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Chapter 2
Money and the Monetary System
TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS

1. The two basic components of the U.S. money supply are physical money and deposit
money.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Components of Money Supply

2. Representative full-bodied money consists of paper money fully backed by a precious

metal.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Monetary History

3. Fiat money must be backed by a specific amount of gold or silver.

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Monetary History

4. A bimetallic standard is a monetary standard based only on gold.

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Monetary History

5. Demand deposits are issued by commercial banks and savings banks, and do not earn
interest.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

6. Our monetary standard today is the paper dollar, issued by the Federal Reserve, and
can be exchanged for gold or silver.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Monetary History

7. No full-bodied or representative full-bodied money is in use in the United States today.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Monetary History

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 8. No other asset is as liquid as money, because money is itself, a medium of exchange.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Money Supply

9. Fiat money is legal tender proclaimed to be money by law.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Monetary History

10. Physical money includes coin and currency.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

11. “Continentals” were denominated in dollars and were backed by gold.

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Monetary History

12. The use of “continentals” led to a long period of distrust of paper money.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Monetary History

13. The faster velocity of money, the greater an economy’s GDP.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

14. M1 includes currency and demand deposits but excludes travelers’ checks.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

15. Fiat money is a form of credit money.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Monetary History
16. A store of purchasing power is the most important function of money.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Functions of Money

17. A major objective of the Fed is to regulate and control the supply of money and the
availability of credit.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

18. One reason the Fed defines so many measures of money is that economists have
different opinions as to which measure is most consistently related to spending and
other economic activity.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Money Supply

19. Even though credit card balances and limits are not included in any definition of money
supply, these balances and limits can affect the rate of turnover of money supply and
contribute to money supply expansion.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Money Supply

20. According to the Bretton Woods agreement, one ounce of gold is set equal to US $35,
and each participating country pegs its currency to gold or the U.S. dollar.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Monetary History

