PICKERING, William Henry. b. 1800; 2 lieut. R.A. 16 Dec. 1816, colonel 1 April 1855 to 21 July 1860, when placed on retired full pay as M.G. d. Yaldhurst, Lymington, Hants. 11 Feb. 1863.
PICKERSGILL, Henry Hall (son of the succeeding). b. 1812; studied abroad some years; a painter in London, afterwards in the north of England; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 8 at B.I. 1834–62; his picture The right of sanctuary is in the South Kensington museum. d. 20 Upper Berkeley st. Portman sq. London 7 Jany. 1861.
PICKERSGILL, Henry William. b. London 3 Dec. 1782; adopted by Mr. Hall, a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields, who placed him in his own business 1799; pupil of George Arnald, A.R.A. 1802–5; a student in the R.A. 1805, A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1826, retired R.A. 1873, librarian 1856 to death; exhibited 384 pictures at R.A. and 26 at B.I. 1806–72; many of his portraits and subject-pictures were engraved; painted portraits of nearly all the most celebrated people of his time; his portraits of Bentham, Godwin, M. G. Lewis, Hannah More, George Stephenson, sir Thomas Talfourd, and Wordsworth are in the National portrait gallery. d. Barnes, Surrey 21 April 1875. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii 42–44 (1880); Sandby’s History of Royal Academy ii 47 (1862); I.L.N. lxvi 456, 547 (1875) portrait; Graphic xi, 436, 450 (1875) portrait.
PICKERSGILL, Jeannette Caroline. b. 1814; m. H. H. Pickersgill (son of H. W. Pickersgill, R.A.); well known in literary and scientific circles; a member of the Cremation society. d. 5 Cornwall residences, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1885, cremated at St. John’s, Woking, Surrey, the first person cremated there 26 March 1885. Transactions of Cremation soc. (1885) 49; Times 27 March 1885 p. 10.
PICKFORD, Thomas. b. 1794; served in the Spanish army 1810–13; attached to general sir Richard Bourke, military agent in the Spanish army of reserve 7 April 1813; vice-consul at Corunna 5 July 1814; clerk to consul general in Paris 1 July 1820, deputy 30 July 1822; consular registrar to the embassy 2 Jany. 1832; consul at Paris 24 March 1834 to death; fought a duel with a Frenchman at Caen 1818; is drawn under name of Marmaduke Heath in Lost Sir Massingbird, a romance of real life [By James Payn] 2 vols. 1864. d. Paris 24 June 1865. Times 24 June 1865 p. 9, 26 June p. 6; Foreign office list, second ed. 1865 p. 168.
PICKNELL, George. b. Green farm, Chalvington, 13 miles from Brighton 29 Nov. 1813; a farmer at Chalvington; played in Sussex v. Nottingham 1835; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Sussex 19 June 1837; for 20 years a member of the Sussex eleven; a hard hitter, playing back, bowled fast and ripping, raising his hand to near his ear; in 2 matches in July 1850 carried out his bat in all four innings, in the last innings went in first and saw his whole side out; a match the United v. the Gentlemen of Sussex was played for his benefit 21 Aug. 1856. d. Chalvington 26 Feb. 1863. W. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 64; Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 406 (1862).
PICKNELL, Robert. b. Chalvington 2 June 1816; member of the Sussex eleven; first played at Lord’s in Marylebone v. Sussex 19 June 1837; generally took cover-point; landlord of Lamb hotel, Eastbourne 1847; lost a finger when pigeon shooting 1852. d. Eastbourne 7 Feb. 1869. bur. Chalvington. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores ii 406 (1862).
PICTON, Sir James Allanson (son of Wm. Pickton, timber merchant). b. Highfield st. Liverpool 2 Dec. 1805; employed by Daniel Stewart architect and surveyor 1826, a partner 1830, succeeded him 1 Jany. 1835, retired 1866; executed some important buildings in and near Liverpool; a leading authority on land arbitration; a local preacher among the Wesleyans to 1848; member of Liverpool town council 1849 to death; member of Historic Soc. of Lancashire and Cheshire 6 Jany. 1849; obtained a public library for Liverpool 1852, the first chairman of the library and museum committee 1851 to death, the Picton reading room was started by the corporation 1879; a member of the Wavertree local board 1851, chairman of the board 1852; originated the YZ club at Liverpool 12 members only 1870; kept his golden wedding 28 April 1878; knighted at Osborne 18 Aug. 1881; F.S.A. 7 June 1849; edited The Watchman’s Lantern, intended to throw light on the proceedings of the Wesleyan Methodist conference 17 Dec. 1834 to 18 Nov. 1835, twenty eight numbers; Selections from the Liverpool municipal archives and records, 2 vols. 1883–6; author of The architectural history of Liverpool 1858; Baronies of Forth and Bargey, Wexford, the antique dialect of the district 1866; Memorials of Liverpool, 2 vols. 1873, 2 ed. 1875; and of about 60 papers in the transactions of learned societies. d. Sandyknowe, Wavertree, near Liverpool 15 July 1889. bur. Toxteth park cemet., bust by McBride in Liverpool free library. Sir J. A. Picton by J. A. Picton, M.P. (1891) 2 portraits; Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. xiii 137 (1889–91); Biograph Oct. 1880 pp. 380–5.
PIDDING, Henry James (son of Mr. Pidding of 1 Cornhill, London, stationer and lottery-office keeper). b. London 1797; painted humorous subjects from domestic life; exhibited 21 pictures at R.A., 42 at B.I., and 177 at Suffolk street 1818–64; member of Society of British artists 1843; painted a large picture of The gaming rooms at Homburg 1860; some of his pictures were engraved, several of them by himself in mezzotint; etched a series of six illustrations to The rival demons, an anonymous poem 1836. d. Greenwich 13 June 1864.
PIDDINGTON, Henry (2 son of James Piddington of Uckfield). b. 1797; commanded a ship in the mercantile marine; curator of the museum of economic geology in Calcutta about 1830; sub-secretary of the Asiatic soc. of Bengal about 1830; president of marine court of inquiry at Calcutta about 1845; coroner of Calcutta about 1849 to death; author of The horn-book of storms for the Indian and China seas 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The sailor’s horn-book for the law of storms 1848, 6 ed. 1876, in which he proposed the word cyclone as a name for whirling storms which was accepted by meteorologists; Conversations about hurricanes for the use of plain sailors 1852. d. Calcutta 7 April 1858. Journal of Asiatic society of Bengal (1839) 559, (1859) 64.