POPHAM, Brunswick (2 son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). b. 1805; entered navy 11 Dec. 1817, present in the battle of Navarino 1827; captain 28 June 1838; admiral on half pay 10 Sept. 1869. d. Cardean Meigle, Forfarshire 6 Feb. 1878.
POPHAM, Francis Leybourne- (2 son of lieut. general Edward William Popham of Littlecote, Wilts. 1764–1843). b. 14 Oct. 1809; educ. Univ. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; fellow of All Souls’ 1831–43; barrister LL. 21 Nov. 1837; kept some mares at Littlecote, his horse Wild Dayrell won the Derby 1855. d. 1880. Baily’s Mag. viii 109–12 (1864) portrait.
POPHAM, William (eld. son of sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. 1762–1820). b. April 1791; entered navy May 1805; captain 19 May 1819; retired admiral 23 March 1863. d. Stourfield house, Christchurch 23 Aug. 1864.
POPOFF, Basil (son of Eugene Popoff, chaplain to Russian embassy, London). b. 1839; chaplain to Russian embassy in London 1875 to death; private chaplain to duchess of Edinburgh 2 March 1875 to death. d. 32 Welbeck st. London 19 March 1877. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 23 March.
POPPLEWELL, George Otway. Entered navy 14 Feb 1832; captain 15 April 1862, retired 12 Oct. 1868; retired admiral 1 May 1888. d. Ramsgate 12 Sept. 1889. Times 16 Sept. 1889 p. 6.
PORRETT, Robert (son of Robert Porrett). b. London 22 Sept. 1783; assistant to his father, the ordnance storekeeper at the Tower of London 1795, chief of the department, retired on a pension 1850; F.S.A. 9 Jany. 1840; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; F.R.A.S.; an original fellow of Chemical society 1841; contributed several papers on armour to Archæologia and Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries; awarded a medal by Society of Arts for discovery of prussous acid 1808, which he termed sulphuretted chyazic acid in 1814; discovered ferrocyanic acid, which he named ferruretted chyazic acid; discovered electric endosmosis 1816; author of 13 scientific papers. d. 49 Bernard st. Russell sq. London 25 Nov. 1868. Proc. of Royal Soc. xviii p. iv (1870).
PORTAL, George Raymond (4 son of John Portal of Whitchurch, Hampshire). b. 28 Feb. 1827; educ. Rugby 1841, and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1849, M.A. 1852; C. of Wilton, 1850–2; C. of St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London 1852–7; R. of Albury, Surrey 1858–71; R. of Burghclere with Newtown, Hampshire 1871 to death; honorary canon of Winchester Jany. 1882 to death; author of On some of the prevalent objections to ritual observances, a sermon 1854; Personal faith the only source of peace, a sermon 1855; Short prayers, &c. for those who have little time to pray 1867; Hymns for the use of the parish of Albury 1864. d. Burghclere rectory 5 April 1889.
PORTAL, Sir Gerald Herbert (2 son of Melville Portal). b. Laverstoke, Hampshire 13 March 1858; educ. Eton 1871–9, played in the cricket eleven 1886, 1887, editor of the Eton chronicle; clerk in the foreign office 12 July 1879; sent to Rome 29 June 1880, third secretary of legation there 22 July 1881; sent to Cairo 24 June 1882, present at bombardment of Alexandria 11 July 1882, third secretary at Cairo 1 April 1884, second secretary 1 April 1885; went to Massowah to procure a reconciliation between the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government 17 Oct. 1887; acting consul general at Zanzibar 30 April to 14 Nov. 1889, agent at Zanzibar 10 March 1891; consul general for German East Africa 2 June 1891, and for the British sphere 11 Feb. 1892; sent to Uganda to report whether that part of Africa should be retained by the British or evacuated 10 Dec. 1892; arrived at the coast again 21 Oct. 1893 and reached London Nov. 1893; C.B. 3 Feb. 1888; K.C.M.G. 4 Aug. 1892; author of My mission to Abyssinia 1888, 2 ed. 1892; m. 1 Feb. 1890 Alice Josephine, 2 dau. of 7 earl of Abingdon, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 12 March 1894; he d. 5B Mount st. Grosvenor sq. London 25 Jany. 1894. bur. mortuary chapel, Laverstoke, Hants. 30 Jany. Sir G. H. Portal’s The British mission to Uganda (1894), memoir pp. xxv–xlvi portrait; Pall Mall Budget 1 Feb. 1894 p. 5, two portraits, and 14 June 1894 p. 10 portrait; Times 26 Jany. 1894 p. 3.
PORTARLINGTON, Lionel Seymour William Dawson Damer, 4 Earl of (only son of colonel George Lionel Dawson Damer of Came, Dorset, d. 14 April 1856, younger son of first earl of Portarlington). b. 7 April 1832; educ. Eton 1847–9; ensign Scots fusilier guards 23 Nov. 1849. lieut. 14 July 1854, served in the Crimea, sold out 15 Jany. 1856; lieut. Dorset yeomanry cavalry 20 April 1858; M.P. Portarlington 1857–65 and 1868–80; succeeded his cousin as 4 earl of Portarlington 1 March 1889; resided Emo park, Portarlington. d. Portman lodge, Bournemouth 17 Dec. 1892. bur. Came 21 Dec. Times 19 Dec. 1892 p. 6; Graphic 24 Dec. 1892 p. 762 portrait; Daily Graphic 20 Dec. 1892 p. 9 portrait.
PORTER, Classon Emmett (half brother of John Scott Porter 1801–80). b. Artikelly, co. Derry 1814; educ. Manchester college, York 1828–34; minister of the first presbyterian church, Larne, co. Antrim 2 July 1834 to death; wrote many papers on Irish presbyterian church history and biography in the Northern Whig, Larne reporter, Christian Unitarian and Disciple; author of Irish presbyterian biographical sketches, Belfast 1893, reprinted from the Northern Whig. d. Ballygally castle, co. Antrim 27 May 1885. bur. in parish churchyard of Cairncastle, co. Antrim.