PARDOE, Julia S. H. (2 dau. of Thomas Pardoe, captain royal waggon train, who sold out of the army 20 Jany. 1832). b. Beverley, Yorkshire 1806; visited Constantinople 1836; resided in Kent from 1846; author of Lord Morcar of Hereward, 4 vols. 1829, 2 ed. 1837; Traits and traditions of Portugal 1833; Speculation, 3 vols. 1834; The Mardens and the Daventrys, 3 vols. 1835; The city of the sultan and domestic manners of the Turks, 2 vols. 1837, reprinted in 3 vols. 1838, 1845, and 1854; The river and the desert, or recollections of the Rhine and the Chartreuse, 2 vols. 1838; The beauties of the Bosphorus 1839, reprinted under title of Picturesque Europe 1854 and 1874; The romance of the harem, 2 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1857; The city of the Magyar, or Hungary and her institutions, 3 vols. 1840; The Hungarian castle, 3 vols. 1842; The confessions of a pretty woman, 3 vols. 1846; The jealous wife, 3 vols. 1847, 4 ed. 1858; Louis XIV and the court of France in the seventeenth century, 3 vols. 1847, 3 ed. 1849, reprinted 1886; The rival beauties, 3 vols. 1848, 2 ed. 1861; The court and reign of Francis, king of France, 2 vols. 1849, 3 vols. 1887; Flies in amber, 3 vols. 1850; The life of Marie de Medicis, queen of France, 3 vols. 1852, reprinted 1890; Reginald Lyle, 3 vols. 1854; Lady Arabella, or the adventures of a doll 1856; Abroad and at home, tales here and there 1857; Pilgrimages in Paris 1857; The poor relation, a novel, 3 vols. 1858; Episodes of French history during the consulate and the first empire, 2 vols. 1859; A life struggle, 2 vols. 1859; The rich relation 1862; translated La Peste 1834, an Italian poem by G. Sorello; edited Memoirs of the queens of Spain by A. George 1850; in Seven tales by seven authors 1849 she wrote The Will pp. 77–186; granted civil list pension of £100, 16 Jany. 1860. d. at her lodgings, Upper Montagu st. London 26 Nov. 1862. Bentley’s Miscellany xxvi 323–4 (1849) portrait; S. J. Hales’s Woman’s Record, 2 ed. (1855) 765 portrait; Eclectic Mag. xlii 135–6 (1857) portrait; Godey’s Lady book xlvii 344 (1853); J. Pardoe’s Beauties of the Bosphorus (1839) portrait.
PARDON, Charles Frederick (eld. son of the succeeding). b. 28 March 1850; on staff of European mail 1870; connected with Press Association 112 Fleet st. London 1872, and sporting editor to his decease; established Pardon’s Cricket and sporting reporting agency 1880; a cricketer; edited Wisden’s Cricketer’s Almanack, under name of Merlin 1887–90; master of the Gallery lodge 1886; an original member of London press club and president Jany. 1890; wrote on cricket in Land and Water, the Evening News, and the Standard; with A. S. Wilks wrote How to play solo whist 1888. d. 5 Oxford mansions, Oxford market, Oxford st. London 18 April 1890. Sell’s World’s Press (1891) 83 portrait; London Figaro 26 April 1890 p. 10 portrait.
PARDON, George Frederick. b. London 1824; sub-editor of the Evening Star 1841–2; on staff of European mail 1870; projected the Illustrated exhibitor 1852, a weekly description of the exhibition; projected and edited the Popular educator and other publications for John Cassell; he edited The people’s and Howitt’s journal 1847–50; The quarterly magazine of the order of Odd Fellows 1858; The Working man’s friend 1850; The family friend and the home companion 1854–5; The literary gift book 1858; Tales from the opera 1858; B. Taylor’s A visit to India 1860; Hoyle’s Games modernized 1863; The London magazine, vols. 2 and 3 1876–7; author of The juvenile museum by Quiet George 1850; The Christmas tree 1856; The faces in the fire 1856; The months 1858; Games for all seasons 1858, 2 ed. 1868; Stories about animals and birds, 2 vols. 1858; Dogs, their sagacity, instinct, and use 1857, 2 ed. 1877; Boldheart the warrior 1859; Handbooks of chess, whist, draughts, and billiards, 4 vols. 1860–2; A guide to the international exhibition 1862, 20th thousand 1862; The card player 1863; The popular guide to London 1862, 2 ed. 1866; Parlour pastimes 1868; Noble by heritage, a novellette 1877; under the name of Rawdon Crawley he wrote 17 works, but many of these seem to be same as those under his own name, Billiards, its theory and practice 1857, 10 ed. 1876; Backgammon 1858; Cricket 1866; Croquet 1866; Gymnastics 1868; The book of manly games for boys 1873; Bezique 1876. d. Fleur de Lis hotel, Canterbury 5 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sept. 1884 p. 907; Illust. sporting news v 381 (1866) portrait.
