PIM, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). Head of firm of Pim
Brothers & Co. Dublin; member of Dublin chamber of commerce and
of Royal Dublin society; the projector of the South city market,
Dublin; a Friend; an opponent of home rule; vice-commodore of
Royal yacht club. _d._ Kingstown 18 Jany. 1896.
PINCHIN, ROBERT. _b._ 1821; in the employment of sir Joseph
Bazalgette to 1846; a land surveyor at Port Elizabeth, Africa
1846, where he laid out the town and suburbs 1846 to his death;
partner with G. W. Smith from 1863 for a short time; with H.
L. Spindler acquired the lands for the government railways by
private agreements with the owners 1872–9; partner with H. L.
Spindler 1879 to death; F.G.S.; A.I.C.E. 3 Feb. 1874. _d._ Port
Elizabeth 9 May 1888. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcv_ 388
(1889).
PINCKARD, GEORGE HENRY (3 son of Joseph Pinckard of Court
Barton, Devon, _d._ 1839). _b._ Winkleigh, Devon 1805; secretary
and actuary of the Clerical, medical, and general life assurance
co. 1839–58, a director 1858 to death; resided at Combe court,
Chiddingfold, near Godalming from 1862, where he was famous
as a breeder of Devon cattle, won many prizes, his bullock at
Islington took the chief prize; a liberal contributor to church
restoration funds in Surrey and Devonshire. _d._ Combe court 23
July 1892. _The Times 26 July 1892 p._ 9.
PINCKNEY, FREDERICK GEORGE AUGUSTUS. Ensign 73 foot 8 April
1825, lieut. col. 14 April 1854 to death; C.B. 6 March 1858.
_d._ off Ghazapore on the Ganges 11 Nov. 1859.
PINCOFFS, PETER. M.D. of Leyden when aged 21; at Brussels 1840,
where he established the Dispensaire de la rue du nord 1841;
in Dresden 1842–7, and again in 1850; extra lic. R.C.P. Lond.
1847; in Manchester 1847–50, physician to Greenheys female
penitentiary; civil physician to English hospital at Scutari
1854–6, established a medical school at Pera; attached to lord
Dufferin’s mission to Beyrout 1860; resided at Naples from Dec.
1861; author of Military sanatoria, letter on the introduction
of mineral water establishments for the army 1856; Experiences
of a civilian in Eastern military hospitals 1857. _d._ Munich 17
July 1872. _Medical times and gazette ii_ 165–6 (1872).
PINDER, FRANCIS FORD (son of W. M. Pinder of Cran hill villa,
Bath). _b._ 1822; educ. Winchester 1836 and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1844; special pleader 1848; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1857,
went western circuit; standing junior counsel to comrs. of
inland revenue Jany. 1872 to death; edited A treatise on the
principles of pleading in civil actions by H. J. Stephen, Sixth
ed. with alterations by F. F. Pinder 1860. _d._ 129 Mount st.
Grosvenor sq. London 3 Nov. 1876.
PINDER, GEORGE. _b._ 1809; ensign 15 foot 24 Aug. 1826, lieut.
col. 2 Oct. 1854, sold out 25 Aug. 1856. _d._ Clifton 14 Jany.
1881.
PINDER, JOHN HOTHERSALL (son of Francis Ford Pinder of
Barbadoes). _b._ 1794; educ. Charterhouse 1807–12, and Caius
coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1824; president of Codrington
college, Barbadoes 1830–5; principal of Wells theological
college 1840–65; precentor of Wells cathedral 10 Aug. 1840 to
death; prebendary of Wells 1840–52, canon residentiary 1852 to
death; author of Sermons on the Book of common prayer 1837, 2
ed. 1844; The candidate for the ministry, a course of lectures
1837; Sermons for holy days 1850; Meditations and prayers on the
ordination service for deacons and priests, 2 vols. 1853–5. _d._
West Malvern 16 April 1868. _bur._ in West Malvern churchyard.
_G.M. May 1868 p._ 783.
PINE, SIR BENJAMIN CHILLEY CAMPBELL (eld. son of Benjamin
Chilley Pine of Tunbridge Wells). _b._ 1813; educ. Trin. coll.
Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1840; student Gray’s inn 9 June 1831,
barrister 28 April 1841, bencher May 1880 to death, treasurer
1885; queen’s advocate at Sierra Leone 23 Aug. 1841; acting
governor of Sierra Leone 1848–9, when he put down the civil war
in the Sherbro river district; governor of Natal 27 Nov. 1849
to March 1856; enforced the submission of the Amabacas 1855,
governor of the Gold Coast colony 4 Nov. 1856; knighted at
Windsor Castle 28 Nov. 1857; lieut. governor of St. Christopher,
West Indies May 1859; acting governor of Antigua 1866; governor
of Western Australia 10 Sept. 1868; governor-in-chief of the
Leeward Isles 15 April 1869 to May 1873; governor of Natal 31
May 1873, retired on pension of £750, 10 April 1875; K.C.M.G.
29 Sept. 1871; author of articles on the African colonies in the
Encyclopædia Britannica, 8 ed. 1860, Cape of Good Hope x 711–16,
and others. _d._ Wimpole st. London 25 Feb. 1891. _The Times 2
March 1891 p._ 7.
