edinb.
Oct. 1828, sole minister of the chapel 11 Oct. 1845 to death;
moderator of the United Presbyterian synod 1858; D. D. Jefferson
college, Pennsylvania 1843; edited the United Presbyterian
magazine several years; edited Discourses of J. Peddie, D.D. with a
memoir 1846. d. Edinburgh 23 Feb. 1893. United Presbyterian
Magazine April 1893.
PEDLEY, C . b. Hanley, Staffs. 6 Aug. 1821; educ. Independent
college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of
Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at
Cold Springs, near Cobourg, Upper Canada 1864 to death; author of
The history of Newfoundland, from the earliest times to the end of
1860, 1863. d. Cold Springs 17 Feb. 1872. H. J. Morgan’s Bibl.
Canad. (1867) 304.
PEDLEY, M . b. Huddersfield; a bookmaker; owned several horses
which he trained at Danebury; m. a daughter of John Gully and so
became a member of the Danebury confederacy, the others being
John Gully, Harry Hill, Joshua Arnold, and Mr. Turner; won the
Derby with Cossack 1847. d. about 1872. W. Day’s Reminiscences,
2 ed. (1886) 76–8.
PEEBLES, A M . b. 1837; an architect at Highbury
hill 1859, then at Salters’ hall court, Cannon st. London; member of
common council of city of London for ward of Walbrook 1882–5;
F.R.I.B.A.; architect to corporation of city of London 1887 to death,
built the mayor’s court offices and the fruit and vegetable market. d.
23 Marlborough road, St. John’s wood, London 21 May 1891. bur.
Kensal green 25 May. I.L.N. 6 June 1891 p. 735 portrait; City Press
23 May 1891 p. 2.
PEEBLES, A L (son of Thomas Peebles, major 11 foot). b.
Cape Town 30 July 1863; educ. Cheltenham coll.; lieut. Devonshire
regt. 10 March 1883, captain 1 April 1891 to death; adjutant of the
first battalion in Egypt 13 Aug. 1890 to 1894; inspector of small
arms Enfield; in the Waziristan expedition in charge of Maxim
battery; acquainted with Sanskrit, Arabic and other eastern
languages; made improvements in the maxim gun; with the
Devonshire regt. was engaged in bridging the river Panjkora,
Chitral, when fatally wounded 15 April 1895.
PEEBLES, J . b. 1800; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 28 Jany. 1858.
d. 66 Eccles st. Dublin 23 Jany. 1873.
PEEBLES, P C . b. 23 April 1842; head of the firm of A. M.
Peebles and Son of Rishton and Whiteash mills, Lancashire, paper
manufacturers to death: much of his paper was used for illustrated
journals; made improvements in dry printing; member of hon.
artillery co.; kept horses and raced under the name of Mr. Renfrew
from 1874, Thunderstorm took international two years’ old plate at
Kempton park 1885, and Lisbon the great Lancashire handicap in
1888. d. 32 Cleveland sq. Hyde park, London 26 Nov. 1895. bur.
Kensal green 30 Nov. I.L.N. 7 Dec. 1895 p. 694 portrait; Illust. sp.
and dr. news 7 Dec. 1895 p. 467 portrait.
PEED, T T . b. 1825; educ. Royal academy of music under
Domenico F. M. Crivelli from April 1846; amanuensis to D. F. M.
Crivelli; tenor singer and pianist; conducted a singing class at the
academy; lectured on music at Polytechnic institution; conducted a
lecture on the music of the Beggars’ opera; lessee of the Alexandra
theatre, Camden Town, opened 31 May 1873 with his own operetta
Marguerite and Robert Reece’s 3 act drama Friendship or Golding’s
debt; produced The magic pearl, 2 act opera libretto by E. Fitzball,
music by himself 29 Sept. 1873, and Moonstruck, operetta libretto
by R. Reece, music by himself 10 Nov.; composer of Le Tortillon
quadrilles 1843; Waltzes on airs by signor Baroffio 1846; I have not
gold, a song 1859; Faith is over, a ballad 1861; Loving for aye, a
song 1880. d. Margate 9 Nov. 1888. I.L.N. xxxv 243 (1859) portrait.
PEEK, J (6 son of John Peek of Loddiswell, Devon). b. 8 June
1800; tea, coffee and spice dealer 27 Coleman st. London, the firm
being Peek, Brothers, and co. 1819; a founder of the firm of Peek,
Frean, and co., biscuit manufacturers, Dockhead, St. Saviours,
London, which employed 500 hands; father of sir Henry Peek, 1
baronet; resided Kidbrook, Blackheath, Kent. d. Watcombe,
Torquay 23 Jany. 1879. H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 13–17
(1865).