PARE, William (son of John Pare cabinetmaker). b. Birmingham 1805; apprenticed to his father; became a reporter; kept a tobacconist’s shop in New st. Birmingham; an original member of council of the Political Union 1830; secretary of the Reformer’s registration society 1835; the first registrar of Birmingham under the act legalising civil marriages 1837–42; a member of the first town council of Birmingham 1830; a founder of the first Birmingham co-operative society 1828, presided at the anniversary 28 Dec. 1829; lectured in support of co-operation at Liverpool, Manchester, and other places, one of the secretaries of the co-operative congresses 1830–8; vice-president of Robert Owen’s society The Association of all classes of all nations to 1840; acting governor of Owen’s community at Queenwood, Hampshire 1842–4; a railway statist in London 1844–6; resided near Dublin and managed ironworks at Clontarf, Liverpool, and Chepstow 1846–65; literary executor of Robert Owen 1858, presided at the Owen centenary 1871; edited Wm. Thompson’s Inquiry into the principles of the distribution of wealth most conducive to human happiness, 2 ed. 1850; author of The claims of capital and labour, with a sketch of practical measures for their conciliation 1854; A plan for the suppression of the predatory classes 1862; Co-operative agriculture, a solution of the land question as exemplified in the history of the Ralahine co-operative association, co. Clare, Ireland 1870. d. at his son’s house, Ruby lodge, Park hill, Croydon 18 June 1873. bur. Shirley churchyard, near Croydon 23 June. Holyoake’s History of Co-operation (1875) passim; Holyoake’s Sixty years of an agitator’s life i 40, 41, 77, 141 (1893); Bunce’s History of the corporation of Birmingham i, 109, 113, 131, 145, 155, 158, 245, 289 (1878).
PAREPA-ROSA, Euphrosyne (dau. of baron Georgiades de Boyesku, a Wallachian noble, d. about 1836, by Elizabeth Seguin, singer, d. 14 Jany. 1870, aged 57). b. Edinburgh 7 May 1836; pupil of her mother; made her début as Euphrosyne Parepa at Malta 1855 as Amina in La Sonnambula; sang at Naples, Rome, Florence, Genoa, Madrid, and Lisbon 1855–6; first appeared in England at the Lyceum 21 May 1857 as Elvira in I Puritani; played Camille in Zampa at Covent Garden Aug. 1858, and sang there several years; the original Victorine in Mellon’s Victorine 1859; La reine Topaze in Massé’s opera of that name 1860, and Mabel in Macfarren’s Helvellyn 1864; sang at Philharmonic concerts 1860 and at the Handel festivals 1862 and 1865; sang in the U.S. of America 1865, where she was prima donna of the Parepa-Rosa English opera company 1869–70; sang at the Peace jubilee in Boston June 1869; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1872; resided at Cairo winter of 1872–3, played Ruy Blas at the grand opera, Cairo 11 Feb. 1873; had a soprano voice of two and a half octaves in range, reaching to D in alt.; m. (1) Dec. 1863 captain Henry de Wolfe Carvell, of 17 Gloster crescent, Hyde park, London, he d. Lima, Peru 26 April 1865; m. (2) in New York 26 Feb. 1867 Carl August Nicolas Rosa, b. 22 March 1842, he endowed a Parepa-Rosa scholarship at R.A. of music 1874 and d. 30 April 1889; she d. 10 Warwick crescent, Maida Vale, London 21 Jany. 1874. bur. Highgate cemet. 26 Jany. The Western monthly iii 213–21 (1870); Musical World (1873) 113, 265, 607 (1874) 50, 54, 70, &c.; Graphic ix 124, 131 (1874) portrait; I.L.N. lxiv 129 (1874) portrait; Orchestra 23 Jany. 1874 p. 266, 30 Jany. pp. 281–2.
PARES, Thomas. b. Leicester 30 Oct. 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Leicester 1818–26; barrister L.I. 6 Feb. 1818; sheriff of Derbyshire 1845. d. Hopwell hall, near Derby 26 April 1866.
