(1880).
PEITHMAN, EDWARD (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, DUDLEY ANDERSON WORSLEY (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. XXXV 664 (1851).
PELHAM, FREDERICK THOMAS (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, JOHN THOMAS (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_.
NOTE.--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, RICHARD WARD. _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, ROBERT RENEBALD (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, GILBERT WARD. _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, MORRIS BIRKBECK. _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, OLIVER CLAUDE (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, SIR WATKIN OWEN (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, APSLEY (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_.
NOTE.--In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle glass for
which Venice was so celebrated.
PELLEGRINI, CARLO (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, SIR FLEETWOOD BROUGHTON REYNOLDS (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, GEORGE (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, SIR HENRY CARSTAIRS, 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, HENRY JOSEPH (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.