PEEL, A (5 son of rev. Frederick Peel, R. of Willingham, Lincs.)
b. 1826 or 1827; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1848, M.A. 1852;
barrister I.T. 30 Jany. 1852; chief justice of islands of Antigua and
Montserrat 31 Dec. 1869 to death. d. 15 Oct. 1873.
PEEL, J . b. Caldbeck, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1776; eloped with Miss
White of Uldale to Gretna green; maintained at his sole expense a
pack of foxhounds for 55 years; gained a worldwide reputation by a
song of five verses entitled D’ye ken John Peel with his coat so
grey, written by John Woodcock Graves to the old Cumberland tune
of Bonnie Annie in 1824, and is also set to music by Metcalfe;
Graves also wrote 2 poems, Monody on John Peel and At the grave
of John Peel. d. Ruthwaite, Cumberland 13 Nov. 1854. bur.
Caldbeck churchyard. S. Gilpin’s Songs of Cumberland (1866) 408–
15; H. H. Dixon’s Saddle and sirloin (1870) 106; West Cumberland
Times 2 and 9 Oct. 1886.
PEEL, J (5 son of Thomas Peel of Peelfold, Lancashire, calico
printer). b. 4 Feb. 1804; educ. Manchester gram. sch.; a merchant;
M.P. Tamworth 1863–8, and 28 March 1871 to death; contested
Tamworth 17 Nov. 1868. d. Middleton hall, Tamworth 2 April 1872,
personalty under £300,000, 27 July 1872.
PEEL, J (4 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart., d. 1830). b. 22 Aug. 1798;
educ. Rugby 1812–7, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1826,
B.D. and D.D. 1845; V. of Stone, Worcs. 1828 to death; canon
residentiary of Canterbury cathedral 1829–45; dean of Worcester 9
Dec. 1845 to death. d. Waresley house, Worcester 18 Feb. 1875.
I.L.N. lxvi 211, 403 (1875).
PEEL, J (4 son of succeeding). b. 11 April 1829; ensign 34 foot 22
June 1847, captain 25 Nov. 1853; served in Crimean war, severely
wounded; major depôt battalion 1 Oct. 1856, placed on h.p. 23 Oct.
1857; assistant military secretary at Malta 1864–7; A.A.G. S.W.
district 1867–72; A.A. and Q.M.G. home district 1 May 1876 to 10
July 1880; M.G. 11 July 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank
of L.G. 11 July 1885. d. at his residence near Herne Bay 17 Nov.
1892.
PEEL, J (5 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 baronet 1750–1830). b.
Chamber hall, near Bury, Lancs. 12 Oct. 1799; educ. Rugby 1811–
5; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 15 June 1815; lieut. 71 foot 18 Feb. 1819 to
13 Dec. 1821; lieut. grenadier guards 7 Nov. 1822 to 19 May 1825;
major 69 foot 3 Oct. 1826 to 7 June 1827; lieut. col. 53 foot 7 June
1827, placed on h.p. 9 Aug. 1827; L.G. 7 Dec. 1859, sold out of the
army 4 Aug. 1863; M.P. Norwich 1826–30; M.P. Huntingdon 1831–
68; surveyor general of the ordnance 1841–6; secretary of state for
war 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859, and July 1866, resigned 2 March
1867; began racing 1821, won the Two thousand guineas with
Archibald 1832, ran first and second for the Derby with Orlando
and Ionian 1844; sold his stud for 12,000 guineas 18 Aug. 1851;
kept race horses again 1869 to death. d. Marble hall, Twickenham
13 Feb. 1879. bur. Twickenham new cemet. 19 Feb. Famous racing
men. By Thormanby (1882) 120–4; Rice’s British Turf ii 323–7
(1879); Baily’s Mag. iii 273–8 (1861) portrait; New sporting mag.
xv 371 (1838) portrait; Sporting Times 13 Feb. 1875 portrait; Illust.
sp. and dr. news i 201, 202 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 224 (1879)
portrait.
PEEL, J (eld. son of Robert Peel of Accrington house, Lancs.,
d. 16 April 1839). b. 1 May 1806; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1828; barrister M.T. 3 May 1833; contested Cheltenham 24 July
1837 and Clitheroe Lancs. 23 Aug. 1853; resided at Knowlmere
manor, near Clitheroe, where he kept a large flock of Lonk sheep,
his ram Mountain King won 40 first prizes and died 12 Nov. 1864;
bred short horn cattle 1851 to death, lost all his first herd by murrain
1856. d. Knowlmere manor 6 March 1885. H. H. Dixon’s Saddle
and sirloin (1870) 358–65.
