PETHERAM, John. b. Oldmixon, near Weston-super-mare 1809; spent some years in U.S. of America in the wholesale drug trade; secondhand bookseller at 71 Chancery lane, London Sept. 1841, then at 94 High Holborn 1847 to death; compiled and issued 207 catalogues; issued between 1843 and 1847 Puritan discipline tracts, being reprints of 6 tracts on the Martin Mar-Prelate controversy of 1589–92, their titles are An epitome, An epistle, Pappe with a hatchet, Hay any worke for cooper, An almond for a parrot, and Bishop Cooper’s admonition; edited A brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfort 1575, 1846, and a Bibliographical miscellany, 5 parts 1859; author of An historical sketch of the progress and present state of Anglo-Saxon literature in England 1840; Reasons for establishing an Authors’ publication society 1863. d. 94 High Holborn 18 Dec. 1858. Maskell’s History of the Martin Marprelate controversy (1845); Publishers’ Circular 31 Dec. 1858 p. 639; Bookseller Feb. 1859 p. 727.
PETHERICK, John (son of John Petherick, d. 1861). b. Penydarran iron works, Merthyr Tydvil 9 May 1813; resident in Wales 1813–27 and 1832–4; educ. Brieg, Silesia 1827–32; engaged in mining in Waterford and Wexford 1834–8; manager of German mining co.’s mines, Dittenburg 1838–43; mining engineer to viceroy of Egypt 1845–9; resident at Kordofan in the ivory and gum trade 1849–59; consul for the Soudan 1850–63; envoy from Royal geographical soc. to succour captains Speke and Grant 1861–2, capt. Speke quarrelled with Petherick and he was deprived of his consulship, his mercantile affairs fell into disorder and he had to live on a pension given him by the Egyptian government; author of Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa, with explorations from Khartoum, sketches of sixteen years’ travels 1861; with J. P. Clemes Report on the silver mines of Almada and Kurnapa in Mexico 1868; with Mrs. K. H. Petherick Travels in Central Africa, 2 vols. 1869. d. 54 Lancaster road, Westbourne park, London 15 July 1882. Proc. of Royal Geog. Soc. iv 700 (1882).
Note.—He m. Katherine Harriet, dau. of Sigismund Edlman. She was b. Malvern July 1827, accompanied her husband in his travels and d. St. Gorran Haven 12 Jany. 1877.
PETIT, John Louis (eld. son of John Hayes Petit, P.C. of Shareshall, Staffs., d. 1822). b. Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancs. 31 May 1801; educ. Eton, where he contributed to the Etonian, and at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1822; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826; M.A. Oxford 1850; ordained deacon 1824; spent his time chiefly in visiting and sketching old churches in England and abroad from 1839; C. of Bradfield, near Manningtree, Essex 1840–8; a founder of the British archæological institute at Cambridge 1844, and a contributor to the Journal; F.S.A. 7 Feb. 1850; an oil painter and etcher on copper; author and illustrator of Remarks on church architecture, 2 vols. 1841; Remarks on architectural character 1846; The abbey church of Tewkesbury 1848; Architectural studies in France 1854, 2 ed. 1890; his poem The lesser and the greater light was printed by his sister 1869; resided Uplands Shiffnal, Salop 1848–64, and at Lichfield 1867 to decease. d. Lichfield 1 Dec. 1868. bur. Greenhill church, Lichfield. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxv 318–20 (1869); Reg. and mag. of biog. i 220–2, 525 (1869); Architect 2 Jany. 1869 p. 10.
PETIT, Peter John (brother of the preceding). b. 1807; ensign 22 foot 19 May 1825; lieut. 50 foot 27 March 1828, lieut. col. 19 Sept. 1848 to death; C.B. 3 April 1846. d. Lichfield 13 Feb. 1852. G.M. April 1852 p. 407.
