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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

3) The marginal rate of substitution is


A) the slope of the utility possibilities curve. B) the slope of the indifference curve.
C) the slope of the contract curve. D) none of these answers is correct.
Answer: B

4) The First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics requires


A) that a market exists for each and every commodity.
B) producers and consumers to act as perfect competitors.
C) that no one has any market power.
D) all of these answers are correct.
Answer: D

5) Points outside the production possibilities curve are


A) endowment points. B) consumer equilibrium points.
C) producible. D) unattainable.
Answer: D

6) Market failure can occur when


A) individuals can influence prices. B) some firms have market power.
C) a market for a commodity does not exist. D) all of these answers are correct.
Answer: D

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

9) A social welfare function


A) is a function that shows that the utilities of society are incorporated into society's well-being.
B) is a function made by the Department of Welfare.
C) can never be derived numerically.
D) all of these answers are correct.
Answer: A

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

11) Points on the utility possibilities curve are


A) inefficient. B) Pareto efficient.
C) points of incomplete preferences. D) not producible.
Answer: B

12) The Edgeworth Box should


A) never touch the production possibilities curve.
B) lie inside the production possibilities curve.
C) lie completely outside of the production possibilities curve.
D) lie partially inside the production possibilities curve.
Answer: B

13) Pareto efficient points in the Edgeworth Box are


A) found when one person cannot be made better off without making another person worse off.
B) found when MRS are equal.
C) found when indifference curves are tangent.
D) all of these answers are correct.
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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Aberdeen public buildings and the Royal bank, Glasgow; A.R.S.A.
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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
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college, Rotherham; pastor at Chelsea-le-Street 1848; pastor of
Congregational church, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1857; pastor at
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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,
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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.
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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.