PEEL, S L (3 son of Joseph Peel of Bowes farm, Middlesex,
d. 1821). b. 10 Aug. 1799; educ. Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; barrister M.T. 7 May 1824, bencher 8 May
1856 to death, treasurer 3 Dec. 1866; advocate general at Calcutta
1840–2; chief justice of supreme court at Calcutta 11 Feb. 1842,
retired Nov. 1855; knighted by patent 18 May 1842; vice-president
of legislative council at Calcutta 1854–5; gave away in charity his
official income of £8,000, was voted a statue at Calcutta Nov. 1855;
P.C. and paid member of the judicial committee 4 April 1856; a
director of the East India company 1857; D.C.L. Oxford 1858;
president of Guy’s hospital Jany. 1864; author of Horæ Nauseæ
1841, and of A sketch of the life and character of Sir R. Peel 1860.
d. Garden Reach, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 22 July 1884.
PEEL, L (brother of Jonathan Peel 1799–1879). b. 28 June
1801; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1819; one of the secretaries
of the India board; M.P. Cockermouth 1827–30. d. 32 Sussex sq.
Brighton 10 Dec. 1888.
PEEL, S R , 3 Baronet (eld. son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet
1788–1850). b. London 4 May 1822; educ. Harrow 1835–41;
matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 26 May 1841; attaché to British legation
at Madrid 18 June 1844; secretary of legation in Switzerland 2 May
1846, chargé d’affaires there Nov. 1846, resigned on his father’s
death 2 July 1850; M.P. Tamworth 20 July 1850 to 24 March 1880;
shipwrecked off the coast of Genoa in the steamboat Ercolano 24
April 1854; captain in Staffordshire yeomanry 1854–9; a junior lord
of the admiralty March 1855 to May 1857; secretary to lord
Granville’s special mission to Russia at coronation of Alexander II.
July 1856; chief secretary to lord lieutenant of Ireland 26 July 1861,
resigned Nov. 1865; P.C. 25 July 1861; G.C.B. 5 Jany. 1866;
contested Gravesend 1 July 1880; M.P. Huntingdon 21 March 1884,
the borough was disfranchised 18 Nov. 1885; M.P. Blackburn 24
Nov. 1885 to 26 June 1886; contested the Inverness burghs 9 July
1886 and Brighton 25 Oct. 1889; raced on the turf under name of
Mr. F. Robinson from about 1856, bred horses at Bonehill, near
Tamworth; sold his father’s collection of 77 pictures and 18
drawings, including Ruben’s Chapeau de Poil, to the National
gallery for £75,000, March 1871; found dead in his bedroom at 12
Stratton st. Piccadilly, London 9 May 1895. bur. Drayton-Bassett
parish church 16 May. St. Stephen’s Review 9 May 1891 pp. 13–4
portrait; Sporting Times 1 May 1875 pp. 297, 300 portrait; I.L.N.
29 March 1851 p. 254 portrait, and 18 May 1895 p. 606 portrait.
PEEL, S W (3 son of sir Robert Peel, 2 baronet 1788–1850). b. 2
Nov. 1824; midshipman R.N. 7 April 1838; commander 27 June
1846; commanded the Daring on the North American and West
Indies’ station 1847–8; captain 10 Jany. 1849; captain of the
Diamond frigate in the Mediterranean Oct. 1853; served with the
naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol 1854–5, threw a live shell over
the parapet of his battery 18 Oct. 1854; led the ladder party at the
assault on the Redan 18 June 1855; one of the first recipients of the
Victoria cross 24 Feb. 1857; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 21 Jany.
1858; captain of the Shannon, 50 guns, 13 Sept. 1856; formed a
naval brigade at Calcutta July 1857, and served at all the chief
operations during Sepoy mutiny; severely wounded in the thigh in
the second relief of Lucknow 9 March 1858; A.D.C. to the queen 21
Jany. 1858 to death; author of A ride through the Nubian desert
1852. d. Cawnpore 27 April 1858, statues in Eden gardens at
Calcutta and in painted hall, Greenwich, and portrait by John Lucas
in painted hall at Greenwich. I.L.N. xxxviii 68 (1861) view of statue
at Greenwich; E. H. Verney’s The Shannon brigade in India,
account of Peel’s naval brigade in the Indian campaign (1862)
portrait.
PEEL, W Y (2 son of sir Robert Peel, 1 bart. 1750–1830). b.