22. Inflation leads to an increase in the purchasing power of money.

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Basic Monetary Concepts

23. Currency held in vaults of depository institutions is excluded from M1.

Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Money Supply

24. The U.S. dollar was defined in terms of gold until the 1980s.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
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 of the evidences of Christianity to Essays and Reviews 1860 pp.
94–144 five editions, to which there were 14 replies. d. 6 Stanhope
st. Hyde park gardens, London 11 June 1860. bur. Kensal Green
cemet. G.M. ix 204 (1860); I.L.N. xviii 419 where he is shown
lecturing on the rotation of the earth, 468 (1851).
POWELL, C (eld. son of Eyre Burton Powell, barrister, d. 1800). b.
1793; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1813; called to the Irish bar
1817; M.P. Limerick county 12 July 1841 to 23 July 1847; sheriff of
Limerick 1858. d. Clonshavoy, near Limerick 24 Feb. 1881.
POWELL, H J. Equestrian actor; lessee of the Pavilion theatre,
London 1867–8; lessee of Sadler’s Wells theatre; travelled the
provinces with a dramatic and equestrian company 1873–8; fell into
a stream of water and was suffocated, found dead on Wimbledon
common, Surrey 4 May 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 10 May.
Era 19 May 1878 p. 12.
POWELL, John Hardman (son of Wm. Powell of Birmingham, who d.
1861). b. Newhall st. Birmingham 2 March 1827; pupil of Augustus
Welby Pugin 1843–52; artistic head of firm of J. Hardman and Co.
Birmingham 1852; some of his principal works were the heraldic
and other glass in the houses of parliament 1847–59, Westminster
hall 1849, St. Stephen’s crypt 1860, Worcester cathedral 1859–75,
St. Neot’s, Hants. 1859–80, Beverley minster 1856–94, St. Chad’s
cathedral, Birmingham 1869, the Catholic church, Cambridge 1888,
and St. John the Baptist, Norwich 1894; m. 1850 Anne, dau. of A.
W. Pugin. d. 12 Lee road, Blackheath, Kent 2 March 1895. bur. in
the Pugin chantry in St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate. Times 4
March 1895 p. 10; Tablet 9 March 1895.
POWELL, J J (eld. son of Thomas Powell). b. Gloucester 3
Sept. 1816; barrister M.T. 16 April 1847, bencher 23 Nov. 1863 to
death, treasurer 1876; Q.C. 3 Feb. 1863; recorder of
Wolverhampton 21 May 1864 to death; judge of county court,
circuit No. 11, (West Riding of Yorkshire), and joint judge of Leeds
in circuit No. 14, 9 April 1884 to Oct. 1885; judge of circuit No. 47,
Greenwich, etc. Oct. 1885 to death; M.P. Gloucester 1862–5;
contested Gloucester 3 Feb. 1874; contested Weymouth 17 Nov.
1868. d. suddenly while on a visit at Widmore lodge, Bickley 15
Sept. 1891. Law Times 19 Sept. 1891 p. 355.
POWELL, J M (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b.
Gloucester 2 June 1822; apprenticed to John Cowmeadow of Ross,
bookseller; worked with Bradbury and Evans London to 1844; a
compositor in America 1844–5; country traveller for S. and T.
Sharwood of the Austin letter foundry 1845–52; executed
commissions for Barrett and Co. bible publishers, London 1845,
and other firms to death; founder and proprietor of Printers’
Register 1863, and editor to death; a type broker at 3 Bouverie st.
1868–74 and in St. Bride’s st. March 1874 to death. d. 14
Hillmarten road, Camden road, London 17 Sept. 1874. bur. Finchley
cemetery 23 Sept. The Printers’ Register 6 Oct. 1874 pp. 182–4.
POWELL, L . b. Trecastle, South Wales 1796; educ. St. George’s
hospital, London; L.S.A. 1818; M.D. Edinb. 1823; F.R.C.S. Eng.
1818; in practice 13 John st. Berkeley sq. London from 1837,
latterly in partnership with J. T. Smith; the Powell ward in St.
George’s hospital is named after him; author of De rheumatismo,
Edinburgh 1823. d. 13 John st. London 18 Feb. 1867. Medical
Times 23 Feb. 1867 pp. 212, 213.
POWELL, P . b. about 1779; wrote many songs which he sang;
wrote for John Parry Of the married state I sing 1845; his imitations
of an oratorio and of a melodrama were extraordinary. d. Bayswater,
London 20 May 1855.
POWELL, R A . b. 1816; cadet R.N. 24 Dec. 1831,
captain 8 March 1855, retired 6 July 1871; V.A. 21 March 1878;
served against the Riff pirates 1851; commanded the Vesuvius in
Crimean war 1854, medal; knight commander of Charles iii for
attempting to rescue a Spanish ship from Moorish pirates 1856;
knight of legion of honour; C.B. 5 July 1855; commodore in the
Pacific 1866–71; nautical assessor under Merchant shipping act
1876. d. Shanklin, Isle of Wight 24 Dec. 1892.
POWELL, T . b. London 3 Sept. 1809; a playwright and literary
man in London; went to U.S. of America 1849; the first editor of
Frank Leslie’s Weekly 1855, and of Frank Leslie’s Ladies’
Magazine 1857; wrote several plays produced in New York and
London; author of The living authors in Great Britain 1849; Living
authors in America 1850; Pictures of the living authors of Great
Britain 1851. d. Newark, New Jersey 13 Jany. 1887.
POWELL, T S . Ensign on half pay 13 May 1826; captain 6
foot 23 Jany. 1839; major 57 foot 26 Sept. 1848, placed on h.p. 9
Feb. 1855; lieut. colonel 53 foot 6 April 1855 to death; C.B. 4 Feb.
1856; killed in action at Burdee, near Allahabad 1 Nov. 1857.
POWELL, W . b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 31 Jany. 1800, colonel
commandant 1 May 1849, retired on full pay 3 Nov. 1851; M.G. 20
June 1855. d. Burlington st. Bath 5 June 1858.
POWELL, W (son of a merchant). b. Tottenham, Middlesex May
1822; taken to Tasmania 1823; a clerk at Launceston 1834; clerk to
an auctioneer Melbourne 1845–8; went to England 1848, 1856,
1860; conducted a business in the hardware line Melbourne 1849 to
death; purchased land on the discovery of the gold fields; connected
with the Wesleyan church and many charities; partner with Henry
Reed, Australian merchant 6 Broad st. buildings, London 1 Jany.
1861 to death. d. 79 Lancaster gate, London 21 Jany. 1868. bur.
Marylebone cemet. Finchley. B. Gregory’s Thorough man of
business, W. Powell (1871) portrait.
POWELL, W (youngest son of Thomas Powell). b. The Gaer,
Newport, Monmouth 17 April 1842; educ. Rugby 1858; a colliery
proprietor; M.P. Malmesbury 17 Nov. 1868 to death; resided
Dunestay house, near Chippenham; while in the balloon Saladin
alone, was carried out to sea from Bridport and not again heard of
10 Dec. 1881, a reward of £200 offered for his recovery. Times 13