PELHAM, R W . b. 1816; was often known as R. W. Pell; the


first to introduce negro entertainments in America and England, the
four original Virginia minstrels were R. W. Pelham, F. M. Brower,
D. D. Emmett, and W. Whitlock; took farewell benefit at Park
theatre, New York 19 April 1843, arrived in England 21 May 1843;
gave 5 concerts at Bold st. hall, Liverpool, 6 concerts at the
Athenæum, Manchester, and 6 nights at Queen’s theatre,
Manchester, the first theatre a band of minstrels ever appeared in;
made first appearance at Adelphi theatre, London 19 June 1843,
under John Henry Anderson, at expense of £100 a week; the oldest
manager of negro minstrels in the world. d. 2 Harford st. Liverpool
8 Oct. 1876. bur. Anfield cemetery 11 Oct. G. W. Moore’s Bones
(1870) pp. 3–4, Dedicated to R. W. Pelham.
PELHAM-CLINTON, R R (6 son of 4 duke of Newcastle
1785–1851). b. Clumber 15 Oct. 1820; educ. Eton; matric. from Ch.
Ch. Oxf. 11 Dec. 1839; M.P. North Notts. 17 July 1852 to 6 July
1865; first lieut. Sherwood rangers 1853. d. Earlswood, Reigate 25
July 1867.
PELL, G W . b. New York 1825; the original “Bones” of the
negro entertainments; opened St. James’s theatre, London under
title of the “Ethiopian serenaders” 10 Feb. 1846, Pell was bones,
Harrington concertina, White violin, Stanwood banjo and Germain
tambourine, Juba a real black and a splendid dancer in boots was
also in the company. d. 21 Dec. 1872. bur. St. Helen’s cemetery,
Lancs. 24 Dec.
PELL, M B . b. U.S. of America about 1826; educ. St.
John’s coll. Camb., B. A. 1849, senior wrangler and Smith’s junior
prizeman 1849; fellow of his college March 1850 to March 1852;
the first professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in univ. of
Sydney N.S.W. Jany. or Feb. 1852, retired on a pension 1877;
fellow of the senate of the univ. 1878; barrister of supreme court of
N.S.W. 1863; member of the water and sewerage and the Hunter
river floods preventions commissions; actuary of the Australian
mutual provident society; author of Geometrical illustrations of the
differential calculus 1850. d. Sydney 7 May 1879.
PELL, O C (youngest son of sir Albert Pell, judge of court of
review, d. 1832), b. Pinner hill, Middlesex 3 Sept. 1826; educ.
Rugby 1839–44; first match at Lord’s Marylebone v. Rugby 16 June
1842, a fine back player combined with hard forward hitting to leg,
could throw a ball a great distance; in the university and All
England cricket elevens; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1848, M.A.
1851; barrister L.I. 14 Nov. 1851; took an active part in the public
affairs of Isle of Ely, chairman of bench of magistrates, chairman of
Isle of Ely county council 1888 to death; won many rifle shooting
prizes at Wimbledon, a member of the English eight which defeated
Scotland 1868; lord of the manor and lay rector of Wilburton;
author of A new view of the geldable unit of assessment of
domesday, printed in P. E. Dove’s Domesday studies (1888) vol. i,
pp. 227–385. d. Wilburton manor, Ely 18 Oct. 1891. Lillywhite’s
Cricket scores iii 81 (1863).
PELL, S W O (son of Samuel Pell of Sywell hall,
Northamptonshire). b. 1788; entered navy April 1799; lost his left
leg in the capture of the French frigate Pallas 6 Feb. 1800;
commander 29 March 1810; commanded the Thunder bomb at the
defence of Cadiz 1810–12; captured the Neptune privateer 9 Oct.
1813; captain 1 Nov. 1813; captain of the Menai frigate on the coast
of North America 1814–7; senior officer on the Jamaica station
May 1833 to March 1837; knighted by queen Victoria at St. James’s
palace 19 July 1837; K.C.H. 1837; captain of the Howe 1840;
superintendent of Deptford victualling yard Aug. 1841, then at
Sheerness dockyard; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 17 Dec.
1841 to 18 Feb. 1845; a comr. of Greenwich hospital 18 Feb. 1845;
R.A. 5 Sept. 1848, V.A. 28 Dec. 1855, admiral 11 Feb. 1861. d.
Greenwich hospital 29 Dec. 1869. I.L.N. lvi 82 (1870).
PELLATT, A (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the glass
lenses known as deck lights, d. 21 Jany. 1826). b. 80 High Holborn,
London 27 Nov. 1791; in business with his father at the Falcon
glass works, Holland st. Southwark; took out a patent for crystallo-
ceramic or glass incrustation 1819; took out a patent for
improvements in the manufacture of pressed glass articles 1831, and
another with his brother Frederick for improvements in the
composition of glass 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1838, member of
council 1840; member of court of common council of city of
London 7 years; M.P. Southwark 1852–7; contested Southwark 31
March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for facilitating
dissenter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his bill to define the law
as to crossed cheques was passed and became the act 19 and 20
Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided at Staines 1843 to death; one of
jurors at exhibition of 1862, and wrote the report on glass
manufactures; author of Memoir on the origin, progress and
improvement of glass manufactures 1821; Brief memoir of the Jews
in relation to their civil and municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities
of glass making 1849. d. of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law
Mr. Field, Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. Min. of proc. of Instit. of
C.E. xxiii 511 (1863); H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 67–9 (1865);
Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 166; I.L.N. xxii 237
(1853) portrait.
N .—In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for which Venice was so
celebrated.