Chamber hall, Bury 3 Aug. 1789; educ. Harrow and St. John’s coll.
Camb., B.A. 1812, M. A. 1815; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1816; M.P.
Bossiny 1817–8; M.P. Tamworth 1818–30; M.P. Yarmouth, Isle of
Wight 1830; M.P. univ. of Cambridge 1831–5; M.P. Tamworth
again 1835–47; comr. of board of control 2 June 1826 to 4 June
1827; under sec. of state for home department 5 April 1828 to 5
Aug. 1830; a lord of the treasury 31 July 1830 to 24 Nov. 1830, and
31 Dec. 1834 to 18 April 1835; P.C. 20 Dec. 1834. d. Bagington
hall, Warwickshire 1 June 1858. G.M. Aug. 1858 p. 191.
PEELE, E . b. 1838; educ. for musical profession; L.K.Q.C.P.
Ireland and L.M. 1872; M.R.C.S. Ireland 1873; on staff of hospital
for diseases of the throat, Dublin; physician to hospital for
incurables; demonstrator of anatomy royal coll. of surgeons’
medical school; visiting physician to Coombe lying-in hospital. d.
of typhus fever 41 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 18 Feb. 1881. bur.
Mount Jerome cemet. 21 Feb. Medical times and gazette i 416
(1881).
PEENE, W G . b. 1795; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1823,
M.A. 1826, M.L. 1830, M.D. 1833; in practice at Maidstone, Kent.
d. Maidstone 20 June 1853, left £1,700 for purchase of books for
the library of University college, London.
PEER, J . Drove the Southampton Telegraph team, being the crack
whip of his day, dressed in a surtout olive coat, white waistcoat,
buckskin breeches and top boots; always stood in a leaning position
when driving; patronised by the marquis of Worcester, afterwards
duke of Beaufort; started a coach from London to Southampton and
lost his money. d. in poverty Fetter lane, London at an advanced
age. Sporting Review lii 113 (1864); Driving, by the duke of
Beaufort (1889) 245.
PEERS, C (only son of Robert Peers of Chislehampton lodge,
Wallingford, Oxon.) b. 1774; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1799, M.A. 1804; gained Seatonian prize for Christ’s lamentation
over Jerusalem 1805; barrister I.T. 19 Nov. 1802; recorder of
Henley-upon-Thames; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 14 June 1820; sheriff of
Oxfordshire 1821; F.S.A.; author of The siege of Jerusalem, a poem
1823. d. Chislehampton lodge, Oxfordshire 6 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix
551 (1853).
PEET, J . Educ. Univ. college, London; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1841; M.D.
Aberdeen 1866; L.R.C.P. Lond. 1858, F.R.C.P. 1860; assistant
surgeon Bombay army 2 May 1842, surgeon 23 June 1858;
professor of anatomy and of surgery Grant Medical coll. Bombay
Oct. 1845; acting principal of the college 1854–6, principal 1858,
retired 1865; surgeon Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy hospital 1858–65;
member of Medical and physical soc. of Bombay, sec. 1849–53,
president 1863 and 1864, contributed many papers to the
Transactions; author of Principles and practice of medicine 1864,
translated into 3 vernacular languages; resided at Shanklin from
1865. d. Highfields, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 18 Jany. 1874. Medical
times and gazette 7 Feb. 1874 p. 168.
PEET, T . b. Wigan 24 March 1788; educ. Wigan gram. sch.; capt.
Wigan local militia; local sec. of British archæological assoc. at
Manchester 1851; a calico printer at Manchester; director of Union
bank of Manchester; received present of plate from Salford market
committee for his researches which enabled them to establish their
right to the ancient market Feb. 1844. d. Manchester 14 Jany. 1862.
Journal of British Archæol. assoc. xix 155 (1863).
PEILE, T W (eld. son of John Peile of Whitehaven). b.
10 Nov. 1806; educ. Shrewsbury, captain of the school; entered
Trin. coll. Camb. 1824, Davies’ scholar 1824; 18 wrangler 1828;
B.A 1828, M.A. 1831, D.D. 1843; fellow of Trin. coll. 1 Oct. 1829
to 1831; head master of Liverpool collegiate school 1829; P.C. of St
Catherine’s, Liverpool 1831; tutor in univ. of Durham 1834; P.C. of
Croxdale, near Durham 1836; head master of Repton school 1841–
54; V. of Luton, Beds. 1857–60; V. of St. Paul, South Hampstead
Oct. 1860, resigned 1873; edited the Agamemnon of Æschylus
1839, and The Cheophoræ 1840; author of Annotations on the
apostolical epistles, 4 vols. 1847–52; Sermons, doctrinal and
didactic 1866; Three sermons on the holy communion 1871; his
name is attached to upward of 35 works. d. 37 St. John’s Wood
park, London 29 Nov. 1882. bur. Buckhurst Hill churchyard 2 Dec.,
portrait in hall of Repton school. The Guardian 6 Dec. 1882 p.