PINE, RICHARD. Employed on important missions to native kings
and chiefs in Africa; queen’s advocate, police magistrate, clerk
of the councils, and superintendent of police at the Gambia
1855–62; governor of the Gold Coast 9 Feb. 1863 to Feb. 1866;
registrar of courts of British Honduras 1868, resigned 1870.
_d._ 6 Feb. 1878.
PINHEY, ROBERT. _b._ 1793; M.R.C.S. 6 May 1814, F.R.C.S. 26
Aug. 1844; assistant surgeon of European regiment, Bombay army
15 Oct. 1816; surgeon Bombay army 1 May 1824; superintending
surgeon of North division, Deccan to 1843; surgeon general 1
May 1843, retired 1 Jany. 1846; member of Bombay medical board
1843–6. _d._ Karsfield, Clyst St. George, Devon 28 April 1860.
PINK, CHARLES RICHARD (1 son of Charles Pink of Winchester).
_b._ Wood End house, Soberton, Hampshire 4 July 1853; articled
to Thomas Henry Watson 1871–5; studied at Univ. coll. London
1873–4; an architect at Winchester from 1875; designed the
Chilworth and North Baldesly schools at Winchester 1875; an
associate of Institute of British architects 1876, fellow 1886;
designed many houses and schools and a few churches chiefly
in Hampshire 1875–88; served on committee of Architectural
association till 1885, president 1885–6; author of Notes on
heraldy 1884; Architectural education 1886. _d._ Hyde, near
Winchester 25 Feb. 1889, memorial brass in Soberton church.
_Pink memorial_ (1889) _portrait_; _Journal of proc. of royal
instit. of British architects v_ 172, 314 (1889).
PINKERTON, ALLAN. _b._ Glasgow 25 Aug. 1819; a chartist, escaped
to America 1842; first detective for Chicago 1850; established
Pinkerton’s national detective agency 1850, and assisted in the
escape of slaves; organised the United States secret service
division of the National army in 1861 in Virginia and was its
first chief; added to his detective agency in Chicago a corps
of night watchmen called Pinkerton’s preventive watch 1860; had
branches at New York and Philadelphia; author of Molly Maguire
and the detective 1877; Criminal reminiscences 1878; The spy of
the rebellion 1883; Thirty years a detective 1884; and other
books. _d._ Chicago 1 July 1884. _Appleton’s American biography
v_ 25 (1888); _Harper’s Mag. xlvii_ 720–7 (1873).
PINKETT, FRANCIS FREDERICK (younger son of Edward S. Pinkett of
Barnstaple). _b._ about 1837; ensign Wiltshire militia 13 Jany.
1855, lieut. 22 Jany. 1857, resigned 5 May 1862; served in the
Ionian Islands 1855–6; barrister at G.I. 17 Nov. 1863, at M.T.
19 Nov. 1863; crown solicitor and master of supreme court of
Sierra Leone April 1880, registrar-general of the settlement
June 1880, administered government of the West African
settlements 3 May to 27 June 1881, and April to Aug. 1883;
acting chief justice and member of executive and legislative
councils May 1881; chief justice of the West Africa settlements
31 Aug. 1882 to death; author of Numerical and alphabetical
index of the ordinances of Sierra Leone 1887. _d._ Freetown,
Sierra Leone 28 May 1887. _Law Times 11 June 1887 p._ 108.
PINKS, WILLIAM JOHN. _b._ Great Bath st. Clerkenwell, London 29
Sept. 1829; an errand boy 1842; apprenticed to Charles Gyde,
bookbinder 8 Red Lion court, Fleet st. 1844; a bookbinder in
London a few years; contributed articles to Notes and queries,
the Builder, Illustrated London news, and other periodicals;
a permanent paid contributor to the Clerkenwell News (now
the Daily Chronicle); employed in collecting materials for a
History of Clerkenwell 1854 to his death, the first edition
appeared in 1865 after his death; his articles entitled Country
trips, Curiosities of clocks and watches, and the Streets of
Clerkenwell appeared in the Clerkenwell News; author of Country
trips, visits to places of interest in England 1860, volume i,
no more published. _d._ at Wm. Green’s residence 30 Granville
sq. Clerkenwell 12 Nov. 1860. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 19 Nov.,
memorial stone erected by subscription. _Memoirs of W. J. Pinks_
(1861); _W. J. Pinks’s The history of Clerkenwell_, _2 ed._
(1881) _memoir pp. v–viii portrait_.
PINNEY, CHARLES (son of John Prater 1740–1818, who assumed
surname of Pinney 1762). _b._ 29 April 1793; partner with E.
Case at Bristol as merchants and slaveowners, they received
£3,572 as compensation for emancipation of their slaves 1833;
mayor of Bristol 1831–2, read the riot act three times to the
mob at Bristol 29 Oct. 1831, the rioters burnt the mansion
house, bishop’s palace, custom-house, &c. 30 Oct., the military
fired on the people killing about 16 and wounded 100, the
captured rioters were tried by a special commission at Bristol
Jany. 1832 when 4 were executed and 22 transported; he was tried
in court of king’s bench for neglect of duty as mayor during the
riots 25 Oct. 1832, found not guilty 2 Nov.; alderman of Bristol