PELLEGRINI, C (son of a land owner). b. Capua, Italy March


1839; dissipated his fortune in Naples where he led the fashion;
fought as a volunteer under Garibaldi at the Volturno and at Capua
1861; came to London Nov. 1864; drew caricatures of statesmen
and other public characters, these appeared in Vanity Fair weekly
from 30 Jany. 1869 to his death, the first few caricatures were
signed Singe, but all the rest Ape; executed a statuette in red plaster
of Robert Lowe standing on a matchbox 1871; painted portraits in
oils of sir Edwin Watkin, sir Algernon Borthwick and other friends;
exhibited at the R.A. 1878, and several times at the Grosvenor
gallery; gave his name to a cigarette. d. 53 Mortimer st. Cavendish
sq. London 22 Jany. 1889. bur. St. Mary’s R.C. cemet. Kensal
Green. Vanity Fair 26 Jany. 1889 pp. 55, 67, also 27 April 1889 p.
309 portrait; Pall Mall Budget 2 March 1893 p. 313 portrait;
London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 11 portrait.
PELLEW, S F B R (2 son of 1 viscount
Exmouth 1757–1833). b. 13 Dec. 1789; entered navy March 1799,
commander 12 Oct. 1807; captain of the Phæton, 38 guns, 14 Oct.
1808 to Aug. 1812; served at reduction of the Mauritius 1810 and of
Java 1811; captain of the Révolutionnaire, 46 guns, Aug. 1818,
placed on h.p. June 1822; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 25 Jany. 1836;
knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836; naval A.D.C. to the
queen 4 July 1842 to 9 Nov. 1846; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; commander-
in-chief on the East India and China stations 6 Dec. 1852, was
recalled 19 Jany. 1854 in consequence of a mutiny on board the
Winchester caused by his refusing the men leave at Hongkong Sept.
1853; V.A. 22 April 1853, admiral 13 Feb. 1858. d. Marseilles 28
July 1861.
PELLEW, G (brother of preceding). b. Flushing, Cornwall 3 April
1793; educ. Eton 1808–11, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1815, M.A.
1818, B.D. and D.D. Nov. 1828; V. of Nazeing, Essex 16 Feb. 1819;
V. of Sutton Galtres, Yorkshire 22 Nov. 1820; seventh canon in
Canterbury cathedral 14 Nov. 1822 to 1828; R. of St. George-the-
Martyr, Canterbury 27 Dec. 1826 to 1828; prebendary of York
1824–52; R. of St. Dionis Backchurch London 1828–52; dean of
Norwich 27 Nov. 1828 to death; R. of Great Chart, Kent 1852 to
death; author of A letter to sir Robert Peel on the means of
rendering cathedral churches most conducive to the efficiency of
the established church 1837; The life and correspondence of H.
Addington, first viscount Sidmouth, 3 vols. 1847; Sermons on many
of the leading doctrines and duties taught by the church of England,
2 vols. 1848. d. Great Chart rectory 13 Oct. 1866. Boase and
Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. ii 441, iii 1307 (1874–82); Boase’s
Collect. Cornub. (1890) 697; Church of England photographic
portrait gallery 1859, portrait 46.
PELLY, S H C , 3 Baronet (1 son of sir John Henry Pelly,
2 baronet 1809–64). b. Balls park, near Hertford 23 April 1844;
succeeded 20 Dec. 1864; cornet 2 light dragoons 2 Sept. 1862, lieut.
26 May 1865; captain 2 life guards 19 Oct. 1872, retired 25 June
1873; major 15 Middlesex volunteers 12 May 1875 to death; M.P.
Hunts. 13 Feb. 1874 to death. d. 4 June 1877.
PELLY, H J (3 son of John Hinde Pelly of Bombay civil
service 1786–1852). b. 9 Jany. 1818; ensign 16 Bombay N.I. 11
July 1835; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 13 Oct. 1836, major 1 Oct. 1859;
served in Scinde 1840–7; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 1 March
1861; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on unemployed supernumerary