1716.
PEILL, J N . b. Liverpool 14 Dec. 1808; educ. royal
institution, Liverpool and Queen’s coll. Camb., 7th wrangler and
B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, D.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1832–53,
bursar 1843–50, dean 1850–1 and tutor 1850–3; R. of St. Botolph’s,
Camb. 1843–53; R. of Newton Toney, Wilts. 1853 to death; rural
dean of Amesbury; diocesan inspector of schools; F.R.A.S. 12 Jany.
1869; with his own astronomical instruments made observations at
Newton Toney. d. Newton Toney 12 June 1879. Monthly notices of
Royal Astronomical Society xl 204 (1880).
PEITHMAN, E (son of major Peithman, who fell at Jena). b.
Osnabruck, Hanover 1804; educ. Bonn, Halle and Berlin; L.L.D.;
came to England June 1824; lectured on education in Oxford and
Cambridge; tutor to sons of baron Cloncurry at Lyons, near Dublin
1835, dismissed for refusing to take part against a girl seduced by
one of his pupils; confined in Kilmainham gaol as a lunatic to
prevent his giving evidence in the law courts 1835, transferred to
Dublin house of industry, then to Swift’s hospital; lectured before
university of Dublin and the Royal society; tutor to earl Fortescue’s
sons at Dublin castle to 1840; called twice at Buckingham palace to
obtain situation of librarian to prince Albert 1840, confined in
Bethlehem hospital 1840–54; made calls at Buckingham palace
1854, confined in Hanwell asylum; went to Prussia where his case
was commented on by count Arnim in the Upper chamber; awarded
£100 a year, paid by the British embassy at Berlin. Thomas
Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 38–47.
PELHAM, D A W (younger son of Charles, 1 earl
of Yarborough 1781–1846). b. Stratford place, London 20 April
1812; entered R.N. 4 Aug. 1825, captain 26 Oct. 1840; M.P. Boston
2 Aug. 1849 to death. d. Motcombe st. Belgrave sq. London 13
April 1851. G.M. 664 (1851).
PELHAM, F T (2 son of Thomas, 2 earl of Chichester
1756–1826). b. 2 Aug. 1808; entered navy 27 June 1823; served on
the coast of Spain 1835; commanded the Tweed, 20 guns, on Lisbon
station 1837–8; captain 3 July 1840; commanded Odin steam frigate
in Mediterranean 1847; R.A. 6 March 1858; C.B. 5 July 1855;
K.S.F. of Spain; a lord of the admiralty 27 June 1859 to June 1861.
d. Brighton 21 June 1861. bur. Highgate cemet.
PELHAM, J T (3 son of 2 earl of Chichester 1756–1826). b.
21 June 1811; educ. Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832,
M.A. and D.D. 1857; C. of Eastergate, Sussex 1834–7; R. of Bergh
Apton, Norfolk 1837–52; honorary canon of Norwich cathedral
1847–57; chaplain to the queen 18 June 1847 to 1857; P.C. of Ch.
Ch. Hampstead 1852–5; R. of St. Marylebone, London 27 Dec.
1854 to 1857; bishop of Norwich 30 April 1857, resigned early in
1893, consecrated in Marylebone church 11 June 1857; founded a
diocesan church association for building churches and in 1879 a
diocesan conference; published Hymns for public worship 1855,
and printed 7 charges and sermons. d. Sunnyhill, Thorpe, Norwich 1
May 1894. bur. Berghampton 5 May. Church of England
photographic portrait gallery (1859) part 45 portrait; Black and
White 12 May 1894 p. 571 portrait; I.L.N. xlvii 365 (1865) portrait;
Daily Graphic 1 Feb. 1893 p. 14 portrait.
N .—His fourth, son Herbert Pelham, b. 1855; educ. Haileybury and Magd. coll. Oxf.;
rowed in the Oxford boat against Cambridge 1877 and 1878; B.A. 1878; C. of St. Philip’s,
Heigham, Norfolk 1878 to death; d. at Les Avants, Switzerland 30 May 1881 from injuries
received in a fall while mountain climbing. Times 1 June 1881 p. 12.