Note.—At one time 22 companies were on tour in England and 6 in America playing his pieces. In Australia 6 of his plays were before the public and his name was on the bills of two London theatres. Six dramas in which he had collaborated were on in London the same evening.
PETTITT, Joseph Paul. b. Birmingham; landscape painter at Birmingham; member of Society of British artists, Suffolk st.; exhibited 6 pictures at R.A., 12 at B.I, and 97 at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–80; painted views of Swiss scenery for Joseph Gillott of Birmingham. d. Balsall Heath, near Birmingham 9 Sept. 1882. Architect xxvii 182 (1882).
PETTIT, Walter. b. London 14 March 1835; studied at royal academy of music; violoncellist in the orchestra of Her Majesty’s theatre 1851, remained there many years; succeeded Charles Lucas as principal violoncello in Philharmonic orchestra 1861; took place of Guillaume Paque in Her Majesty’s private band 1876. d. London 11 Dec. 1882. Grove’s Dictionary of music ii 696 (1880).
PEVERELL, Mary Ann (dau. of Mr. Callow). b. London 17 July 1792; m. in parish church of St. Mary, Whitechapel 17 April 1814 John Peverell; lived for many years at Winchmore Hill, near Edmonton. d. Winchmore Hill 6 Jany. 1896 aged 103. bur. Edmonton parish churchyard 10 Jany. Times 10 Jany. 1896 p. 4.
PEW, James. b. Leith, Scotland 1793; clerk in the stores department Tower of London 1807; auditor to the vestry of Camberwell 1827, overseer of the poor 1829, vicar’s warden 1839–63, hon. sec. of the cholera committee 1839; a governor of Dulwich college; member for Camberwell of Metropolitan board of works 1858–69; chairman of Camberwell vestry, his portrait was placed in Camberwell vestry hall April 1860. d. Asiago, in the Italian Tyrol Sept. 1876. bur. Padua. W. H. Blanch’s Parish of Camberwell (1877) 186–8 portrait.
PEW, John. Choirmaster to the Carl Rosa opera company 1873, brought the choir to a high state of efficiency, assistant conductor to the opera co.; conducted English opera in London and the provinces. d. Feb. 1890.
PEYTON, Sir Algernon William, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Peyton 1804–66). b. Woodstock 13 April 1833; educ. Eton 1847–50; cornet 1 life guards 19 Aug. 1851, captain 26 Feb. 1856, sold out 5 May 1869; master of the Bicester hounds 1861–3; succeeded 18 Feb. 1866; a driver of the Life guards’ coach; sheriff of Oxon. 1871. d. Swift’s house, Bicester, Oxon. 25 March 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvi 51 (1869) portrait.
PEYTON, Sir Henry, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Henry Dashwood Peyton, d. 1789). b. Narborough hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk 1 July 1779; succeeded May 1789; M.P. Cambridgeshire 5 May to 26 June 1802; a member of the Four-in-hand club; always took part in the procession of mail coaches on 1 May, the last procession was in 1838; a member of the Bedford driving club, drove a yellow coach and grey horses; introduced the metal cap at the bottom of the whip stick and the thumb ferule at the top of the leather hand piece; the first amateur whip in England with the exception of another Cambridgeshire baronet. d. Swift’s house, near Bicester 24 Feb. 1854. bur. in the family vault at Doddington 3 March. G.M. xli 421 (1854); Baily’s Mag. Jany. 1869 p. 52; Driving by the Duke of Beaufort (Badminton library 1889) 189, 190, 236, 244, 274, 281, 282.
Note.—Thackeray in alluding to him and his driving in the park, calls him The ancient charioteer who must soon depart.
PEYTON, Sir Henry, 3 Baronet (son of sir H. Peyton, d. 1854). b. Grafton st. London 30 June 1804; educ. Harrow 1816; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 29 April 1822; cornet 1 life guards 1 Nov. 1824; lieut. on h.p. 15 Aug. 1826; capt. Oxfordshire yeomanry; an accomplished whip; member of Four-in-hand club; M.P. Woodstock 1837–8; succeeded 24 Feb. 1854. d. Swift’s house, Bicester 18 Feb. 1866. G.M. i 585 (1866).