22 Dec. 1868.
PERRY, THOMAS WALTER. _b._ 1815; educ. Chichester college
1843–5; ordained 1845; C. of All Saints, Margaret st. London
1850–7; C. of Addington, Bucks. 1857–62; C. of St. Michael,
Brighton 1862–72; V. of Ardleigh, Essex 1872 to death; hon.
canon of St. Albans 1883 to death; member of commission on
ritual 1867–70; edited Folkestone ritual case, the arguments
before the judicial committee in Ridsdale _v._ Clifton 1878;
Disputed ritual ornaments and usages 1886; author of Lawful
church ornaments, the judgment in the case Westerton _v._
Liddell 1857; The Anglican authority for the presence of
non-communicants during holy communion 1858; Some historical
considerations relating to the declaration on kneeling 1863;
Notes on the judgment in the appeal Hebbert _v._ Purchas 1877.
_d._ Ardleigh vicarage 11 June 1891.
PERRY, SIR WILLIAM (eld. son of James Perry). _b._ 1801; educ.
Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1822; master of the horse to lord lieut.
of Ireland 1835; consul at Panama 2 Sept. 1841; packet agent
there for the Pacific 1842; consul general for Austrian coasts
of Adriatic 15 June 1860, retired on a compensation allowance 1
April 1872; knighted by patent 27 June 1872; F.R.G.S.; resided
at Venice 1860 to death. _d._ Venice 24 Aug. 1874. _I.L.N. lv_
236, 547 (1874).
PERRY, WILLIAM. _b._ Tipton Park lane, Tipton, Staffs. 1819; a
navvy in London 1835; a pugilist known as the Tipton Slasher
from 1837; beat James Scunner 22 Nov. 1837; fought Charles
Freeman, the American giant, near Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 14 Dec.
1842, 70 rounds in 84 minutes when darkness came on, fought
him again in Cliffe marshes below Gravesend 20 Dec. 1842, 38
rounds in 39 minutes, when Perry fell without a blow, (Freeman
was 6 feet 10½ inches high and weighed 18 stone, he died of
consumption in Winchester hospital 18 Oct. 1845 aged 28 years
and weighing only 10 stone); fought Tass Parker, £100 a side, 67
rounds in 95 minutes at Dartford marshes 19 Dec. 1843 when the
police interfered; beat Tass Parker £100 a side, 133 rounds in
152 minutes at Horley 27 Feb. 1844; beat him again, £100 a side,
23 rounds in 27 minutes at Lindrick common, Yorks. 4 Aug. 1846;
presented by his friends with a cup valued at 100 guineas 1847;
beat Tom Paddock, £100 a side, 27 rounds in 42 minutes at Woking
17 Dec. 1850, when he claimed the championship as Bendigo the
champion declined fighting again; fought Harry Broome for £200 a
side and the championship, 15 rounds in 33 minutes at Mildenhall
29 Sept. 1851 when Broome won; claimed the championship again
1853 Harry Broome having retired from the ring; fought Tom
Sayers for £200 a side and the champion’s belt, 10 rounds in
102 minutes, at the Isle of Grain in the Medway 16 June 1857
when Sayers won, this fight is described in Augustus Mayhew’s
novel Paved with gold, 1858, pp. 182–92; sold refreshments
at races and fairs in the Black Country; landlord of the Old
leather bottle 48 Canal st. Wolverhampton about 1858–63. _d._
Wolverhampton 24 Dec. 1880. _H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica iii_
157–205 _portrait_, 325–30, 392–9 (1881); _John Hannan’s British
boxing_ (1850) 26–9; _Bell’s Life in London 1 Jany. 1881 p._ 9.
