PRIMROSE, JAMES MAURICE. _b._ 19 Feb. 1819; ensign 43 foot 6
Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 20 March 1857, placed on h.p. 12 Oct.
1863; served with 43 regt. in Kaffir war 1851–3, medal; in
expedition to Orange river and present at the action of the
Berea; lieut. col. of 43 regt. in march to Calpee 1858, was
in the operations in Bundelcund and commanded 1 division of
Candahar field force in Afghanistan 1879, and then the whole
force in 1880; took part in battle of 1st Sept. 1880; commanded
one of the seven columns under brigadier Wheeler against rebel
chiefs; in the Indian mutiny, at surrender of Kirwee, the action
of Sahew and the attack on Gopalpore 1858; D.A.G. Madras 1861–3;
adjutant general Madras 1863–8; C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; lieut.
general 4 March 1880; retired as general 1 April 1882. _d._ 9
Herbert st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1892.
PRINCE, GEORGE. _b._ 1848; with his brother James Prince trained
horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. _d._
Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. _bur._ Lewes cemetery 25 July.
_The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p._ 2, _23 July p._ 2, _26 July p._
2.
PRINCE, JAMES. Proprietor with his brother George Prince of a
cigar divan at 14 Regent st. London; they started the Ottoman
club 1855, from which sprang the Raleigh club; they were
proprietors of Prince’s racquet and tennis club Hans place,
Chelsea 1856–71, and of Prince’s cricket club at same address
1871–86; courts were made for tennis, badminton and other games,
and a skating rink with artificial ice was constructed, became
very select and exclusive, the prices of admission were raised
and the grounds were closed 1886, the houses in the Pavilion
road now cover the site. _d._ Frathay house, Albert road,
Battersea park, London 2 April 1886.
PRINCE, JOHN CRITCHLEY (son of a reed-maker for weavers). _b._
Wigan, Lancs. 21 June 1808; worked with his father at Wigan, at
Manchester and at Hyde in Cheshire 1820–30; a factory operative
at Hyde; a postman at 15/-a week at Southampton 1842; kept a
small shop in Long Millgate, Manchester; a reed-maker; reed
maker and heald knitter, Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne 1851;
edited the Ancient shepherds’ quarterly magazine published at
Ashton-under-Lyne 1845–51; author of Hours with the muses,
Manchester 1840, 6 ed. 1857; Dreams and realities 1847; The
poetic rosary 1850; Autumn leaves, Hyde 1856, 2 ed. 1866;
Miscellaneous poems 1861; Poetical works of J. C. Prince, 2
vols. 1880. _d._ Hyde 5 May 1866. _R. W. Procter’s Memorials
of bygone Manchester_ (1880) 146, 172–92, 395 _portrait_;
_Procter’s Literary reminiscenses_ (1860) 117–21 _portrait_; _J.
Evans’s Lancashire authors_ (1850) 208–12.
PRINCE-SMITH, JOHN. _b._ England; a teacher of English in
Germany; naturalised there; an active politician; author of
J. P. Smith’s Uber censur Königsberg 1843; J. P. Smith’s Uber
den politischen Fortschnill Preussens, Zurich 1844; Ueber die
quellen der Massenarmuth, Redecte, Leipzig 1861; Der staat und
der volkshaushalt, eine skizze, Berlin 1874; translated C. H.
Hagen’s System of political economy 1844. _d._ about 8 Feb. 1874.
PRING, DANIEL. _b._ Taunton 5 June 1789; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1811;
M.D. St. Andrew’s 1822; an eminent surgeon and physician at Bath
1811–40; resided at Taunton from 1840; author of A view of the
relations of the nervous system in health and in disease 1815;
General indications which relate to the laws of the organic
life 1819; An exposition of the principles of pathology 1823;
Sketches of intellectual and moral relations 1829. _d._ of
paralysis, Middle st. Taunton 3 June 1859. _Lancet 9 July 1859
p._ 51.
PRING, RATCLIFFE (2 son of Thomas B. Pring of Crediton,
solicitor). _b._ Crediton 17 Oct. 1825; educ. Crediton gr. sch.
and at Shrewsbury; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; went to Sydney
1853; crown prosecutor Brisbane 1857; member of legislative
assembly Queensland from 1860; attorney general Dec. 1859
to Aug. 1865, July to Aug. 1866, Nov. 1869 to May 1870, and
May 1879 to June 1880; Q.C. Queensland 1866; puisne judge of
Queensland June 1880 to death; edited Statutes in force in the
colony of Queensland 1862. _d._ Brisbane 22 March 1885.
PRINSEP, CHARLES CAMPBELL. _b._ 1824; educ. Warfield and
Wimbledon; with a mercantile firm in Calcutta 1843–6; assistant
traffic manager Great western railway 1846–9; a writer
H.E.I.C.S. 16 Jany. 1853; junior clerk treasury department 1850,
assistant secretary 1857; statistical reporter and keeper of
the records 1879; compiler of the annual statistical abstract
1867–74 and 1880, and of the navigation statement for India
1869–70; author of The moral and material progress report of
India 1866–67 and 1867–68; Records of services of the honourable
East India company’s civil servants in the Madras presidency
1741–1858, 1885. _d._ 2 Frascati, Claremont road, Surbiton,
Surrey about 23 April 1887. _Times 27 April 1887 p._ 9.
PRINSEP, CHARLES ROBERT (son of John Prinsep, merchant,
afterwards M.P. Queenborough). _b._ 1789; pensioner of St.
John’s coll. Camb. 23 May 1806; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, LL.D.
1824; barrister I.T. 20 June 1817; advocate general of Bengal;
standing counsel to H.E.I.Co. Calcutta; author of An essay on
money 1818; translated J. B. Say’s A treatise on Political
economy, with notes, 2 vols. 1821; edited H. T. Prinsep’s
A narrative of the transactions in British India under the
marquess of Hastings 1820. _d._ Chiswick 8 June 1864.
PRINSEP, HENRY THOBY (4 son of John Prinsep, merchant, M.P. for
Queenborough). _b._ Thoby priory, Essex 15 July 1793; educ.
at Knox’s school at Tunbridge; entered Bengal civil service
1809; assistant to the magistrate at Murshidáhad, Bengal 1811;
superintendent and remembrancer of legal affairs; Persian
secretary to the government 16 Dec. 1820; member of council of
India 1835 and 1840–3; retired from the service 1843; contested
Kilmarnock burghs 29 May 1844, Dartmouth 3 July 1845, and Dover
30 July 1847; M.P. Hawick 5 March 1851, but election void as he
could not prove his qualification May 1851; contested Hawick 28
May 1851; contested Colchester 10 July 1852 and Barnstaple 30
March 1857; a director of the East India company 31 July 1850 to
1858; one of the 7 directors of the council of India 21 Sept.
1858, retired 1874; author of A narrative of the political and
military transactions of British India under the administration
of the Marquess of Hastings 1820, 2 ed. enlarged, 2 vols. 1825;
Origin of the Sikh power in the Punjab 1834; Tibet, Tartary and
Mongolia, their social and political condition 1851; The code of
criminal procedure in the criminal courts of British India 1868,
7 ed. 1884; translated Memoirs of the Puthan soldier of fortune,
the Nuwab Amer-ood-Doulah Mohummud Ameer Khan 1832. _d._ at
house of G. F. Watts, R.A., Freshwater, Isle of Wight 11 Feb.