Dec. 1881 pp. 6, 9; Graphic xxiv 633 (1881) portrait; I.L.N. lxxix
616 (1881) portrait.
POWELL, W R H (1 son of Walter Rice Howell of
Haverfordwest). b. 4 April 1819; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 19 Oct.
1837; sheriff of Carmarthen 1849; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1880–5;
M.P. western division of Carmarthenshire 1885 to death; master of
fox hounds from 1839; purchased Osbaldeston’s Vanguard and
Mayfly, a Welsh hound, the founders of his pack; owner of many
steeplechase horses; established the United counties friendly benefit
soc. and the Farmers’ benefit soc. at Llanboidy. d. Maesgwynne,
near Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 25 June 1889. Baily’s Mag. Aug.
1883 pp. 63–4 portrait; Times 27 June 1889 p. 11.
POWELL, W . b. 1814; a Welsh Calvinistic methodist; began to
preach 1834, ordained 1837; minister at Pembroke, retired 1893;
 moderator of the general assembly; a well known preacher. d.
Pembroke 12 Aug. 1894.
POWELL, W E (elder son of Thomas Powell of Nanteos,
Cardiganshire, d. 1797). b. 16 Feb. 1788; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf.
20 Oct. 1804; M.P. Cardiganshire 1816–54, having never had a
competitor for his seat; lord lieut. of Cardiganshire 26 Oct. 1816 to
death; colonel of Cardiganshire militia 15 Dec. 1823 to death;
resided Nanteos house, near Aberystwith. d. 7 Hyde park terrace,
London 10 April 1854. G.M. xli 648 (1854).
POWELL, W T R (eld. son of the preceding). b.
Swansea 4 Aug. 1815; educ. Westminster 1830; ensign 37 foot 1
June 1832, captain 6 April 1838, sold out 1 March 1839; M.P. co.
Cardigan 7 May 1859 to 6 July 1865; lieut. col. royal Cardigan
militia 25 March 1854, resigned 5 May 1865. d. Norwood, Surrey
13 May 1878.
POWER, S A (6 son of John Power, M.D. of Lichfield). b.
Market Bosworth 1 Feb. 1805; educ. Repton sch. 1818, and Clare
hall, Camb., scholar 1822, Batty university scholar 1823, second in
1 class of classical tripos; fellow of Downing coll. 1826–36, hon.
fellow 1885; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister M.T. 12 Feb. 1830,
went midland circuit; factory commissioner 1833; assist. poor law
commissioner in England 1834–43, in Ireland 1843; chief comr. of
Irish poor laws 1849–73; V.P. of local government board of Ireland
1874, retired on pension of £1,333, 1 March 1879; C.B. 5 Aug.
1871, K.C.B. 27 March 1873; author of A political catechism 1853;
Sanitary rhymes, personal precautions against cholera and all kinds
of fever 1871. d. 35 Raglan road, Dublin 7 June 1888. New Monthly
Mag. cxviii 391, 408 (1880) portrait; Law Journal lxxxvi 184
(1888); The Biograph March and April 1882 pp. 229–32; Times 12
June 1888 p. 5.
POWER, D . b. 1817; barrister L.I. and M.T. 1 May 1840; leading
counsel of the Norfolk circuit; recorder of Ipswich Nov. 1848,
resigned June 1861; Q.C. April 1858, bencher of M.T. 1858 to
death; author of The act for registration of voters 1843; The law of
qualification and registration of parliamentary electors 1847;
Power’s Illustrated hand-book for Gloucester 1848, 2 ed. 1862; with
H. Rodwell and E. L. Dew Reports of the decisions of the house of
 commons in the trial of controverted elections 1853. d. Halstead
Place, Kent 10 May 1862.
POWER, E M (youngest dau. of Arthur Lingham of York
house, Tulse hill, Brixton, Surrey, his wife Agnes d. 24 June 1894).
b. London 10 April 1854; made her first appearance at Gordon’s
music hall, Southampton 1863; under the name of Nelly Power a
singer and dancer at the Canterbury, the Pavilion, and other music
halls in London to 1870; gave exact imitations of George
Leybourne; took the principal parts in pantomimes at the Surrey
theatre under William Holland’s management; acted the Elf in
Robinson Crusoe pantomime, Covent Garden 26 Dec. 1868; acted
Don Roderigo in Don Carlos 16 April 1870, the earl of Essex in
Elizabeth 17 Nov. 1870, prince Precious in the Orange tree and the
humble bee 13 May 1871, the princess Badoura in Camaralzaman
22 Nov. 1871, Glaucus in The very last days of Pompeii 13 Feb.
1872, and Apollo in Romulus and Remus 23 Dec. 1872, all at the
Vaudeville theatre; played again in pantomimes at the Surrey;
Sinbad in the Old Man of the sea, Drury lane 26 Dec. 1882; again
had great popularity at the music halls, very successful in
caricaturing dandies, her songs Lah-di-dah and Tiddy-fol-lol had a
great run; her last appearance was at the Trocadero 19 Jany. 1887;
m. 17 June 1874 Roland Gideon Israel, eldest son of Bennett
Barnett of Keppel st. Russell sq. London, from whom she obtained
a divorce. d. 309 Essex road, Islington, London 20 Jany. 1887. bur.
Abney park cemetery 26 Jany. The Era 22 Jany. 1887 p. 10, 29
Jany. p. 10; Saturday Programme 18 July 1874, with portrait, 5
Feb. 1876 pp. 8–9, two portraits.
POWER, F L P (son of a bank manager in Dublin). Held a
commission in the Austro-Hungarian army; an artist; a war
correspondent on Bulgarian frontier in Russo-Turkish war 1877;
leaving London 17 May 1883, went with Edmond O’Donovan to
Khartoum, was in Khartoum 1 Aug. 1883 to 10 Sept. 1883 as his
secretary and assistant; made sketches for the Pictorial World;
joined Hicks Pasha’s army; acting consul of the foreign office at
Khartoum 15 Dec. 1883; correspondent of The Times; author of
Letters from Khartoum, written during the siege, 3 ed. 1885; known
as The Ghazi; murdered by the Arabs at Wady Gamr, near Berber
on the Nile about 27 Sept. 1884 while on his way to Dongola with
lieut. col. J. D. H. Stewart, brass tablet in memory of Power and 6
 other journalists erected in crypt of St. Paul’s cathedral. J. A.
O’Shea’s Round about recollections i 26–33 (1892); I.L.N. 13 Dec.
1884 p. 576 portrait; Foreign office list 1885 p. 214; Times 6 Oct.
1884 p. 11 et seq.
POWER, J . Second lieut. R.A. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel 5 June 1835 to
23 Nov. 1841; colonel commandant R.A. 6 Dec. 1846 to death;
M.G. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Dover 17 Feb. 1851.
POWER, S J , 2 Baronet (only son of the succeeding). b. Johns
Lane distillery, Dublin 6 Dec. 1800; educ. Rathfarnham college;
called to the Irish bar at King’s inns 1849; M.P. co. Wexford 1835–
47 and 1865–8; succeeded 25 June 1855; a comr. of charitable
bequests in Ireland 1865 to death; sheriff for co. Wexford 1851, and
for city of Dublin 1859. d. Edermine, Enniscorthy, co. Wexford 30
Sept. 1877. Irish law times xi 517 (1877).
