Cornwall_), _an autobiographical fragment_ (1877) _preface
signed C. P.[atmore]_; _T. H. Wade’s English poets_, _2 ed. iv_
489–94 (1883); _Wm. Howitt’s Homes and Haunts ii_ 447–51 (1847);
_The living poets of England_ (_Paris_ 1827) _ii_ 539–62; _H.
Martineau’s Biographical sketches_ (_4 ed._ 1876) 475–87; _A.
H. Miles’ Poets i_ 351–62 (1891); _I.L.N. lxv_ 353 (1874)
_portrait_; _Graphic x_ 367 (1874) _portrait_.
NOTE. He is referred to by Lord Byron in Don Juan, canto xi, verse lix,
“Then there’s my gentle Euphues, who they say,
Sets up for being a sort of moral me,
He’ll find it rather difficult some day
To turn out both, or either, it may be.”
His only son Montagu Mitchell Procter, lieut. col. Bengal staff corps
31 Aug. 1878, retired with honorary rank of M.G. 24 Feb. 1885, _d._
Dinan, France 6 Oct. 1885.
PROCTER, RICHARD WRIGHT. _b._ Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs.
19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his
death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent
verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of
Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855;
The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses
and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862;
Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester
streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. _d._ 133
Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. _R. W. Procter’s
Barber’s shop_, _2 ed._ (1883) _memoir and portrait_; _Palatine
note-book i_ 165–7 (1881) _portrait_.
PROCTOR, HARRY (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of
Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878;
played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880,
Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie
Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable
literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. _d._
55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.
PROCTOR, HENRY ADOLPHUS. _b._ 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14
Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to
26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted
distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29
Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. _d._ Aberhafesp hall,
Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.
PROCTOR, RICHARD ANTHONY (youngest child of Wm. Proctor,
solicitor, _d._ 1850). _b._ Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ.
coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar
1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler
1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a
private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal
astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873,
and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated
magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly
1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the
northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of
Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866;
Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on
astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed.
1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars
1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and
new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works;
his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension
of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. _d._ Willard Parker hospital, New York
12 Sept. 1888. _Eclectic Mag. lxxxii_ 371 (1874) _portrait_;
_Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix_ 164–8 (1889);
_Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp._ 265–6 _portrait_; _Illust. Review Aug.
1873 pp._ 189–92 _portrait_.
PROCTOR, SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas
Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). _b._ Langley park near Acle,
Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the
expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in
East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841,
V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. _d._ Langley
park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. _O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p._
985.
PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM BROGRAVE, 4 Baronet (1
son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). _b._ Broome
place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct.
1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk
artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded
14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle
volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869;
he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862.
_d._ Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. _I.L.N. lxv_
379 (1874).
PRODGERS, CAROLINE GIACOMETTI (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). _b._
1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the
cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London
and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of
the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually
summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct,
as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was
wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a
Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife
of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy
who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. _d._ 54 Queen’s
road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.
PROPERT, JOHN (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill,
Cardigan). _b._ 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct.
1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large
practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal
Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their
widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel
opened 1857. _d._ 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867.
_Medical circular i_ 9 (1852) _portrait_; _Barker’s Photographs
of medical men i_ 39–42 (1865) _portrait_; _Medical Times ii_
334–5 (1867); _Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi_ 62
(1871); _In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton_ (1867).
PROSSER, GEORGE WALTER. _b._ 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812,
lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822,
placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and
superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842,
lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June