PAICE, William. b. 1836; educ. University coll. sch.; matric. Univ. of London 1852, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1860; edited Light, a journal devoted to the highest interests of humanity, both here and hereafter, No. 1, 8 Jany. 1881; author of Energy and motion, a text book of elementary mechanics 1884. d. 1 Portman mansions, Baker st. London 24 Jany. 1895.
PAIN, James (son of James Pain, builder and surveyor). b. Isleworth, Surrey about 1779; apprenticed to John Nash, the architect; partner with his brother George Richard Pain as architects and builders; James settled at Limerick and George at Cork as builders about 1817; they built the churches of Buttevant, Midleton, and Carrigaline, the gaols at Limerick and Cork, Thomond bridge at Limerick, and Athlunkard bridge near Limerick 1839–43; they designed Mitchelstown castle, near Cork, for the earl of Kingston; James was architect to the board of first-fruits for the province of Munster, with charge of the churches and glebe houses; George b. London 1793, d. 1838, bur. St. Mary Shandon ch. yard; James d. Limerick 13 Dec. 1877. bur. Limerick cathedral. Dictionary of architecture vi, Letter P, 6–7 (1881).
PAINTER, Edward. b. Stratford, near Manchester March 1784; a brewer by trade; fought J. Coyne of Kilkenny at St. Nicholas, near Margate 23 Aug. 1813 and won in 40 minutes; beat J. Alexander in 20 rounds at Moulsey Hurst, Surrey 20 Nov. 1813; beaten by Tom Oliver 17 May 1814; beaten by John Shaw the lifeguardsman in 28 minutes at Hounslow heath 18 April 1815; beaten by Harry Sutton the Black at Moulsey Hurst 23 July 1817; beat Sutton at Bungay, Suffolk in 15 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beaten by Tom Spring at Mickleham Downs, Surrey in 31 rounds 1 April 1818; beat Spring at Russia farm, near Kingston in 42 rounds 7 Aug. 1818; beat Tom Oliver at North Walsham 17 July 1820; landlord of the Anchor inn, Lobster lane, Norwich 1818 many years, then of the White Hart inn, Market place, Norwich. d. at his son’s residence near the Ram, Lakenham, Norwich 18 Sept. 1852. bur. St. Peter’s churchyard, Norwich 22 Sept. Miles’ Pugilistica ii 74–88 (1880) portrait: The Fancy. By An Operator i 393–400 (1826) portrait.
PAKENHAM, Charles Reginald (4 son of Thomas Pakenham, 2 earl of Longford 1744–1835). b. 21 Sept. 1821; ensign 72 foot 14 June 1839; captain 69 foot 1 Dec. 1846; lieut. grenadier guards 5 March 1847, sold out 2 May 1851; aide de camp to the queen, and accompanied her to Ireland 1849; sold all his possessions and gave the proceeds to charitable institutions 1851; joined the order of the ‘Barefooted clerks of the most sacred passion of our Lord Jesus Christ’ 1854, ordained a priest 29 Sept. 1855; visited Rome 1856; rector of the ‘Retreat of blessed Paul of the Cross’ at Harold’s Cross, Dublin, Aug. 1856 to death; known as Father Paul Mary. d. Harold’s Cross, Dublin 1 March 1857. bur. in chapel of the Retreat 4 March. The Tablet 7 March 1857 p. 148.
PAKENHAM, Edward William (1 son of sir Hercules Robert Pakenham 1781–1850). b. Ireland 20 Sept. 1819; M.P. Antrim July 1852 to death; ensign grenadier guards 12 Jany 1838, captain 24 Feb. 1854 to death; one of the foremost at the battle of the Alma, in the charge of the guards, he was the officer who first jumped over the embrasure of the Russian battery; at Inkerman he defended at the head of the 7 company of grenadier guards the Sand-bag battery and fell pierced by many wounds 5 Nov. 1854. bur. 6 Nov. G. Ryan’s Our heroes (1855) 167–8.
PAKENHAM, John (4 son of admiral sir Thomas Pakenham 1757–1836). b. 18 Oct. 1790; entered navy 22 April 1804; commanded the Harrier on the Cork station 1825; captain 26 Aug. 1826, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 15 June 1864. d. Cannes 1 June 1876. O’Byrne’s Naval Biog. (1849) 851.
PAKENHAM, Sir Richard (brother of preceding). b. Pakenham hall, Castle Pollard, Westmeath 19 May 1797; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; attaché at the Hague 15 Oct. 1817; secretary to the legation in Switzerland 26 Jany. 1824, and to the legation in Mexico 29 Dec. 1826; minister plenipotentiary to the United Mexican states 12 March 1835, obtained treaty for abolition of the slave trade 1841; P.C. 13 Dec. 1843; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to United States of America 14 Dec. 1843, went on leave of absence 29 May 1847, retired on a pension 22 March 1849; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Lisbon 28 April 1851, retired on pension 28 June 1855; sent on a special mission to Lisbon 7 Aug. 1855, returned to England Oct. 1855, granted pension. d. Coolure, Castle Pollard 28 Oct. 1868. Men of the time (1868) p. 630; I.L.N. liii 459 (1868).