POWER, S J , 1 Baronet. b. 1771; a distiller in Dublin; alderman of
Dublin; created baronet 18 Oct. 1841; a supporter of D. O’Connell
by his purse and influence; laid foundation stone of O’Connell
monument in Glasnevin cemetery 1854. d. Roebuck house, county
Dublin 25 June 1855. bur. in cathedral, Marlborough st. Dublin.
G.M. xliv 428 (1855).
POWER, J . b. 1820; articled to sir John Rennie, C.E. but gave up the
engineering profession; published The Irish literary enquirer 1865–
6, four numbers only; Bibliotheca Hibernica, Dublin 1865, a
specimen sheet; List of Irish periodical publications 1866; A handy
book about books 1870; resided in Panama some years; projected
the Panama star and herald; resided at St. John’s Wood, London. d.
St. Leonards-on-sea 13 May 1872. N. & Q. 4 s. ix 417 (1872).
POWER, J (son of William Power of Lichfield). b. Freley, Staffs. 31
July 1818; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1828, Parkin’s
exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb. 1837; 8 wrangler and B.A. 1841,
M.A. 1844, D.D.; fellow and tutor of Pembroke, then master of the
college Jany. 1870 to death; vice-chancellor of Camb. univ. 1870
and 1878. d. The master’s lodge, Pembroke coll. 18 Nov. 1880. bur.
Cherryhinton church 24 Nov. The Guardian 24 Nov. 1880 p. 1620.
POWER, J (son of Matthias Power). b. parish of Affane, near
Cappoquin, Waterford 1 May 1809; studied in St. John’s college,
Waterford; ordained priest 16 June 1832; C. of St. Mary’s, Clonmel
 8 June 1832; P.P. of Powerstown 2 July 1852; translated to parish of
S.S. Peter and Paul, Clonmel 6 Sept. 1866; R.C. bishop of
Waterford and Lismore 6 May 1873 to death, consecrated in
Waterford cathedral 20 July 1873. d. Waterford 6 Dec. 1887. bur. in
Waterford cathedral 9 Dec. W. M. Brady’s Episcopal succession ii
77 (1876); The Waterford mail 8 Dec. 1887 p. 3, 12 Dec. p. 2.
POWER, J (son of Mr. Power of Market Bosworth, Leics.
surgeon). b. Market Bosworth 1798; pensioner at Clare coll. Camb.
21 March 1817, fellow 19 Dec. 1823 to 21 Feb. 1829, and 2 Jany.
1844, dean; fellow of Trin. hall 21 Feb. 1829 to 2 Jany. 1844, tutor
and lecturer 1829–44; B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; proctor of the univ.
1829; librarian of the university 1845, resigned 13 Feb. 1864; V. of
Litlington, Cambs. 1856–66; R. of Birdbrook, Essex 1866 to death;
contributed papers to the Transactions of the Cambridge
Philosophical society 1825–57. d. Birdbrook rectory 7 June 1868.
POWER, M . Ensign 32 foot 30 Dec. 1819; lieut. 85 foot 4 Sept.
1823, placed on h.p. 30 June 1825; captain 85 foot 28 Dec. 1826,
lieut. col. 13 April 1852 to death; brevet colonel 20 June 1854. d.
Bath 27 April 1857.
POWER, M A. (dau. of colonel Power and niece of
Marguerite, countess of Blessington). b. about 1815; resided with
her aunt at Gore house, Kensington to April 1849, when she went
with her to Paris; edited The Keepsake 1851–7; contributed to the
Irish metropolitan magazine, Forget-me-not, and Once a week;
author of Evelyn Forester: a woman’s story 1856; The Foresters, 2
vols. 1858; The letters of a betrothed 1858, signed Honoria; Nelly
Carew, 2 vols. 1859; Virginia’s hand, a poem 1860; Sweethearts and
wives, 3 vols. 1861, 2 ed. 1861; Arabian days and nights, or rays
from the east 1863; edited Country quarters by the Countess of
Blessington 1850, with a memoir. d. July 1867. Heath’s Book of
beauty (1842) 135 portrait; Athenæum 13 July 1867 p. 54.
POWER, M (widow of Nicholas Power of Snowhill and aunt of the
right hon. R. L. Sheil). Resided at Bath; went to London to see the
Great exhibition of 1851. d. the Ursuline convent, Cork 10 March
1853 aged 116. The Constitution, Cork 17 March 1853 p. 3.
POWER, P (cousin of John Power, bishop of Waterford, d. 1887). b.
Powerstown, near Clonmel 1827; was for sometime in business;
educ. Maynooth 1847; ordained a priest 1855; professor of logic
 and moral philosophy St. John’s coll. Waterford 1855, president to
1879; parish priest of Dungarvan 1879–86; coadjutor to bishop of
Waterford 7 March 1886; bishop of Waterford and Lismore 6 Dec.
1887 to death. d. John’s Hill, Waterford 22 May 1889. bur. in the
precincts of the cathedral 24 May. The Times 23 May 1889 p. 5;
Waterford chronicle 25 May 1889 p. 3.
POWER, R (son of Patrick W. Power of Pembroke lodge,
Tramore, Waterford). b. Tramore 1851; educ. Carlow and Old Hall
coll. Hertfordshire; M.P. Waterford Feb. 1874 to death, a whip to
the Parnellite party; caught a cold while attending C. S. Parnell’s
funeral from which he never recovered 11 Oct. 1891. d. The Grand
hotel, London 29 Nov. 1891. bur. Tramore 2 Dec. Times 1 Dec.
1891 p. 9; I.L.N. 5 Dec. 1891 p. 726 portrait.
POWER, S W G (son of J. Power of Killydangan,
co. Tipperary). b. Killydangan 1781; 2 lieut. R.A. 31 May 1800,
lieut. col. 12 June 1835, col. 4 May 1846 to 9 Nov. 1846, col.
commandant 16 Dec. 1856 to death; served in Spain, Portugal, and
France 1808–14, silver war medal with 9 clasps; general 4 Feb.
1857; C.B. 26 Sept. 1831; K.H. 1834; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d.
Chine house, Shanklin, Isle of Wight 23 Jany. 1863.
POWIS, E J H , 3 Earl of (1 son of 2 earl of Powis
1785–1848). b. Pershore, Worcestershire 5 Nov. 1818; educ. Eton
and St. John’s coll. Camb., cr. LL.D. 4 July 1842; styled viscount
Clive 1839–48; M.P. North Salop 1843–8; accidentally shot his
father while pheasant shooting 17 Jany. 1848, when he succeeded to
the peerage; cornet South Salop yeomanry 10 April 1840, lieut. col.
29 Feb. 1848; cr. D.C.L. Oxford 24 June 1857; high steward of
univ. of Cambridge 26 Oct. 1863; lord lieutenant of
Montgomeryshire 22 May 1877. d. 45 Berkeley sq. London 7 May
1891. bur. Welshpool, will proved at £196,988 gross. I.L.N. iv 65
(1844) portrait.
POWLETT, B P W W (1 son of William B. P.
Wallop, major 15 dragoons 1781–1824). b. 6 Sept. 1808; a rider of
race horses; well known in the hunting field; known as Barton
Wallop, when he was supposed to be the heir to lord Portsmouth’s
property; resided Northholme, Wainfleet, Lincolnshire. d.
Cheltenham 7 Dec. 1886. Baily’s Mag. xlvii 71 (1887).
POWLEY, M . b. 1812; author of Echoes of Old Cumberland, poems
and translations 1875. d. Langwathby 23 Dec. 1882.
POWNALL, A (3 son of James Pownall of Liverpool). b. 1823;
educ. Harrow 1837, and at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845, M.A.
1848; C. of Edgmond, Shropshire 1845–7; R. of South Kilworth,
Leicestershire 1847 to death; rural dean of Gartree 1867; hon. canon