PARFITT, Edward (son of Edward Parfitt 1800–75, gardener to lord Hastings at Melton Constable, Norfolk). b. East Tuddenham, Norfolk 17 Oct. 1820; gardener with his father; gardener to Anthony Gwyn, Sennow lodge, Norfolk; while on a voyage shipwrecked near Cape of Good Hope; gardener to John Milford, Conver house, Exeter Nov. 1848 to 1860; studied plants, insects, geology, and palæontology, and wrote in Trans. of Devonshire association, Annals and mag. of natural history, Entomological mag., the Naturalist, Trans. Royal microscopical soc., Bath and West of England journal, and the Zoologist; curator of Somerset Archæological and natural history soc. at Taunton 1860–1; librarian of Devon and Exeter institute, Exeter 26 Jany. 1861 to death; published The fauna of Devon, 22 parts 1866–91; left in M.S. The fungi of Devonshire, 12 vols., illustrated by 1,530 plates, drawn and painted by himself. d. at the Devon and Exeter institution, Cathedral close, Exeter 15 Jany. 1893. N. and Q. 30 Sept. 1893 p. 262; Natural Science, April 1893.
PARHAM, Benjamin (eld. son of Benjamin Parham of Ashburton, Devon 1769–1851). b. 1793; barrister M.T. 4 May 1827; went Western circuit; judge of county courts, circuit 23, Worcestershire March 1847, resigned Oct. 1859. d. Chelstone manor house, Torquay 16 Aug. 1861. County Court chronicle Oct. 1861 p. 266; Law Times xxxvi 523 (1861).
PARIS, Louis Philippe Albert D’ Orleans, Comte de (elder son of Ferdinand, duc d’Orleans 1810–42). b. Pavilion Marsan, the Tuileries, Paris 24 Aug. 1838; became heir to the French throne 13 July 1842; a refugee in England 1849; confirmed by cardinal Wiseman at French ch. Portman sq. London 1849; resided in Devonshire 1852; visited the East 1860, and U.S. of America 1861; permitted to return to France 1872, and had some of his estates restored to him; banished from France and returned to England June 1886; conspired with general Boulanger in London March 1889; leased Stowe house, Bucks. from trustees of duke of Buckingham 1873; received large sum of money by will of duke de Galliera; m. in R.C. chapel at Kingston 30 May 1864 his cousin Marie Isabella, dau. of the duke de Montpensier; author of The trades’ unions of England 1869; History of the civil war in America 1875. d. Stowe house, Bucks. 8 Sept. 1894. bur. R.C. chapel, Weybridge 12 Sept. Illustrated Times 4 June 1864 p. 361, view of marriage; Times 10 Sept. 1894 p. 4; Saturday Review 26 Dec. 1891 pp. 716–7; A.R. (1894) 178–81; I.L.N. 15 Sept. 1894 pp. 333, 339–47 portraits and views of Stowe house.
PARIS, John Ayrton (son of Thomas Paris of Cambridge). b. Cambridge 7 Aug. 1785; entered Caius coll. Camb. 30 June 1803, scholar Oct. 1803 to 1808; Tancred student in physic 3 Jany. 1804; M.B. 1808, M.D. 1813; physician to Westminster hospital 1809–13; practised at Penzance 1813–7, chief founder and first secretary of the Royal Geological society of Cornwall 1814–17, contributed many papers to its Transactions; returned to London 1817, practised at 27 Dover st. Piccadilly 1818 to death; lectured on materia medica in Windmill st. 1818, etc.; candidate of R.C.P. 30 Sept. 1813, fellow 30 Sept. 1814, censor 1817, 1828, 1836 and 1843, lectured at the college on materia medica 1819–26, Harveian orator 1833, president 20 March 1844 to death, Swiney prizeman 20 Jany. 1849; F.R.S. 21 June 1821; author of Pharmacologia 1812, 9 ed. 1843, by which he made £5,000; A guide to Mount’s Bay and the Land’s End 1815, 2 ed. 1824; A memoir of the life and scientific labours of the Rev. William Gregor 1818; Medical jurisprudence 1823; The elements of medical chemistry 1825; A treatise on diet 1827, 5 ed. 1837; Philosophy in sport made science in earnest 1827, 8 ed. 1857; The life of Sir Humphry Davy 1831. d. 27 Dover st. London 24 Dec. 1856. bur. Woking cemet. Munk’s College of physicians iii 120 (1878); Lives of British physicians (1857) 369–87; Munk’s Goldheaded cane (1884) 186–90, 196–219; The Bibliographer i 65–7 (1882), this a key to Philosophy in sport.