list 1 July 1881; thrown from his carriage while driving through
Hereford 9 Dec. d. Wye bank, Tower road, Hereford 10 Dec. 1891.
Hereford Journal 12 Dec. 1891 p. 8.
PELLY, S J H 1 Baronet (eld. son of Henry Hinde Pelly of
Upton house, near Bow, Essex, captain H.E.I. co. 1744–1818). b. 31
March 1777; a director of Hudson’s Bay company 1806, deputy
governor 1812–23, governor 1823 to death; sent exploring parties
under Dease and Simpson for discovery of the north west passage
and the coast line of North America, Cape Pelly marks on the map
the eastern extremity of Dease and Simpson strait; elder brother of
the Trinity house 1823, deputy master 1834–52; a director of the
Bank of England 1839 to death, deputy governor 1839–41,
governor 1841–2; created baronet 12 Aug. 1840; F.R.S. 2 April
1835. d. Upton house, Essex 13 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 527–8
(1852); I.L.N. xxi 130, 187 (1852).
PELLY, S L (brother of Henry Joseph Pelly 1818–91). b. Hyde
house, Minchinhampton, Stroud 14 Nov. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838–
40; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1841; assistant to the resident at
the court of Baroda 1851–2; A.D.C. to general John Jacob in the
Persian war 1857; secretary of legation at Teheran 1859, chargé
d’affaires there 1860; sent on a special mission through Afghanistan
and Baluchistan 1860; political agent and consul at Zanzibar 1861;
political resident on the Persian gulf Nov. 1862 to Nov. 1872; lieut.
col. Bombay staff corps 12 Dec. 1866; went with Bartle Frere on an
anti-slavery mission to the east coast of Africa and Arabia 1872–3;
chief comr. to the states of Rajputana 1873–5; special comr. to
investigate the disordered condition of Baroda 30 Nov. 1874, he
arrested the gaekwar of Baroda Jany. 1875 who was tried by a
commission and deposed; sent to Pesháwar as envoy-extraordinary
for Afghan affairs Dec. 1876, recalled March 1877; placed on
unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1882; general 31 March
1892; M.P. North Hackney 25 Nov. 1885 to death; C.S.I. 8 Dec.
1868, K.C.S.I. 30 May 1874; K.C.B. 6 Aug. 1877; author of The
views and opinions of brigadier-general John Jacob, C.B. 1858;
Journal of a journey from Persia to India 1866; The miracle play of
Hasan and Husain: collected from oral tradition, 2 vols. 1879. d.
Falmouth 22 April 1892. Graphic xviii 508 (1878) portrait; I.L.N.
30 April 1892 p. 543 portrait; Pictorial World 30 April 1892 p. 3
portrait.
PELLY, S M (brother of preceding). b. 28 March 1819;
educ. Winchester; at Guy’s hospital; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1859;
assistant surgeon Bombay service 2 June 1841; served in Sind 1843,
and with the Sind irregular horse in sir C. Napier’s campaign 1844–
5; with the army of observation at Bhawalpoor 1846–7, and at
pacification of Sind frontier 1847–8; served in Rajpootana during
the mutiny 1857–8, and as senior medical officer was present at
attack on Nimbhaira, the action of Feerun, the siege of Neemuch
and the pursuit of Tantia Topee, Indian medal and clasp for Central
India; principal medical officer of Indian medical department in
Abyssinian campaign 1867–8; C.B. 25 Aug. 1868; deputy inspector
general of hospitals Poona and Southern division 4 April 1867,
retired as inspector general 1870; resided in Dublin some years. d.
Woodstock house, Burnt Ash hill, Lee, Kent 3 April 1895.
PEMBERTON, C P (elder son of Christopher Robert
Pemberton of Newton, Cambs. 1801–84). b. May 1838; ensign
Scots fusilier guards 21 Dec. 1855, captain and lieut. col. 22 Aug.
1868, sold out 20 Oct. 1869; military correspondent of The Times
during Franco-Prussian war in the 4 German army corps under the