of Peterborough 1875–85; archdeacon of Leicester 1884; proctor for
the diocese of Peterborough 1871, 1874, and 1880; visited many
places in the Midland counties for Soc. for propagation of gospel in
foreign parts; F.S.A. 7 Dec. 1865, and made contributions to the
Proceedings; member of Numismatic Soc. April 1860, and a
contributor to the Chronicle from 1861. d. while on a visit at Dover
25 Nov. 1886, memorial window in Kilworth church. Proc. of Soc.
of Antiquaries xi 375 (1885–7); Numismatic Chronicle vii 1887,
Proceedings 28–31.
POWNALL, J G H (eld. son of John Pownall, d. 1836).
b. 2 Sept. 1792; a founder of Exeter hall, London 1831; a founder of
the Record newspaper 1828; contested Finsbury 2 July 1834;
contested Middlesex 31 July 1837; chairman of Middlesex bench of
magistrates 1844 to 14 July 1870, when he was presented with a
dessert service value 500 guineas; connected with numerous
philanthropic and charitable societies; a knight of the order of St.
John of Jerusalem 8 June 1859. d. 63 Russell sq. London 8 April
1880, portrait in Clerkenwell sessions house. The Record 12 April
1880 p. 3; Law Times lxviii 442 (1880); Times 9 April 1880 p. 1.
N .—He moved at the annual meeting of the Anti-slavery society at the Freemason’s hall,
London on 15 May 1830 ‘That from and after Jany. 1 1830 every slave born within the king’s
dominions shall be free.’ Sir J. Stephen’s Anti-slavery recollections (1854) 121.
POWNEY, J (youngest son of Pennyston Portlock Powney of
Maidenhead, d. 1794). Entered navy 1800; commanded the
Cameleon revenue cutter 1818–21, occasionally attended George iii
in his aquatic excursions; captain on h.p. 7 March 1853; K.H. 1
Jany. 1837; inspecting commander of coast guard at Aldborough
1831–4. d. St. Leonard’s, Exeter 27 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 644
(1855).
POWNEY, R . b. 1785; 1 lieut. Bengal artillery 7 May 1805, lieut.
col. 3 March 1835, colonel 12 July 1844 to death; principal
commissary ordnance department 27 Nov. 1837 to 1843; L.G. 21
Sept. 1859. d. 23 Dec. 1864.
POWRIE, T . b. Dundee 8 Feb. 1824; educ. Stirling’s school in
Tay street; acted at the Yeaman Shore theatre 1844 as T. Power, and
then in Prince’s theatre, Glasgow; first appeared theatre royal,
Edinburgh as Hamlet 10 Oct. 1849; played at theatre royal, Castle
st. Dundee as Hamlet Oct. 1849; acted Julian St. Pierre in The Wife,
theatre royal, Edinb. 28 Jany. 1850, Rob Roy at the Adelphi 17
Jany. 1852, Clifford in the Hunchback 6 Nov. 1852, Romeo 15 Nov.
1852, Richelieu at the theatre royal 17 May 1854, and O’Grady in
Arrah-Na-Pogue 8 March 1866; appeared as Rob Roy at Drury
Lane, London 23 March 1867 one night only as he sprained his
ankle; made his last appearances in the Dundee theatre royal as Rob
Roy on 9 and 10 March 1868; played 6 nights at Drury lane March
1868; made his last appearance on any stage at Prince of Wales’,
Glasgow April 1868; as Rob Roy he was thought to have no equal.
d. 6 Union place, Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1868. bur. Western cemetery,
Dundee 29 Aug. J. C. Dibdin’s Edinburgh stage (1888) 408, 509;
Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 312–6; Illust. sporting news iv
521 (1865) portrait, vi 200 (1867) portrait.
POWYS, H (3 son of 2 baron Lilford 1775–1825). b. 20 Nov.
1805; educ. Harrow 1813 and St. John’s coll. Camb.; M.A. 1826,
D.D. 1854; R. of Warrington, Lancs. 1831–54; rural dean of
Cheshire 1831–54; established the training college at Chester, and
the institution for the education of the daughters of the clergy at
Warrington; bishop of Sodor and Man 5 July 1854 to death,
consecrated in York cathedral 25 July 1854; author of A pastoral
letter to the congregation at Warrington 1848. d. Bewsey house,
Bournemouth 31 May 1877. bur. Warrington 5 June.
POWYS, W N . b. Tichmarsh rectory, Northamptonshire 28
July 1849; educ. Pembroke coll. Camb.; famous as a fast left-
handed bowler; played against Oxford 1871, 1872, and 1874, taking
24 Oxford wickets for 153 runs; played for the Gentlemen against
the players at Lords 1872. d. at his residence, Queen’s Walk,
Nottingham 8 Jany. 1892.
POYNTER, A (2 son of Ambrose Lyon Poynter). b. London 16
May 1796; employed by John Nash the architect 1814–8; travelled
in Italy, Sicily, and the Ionian islands 1819–21; an architect at 1
Poet’s Corner, Westminster 1821–47, and at 12 Park st. Westminster
1847, retired 1860; built the church of St. Paul in the Hills road,
Cambridge 1847; an original member of Royal institute of British
architects 1834, and secretary 1840, 1841 and 1844, his anonymous
essay On the introduction of iron in the construction of buildings,
gained the institute’s silver medal 1842; designed the hospital and
chapel of St. Katherine in the Regent’s park, London 1827, Christ
Church, Westminster 1841, and the French protestant church in
Bloomsbury st. 1845–6; designed Pynes, Devon for sir Stafford
Northcote, Hodsock near Worksop, Notts. for Mrs. Chambers, and
Castle Melgwy, South Wales; architect to National provincial bank
of England; official referee to board of works; the first inspector for
the provinces appointed in connection with the school of design at
Somerset House, one of the committee of management to supervise
the district schools of design 1848, inspector of the schools 1850; an
original member of the Arundel society 1848, the Graphic society,
and the Archæological institute 1843; made drawings to illustrate F.
Sandford’s Genealogical history of England 1865; contributed
illustrations to Knight’s Shakespeare 1851 and Pictorial history of
England 1840, and the articles on literature, science and art to the
latter work; author of An essay on the history and antiquities of
Windsor castle, this is printed in sir J. Wyatville’s Illustrations of
Windsor castle 1841. d. Dover 20 Nov. 1886. Proc. of Royal
institute of British architects (1887) 113, 137.
POYSER, T . b. 1790; hon. F.R.C.S. Eng. 1843; leading medical
practitioner at Wirksworth, Derbyshire 1821 to death; contributed a
succession of papers on ‘The authors of articles in the Quarterly
Review,’ and many other papers to the Gent. Mag., also contributed
to Medico chirurgical review and the London journal of medicine.
 d. Wirksworth 11 June 1860. G.M. ix 319 (1860); Lancet i 634
(1860).
N .—He gave Florence Nightingale her first hints in nursing and medicine, when as a girl
she used to attend the sick poor near his home.

