PRENTICE, THOMAS RIDLEY. _b._ Paslow hall Ongar, Essex 6 July
1842; associate of royal academy of music; started the Monthly
popular concerts at Brixton 1869, and the Kensington twopenny
concerts 1880; organist of Ch. Ch. Lee; principal of Beckenham
and Wimbledon schools of music: professor of pianoforte at
Guildhall school of music Sept. 1880 to death; composer of
The day is done, four part song 1866; Christmas, four part
song 1869; Hear our prayer 0 heavenly father, an anthem 1874;
Absence, reverie for the piano 1876; Linda, cantata for treble
voices 1878; Short voluntary for a time of sorrow, organ 1882;
edited W. Mason’s Touch and technic; J. C. Fillmore’s A history
of pianoforte-music 1885; author of The musician, a guide for
pianoforte students 1883–7, 2 ed. 1885–7. _d._ Wedderburn house,
Wedderburn road, Hampstead 15 July 1895.
PRENTIS, EDWARD. _b._ 1797; exhibited two pictures at the R.A.
1823, and 3 pictures at first exhibition of Society of British
artists 1825, member of the society 1826; his pictures entitled
The wife and The daughter 1836, and A day’s pleasure 1841 were
engraved; executed for trustees of British museum a series
of drawings of the ivory objects found at Nimroud, these were
engraved on wood by J. Thompson and published in Layard’s
Monuments of Nineveh 1849. _d._ 11 Upper Phillimore place,
Kensington, London 22 Dec. 1854. _Gent. Mag. Feb. 1855 p._ 221,
_June p._ 656.
PRENTIS, STEPHEN. _b._ 1801; educ. Christ’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1824, M.A. 1830; resided Dinan, France many years, where he
privately printed some small books 1843–58; author of An apology
for lord Byron, with miscellaneous poems 1836; The wreck of the
Roscommon 1844, a poem; Winter flowers 1849; The debtor’s dodge,
or the miller and the bailiff 1852; Opuscala 1853; Æsop on the
Danube 1853, a translation; Jeux d’esprit on the Russian war
1854–5. _d._ Dinan 12 June 1862.
PRESCOTT, ARTHUR. Cornet 2 Bombay light cavalry 1 Jany. 1833,
lieut. col. 1 Jany. 1858 to 5 Sept. 1861; colonel 1 Bombay light
cavalry 5 Sept. 1861 to 1865; major general. _d._ near London 23
May 1866.
PRESCOTT, SIR HENRY (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830).
_b._ Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796;
commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on
west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron
in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats
at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the
Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of
South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July
1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23
Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec.
1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May
1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B.
4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde
park, London 18 Nov. 1874. _Prowse’s History of Newfoundland_
(1895) 448 _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxv_ 252 (1874), _lxvi_ 23 (1875).
PRESCOTT, HENRY JAMES (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 5 July 1802; banker London; director
of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor
1849–50. _d._ Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras
N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut.
col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3
N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept.
1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col.
of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. _d._
Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.
PRESCOTT, WILLIAM GEORGE (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott,
banker 1776–1836). _b._ 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott,
Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat
with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April
1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under
£250,000, 3 June 1865. _Times 3 May 1865 p._ 5, _4 May p._ 11.
PRESS, EDWARD (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) _b._ Barnham
Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56,
and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death,
_d._ Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. _Norwich Mercury 18 May
1878 p._ 5.
PRESSLY, SIR CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Pressly). _b._
Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex;
sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board
of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849;
deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to
1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. _d._ 1 Avenue road,
Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.
PREST, CHARLES. _b._ Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist
minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at
Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull
1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary
reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death;
president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home
work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit