1391.
PURVES, DAVID LAING. _b._ 1838; had a Doctor’s degree; leader
writer on the Scotsman, then on Daily Telegraph; edited
The Canterbury tales and Faerie queene 1870; The English
circumnavigators, voyages round the world 1874; wrote The life
of Jonathan Swift in The works of J. Swift 1869. _d._ 214
Lancaster road, Notting hill, London 9 Aug. 1873.
PURVES, JOHN (1 son of William Purves of Edinburgh). _b._ 1840;
educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., exhibitioner 1860–5, B.A. 1864, M.A.
1867, fellow 1866; classical lecturer Wadham coll. 1864–6;
lecturer Balliol 1875, junior dean 1868, junior bursar 1872;
Pusey and Ellerton scholar 1862, Craven scholar 1864, and
Kennicott scholar 1865; edited Selections from the dialogues of
Plato 1883, 2 ed. 1891; The Iliad, translated into English prose
1891; assisted Dr. Jowett in his works on Plato and Thucydides.
_d._ Oxford 10 Jany. 1890. _Times 31 Jany. 1890 p._ 6.
PURVIS, CHARLES. _b._ 19 Feb. 1777; cornet 1 dragoons 3 June
1796; major 7 May 1812 to 11 June 1818, when placed on h.p. _d._
Royal crescent, Brighton 6 Nov. 1859.
PURVIS, JOHN BRETT (eld. son of John Child Purvis, admiral R
N. 1747–1825). _b._ 12 Aug. 1787; entered navy 5 Jany. 1799;
captain 16 Sept. 1809; in command of the Ganymede 23 guns Oct.
1801 on the coast of Spain; commander of the Magicienne in the
East Indies 1815–9; in command of the Alfred 50 guns on the
South American coast 1841–5; R.A. 9 Nov. 1846; V.A. 4 July 1853.
_d._ Bury lodge near Gosport 1 Oct. 1857. _O’Byrne’s Naval
Biog._ (1849) 941–2.
PURVIS, WILLIAM (son of Mr. Purvis of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
tailor). _b._ Auchindinny near Edinburgh 13 Jany. 1784; a
drummer in the West York militia 1794; apprenticed to John
Chapman, carpenter at Newcastle 1800–1807; drummer at Newcastle
theatre, then call boy there under Stephen Kemble, and
afterwards carpenter; worked as a carpenter about six years
from 1807; a clown and an actor, became the clown and jester
of the North; proprietor of an itinerant theatre about 1819,
travelled the country from Durham to Berwick-on-Tweed, and in
Scotland to his death; paid J. P. Robson £20 for writing his
autobiography 1850. _d._ Hartlepool 16 Dec. 1853. _bur._ in
St. Hilda’s churchyard, Hartlepool. _The life of Billy Purvis,
Newcastle-on-Tyne_ (1875) _portrait_; _Life and adventures of
Billy Purvis_, _by J. P. Robson_ (1850); _Illustrated sp. and
dr. news ii_ 283 (1874).
PUSELEY, DANIEL (son of Henry Puseley, maltster). _b._ Bideford,
Devon 9 Feb. 1814; a commercial traveller; hosier and silk
merchant Gutter lane, city of London 1844–54, when he went to
Australia for his health; author of Harry Mustifer, or a few
years of the road, miscellaneous poems 1847 anon; The Saturday
early closing movement. By A Warehouseman 1854; The rise
and progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. By An
Englishman 1857, 5 ed. 1858; The commercial companion, a record
of eminent commercial houses and men of the day 1858, 3 ed.
1860; Five dramas 1860; New plays. By an old author 1876; author
under pseudonym of Frank Foster of Number one, or the way of the
world, a colonial directory including Sydney, Melbourne, and New
Zealand 1862, 5 ed. 3 vols. 1865; A journey of life in long and
short stages 1866; An old acquaintance 1866. _d._ 21 Rochester
road, Camden Town, London 18 Jany. 1882. _bur._ Highgate cemet.
