PAUNCEFOTE, Bernard (only son of Bernard Pauncefote of Cuddalore, Madras presidency). b. Cuddalore 28 June 1848; educ. Rugby and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1870; played his first cricket match at Lords in the match Marlborough v. Rugby 3 and 4 July 1865; scored 211 runs not out in a match Brasenose v. Corpus at Oxford 3 June 1868; in the Oxford univ. eleven 1868–70, captain 1869–70; played in the match Gentlemen v. Players 1869; student at Inner Temple 9 May 1870; a merchant at Colombo in Ceylon 1875. d. Blackheath, Kent 24 Sept. 1882.
PAUNCEFORT, Georgiana (dau. of Mr. Edwards). b. 1825; came from U.S. America to England in 1860; played in Adam Bede at Surrey theatre 28 Feb. 1862; played at Surrey theatre, the Marchioness in the Medal of bronze 4 Oct. 1862, Madge Wildfire in Effie Deans 7 Feb. 1863, Ruth Ringrose in Ashore and afloat 15 Feb. 1864, Jane Grierson in the Orange girl 28 Oct. 1864; Miriam in Watts Phillips’s Theodora 9 April 1866, Marah in A. Slous’s prize drama True to the core 8 Sept. 1866, Patty Lavrock in W. Phillips’s Nobody’s child 14 Sept. 1867, and Hetty Calvert in his Land rats and water rats 8 Sept. 1868; played at Queen’s theatre Mrs. Jaspar Gregg in Burnand’s Morden Grange 4 Dec. 1869, Queen Mary in Tom Taylor’s Twixt axe and crown 22 Jany. 1870, Isabelle in his Joan of Arc 10 April 1871; played at Lyceum theatre Catherine in The Bells 25 Nov. 1871, Mother Fadette in Fanchette 11 Sept. 1871, Lady Eleanor Davys in Wills’s Charles the First 28 Sept. 1872, Countess de Miraflore in H. Aide’s Philip 7 Feb. 1874, Hecate in Macbeth 25 Sept. 1875, a leading part in Tennyson’s Queen Mary 18 April 1876, Queen Elizabeth in Richard the Third 29 Jany. 1877, Nurse Burgit in Vanderdecken 8 June 1878, Gertrude in Hamlet 30 Dec. 1878, Widow Melnotte in The lady of Lyons 17 April 1879, Judith in The iron chest 27 Sept. 1879, Martha in Iolanthe 20 May 1880, Madame Savilla dei Franchi in The Corsican brothers 18 Sept. 1880; Madame de la Marche in The wife’s sacrifice at St. James’s theatre 25 May 1886: Mrs. Primrose in Olivia at Lyceum 29 June 1887; Catherine in The Bells, before the queen at Sandringham 26 April 1889; Hannah in S. Grundy’s A white lie at Court theatre 25 May 1889; Tibbie Howieson in The King and the miller at Lyceum 7 Feb. 1891; m. (1) George Pauncefort, an actor at Boston and Philadelphia; m. (2) Mr. Cooke. d. 4 Shawfield st. King’s road, Chelsea, London 19 Dec. 1895. Era 28 Dec. 1895; T. A. Brown’s American Stage (1870) 281.
PAVER, William. b. 1802; registrar of births and deaths at 4 Rougier st. York 1867; author of Original genealogical abstracts of the wills of individuals of noble and ancient families resident in the county of York, Sheffield 1830; Pedigrees of families of the city of York, from a manuscript entitled “The heraldic visitations of Yorkshire consolidated,” York 1842; his collections relating to Yorkshire were bought by the British Museum 1874; his transcripts of marriage licenses commencing in 1567 were printed by rev. C. B. Norcliffe in Yorkshire archæological and topographical journal, vii 289 et seq. (1882). d. Rishworth st. Wakefield 1 June 1871.
PAXTON, James. b. London 11 Jany. 1786; M.R.C.S. 16 March 1810; M.D. St. Andrews 1845; served in army medical service; practised at Long Buckley, Northamptonshire 1816–21, at Oxford 1821–43, and at Rugby 1843–58; assistant surgeon to Oxfordshire militia; edited Paley’s Natural theology, with plates and notes, 2 vols. Oxford 1826; An introduction to the study of human anatomy, 2 vols. 1831–4, new ed. 1841 republished in America; The medical friend, or advice for the preservation of health, Oxford 1843; The works of W. Paley, 5 vols. 1845; Living streams, or illustrations of the natural history and diseases of the blood 1855. d. Ledwell, in parish of Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordshire 12 March 1860. E. Marshall’s Account of Sandford (1866) 40.