PERSIANI, FANNY (2 dau. of Nicolas Tacchinardi, tenor and
teacher of music, _d._ 1859). _b._ Rome 4 Oct. 1812; sang in her
father’s private theatre near Florence 1822; _m._ at Florence
1830 P. G. Persiani; appeared in Fournier’s opera Francesca da
Rimini at Florence 1832; in 1834 Donizetti wrote for her Lucia
di Lammermoor; sang as Lucia in Naples 1835 and in Paris 12
Dec. 1837; first appeared in London at Her Majesty’s as Amina
1838; had a soprano voice of great range upwards, about 18
notes from B to F in alt.; from 1838 sang in London and Paris
alternately for many years; joined the Covent Garden co. 1847;
sang at concerts 1850 etc.; appeared at Drury Lane in Linda,
Elvira, Zerlina, etc. 1858; taught music in Paris 1858 to death.
_d._ Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris 3 May 1867. _Grove’s Dict.
of music ii_ 693–4 (1880); _C. Heath’s Beauties of the opera_
(1845) 17 _portrait_; _E. C. Clayton’s Queens of Song ii_ 257–73
(1863); _I.L.N. ii_ 438 (1843) _portrait_; _H. S. Edwards’s The
prima donna ii_ 191–6 (1888).
PERSIANI, or PERSIANO GIUSEPPE. _b._ Recanati in the Papal
States 1805; dramatic composer; went to Paris 1837; passed
several years in Spain from 1838; composer of Piglia il mondo
come viene, opera buffa Florence 1826; Gaston de Foix, an opera
Venice 1828; Inès de Castro, an opera Naples 1835; L’orfana
savojardo, an opera Madrid 1846; he joined in the cabal against
Benjamin Lumley in 1846, because Lumley would not produce one
of his operas at Her Majesty’s; with M. Galletti took Covent
Garden on lease in 1847. _d._ Paris 14 Aug. 1869. _Reg. and mag.
of biog. ii_ 151 (1869); _Fetis’ Biographie des Musiciens vii_
3 (1864), _ii_ 325 (1880); _H. S. Edwards’ The Prima Donna ii_
196–204 (1888).
PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, DUC DE (son of M. Fialin,
_killed_ at Salamanca 1812). _b._ St. Germain-Lespinasse,
Loire, France 11 Jany. 1808; served in the army 1828–31; a
journalist in Paris 1831; resumed family title of vicomte de
Persigny; the principal contriver of prince Louis Napoleon’s
Strasburg expedition 1836, of which he wrote an account
entitled Relation de l’enterprise du prince Napoléon-Louis,
London 1837; a refugee in England 1836–48; one of the ten
knights visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839;
sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for his share in Louis
Napoleon’s Boulogne expedition 1840; returned to Paris 1848;
minister of the interior Jany. 1852 to June 1854 and Nov. 1860
to June 1863; ambassador to England May 1855 to March 1858 and
May 1859 to Nov. 1860; grand cross of the legion of honour 16
June 1857; created duc de Persigny 13 Sept. 1863; a refugee in
England 1871. _d._ Nice 12 Jany. 1872. _H. Castille’s Portraits
politiques_ (1857) _pp._ 1–60 _portrait_, _No._ 20; _Weekly
Reporter xi_ 146 (1863).
PERSIVANI, (stage name of R. Brown). _b._ Plymouth 1841; clown
and acrobat; played in the pantomime at the Alexandra theatre,
London, Christmas 1865–6; performed in music halls in London
and the provinces in partnership with D’Ronde to 1870 and in
partnership with Frank Van de Velde 1871–6. _d._ of cancer of
the tongue 1 Feb. 1890. _bur._ Edgbaston old church, Birmingham
5 Feb. _Illust. sporting news 6 Jany. 1866 p._ 689 _portrait_.
PERSSE, BURTON ROBERT PARSONS (1 son of Burton Persse of Moyode
castle, Galway, _d._ 1859). _b._ 4 Nov. 1828; sheriff of Galway
1862; master of the Moyode castle hounds; master of the Galway
hounds, known as the Galway blazers 1855 to death. _d._ Moyode
castle, Galway July 1885. _Baily’s Mag. xliv_ 295 (1885).
PESTER, HENRY. _b._ 1791; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 May 1809, colonel 28
Nov. 1854; retired on full pay 24 Jany. 1863; L.G. 11 Sept.