PRAED, B M (7 child of William Mackworth Praed,

banker, d. 1791). b. St. Lawrence, Exeter 21 Nov. 1771; entered
navy 21 Sept. 1780; captain 29 April 1802; retired R.A. 10 Jany.
1837; transferred to the active list 17 Aug. 1840; V.A. of the White
9 Nov. 1846; purchased Acton castle, Perranuthnoe, Cornwall. d.
Acton castle 6 Oct. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 634 (1852).
PRAED, C T (2 son of James Backwell Praed, M.P.
1779–1837). b. 18 Aug. 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; matric. from
Merton coll. Oxf. 19 March 1851; partner in Praed and Co. bankers,
Fleet st. London; M.P. St. Ives 1874–80; resided 95 Queen’s gate,
London. d. Edgcombe hall, Wimbledon 19 Oct. 1895. Graphic xi
291, 292 (1875) portrait.
PRAED, W M (eld. son of William Mackworth Praed,
serjeant-at-law 1756–1835). b. 24 May 1797; educ. Eton 1811–14;
at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; barrister L.I. 17
May 1822; recorder of Barnstaple, Bideford and South Molton June
1836 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 59 (South Devon)
March 1847 to death; chairman of Devon quarter sessions. d. at the
London inn, Exeter 25 Sept. 1857.
PRAEGER, F C W (son of Henry Aloysius
Praeger, violinist and composer). b. Leipsic 22 Jany. 1815; a student
of the violoncello and of the piano at Lubeck to 1831; a teacher at
the Hague 1831, and in London from 1834; an overture by him was
given by the New Philharmonic Soc. conducted by Hector Berlioz
1852; his pianoforte trio was played at the first concert of the
London orchestra; naturalised in England 19 Oct. 1854; performed
at important concerts in London, Paris, and Leipsic; English
correspondent of Neue Zeitschrift für Musik; he translated E.
Naumann’s The history of music 1862; author of Wagner as I knew
him 1892; edited F. Beyer’s Elementary instruction book for the
piano 1854, and H. Rosellen’s Instruction book for the piano 1854;
among his pupils were Madame de Pachman, Herr Schönberger,
and Albert Jeffery; lectured before the Society of Arts on The fusion
of the romantic and classical schools of music; he was the composer
 of Morceau brilliant pour le pianoforte, a quatre mains 1848;
Elfenmärchen, a fairy tale for the piano 1852; Le Buisson pour
piano 1858; Airs sung by the Christy minstrels 1860, six numbers;
Old English airs 1860, six numbers; Francesca di Rimini,
meditation pour piano 1874; 48 Tonstück für das Pianoforte 1880;
Manfred prelude symphonique 1881; Sonata in G for piano and
violoncello 1883; Six mélodies pour violin et piano 1889; Three
sonatinas for the pianoforte 1889; Two quartets for two violins,
violoncello and piano 1891; his name is attached to upwards of 100
pieces 1842–91, published in London, Dover, Brighton, and
Leipsic. d. 23 Brackenbury road, Hammersmith, London 2 Sept.
1891. Biograph iv 242 (1880); I.L.N. 12 Sept. 1891 p. 334 portrait;
The Times 3 Sept. 1891 p. 7.
PRALL, R . b. 1832; passed as a solicitor 1854, of the firm of
Nickinson, Prall, and Nickinson at Rochester, Brompton, Stroud,
and Gillingham; town clerk of Rochester 1870 to death; official
receiver in bankruptcy for Kent; clerk to Rochester school board
and to the Medway conservancy board. d. Hillside, Frindsbury,
Rochester 20 Oct. 1895.
PRATT, A (2 dau. of Robert Pratt of Strood, Kent, grocer). b. Strood
5 Dec. 1806; educ. Eastgate house school, Rochester; studied
botany under Dr. Dods; formed an extensive herbarium and made
sketches of the specimens, which formed illustrations for her books;
author of The field, the garden, and the woodland. By a Lady 1838,
3 ed. 1847; Flowers and their associations 1840, 2 ed. 1846; The
excellent woman as described in the Book of Proverbs 1846, anon.;
Wild flowers, 2 vols. 1852, 2 ed. 1892; Our native songsters 1852;
The flowering plants and ferns of Great Britain, 5 vols. 1855, 3 ed.
1873; The ferns of Great Britain and their allies 1855, 2 ed. 1871;
Haunts of the wild flowers 1863; edited By daylight, a translation of
Ottilie Wildermuth’s Im tageslicht 1865; m. 4 Dec. 1866 John
Pearless of East Grinstead, Sussex. d. Rylett road, Shepherd’s Bush,
London 27 July 1893. Journal of botany (1894) 205–7; Women’s
Penny paper 9 Nov. 1889 p. 25 portrait.
PRATT, C C . b. 1790; 2 lieut. R.M. 14 Oct. 1805, colonel
19 April 1854 to 20 June 1855, when he retired on full pay as major
general. d. Vicars close, Wells, Somerset 16 June 1871.
PRATT, F T (3 son of John Pratt of Lambeth, Surrey). b.
1799; scholar of Trin. coll. Camb. 1820, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1825;
incorporated at St. John’s coll. Oxf. 8 Dec. 1836; B.C.L. 1836,
D.C.L. 1837; advocate at Doctor’s Commons 2 Nov. 1837, stewart
1840–2, librarian 1842–4, treasurer 1847–50; author of The law
relating to ship lights and signals at sea 1858. d. Upper Norwood,
Surrey 13 April 1868.
PRATT, J (3 son of Edward Roger Pratt of Ryston Hall 1756–
1838). b. 6 Feb. 1798; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1821,
M.A. 1825; R. of Campsey Ashe, Suff. 1836 to death; author of
Records of the college of Christ Church in Brecon 1847. d. 15 May
1867.
PRATT, J (son of Jonas Pratt, music seller and teacher of music). b.
Cambridge 1772; chorister of King’s coll. Camb. 1780, organist to
the college 1799; organist to univ. of Camb. 1800; organist to St.
Peter’s coll. 1813; published A selection of ancient and modern
psalm tunes for two trebles or tenors and a bass 1810, republished
under title of Psalmodia Cantabrigiensis 1820; A collection of
anthems in score selected from the works of Handel and others
1825; Plead thou my cause from twelfth mass of Mozart, and Praise
the Lord O my soul, an anthem, Printed in Novello’s Collection of
Anthems, vol. iv, No. 81 and vol. x, No. 208 (1876). d. Cambridge 9
March 1855.
PRATT, J B . b. Cairnbanno, New Deer 1799; educ. Aberdeen
univ., M.A., hon. LL.D. 1865; episcopal minister of Stuartfield
1821–5; minister of St. James’s church, Cruden 1825 to death;
domestic chaplain to Earl of Errol; examining chaplain to bishop of
Aberdeen; edited the Scottish episcopal communion service 1866;
author of The old paths, where is the good way, 3 ed. Oxford 1840;
Buchan, Aberdeen 1858, 3 ed. 1870; The Druids 1861; Letters on
the Scandinavian churches, their doctrine, worship and polity 1865.
d. St. James’s parsonage, Cruden 20 March 1869. J. P. Pratt’s
Buchan, 3 ed. (1870), memoir pp. vii–ix portrait; Reg. and mag. of
