1894 p._ 598 _portrait_.
PROTHERO, GEORGIANA MARY (only dau. of Matthew Marsh, chancellor
of Salisbury, _d._ 1846). With her father visited at Holland
house and saw Samuel Rogers, the poet Bowles, Coxe and others;
appeared at a commemoration ball at Oxford and was the beauty of
the day; was an admirable Latin scholar and a student in natural
history and botany; _m._ 2 Feb. 1837 rev. Thomas Prothero, who
_d._ in 1870, when she took up her residence at Malpas court,
Newport and managed the estate. _d._ Malpas court 11 Oct. 1895.
PROTHERO, THOMAS (brother of George Prothero 1819–94). _b._ 14
Aug. 1811; educ. Charterhouse 1823 and Brasenose coll. Oxf.,
B.A. 1833, M.A. 1837; P.C. of Malpas 1843–6; C. of Whippingham,
Isle of Wight 1846–53; chaplain to prince Albert at Osborne 26
Dec. 1848 to 1853; chaplain in ordinary to the queen 16 Nov.
1853 to death; author of A sermon preached at the parish church
of Whippingham 1847. _d._ Malpas court 11 June 1870. _I.L.N.
lvi_ 667 (1870); _Times 14 June 1870 p._ 5, _col._ 3.
PROUDMAN, JOSEPH. _b._ London 1833; a choir trainer; an advocate
of the Tonic Sol-fa system; had great alertness in conducting
large bodies of children; conducted concerts of the Ragged
school, the Reformatory union and Dr. Barnado’s homes at Exeter
hall; took a choir to the Paris exhibition 1867; taught many
thousands of pupils in schools and public classes; composer
of Part songs and choruses 1870, three parts; and with A. I.
Stapleton Voice training exercises 1878, 2 ed. 1883; author of
Musical lectures and sketches 1869; Musical jottings, useful and
humorous 1872, with a portrait; and with W. A. Essery The London
chants 1870. _d._ 48 Jenner road, Stoke Newington, London 21
April 1891. _J. Proudman’s Musical jottings_ (1872) _portrait_;
_Musical Times 1 May 1891 p._ 284.
PROUT, JOHN (son of Wm. Prout, farmer). _b._ South Petherwin,
near Launceston 1 Oct. 1810; emigrated to Canada and farmed land
at Pickering, Ontario 1832–42; partner with his uncle Thomas
Prout as a patent medicine vendor at 229 Strand, London 1842,
carried on the business alone 1859 to death; bought Blount’s
farm, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 1861, which he cultivated till
June 1894 with success; he demonstrated that successive crops
of cereals could be raised on heavy clay-land, if drained and
deeply ploughed and dressed with properly prepared chemical
manures; author of Profitable clay farming under a just system
of tenant right 1881, translated into French and German. _d._
at his daughter’s house, Wimbish vicarage, Saffron Walden, Essex
7 Dec. 1894. _The Cable Aug. 1893 p._ 313 _portrait_.
PROUT, JOHN SKINNER (nephew of Samuel Prout). _b._ Plymouth
1806; resided in Bristol about 1830–4, in Sydney, N.S.W. and
in Tasmania 1840–50; and in London 1850 to death; member of
Institute of painters in water-colours; author of Antiquities
of Chester 1838; The castles and abbeys of Monmouthshire 1838;
Australia by E. C. Booth, illustrated by S. Prout 1873; some
of his Bristol drawings were republished with letterpress
descriptions under title of Picturesque antiquities of Bristol
1893; there are several of his drawings at South Kensington
Museum. _d._ 4 Leighton crescent, Kentish town, London 29 Aug.