PETO, Sir Samuel Morton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Wm. Peto of Cookham, Berkshire 1768–1849). b. Whitmoor house, Woking, Surrey, 4 Aug. 1809; apprenticed to his uncle Henry Peto, builder, who d. 1830 leaving his business to his nephews, Thomas Grissell and S. M. Peto, they dissolved partnership 2 March 1846, having constructed the Hungerford market 1832–3, Lyceum theatre 1834, St. James’s theatre 1835, Reform club 1836, Conservative club 1840, Great Western railway works between Hanwell and Langley 1840, the Nelson column 1843, and a large part of the South Eastern railway 1844; partner with Edward Ladd Betts 1846–72, they constructed the loop line of the Great Northern railway from Peterborough to Doncaster, the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway 1852, the Oxford and Birmingham railway, the Victoria docks, London 1852–5, and the Norwegian Grand Trunk railway; constructed with Thomas Brassey and E. L. Betts railway lines in Australia 1858–63, the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, the Jutland and Schleswig lines 1852, and the London, Tilbury and Southend railway 1852; paid for the building of Bloomsbury baptist chapel; purchased the Diorama in Regent’s park 1855 and converted it into a baptist chapel; M.P. Norwich 1847–54, M.P. Finsbury 1859–65, and M.P. Bristol 1865–8; obtained passing of Peto’s act 13 and 14 Vict. cap. 28, 1850, which simplified titles by which religious bodies hold property; A.I.C.E. 26 Feb. 1839; deputy chairman of metropolitan comrs. of sewers 1 Sept. 1851; constructed a railway line, 39 miles long, between Balaklava and the entrenchments 1854–5; created baronet 14 Feb. 1855; presented with a service of plate for making East Suffolk railway 18 July 1860; Peto and Betts suspended payment 11 May 1866 with liabilities of four millions and assets estimated at five millions; author of Divine support in death 1842; Observations on the report of the defence commissioners 1862; Taxation, its levy and expenditure, past and future 1863; The resources and prospects of America, ascertained during a visit to the states 1866. d. Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells 13 Nov. 1889. bur. Pembury. Sir Morton Peto, a memorial sketch (1893) 2 portraits; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcix 400–3 (1890); I.L.N. xviii 105–6 (1851) portrait, xxx 24–6 (1857) three views of his residence, Somerleyton, Suffolk, xxxvii 147 (1860) view of service of plate; Eclectic mag. lxvi 381 (1878) portrait.
PETRE, William Joseph Petre, 13 Baron (eld. son of 12 baron Petre 1817–84). b. Leamington 26 Feb. 1847; in holy orders of the church of Rome; domestic prelate at court of the Vatican to death; succeeded to the peerage 4 July 1884; author of Remarks on the condition of catholic liberal education 1877; At Antiock again, a sermon 1886. d. 21 Hyde Park gardens, Paddington, London 8 May 1893. bur. in private burial ground at Thorndon park. Daily Graphic 10 May 1893 p. 9 portrait.
PETRE, Henry William (younger son of 11 baron Petre 1793–1850). b. Thorndon hall, near Brentwood, Essex 23 Jany. 1820; an original colonist of New Zealand, where he introduced well bred horses; postmaster general 1853; member of legislative council 1854; master, with a committee, of the Isle of Wight fox hounds; master of the Roothing stag hounds, Essex; author of An account of the settlement of the New Zealand company 1841, 5 ed. 1842; Half a century of British colonization 1889. d. the Manor house, Writtle, Chelmsford 3 Dec. 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 63–4 (1874) portrait.
PETRIE, George (only child of James Petrie, portrait painter). b. Dublin 1 Jany. 1790; studied in the Dublin society’s art school 1802; painted landscapes of Irish scenery 1808 etc.; contributed 96 illustrations to Thomas Kitson’s Cromwell’s Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. 1820; exhibited 2 landscapes at R.A. London 1818; A.R.H.A. 1828, librarian 1830, president resigned 1859; wrote many antiquarian articles in the Dublin examiner 1816, and in the Dublin Penny journal 1832–3; edited the Irish Penny journal 1840–41; M.R.I.A. 1828, where he read 27 papers, member of council 1829, gold medallist 3 times; attached to the ordnance survey of Ireland 1833–46; LL.D. Dublin 1847; granted civil list pension of £100, 13 Oct. 1849 and another pension of £100, 2 Jany. 1851; president of the Old Irish music soc. 1851; author of On the history of Tara hill 1839; A letter to sir W. R. Hamilton on charges made against the author by sir W. Betham 1840; The ecclesiastical antiquities of Ireland 1845; he illustrated G. N. Wright’s Ireland 1831; G. N. Wright’s An historical guide to Dublin 1821; G. N. Wright’s A guide to the county of Wicklow 1822, and Picturesque sketches of the landscapes and coast scenery of Ireland 1835. d. 7 Charlemont place, Dublin 17 Jany. 1866. bur. Mount Jerome cemetery, near Dublin. W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1868); Graves’s Eloge on the late George Petrie (1866); W. Allingham’s Varieties in pose iii 161–73 (1893); I.L.N. xlviii 201, 202 (1866) portrait; Dublin univ. mag. xiv 638 portrait.
PETRIE, John Gordon. b. 1822; second lieut. Bombay artillery 11 June 1841, colonel 26 April 1866, retired 31 Dec. 1878; M.G. 1 Oct. 1877, hon. L.G. 31 Dec. 1878; C.B. 14 Aug. 1868; served in the Scinde campaign 1843, and the Indian mutiny 1857; commanded artillery in Abyssinia campaign from 1 Jany. 1868. d. 9 Cranbury terrace, Southampton 31 Dec. 1890.