biog. May 1869 p. 398.
PRATT, J H (2 son of Josiah Pratt, secretary of the Church
missionary society 1768–1844). Educ. Caius coll. Camb., fellow
1836; third wrangler 1833; B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; chaplain
H.E.I.Co. 1838; domestic chaplain to bishop Wilson 1839;
 archdeacon of Calcutta 1850 to death; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; author of
The mathematical principles of mechanical philosophy 1836,
republished under title of A treatise on attractions, Laplace’s
functions and the figure of the earth 1860, 4 ed. 1871; Scripture and
science not at variance 1856, 7 ed. 1872; edited his father’s
Eclective notes or notes of discussion on religious topics at the
meetings of the Eclectic society, London during the years 1798–
1814, 1865. d. Ghazeepore 28 Dec. 1871.
PRATT, J H (younger son of Josiah Pratt, vicar of St. Stephen’s,
Coleman st. London). b. 1849; educ. Haileybury college, where he
became head boy, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1872; won the Bell
1869 and Browne scholarship 1871, senior classic 1872; assistant
master at Harrow 1872 to death; fellow of his college 1873 to death;
member of the Alpine club, made many difficult ascents; edited The
story of Achilles 1880; drowned while bathing in the lake of Como,
near Tremezzo 31 Aug. 1878, the body never found.
PRATT, J T (2 son of John Pratt of Kennington, Surrey, surgeon).
b. London 13 Dec. 1797; barrister I.T. 26 Nov. 1824; consulting
barrister to comrs. for reduction of the national debt 1828 to death;
counsel to certify the rules of savings’ banks and friendly societies
1834–46, and registrar of friendly societies 1846 to death; edited J.
B. Bosanquet and C. Puller’s New reports of cases argued in the
court of common pleas and other courts 1826; E. Bott’s Laws
relating to the poor, 6 ed. 1827; W. Woodfall’s Law of landlord and
tenant 1829; author of An abstract of the acts of parliament for the
establishment of courts of request 1824; A digested index to the
term reports, analytically arranged 1826; The law relating to
friendly societies 1829; History of the savings’ banks in England
and Wales 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The law relating to highways 1835, 13
ed. 1893; A collection of all the statutes in force respecting the
relief of the poor, 2 vols. 1835–64, 2 ed. 1843; The law relating to
watching and lighting parishes 1850, 5 ed. 1891. d. 29 Abingdon st.
Westminster 9 Jany. 1870. I.L.N. lvi 107, 152 (1870) portrait; Law
Times 15 Jany. 1870 p. 214, 12 Feb. p. 305.
PRATT, J . b. Manchester; printer in Bridge st. Manchester; printed
The Catholic Phœnix 1822; the Manchester Advertiser, No. 1, 2
July 1825, this paper was given away, its revenue being derived
solely from advertisements; editor of The Scrap book, The
 Protestant witness, and other periodicals; author of pamphlets. d.
Nov. 1859.
PRATT, R (son of rev. Robert Pratt, prebendary of Desertmore,
Cork). b. 21 Jany. 1815; ensign 41 foot 16 June 1837; lieut. col. 9
Sept. 1855, placed on h.p. 10 Nov. 1856; lieut. col. 23 foot 27
March 1857, placed on h.p. 3 Sept. 1870; L.G. 12 Dec. 1877; placed
on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 14 May
1859. d. Madeira 27 Dec. 1886.
PRATT, S P . b. 6 Nov. 1789; educ. at Enfield; lived at Bath
1823 to about 1839; F.L.S. 1829; F.G.S. 1829; F.R.S. 27 Jany. 1842,
withdrew 1859. d. Mellone villa, Fulham road, London 22 Sept.
1863.
PRATT, S T S (son of captain James Pratt). b. 1797; educ.
St. Andrew’s univ.; ensign 26 foot 2 Feb. 1814, lieut. col. 28 Aug.
1841, placed on h.p. 8 Oct. 1843; commanded his regiment in the
attacks on Canton 24 May to 1 June 1841; deputy adjutant general
at Madras 5 Sept. 1843 to 23 Oct. 1855; commanded the forces in
Australia 1856–61; conducted the war against the Maories in New
Zealand 1860–1; commanded the forces in Victoria 8 Jany. 1860 to
May 1862; colonel of 37 foot May 1862 to death; retired from
active service Oct. 1877; general 26 May 1873; C.B. 14 Oct. 1841,
K.C.B. 16 July 1861, invested with the ribbon and badge of the
order by sir Henry Barkly at Melbourne 15 April 1862, the first
ceremony of the kind in Australia. d. England 2 Feb. 1879. Times 6
Feb. 1879 p. 10.
PRATTEN, C J (daughter of M. Pelzer). b. Mulheim on
the Rhine; appeared at the King’s theatre, London as a guitar player
at eight years of age; taught the guitar in London; m. 24 Sept. 1854
Robert Sidney Pratten 1824–68; author of Instruction for the guitar,
3 ed. 1861, 10 ed. 1882; Four Italian songs for the guitar 1861;
Repertoire for the concertina 1861; Repertoire for the guitar, vocal
1861–91, one hundred and twenty numbers; Repertoire for the
guitar, instrumental 1861; Guitar tutor 1881; Learning the guitar
simplified 1881; The scale and pieces for the gigelera, learning the
gigelera simplified 1882; Twelve easy songs for the guitar 1888;
Sketches for the mandoline with guitar or pianoforte
accompanyment 1891; her name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces
1860–91. d. London 10 Oct. 1895.
PRATTEN, R S (2 son of Mr. Pratten, flautist at Bristol
theatre). b. Bristol 23 Jany. 1824; first appeared as a flautist at
Clifton 25 March 1835; first flute at the T.R. Dublin; came to
London 1846; studied composition in Germany, his piece for the
flute entitled L’Espérance published at Leipzig 1847; returned to
London 1848 and became the leading player; played first flute at
Royal Italian opera 1846, English opera, Sacred harmonic,
Philharmonic, and other concerts; composer of A complete series of
studies for the patent diatonic flute 1848: Concert-Stück for the
flute and orchestra and piano 1852; Christmas song 1853; Complete
instruction for the concertina 1856; A complete series of scales and
exercises for R. S. Pratten’s perfected flute 1857; Recreations for
the flute, melodies for flute and piano 1858; Tutor for the flute with
a selection of melodies 1856; Francesca romance for concertina and
piano 1859; Boosey’s One hundred dances for the flute 1859; Give
me the harp, a song 1862; The merry beggars, a song 1879; his
name is attached to upwards of 30 pieces of music 1847–90; m.
Catherina Josepha Pelzer; he d. Ramsgate 10 Feb. 1868. Grove’s
Dictionary of music iii 27 (1883).
N .—His brother Frederick Sydney Pratten, a contrabassist in the orchestra of the Royal
Italian opera d. London 3 March 1873.

