PORTON, William. b. on board the Saturn off Gibraltar 12 Aug. 1783; fought at Santa Cruz and Trafalgar; lived at Wolverhampton more than 60 years. d. Wolverhampton Oct. 1883, aged 100 years and 2 months.
PORTSMOUTH, John Charles Wallop 3 Earl of (son of 2 earl of Portsmouth 1742–97). b. Hurstbourne park near Andover 18 Dec. 1767; styled viscount Lymington 1767–97; succeeded his father as 3 earl of Portsmouth 16 May 1797; hereditary bailiff of Burley; all his property vested in trustees 1790; placed in care of a medical attendant, Mr. Coombe 1808–14; most cruelly treated by his second wife; declared to have been incapable of managing his affairs from 1 Jany. 1809 by a commission which sat 10–28 Feb. 1823. d. Hurstbourne park, 14 July 1853. A genuine report of the proceedings to enquire into the sanity of the earl of Portsmouth (1823); G.M. xl 307 (1852).
PORTSMOUTH, Newton Fellowes, 4 earl of (brother of the preceding). b. Hurstbourne park 26 June 1772; styled the hon. Newton Wallop 1772–94; educ. Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 1792; took the name of Fellowes in lieu of Wallop by R.L. 9 Aug. 1794, on succeeding to Eggesford, north Devon, on death of his uncle Henry Arthur Fellowes; capt. independent company South Devon militia 6 Feb. 1795; M.P. Andover 1802–20; M.P. North Devon 1832–7; capt. 1 East Devon regt. of militia 26 July 1820; succeeded his brother as 4 earl of Portsmouth 14 July 1853. d. Eggesford, North Devon 9 Jany. 1854. G.M. xli 190 (1854).
PORTSMOUTH, Isaac Newton Wallop, 5 earl of (son of the preceding). b. Castle hill, North Devon 11 Jany. 1825; educ. Rugby 1838 and Trin. coll. Camb.; cornet 16 lancers 27 March 1846, sold out 16 April 1847; styled Isaac Newton Fellowes 1843–53; styled viscount Lymington 1853–4; succeeded his father as 5 earl of Portsmouth 9 Jany. 1854, and took name of Wallop in lieu of Fellowes; ran horses near Aldershot as Mr. Fellowes 1854; as lord Portsmouth won races with Aaconora 1855; his Buccaneer a favourite for the Derby 1859; a steward of the Jockey club 1859; master of his own fox hounds in the Anstey country, Dulverton 1847–50; master of the Vine hounds 1850–4; master of hounds at Eggesford 1854. d. Eggesford house 4 Oct. 1891, will proved at £58,166. Baily’s mag. Sept. 1861 pp. 219–22 portrait, Nov. 1891 pp. 353–4; Sporting Mirror April 1883 pp. 113–15 portrait.
POST, Jacob (son of John Post). b. Whitefriars, London 12 Sept. 1774; educ. Ackworth school 1782–7; resided in Islington many years; a founder of the North London and Islington auxiliary of the Bible society 1812; author of Some popular customs amongst Christians, questioned and compared with gospel precepts and examples 1839; On the history and mystery of the Sacraments 1846; Some reasons for continuing to refuse the payment of all ecclesiastical demands 1849; The Bible the book for all 1848, reprinted 1849 and 1856. d. Church st. Islington, London 1 April 1855. bur. Winchmore hill near London. J. H. Nodal’s Bibliography of Ackworth school (1889) 25; Annual Monitor 1856 p. 155; J. Smith’s Catalogue of Friends’ books ii 428–30 (1867).
POSTANS, Robert Baxter. b. 1787; in naval service of H.E.I.C. to 1840; saw Napoleon i lying in state at St. Helena and attended his funeral 1821, and was present at the reinterment in Les Invalides, Paris 1840; a great friend of Henry Mayhew and George Hodder; associated with the preliminaries of Punch and was an original contributor from 17 July 1841; his pen and ink etchings were unequalled, the constant work on these caused total blindness from 1884. d. Southsea 6 July 1892 aged 105. bur. Eastney cemetery. M. H. Spielman’s History of Punch (1895) 12, 17, 19, 283.
POSTE, Beale (2 son of Wm. Poste one of the four common pleaders of the city of London). b. Hayle place near Maidstone 1793; educ. Trin. hall Camb. LL.B. 1819; C. of High Halden, Kent; C. of Milstead, Kent; a member of British Archæological association 1843, wrote many papers in the journal; author of History of the college of All Saints, Maidstone 1847; The coins of Cunobeline and of the ancient Britons 1853; Britannic researches or new facts and rectifications of ancient British history 1853; Britannia antiqua, ancient Britain brought within the limits of authentic history 1857; Celtic inscriptions on Gaulish and British coins with a glossary of Archaic Celtic words and an atlas of coins 1861. d. Bydews place near Maidstone 16 April 1871. Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxviii 309 (1872).
POSTGATE, John (son of Thomas Postgate, builder). b. Scarborough 21 Oct. 1820; in the service of a grocer where everything was adulterated; M.R.C.S. 1844; F.R.C.S. 1854; L.S.A. July 1845; a surgeon at Birmingham from 1854; examined before select Committee of house of commons on adulteration 1855, the members for Birmingham Wm. Scholefield and G. F. Muntz introduced nine bills dealing with adulteration, into the house of commons under his influence 1860–75; promoted the National association for promotion of social science 1857; professor of Medical jurisprudence and toxicology at Queen’s college, Birmingham 7 May 1860; author of Sanitary aspects of Birmingham 1852; A few words on adulteration 1857; Medical services and public payments 1862. d. London hospital, London 26 Sept. 1881. bur. new cemet. Birmingham, portrait by Vivian Crome in council chamber at Scarborough. Edgbastonia Feb. 1882 pp. 20–3 portrait.
POTOCKI, Count Mieceslas Francois Joseph. b. Russia 1794; excessively rich, having an income of 6,000,000 francs; came to England and was naturalized 6 Feb. 1875; left all his property to charities as he could not bear the idea of it going to his heir; before his death altered his will and left his money to his son Nicholas Potocki, who had never offended him, amount said to be £80,000 a year; his wife the countess Potocki, a musician, the friend and benefactor of F. F. Chopin the composer, sang at his death bed. d. 35 Avenue Friedland, Paris Nov. 1878. Times 7 Dec. 1878 p. 5; Willeby’s F. F. Chopin (1892) 281–2.
POTT, David. b. 9 Feb. 1812; ensign 47 Bengal N.I. 14 Sept. 1832, lieut. col. 1 May 1858 to 12 Sept. 1866; lieut. col. Bengal staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Borthwickshiels, Hawick 2 Oct. 1881.