crown prince of Saxony 1870; author of The Scapegoat. By Leo, 2
vols. 1869, a novel; generally known as Kit Pemberton; killed by a
chassepot bullet in battle of Sedan between Daigny and Fond de
Givonne 1 Sept. 1870. bur. in churchyard of Newton, Cambs. 3
Dec. I.L.N. 1 Oct. 1870 p. 336 portrait, 10 Jany. 1874 p. 44, view of
monument; Times 10 Sept 1870 p. 6, 11 Oct p. 6, 2 Dec. p. 7, 5 Dec.
p. 11.
PEMBERTON, E L (2 son of Robert Pemberton, barrister of
Bispham hall, Lancs. and brother of 1 baron Kingsdown 1793–
1867). b. 18 Feb. 1795; admitted solicitor 1816; practised in
London 1816–69; member of council of Incorporated law society
24 June 1845 to death, vice-president 1856–7, president 1857–8. d.
Torry hill, near Sittingbourne, Kent 12 March 1877. Solicitors’
Journal 24 March 1877 p. 399.
PEMBERTON, E L . b. U.S. of America 1844; educ. in
England; devoted himself to the collection of postage stamps 1859;
author with Thornton Lewes of Forged stamps and how to detect
them 1863; edited The philatelical journal 1872–5; author of The
philatelical catalogue, Dawlish 1874; The stamp collector’s
handbook 1874, 2 ed. 1878; dealer in postage stamps at
Southampton to decease. d. Southampton 12 Dec. 1878. The
Philatelic Record i 2 (1879–80) with portrait.
PEMBERTON, G (only son of Stephen Pemberton of Oriel coll.
Oxf. 1743–1831). b. 15 May 1784; cornet 2 life guards 19 March
1808, lieut. 10 Dec. 1808; lieut. 23 dragoons 15 Aug. 1812, sold out
22 April 1813; F.R.S. 11 Feb. 1813. d. Bainbridge, Holme, Durham
6 April 1851.
PEMBERTON, G R . b. 1790; entered Bengal army 1805;
ensign 2 Bengal N.I. 18 Oct. 1806, lieut. 1809–15; captain 56 N.I. 1
May 1824, lieut. col. 11 Feb. 1839 to 1840; lieut. col. of 67 N.I.
1840–45; lieut. col. of 62 N.I. 1845, colonel 19 March 1849 to
death; L.G. 6 Sept. 1862. d. York house, Chertsey 28 April 1866.
PEMBERTON, H L (6 son of Edward Leigh Pemberton 1795–
1877). b. 1837; solicitor 1860, member of firm of Pemberton,
Garth, and Cope 5 New court, Carey st. London; solicitor to the
Suitors’ fund of the court of chancery Dec. 1871; official solicitor to
chancery division of the supreme court 1875, and to supreme court
of judicature 1876 to death; solicitor to honourable society of
Lincoln’s Inn to death. d. 20 Elvaston place, Queen’s gate, London
29 March 1895. Law Journal 6 April 1895 p. 238.
PEMBERTON, J . L.S.A. 1845; proprietor and medical
superintendent of Droitwich lunatic asylum. d. Droitwich 4 May
1854.
PEMBERTON, M (eld. son of Thomas Seaton Pemberton of St.
Kitts, West Indies). b. 28 Sloane st. Chelsea 1838; educ. Brighton
college 1853–5; called to West Indian bar about 1868, practised in
Antigua many years; acting solicitor general of Nevis July 1870;
deputy judge of vice-admiralty court of Leeward islands 1880, and
acting attorney general July 1884 to 1887; barrister L.I. 17 Nov.
1886. d. Datchet, near Windsor 16 Dec. 1887. Law Times 31 Dec.
1887 p. 162.
PEMBERTON, S T (eld. son of Robert Pemberton of Nevis,
West Indies). b. Nevis 29 June 1811; called to bar at Nevis about
1838; member of house of assembly many years; Q.C. Nevis 1848,
solicitor general 1850–9; attorney general for Antigua 1859; chief
justice of Dominica 1860; second puisne judge of Leeward islands
1871, and first puisne judge 1888 to death; acting president of
Dominica 1881; refused chief justiceship of British Honduras and
of the Bahamas. d. Queen’s house, Nevis 29 June 1889. Law Times
28 Sept. 1889 p. 359.
PEMBROKE, G R C H , 13 Earl of (1 son of
Sidney Herbert, 1 baron Herbert of Lea 1810–61). b. 5 Carlton
gardens, London 6 July 1850; succeeded to the peerage as 2 baron
Herbert of Lea 2 Aug. 1861; succeeded his uncle Robert, 12 earl of