PREEDY, G W (son of Robert Preedy of Hampton,

Worcestershire). b. 1817; entered the royal navy 12 Nov. 1828;
served in West Indies 1828–34; commander 10 Feb. 1853; served in
Duke of Wellington in the Baltic 1854–5, and commanded gun
boats in bombardment of Sveaborg; captain 29 Sept. 1855;
commanded the Agamemnon and was concerned in laying the first
transatlantic cable 1857–8; C.B. civil 22 Sept. 1858, C.B. military 2
June 1869; received captain’s good service pension 1867; put on
retired list 1 April 1870; vice-admiral 30 Jany. 1879. d. Park house,
Budleigh Salterton 30 May 1894. The Times 6 June 1894 p. 10.
PRENDERGAST, H (eld. son of general sir Jeffrey Prendergast of
Newcastle Prendergast, Tipperary 1769–1856). b. Madras 1805;
educ. East Sheen, Harrow 1816, and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826,
LL.B. 1829; barrister L.I. 27 Nov. 1829, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to
death; equity draftsman and conveyancer; edited Court Circular,
started 1856; Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; author of The law relating to
officers in the army 1849, 2 ed. 1855; and with J. Stewart The
 practice of conveyancing 1846. d. Brighton 30 Sept. 1878. Law
Times lxv 424 (1878).
PRENDERGAST, S J (son of Thomas Prendergast of Dublin).
b. Clonmel 1769; entered Madras army 1794; lieut. 18 Madras N.I.
17 June 1800, major 4 Aug. 1812; military auditor general Madras
army 3 Oct. 1812; lieut. col. 7 Madras N.I. 7 Nov. 1818 to 1819;
lieut. col. 8 N.I. 1819; lieut. col. 39 N.I. 3 Jany. 1825, and col. 5
June 1829 to death; general 20 June 1854; knighted at St. James’s
palace 18 July 1838. d. Brighton 4 July 1856.
PRENDERGAST, J P (eld. son of Francis Prendergast 1768–
1846, registrar of Irish court of chancery). b. 37 Dawson st. Dublin
7 March 1808; educ. Reading school and Trin. coll. Dublin; called
to Irish bar 1830; agent of lord Clifden’s estates 1836; a comr. for
selecting papers relating to Ireland, which papers with rev. C. W.
Russell he edited as Calendar of state papers, Ireland 1603–25, 5
vols. Record publications 1872–80; replied in the Nation newspaper
1872–4 to Froude’s lectures in America on Irish history; opposed
Parnell’s general policy from 1878; edited C. Haliday’s The
Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin 1884; author of The history of the
Cromwellian settlement of Ireland 1863, 2 ed. 1870; The Tory war
in Ulster, Dublin 1868; Ireland from the restoration to the revolution
1887. d. 127 Strand road, Sandymount, Dublin 6 Feb. 1894. Times 8
Feb. 1894 p. 4.
PRENDERGAST, M (son of Michael Prendergast). b. Cloth Fair,
London 10 Aug. 1795; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1806,
Parkins’ exhibitioner to Pemb. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1821; barrister
L.I. 20 Nov. 1820, bencher 1850 to death, went Norfolk circuit;
recorder of Bedford 1846–8; recorder of Norwich Dec. 1848 to
death; Q.C. 28 Feb. 1850; judge of city of London, sheriff’s court
April 1856 to death; revising barrister to 1856. d. Highgate rise 20
March 1859. Law Times xxxiii 19, 45, 78 (1859).
PRENDERGAST, T (son of sir Jeffrey Prendergast 1769–1856).
b. 1806; a writer in service of H.E.I. Co. 23 June 1826; acting sub-
collector and joint magistrate of Nellore 1831; acting assistant judge
at Guntoor 1833; assistant judge of Tinnevelly 8 Aug. 1834 to 1838;
collector and magistrate at Rajahmundry, retired on the annuity fund
1859; resided at Cheltenham 1859 to death; became totally blind
about 1861; invented the mastery system of learning languages
 based upon the process pursued by children in learning to speak;
author of The mastery of languages, or the art of speaking foreign
tongues idiomatically 1864, 3 ed. 1872; Handbook to the mastery
series 1868, 5 ed. 1882; The mastery series, French 1868, 12 ed.
1879; The mastery series, Spanish 1869, 4 ed. 1875; The mastery
series, German 1868, 8 ed. 1874; The mastery series, Hebrew 1871,
3 ed. 1879; The mastery series, Latin 1872, 5 ed. 1884. d. Meldon
cottage, The Park, Cheltenham 14 Nov. 1886.
PRENTICE, A (son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains,
in the upper ward of Lanarkshire, farmer). b. Covington Mains 17
Nov. 1792; clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, Glasgow
1808, traveller to the house in England 1810, partner in the business
on its removal to Manchester 1815; purchased a weekly paper
entitled Cowdroy’s Gazette 1824, which he renamed, published, and
edited as the Manchester Gazette June 1824, bankrupt 1826, the
Gazette was incorporated with the Manchester Times 17 Oct. 1828,
of which he was sole manager to 1847, when he sold the paper;
chief founder of the Anti-corn law league at York hotel, Manchester
24 Sept. 1838; held an appointment in the Manchester gas office
1848 to death; treasurer of the Manchester temperance league 1857;
edited The life of Alexander Reid, a Scottish covenanter 1822;
author of A tour in the United States 1848; History of the Anti-corn-
law league 1853. d. Park view, Plymouth grove, Manchester 24
Dec. 1857. A. Prentice’s Historical sketches of Manchester (1851);
Macmillan’s Mag. Oct. 1889 pp. 435–43; John Evans’s Lancashire
authors (1850) 204–8.
PRENTICE, S (4 son of Golden Nehemiah Prentice of Rayleigh,
Essex). b. 1819; barrister M.T. 5 May 1843, bencher 20 Nov. 1866,
and treasurer 1881; Q.C. 24 July 1866; county court judge of circuit
No. 40, Bow and Shoreditch 14 Jany. 1884, resigned July 1892; a
commissioner for municipal election enquiries; common law
examiner in the inns of court 1879; recorder of Maidstone March
1879, resigned June 1892; edited J. F. Archibald’s Practice of the
court of queen’s bench, 9 ed. 1855 to 13 ed. 1879; J. W. Smith’s An
elementary view of the proceedings in an action at law 1857, and
the editions to 1873; H. Roscoe’s Digest of the law of evidence
1858; Sir W. O. Russell’s A treatise on crime, 5 ed. 1877; C.
Abbott’s A treatise of the law relating to merchant shipping, 12 ed.
1881; J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways, 12 ed. 1881; author of
 Proceedings in an action in the queen’s bench, etc. 1877, 2 ed. 1880;
Procedure and evidence relating to indictable offences 1882. d.
Greystoke, Surbiton, Surrey 17 Dec. 1893.
PRENTICE, T R . 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, E . 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, S . 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, A . 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.