POLLOK, Robert. b. Neilston parish, Renfrewshire; educ. in Ayrshire; entered univ. of Glasgow 1817; licensed by united secession presbytery of Glasgow 1825; minister of Buckhaven, Fifeshire 1826; minister of Kingston, Glasgow 1826 to death; author of Apocalyptic regeneration, lectures, 2 vols. 1856–8. d. 1879. Our Scottish clergy, 2 series 266–71 (1849).
POLTIMORE, George Warwick Bampfylde, 1 Baron Poltimore (only child of sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde, 5 baronet 1753–1823). b. 23 March 1786; succeeded as 6 baronet 19 April 1823; created baron Poltimore of Poltimore, Devon 10 Sept. 1831; lord in waiting to queen Victoria 15 Aug. 1840, resigned Sept. 1841; colonel of North Devon militia. d. Poltimore 18 Dec. 1858.
POLWARTH, Henry Francis Hepburne-Scott, 7 Baron (eld. son of 5 baron Polwarth 1758–1841, who assumed additional surname of Hepburne). b. Brighton 1 Jany. 1800; M.P. Roxburghshire 1826–32; succeeded 28 Dec. 1841; a representative peer for Scotland June or July 1843 to death; lord lieutenant of Selkirkshire 8 Dec. 1845 to death; a lord in waiting to the queen Feb. to Dec. 1852, Feb. to June 1859, and July 1866 to his death; lieut. col. 1 batt. Roxburgh rifle volunteers 9 Nov. 1861 to death. d. Merton house, co. Berwick 16 Aug. 1867. G.M. iv 533 (1867).
POLWHELE, Thomas (5 son of rev. Richard Polwhele, author 1760–1838). b. Manaccan vicarage 4 Oct. 1797; entered Bengal army 1814; ensign 21 Bengal N.I. 22 Aug. 1815, lieut. 1 Feb. 1818; captain 42 N.I. 26 July 1830, lieut. col. 17 Feb. 1850 to 1851; lieut. col. of 54 N.I. 1851–6, of 36 N.I. 1856–7, and of 17 N.I. 1857 to 4 May 1858; commandant Agra 7 March 1856 to 1857; general 13 Dec. 1876; served in Nepaul 1816, in Ceylon 1818, in Burmah 1824, in Candahar and Afghanistan 1839–42, in the Sutlej campaign 1845; succeeded his brother R. G. Polwhele at Polwhele, near Truro 31 Oct. 1870. d. Tivoli lodge, Cheltenham 23 May 1885. J. H. Stocqueler’s Memorials of Afghanistan (1843) 141 et seq.; G. C. Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 746.
POND, Charles Alexander Maclean (eld. son of B. C. Pond of 102 Brixton Hill, Surrey). b. 1864; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1890 or 1891 to death, B.A. 1887, M.A. 1890; Prendergast Greek student at Camb. 1890–2; professor of classics at Auckland, New Zealand 1890 or 1891 to death. d. Auckland 28 Oct. 1893.
POND, Christopher. b. England 1826; with Felix Spiers proprietors of the cafe royal Bourke st. Melbourne, Australia; connected with bringing the first English team of cricketers to Australia 23 Dec. 1861; with F. Spiers built Criterion restaurant and theatre 218–223 Piccadilly, London 1873, at cost of £80,000, the theatre was opened 21 March 1874; wine and spirit merchants and proprietors of hotels and refreshment rooms on London, Chatham and Dover, and Metropolitan railways, also proprietors of the Gaiety restaurant 343 Strand, and of the Holborn viaduct hotel; resided The Cedars, Herne hill, Surrey. d. Updown house, Margate 30 July 1881. bur. Norwood 5 Aug., will proved by his widow Emma 23 Nov., personalty £215,000, bronze statue of him by J. E. Boehm placed on grand staircase of the Criterion Oct. 1886. Morning Advertiser 1 Aug. 1881 p. 4, 6 Aug. p. 2.
POND, Richard Radcliffe. b. 1824; advertising agent at 17 Upper Wellington st. Strand 1850, at 165 Strand 1853–5, and at 1 Exeter Change, Strand 1855–9; lessee of St. James’s and Drury Lane theatres several times in conjunction with Joseph Stammers; connected with Peter Morrison of the Bank of deposit; lineally descended from the earl of Derwentwater; engaged in literary enterprises with the Broughs, the Mayhews, and Strauss. d. 1 Albert villas, Albert road, Peckham 10 Feb. 1868. G. L. M. Strauss, Reminiscences of an old Bohemian ii 113–24 (1882).
PONIATOWSKI, Prince Josef Michel Xaver Johann (son of Stanislas Poniatowski 1754–1833). b. Rome 20 Feb. 1816; a musician, tenor singer, and composer of operas; naturalised in Tuscany 1848; minister plenipotentiary from Tuscany to Paris 1848–70; naturalised in France 1854–69; lived in London 1870 to death; his opera Gelmina produced at Covent Garden 4 June 1872; among his compositions in England were Claude Duval, a song 1871; The flower girl, a ballad 1872; Gelmina, dramma lirico in tre atti 1872; The stag hunt, song 1873; The lover’s pen, song 1875; Mass in F for four voices and chorus 1876. d. at his residence, London 3 July 1873. bur. Chislehurst 8 July. Larousse’s Grand dictionnaire xii 1391 (1874).
PONSFORD, John. b. Modbury, Devon 1790; studied in Rome; painted portraits in oil at Plymouth, the best portrait painter of his day in Devon; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A., 1 at B.I., and 5 at Suffolk st. 1823–57. d. London 1870. G. Pycroft’s Art in Devonshire (1883) 106.
PONSONBY, John Ponsonby, 1 Viscount (eld. son of 1 baron Ponsonby 1744–1806). b. 1770; M.P. Tallagh 1793–1807; M.P. Dungarvan 1798–1800; M.P. Galway 1801–2; succeeded his father as 2 baron Ponsonby 5 Nov. 1806; the handsomest man of his time; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Buenos Ayres 28 Feb. 1826, and at Rio Janeiro 12 Feb. 1828; sent on a special mission to Belgium 1 Dec. 1830; envoy extraordinary at Naples 8 June to 9 Nov. 1832; ambassador at Constantinople 27 Nov. 1832 to 1 March 1837, and at Vienna 10 Aug. 1846 to 31 May 1850; G.C.B. 3 March 1834; created viscount Ponsonby of Imokilly, co. Cork 20 April 1839; author of Private letters on the Eastern question, written at the date thereon, Brighton 1854. d. Brighton 21 Feb. 1855. Lamington’s Days of the dandies (1890) 75–9; Sir H. Lytton Bulwer’s Historical characters ii 369–70 (1868); Abbé van Geel’s The Guet-ā-pens diplomacy of lord Ponsonby at Brussels 1831.