PRETTEJOHN, Richard Buckley. b. 10 March 1815; cornet 4 light dragoons 23 Feb. 1838; lieut. 18 Oct. 1839; lieut. 14 light dragoons 3 April 1841, captain 17 Sept. 1850; served in the South Mahratta campaign 1844, the war in the Punjab 1848–9, the Persian war 1857, and the Indian mutiny 1857–8; major 18 hussars 5 July 1864, lieut. col. 14 June 1873, retired on full pay 1 April 1876; M.G. 20 March 1878; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; colonel 13 hussars 1 July 1890 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Exmouth 4 Jany. 1891.
PRETTY, Edward. b. Hollingbourne, Kent 5 March 1792; drawing master Rugby school 1809–29; a miniature painter at Northampton 1829–58; exhibited 4 pictures at R.A. London 1811–37; curator of the Charles’ museum, Chillington house, Maidstone 1858 to death; assist. sec. Kent, archæological soc.; F.S.A. 31 May 1859; member of British archæol. assoc. 1843; author of A guide to Northampton. d. Chillington house 4 Aug. 1865. bur. Maidstone cemetery, left his books and paintings to the Charles’ museum, and his coins to the rev. Beale Poste. G.M. Oct. 1865 p. 516; C. R. Smith’s Collectanea vi 311–14 (1868); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxii 325–6 (1866).
PRETYMAN, George Thomas (2 son of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln and Winchester, who assumed in 1803 additional surname of Tomline 1750–1827). b. the deanery house, Dean’s court, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 5 April 1790; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., LL.B. 1814; chancellor of cathedral church of Lincoln 15 April 1814 to death; R. of Wheathampstead with Harpenden, Herts. 1814 to death; prebend. of Lincoln 11 April 1814 to death; P.C. of Nettleton, Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1817 to death; canon residentiary of Winchester cath. 1 Sept. 1825 to death; his income from ecclesiastical sources seems to have been upwards of £6,250. d. Dover st. Piccadilly, London 23 June 1859. G.M. vii 190 (1859).
PREVOST, Sir George, 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost 1767–1816, governor general of Canada). b. Roseau, Dominica 20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death; rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death; archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84 of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. d. Stinchcombe 18 March 1893. H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii 37, 280 (1894); Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 9 portrait.
PREVOST, George Phipps (eld. son of sir George Prevost, 2 baronet 1804–93). b. 10 Nov. 1830; educ. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1852; ensign 85 foot 26 Aug. 1853; lieut. 25 foot 26 Jany. 1855, adjutant 9 Oct. 1855 to 21 May 1857; lieut. col. 3 Sept. 1870, placed on h.p. 21 June 1880; served in the Crimean war and Indian mutiny; brevet colonel 3 Sept. 1875; assistant adjutant and quartermaster-general home district 7 Aug. 1880 to death. d. Chart lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 March 1885.
PREVOST, James Charles (only son of James Prevost, rear-admiral 1771–1855). b. 31 July 1810; entered navy 1829; lieut. 10 Dec. 1835; captain 17 April 1854, R.A. 16 Sept. 1869, retired 1 April 1870, admiral 9 Jany. 1880; first comr. for marking boundary between Vancouver island and Oregon 1856–62; superintendent of naval establishment at Gibraltar 1864–9; employed on the San Juan boundary question 1871–3; granted Greenwich hospital pension of £150 a year 6 Sept. 1877. d. 133 Ebury st. London 28 Jany. 1891.
PREVOST, John Lewis (son of professor Prevost, d. Geneva 27 June 1796). Came to England 1814; vice-consul of Swiss confederation in London 1818, and consul general at 24a Gresham st. city of London from 1830; F.G.S., treasurer 1843 to death; resided at 3 Suffolk place, Pall Mall East, London. d. Geneva 4 Nov. 1852. Quarterly journal of geological society ix 25 (1853).
PREVOST, Louis Augustine. b. Troyes, Champagne 6 June 1796; educ. at a college in Versailles; came to England and became tutor in the family of Wm. Young Ottley 1823; taught languages in London 1823–43; learnt 40 languages, including most of the European languages and many Asiatic; employed at the British Museum cataloguing the Chinese books 1843–55. d. Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 25 April 1858. bur. Highgate cemet. 30 April. Cowtan’s Memories of the British Museum (1872) 358–62; G.M. July 1858 p. 87.
PREVOST-PARADOL, Lucien Anatole (only son of Madame Lucinde Prevost-Paradol 1798–1843, actress). b. Paris 8 July 1829; eminent littérateur; lectured in English in Edinburgh 1869; sent letters to The Times on French politics from A Parisian Correspondent to 1869; French minister at Washington 12 June 1870; author of many works including, Jonathan Swift, sa vie et ses œuvres 1856; France, an address, Edinb. 1869; shot himself at Washington 11 Aug. 1870. Newspaper Press iv 194 (1870); Appleton’s American biography v 116 (1888).
PRIAULX, OR DE PREAUX, Osmond de Beauvoir (2 son of Antony de Preaux). b. Guernsey 5 March 1805; educ. Catherine hall, Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1832; barrister M.T. 19 April 1832; the last survivor of the original members of the Reform club, an active member of committee; author of Outlines of a system of national education 1834; National education 1837; Quaestiones Mosaicae, or the first book of Moses compared with the remains of ancient religions, 2 ed. 1854; The Indian travels of Apollonius of Tyana and the Indian embassies to Rome 1873. d. 8 Cavendish sq. London 15 Jany. 1891, left his library to the college at Guernsey with money for its continued support.