PALEY, Frederick Apthorp (eld. son of Edmund Paley, R. of Easingwold, near York, then R. of Gretford, Lincs., d. 1850). b. Easingwold 14 Jany. 1815; educ. Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1842; resided at St. John’s 1838–46; an original member of Cambridge Camden society, hon. secretary and member of committee, contributed to the Ecclesiologist; joined the church of Rome 1846; tutor to Bertram Talbot, heir to earldom of Shrewsbury 1847–50; tutor in the Throckmorton family 1850–2; non-resident tutor in the family of Kenelm Digby 1852–6; resided at Cambridge as a private tutor 1860–74, examiner in the classical tripos 1873–4; professor of classical literature at the new catholic univ. college at Kensington 1874–7; classical examiner to univ. of London 1875–80, and to the civil service commission; hon. LL.D. Aberdeen 1883; edited the greater part of the Greek tragedies separately in Cambridge Greek and Latin texts with notes; published Ecclesiologists’ guide to the churches within seven miles of Cambridge 1844; Æschyli quæ supersunt omnia 1850; A manual of Gothic mouldings 1845, 5 ed. 1891; S. A. Porpertii Carmina with English notes 1853, 2 ed. 1872; The tragedies of Æschylus with an English commentary 1855, 4 ed. 1879; The tragedies of Euripides, 3 vols. 1857, 2 ed. 1872; The Epics of Hesiod, with an English commentary 1861, 2 ed. 1883; The Iliad of Homer, with English notes, 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. 1884. d. Apthorp, Boscombe Spa, Bournemouth 11 Dec. 1888. bur. R.C. churchyard, Boscombe.
PALEY, George Barker (eld. son of John Green Paley of Langcliffe and Oatlands, Yorkshire 1774–1860). b. 28 Oct. 1799; educ. St. Peter’s coll. Camb., 25 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1833; fellow of his college 1822–32; P.C. of Little St. Mary, Cambridge 1832–3; V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs. 1833–5; R. of Freckenham, Suffolk 14 Oct. 1835 to death; published Form of family prayer for Sunday and daily use 1839; A tract for the foundry, or hear what the furnace teacheth 1846; Saul of Tarsus, a drama 1855. d. 90 Onslow gardens, London Feb. 1880, personalty sworn as £300,000, 10 April 1880. Times 14 Feb. 1880 p. 10.
PALGRAVE, Sir Francis (only son of Meyer Cohen, member of the stock exchange). b. London July 1788; articled to Loggin and Smith, solicitors, Basinghall st. 1803, and was their managing clerk 1808–22; solicitor in King’s Bench walk Temple 1822; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, engaged in pedigree cases before the house of lords; became a Christian 1823; m. 13 Oct. 1823 Elizabeth, 2 dau. of Dawson Turner, F.R.S., by Mary, 2 dau. of William Palgrave of Coltishall, Norfolk, having assumed by R.L. the name of Palgrave in lieu of Cohen 30 Sept. 1823; his plan for publication of the public records was accepted Aug. 1822, edited for the record commission Parliamentary writs and writs of summons, 2 vols. 1827–34; Rolls and records of the court held before the king’s justiciars or justices 1195–1199, 2 vols. 1835; The antient kalendars and inventories of the treasury of his majesty’s exchequer, 2 vols. 1836; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland preserved in the treasury of her majesty’s exchequer 1837; knighted at St. James’s palace 31 Aug. 1832; K.H. 1832; F.R.S. 15 Nov. 1821; one of the municipal corporations’ comrs. 18 July 1833, but withheld his signature from their report; deputy keeper of her majesty’s records Dec. 1838 to death; collected at the rolls’ office the national muniments from 56 different offices in Lendon, issued 22 annual reports 1840–61; author of History of England vol. 1 only 1831; The rise and progress of the English commonwealth, Anglo-Saxon period, 2 parts 1832; An essay on the original authority of the King’s council 1834; Documents and records illustrating the history of Scotland, vol. 1 1837; Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy 1842, and 6 other editions 1847–60; The history of Normandy and of England, 4 vols. 1851–64. d. The Green, Hampstead 6 July 1861, after residing there from 19 March 1834. Proc. of royal soc. xii 13–20 (1862); G.M. Oct. 1861 pp. 441–5; Palgrave family memorials, edited by C. J. Palmer and S. Tucker (1878) 91, 108, portrait of sir F. and lady Palgrave; Blackwood’s Mag. June 1857 pp. 731–47.