PAXTON, Sir Joseph (7 son of Wm. Paxton of Milton-Bryant, near Woburn, Bedfordshire). b. Milton-Bryant 3 Aug. 1803; gardener to sir Gregory Page-Turner at Battlesden park, near Woburn 1821, constructed a large lake there; employed by the Horticultural society at Chiswick gardens 1823, foreman 1824–6; superintendent of duke of Devonshire’s gardens at Chatsworth 1826 and of his woods 1829, erected the stove greenhouse, arboretum, and orchid houses, erected the great conservatory 300 feet long 1836–40; travelled with the duke in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, Malta, Spain and Portugal 1838; remodelled the village of Edensor, near Chatsworth 1839–41; constructed the fountains at Chatsworth, largest of which is 267 feet in height; succeeded in flowering the Victoria regia water-lily for the first time in Europe 1849; his plan for the Great exhibition of 1851 was accepted 1850 after 233 other plans had been rejected; knighted at Windsor Castle 23 Oct, 1851; superintended the re-erection of the Crystal palace at Sydenham 1853–4, director of the gardens there 1854 to death; suggested and organised the army works corps, which served in the Crimea; M.P. Coventry 1854 to death; designed baron Rothschild’s mansion at Ferrières, France, and other buildings; F.H.S. 1826, vice-president; F.L.S. 1833; received Russian order of St. Vladimir 1844; edited with Joseph Harrison The horticultural register and general magazine, 5 vols. 1832–6; Paxton’s magazine of botany and register of flowering plants, 15 vols. 1834–48; Paxton’s magazine of gardening and botany 1849; edited with John Lindley, Paxton’s Flower garden, 3 vols. 1850–3, and A pocket botanical dictionary 1840, 3 ed. 1868; author of A practical treatise on the cultivation of the dahlia 1838. d. Rockhills, Sydenham 8 June 1865. bur. Edensor, near Chatsworth 15 June. Journal of horticulture viii 446 (1865) portrait; G.M. ii 247–9 (1865); Notes and Queries 24 June 1865 p. 491: Practical Mag. vi 161 (1876) portrait; Catalogue of the library at Chatsworth iv 161 (1879) view of his house; The Crystal palace by P. Berlyn and C. Fowler, junior (1851); I.L.N. xviii 343, 344 (1851) portrait, xlvi 601 (1865) portrait; Times 9 June 1865 p. 9, 16 June p. 9.
Note.—He devised a plan for girdling London with an arcade resembling the transept of the old Crystal palace, in which were to be lines of railway on the atmospheric principle, bordered by dwellings and shops. This plan he laid in detail before a committee of the house of commons in 1855.
PAYN, Sir William (son of William Payn of Kidwells, Maidenhead, clerk to the Thames comrs.) b. 3 Feb. 1823; ensign 53 foot 27 May 1842, lieut. col. 13 July 1858; lieut. col. 72 foot 14 Aug. 1860 to 2 Dec. 1876; served in the Sutlej and other campaigns in India 1845–52; staff officer at Smyrna March 1855 to May 1856; in the Indian mutiny 1857–8, present at Cawnpore and Lucknow; brigadier general in Bengal 14 June 1872 to 9 March 1877; C.B. 14 May 1859, K.C.B. 29 May 1886; commanded Mysore division of Madras army 1879–84; general 12 Aug. 1888, placed on retired list 20 Feb. 1889; col. of Bedfordshire regt. 26 Jany. 1892 to death. d. Lynwood, Ashtead, Epsom 14 June 1893. Daily Graphic 21 June 1893 p. 14 portrait.
PAYN, William Henry (son of Anthony Payn of Dover). b. Dover 1802; educ. Henri Quatre college, Paris; solicitor at Dover 1827–79; proclaimed accession of queen Victoria at Dover 1837; coroner for Dover 1860–82; member of town council, mayor 1854–5; received emperor and empress of the French at Dover 16 April 1855, presented with diamond snuff box and gold medal by the emperor when he embarked for Calais 21 April 1855. d. Kearsney, near Dover 14 Sept. 1887. Law Times 29 Oct. 1887 p. 450.
PAYNE, Arthur Gay (son of John Robert Payne, d. 6 Nov. 1877). b. Camberwell, Surrey 7 Feb. 1840; educ. Univ. college school, London and Peter house, Camb., B.A. 1866, coxswain of his college boat; a gourmet; a friend of J. G. Chambers (athlete 1843–83); advised and aided Matthew Webb the swimmer; sporting editor of the Standard 1871–83; assistant editor of Land and water to 1883; contributed to Bell’s Life in London and the Girls’ own paper; edited M. Webb’s Art of swimming [1875], and W. Cook’s Billiards 1884; edited Cassell’s Dictionary of cookery 1875–6, and wrote The principles of cookery, prefixed; author of Common sense cooking [1877]; Choice dishes at small cost 1882; Cassell’s Shilling cookery 1888; Cassell’s Popular cookery 1889; Cassell’s Vegetarian cookery 1891; edited The billiard news 1875–8; in Cassell’s Popular recreation 1873 he wrote on Conjuring, cricketing, etc. d. Bay View terrace, Penzance 1 April 1894.
PAYNE, Charles. Entered Bombay army 1803; ensign 8 Bombay N.I. 12 Aug. 1805, captain 31 Oct. 1822; major 16 N.I. 29 Dec. 1828 to 16 Sept. 1833; lieut. col. 6 N.I. 16 Sept. 1833–9, of 13 N.I. 1839–44, of 13 N.I. 1844–5, and of 22 N.I. 1845–7; brigadier at Baroda 20 Sept. 1844 to March 1846; col. of 15 N.I. 9 June 1847 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. 24 April 1858.