_Frank Foster’s The age we live in_ (1863) _portrait_; _Academy
28 Jany. 1882 p._ 63.
PUSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE (2 son of Philip Bouverie 1745–1828,
who assumed the name of Pusey 3 April 1784). _b._ Pusey house,
near Great Farringdon, Berkshire 22 Aug. 1800; educ. Mitcham,
Surrey 1807–12, and at Eton 1812–9; entered Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1819;
B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, D.D. 1836; fellow of Oriel coll. 2 April
1823; studied at Göttingen, Berlin, and Bonn 1825–7; regius
professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church, Oxford 9 Nov.
1828 to death; founded with his brother Philip Pusey and Dr.
Ellerton the three Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholarships 1832;
the prime mover with John Keble and John Henry Newman in the
Oxford movement which was called Puseyism or Newmania 1833;
contributed to Tracts for the times 1833–41 and wrote seven
tracts; founded The Oxford library of fathers of the holy
catholic church, anterior to the division of east and west 1836,
of which 48 volumes were published 1838–85; preached on the Holy
Eucharist at Ch. Ch. 14 May 1843, condemned for heresy by the
vice-chancellor and suspended for two years from his office as
a preacher before the university 2 June 1843; founded at cost
of £6,000 St. Saviour’s church, Leeds, foundation stone laid 14
Sept. 1842, consecrated 28 Oct. 1845; established an Anglican
sisterhood in London 26 March 1845, and in Devonport 1849;
revived the practice of private confession and encouraged the
spread of ritualism 1846; member of the new hebdomadal council
at Oxford Oct. 1854; published 3 appeals in An Eirenicon in a
Letter to J. Keble 1865, and two Letters to J. H. Newman 1869
and 1870 on A possibility of reunion with the Church of Rome,
a book which gave rise to 18 replies; author of A letter to
the archbishop of Canterbury on circumstances connected with
the crisis in the church of England 1842, to which 7 replies
were made; The holy eucharist a comfort to the penitent 1843
to which 8 replies were published; Do all to the Lord Jesus,
a sermon 1849, 5 ed. 1855; The church of England leaves her
children free to open their griefs 1850; The presence of Christ
in the holy eucharist 1853; Daniel the prophet, nine lectures
1864, 2 ed. 1868; Eleven addresses during a retreat of the
Companions of the Love of Jesus, Plymouth 1868; Lenten sermons
to young men 1874; Hints for a first confession 1884, 2 ed.
1892; his name is attached to upwards of 110 works, and his
works and the literature connected with them consist of upwards
of 220 published volumes; his library was purchased for the
Pusey House, an institution at Oxford, founded in his memory
to carry on his work 1884. _d._ in the Convalescent hospital,
Ascot priory, Berkshire 16 Sept. 1882. _bur._ in the cathedral
at Oxford 21 Sept., portrait by George Richmond, R.A. at Ch. Ch.
Oxford. _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey_, 3 _vols._ (1893–4)
_two portraits_; _J. H. Newman’s Apologia pro vita sua_ (1873)
60 _et seq._; _T. Mozley’s Reminiscences of Oriel ii_ 146–9
(1882); _The church goer i_ 221–30 (1847); _R. H. Horne’s A new
spirit of the age i_ 199–212 (1844); _Fortnightly Review March
1883 pp._ 335–48; _Jackson’s Oxford Journal 23 Sept. 1882 p._ 5;
_I.L.N. ii_ 410 (1843) _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 328 (1882) _portrait_.
PUSEY, PHILIP (brother of preceding). _b._ Pusey, Berkshire 25
June 1799; educ. at Eton 1812; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 22
Oct. 1817; M.P. Rye 1 March 1830, but unseated on petition 17
May 1830; M.P. Chippenham 30 July 1830 to 23 April 1831; M.P.
Cashel 16 July 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832; contested Berkshire 21 Dec.
1832; M.P. Berkshire 1835–52; F.R.S. 27 May 1830; chairman of
select committee on compensation to tenants for unexhausted
improvements 1848; one of chief founders of Royal agricultural
society of England 1840, president 1840–1 and 1853–4, edited the
Journal of the society; a practical agriculturalist and breeder
of sheep at Pusey, Berkshire; McCormick’s reaping machine was
first introduced into this country at Pusey Aug. 1851; one
of the best whips in England, drove a four-in-hand over the
Alps; chairman of Agricultural implement department of Great
Exhibition 1851, wrote a report on the implement section; hon.
D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of An historical view of the sinking
fund 1828; The new constitution 1831; The improvement of farming