Pembroke 25 April 1862; educ. Eton 1862–5; under sec. of state for
war March 1874 to May 1875; with Dr. George Kingsley travelled
in Australia and the South Seas 1867–70, the result being a volume
entitled South Sea bubbles, by the Earl and the Doctor 1872, 3 ed.
1895; also author of Roots, a plea for tolerance 1873, 2 ed. 1888
anon; Liberty and socialism 1885; he also wrote Yachts’ Sailing
boats, in Yachting vol. i, pp. 203–40 (Badmington library 1894);
hereditary visitor of Jesus coll. Oxf.; high steward of Wilton;
captain 1 Wilts. rifle volunteers 2 Jany. 1872, major 3 June 1874; a
county councillor for Wiltshire; vice-commodore Royal Cinque
ports yacht club Dover 1872; was 6 feet 4 inches high. d. Bad-
Neuheim, Frankfort, Germany 3 May 1895. bur. at Wilton.
Waagen’s Treasures of art iii 142–65 (1854); Baily’s Mag. xxvi 249
(1875) portrait; I.L.N. 11 May 1895 p. 570 portrait; The new budget
9 May 1895 p. 3 portrait; Times 4 May 1895 p. 11.
PENDARVES, E W W (2 son of John Stackhouse of
Acton castle, near Marazion, Cornwall 1741–1819). b. 6 April
1775; educ. Trin. coll. Oxf. 1793–6; fellow of All Souls 1796, sub-
warden 1803–4; B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801; M.P. Cornwall 1826–32;
M.P. West Cornwall 1832 to death; F.R.S. 24 May 1827; assumed
additional name of Wynne by sign manual 4 Jany. 1815, and that of
Pendarves in lieu of Stackhouse by royal decree 28 Feb. 1815. d.
Pendarves, near Camborne 26 June 1853.
PENDER, D . b. 1833; sub-lieut. R.M. 24 Dec. 1853, staff
commander 1 Jany. 1869, retired 3 Feb. 1879; served in the
Britannia during Russian war 1854; was on the Pacific station in
various ships to 1869; a naval assistant in hydrographic department
of the admiralty, subsequently chief naval assistant, and then
assistant hydrographer to death; staff captain 3 Feb. 1879, retired
captain 25 June 1884; F.R.G.S. d. 20 Oxford gardens, London 12
March 1891.
PENDLEBURY, S R (son of Thomas Pendlebury of Stockport,
bleacher). b. Bolton Lancs. 1790; a cotton manufacturer at
Stockport; alderman of Stockport, mayor 1838–9; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 July 1840 for his services in suppression of
chartist disturbances of 1839. d. Mersey bank house, Heaton
Mersey, near Manchester 1861.
PENDLETON, F H S . b. 13 Sept. 1818; educ. univ.
of Ghent and St. Aidan’s coll. Birkenhead; C. of St. Martin’s,
Guernsey Dec. 1849 to June 1851; senior C. of St. Helier, Jersey
Aug. 1851 to July 1853; consular chaplain at Monte Video 6 May
1854 to 31 Dec. 1858; obtained a church for about 250 natives of
the Vaudois at Rosario Oriental 1858; granted gold medals by
French and Italian governments for his services during epidemic of
yellow fever 1857; British chaplain at Florence 1863 to 31 Dec.
1868; C. of St. Bartholomew’s ch. Sydenham, Kent 1876–9; C. of
Ampthill, Beds. 1879–81; R. of St. Sampson’s, Guernsey 1882 to
death; author of Lettres Pastorales 1851. d. St. Sampson’s rectory,
Guernsey 13 Sept. 1888. Times 19 Sept. 1888 p. 4.
PENFOLD, C . b. 1799; a surveyor Croham, Croydon; author of
Rating of railways, Ashford 1844; The principle and law of rating to
the relief of the poor, railway, gas, water, etc. 1847, 8 ed. 1893; The
Union assessment committee act 1863; A practical treatise on the
best method of repairing roads, printed in Husbandry, vol. iii, pp. 1–
27 (Library of useful knowledge 1840). d. Twickenham 23 May
1864.
PENGELLY, W (son of Richard Pengelly captain of a coasting
vessel 1788–1861). b. Castle st. East Looe, Cornwall 12 Jany. 1812;
opened a Pestalozzian school at Torquay about 1836; helped to
found the Mechanics’ Institute 1837; a founder of the Torquay
Natural history society 1844, honorary secretary 1851–90; a
founder of the Devonshire association for the advancement of
literature, science, and art 1862, president 1867–8; taught
mathematics and geology at Torquay and lectured in various parts
of the kingdom, made a fine collection of fossils which was
purchased by Miss Burdett-Coutts and given to museum of the univ.
of Oxford; examined the plant-bearing deposits at Bovey-Tracey, at
Brixham cave, and at Kent’s hole, Torquay 1860–80; F.G.S. 1860,
Lyell medallist 1886; F.R.S. 4 June 1863; president of geological
section of British Association meeting 1877, and of the
anthropological department 1883; presented with a testimonial of
about £600, 1874; presented with his portrait in oils by A. S. Cope
1882 for his services as secretary of the Torquay Natural history
society, the portrait is now in the society’s museum; author of The
march of the red lions, by M. Y. 1867; Miscellaneous verses relating
to Devonshire, four parts 1876–7; Kent’s cavern, its testimony to
the antiquity of man 1876; Antiquity of the cave men 1877; his
name is attached to upwards of 200 papers in scientific and
antiquarian periodicals. d. Lamorna, Torquay 16 March 1894. bur.
Torquay cemet. a memorial hall built by subscription has been
added to Torquay natural history society. Quarterly journal of Geol.
soc. May 1895 pp. liii–lvii; Geol. Mag. (1894) 192, 238–9; Natural
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PENGILLY, R . b. Penzance, Cornwall 14 Sept. 1782; a Wesleyan
methodist, joined the Baptists and was baptised in the Jordan
chapel, Penzance 1802; educ. Bristol coll. 1803–7; minister at
Newcastle-on-Tyne 1807–45; established the first nonconformist
Sunday school in Newcastle; author of The new testament on its
own ordnance, a collection of scriptures on baptism 1809; The
christian’s best guide to baptism 1810, 9 ed. 1836; An affectionate
address to the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead on the
cholera 1832. d. Newcastle 22 March 1865. S. A. Swaine’s Faithful
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PENLEAZE, J S . b. 1786; British consul at Barcelona 17 Feb.
1841 to 1855; M.P. Southampton 6 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832 and 2
April 1833 to 29 Dec. 1834; resided Rossington, Hants. d. Hereford
12 April 1855.
PENLEY, A E . b. 1807; exhibited 18 portraits and landscapes
at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 20 at Suffolk st. 1835–70; member of the New
water-colour society 1838, resigned 1856, reinstated 1859; water-
colour painter in ordinary to Wm. IV and queen Adelaide; assistant
professor of drawing at Addiscombe college 1850, professor 1855
to its dissolution June 1861; master for landscape drawing at
Woolwich royal military academy to death; author of The elements
of perspective 1851; The English school of painting in water
colours, in theory and practice 1861; Sketching from nature in water
colours 1869; A system of water-colour painting 1850, 27 ed. 1869.
d. 5 Eliot hill, Lewisham hill, Kent 15 Jany. 1870. H. M. Vibart’s
Addiscombe (1894) 210–2 portrait.
N .—His brother Wm. Henry Saulez Penley was a miniature painter and teacher of
painting, he became paralysed and d. 1866.

PENLEY, B (one of six children of Samuel Penley, actor, Drury


Lane, d. Paris April 1832). b. 1809; manager of Drury Lane, of the
Lyceum, and of the Theatre royal, Newcastle; with Mr. Anderson
co-lessee of Cheltenham theatre; general superintendent of the baths
and pump rooms Bath; lessee of the Kingston baths at Bath for a
time; his sister Rosina Penley, an actress at the Bath theatre, d.

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