PRIM, John George Augustus (son of John N. Prim, solicitor, Kilkenny). b. Kilkenny 1821; connected with The Moderator, Kilkenny as editor, reporter and proof reader, and afterwards the proprietor to his death; hon. sec. of Royal historical and archæological association of Ireland, and a contributor to the Transactions; author of Memorials of the family of Langton of Kilkenny 1864, and with James Graves The history of the cathedral church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1857. d. Dunbell on the Hudson river 2 Nov. 1875. The Kilkenny Journal 29 Dec. 1875 p. 3.
PRIMROSE, Archibald (elder son of 4 earl of Rosebery 1783–1868). b. Bixley hall, Norfolk 2 Oct. 1809; styled lord Dalmeny from 1814; M.P. Stirling district of burghs 1832–47; one of lords of admiralty 25 April 1835 to 8 Sept. 1841; vice lieut. of co. Linlithgow 1844. d. Dalmeny park, co. Linlithgow 23 Jany. 1851. G.M. xxxv 433 (1851); I.L.N. xviii 75 (1851).
PRIMROSE, James Maurice. b. 19 Feb. 1819; ensign 43 foot 6 Jany. 1837, lieut. col. 20 March 1857, placed on h.p. 12 Oct. 1863; served with 43 regt. in Kaffir war 1851–3, medal; in expedition to Orange river and present at the action of the Berea; lieut. col. of 43 regt. in march to Calpee 1858, was in the operations in Bundelcund and commanded 1 division of Candahar field force in Afghanistan 1879, and then the whole force in 1880; took part in battle of 1st Sept. 1880; commanded one of the seven columns under brigadier Wheeler against rebel chiefs; in the Indian mutiny, at surrender of Kirwee, the action of Sahew and the attack on Gopalpore 1858; D.A.G. Madras 1861–3; adjutant general Madras 1863–8; C.S.I. 16 Sept. 1867; lieut. general 4 March 1880; retired as general 1 April 1882. d. 9 Herbert st. Dublin 25 Nov. 1892.
PRINCE, George. b. 1848; with his brother James Prince trained horses at Astley house, Lewes for Capt. Bayley and others. d. Astley house, Lewes 21 July 1889. bur. Lewes cemetery 25 July. The Sportsman 22 July 1889 p. 2, 23 July p. 2, 26 July p. 2.
PRINCE, James. Proprietor with his brother George Prince of a cigar divan at 14 Regent st. London; they started the Ottoman club 1855, from which sprang the Raleigh club; they were proprietors of Prince’s racquet and tennis club Hans place, Chelsea 1856–71, and of Prince’s cricket club at same address 1871–86; courts were made for tennis, badminton and other games, and a skating rink with artificial ice was constructed, became very select and exclusive, the prices of admission were raised and the grounds were closed 1886, the houses in the Pavilion road now cover the site. d. Frathay house, Albert road, Battersea park, London 2 April 1886.
PRINCE, John Critchley (son of a reed-maker for weavers). b. Wigan, Lancs. 21 June 1808; worked with his father at Wigan, at Manchester and at Hyde in Cheshire 1820–30; a factory operative at Hyde; a postman at 15/-a week at Southampton 1842; kept a small shop in Long Millgate, Manchester; a reed-maker; reed maker and heald knitter, Penny Meadow, Ashton-under-Lyne 1851; edited the Ancient shepherds’ quarterly magazine published at Ashton-under-Lyne 1845–51; author of Hours with the muses, Manchester 1840, 6 ed. 1857; Dreams and realities 1847; The poetic rosary 1850; Autumn leaves, Hyde 1856, 2 ed. 1866; Miscellaneous poems 1861; Poetical works of J. C. Prince, 2 vols. 1880. d. Hyde 5 May 1866. R. W. Procter’s Memorials of bygone Manchester (1880) 146, 172–92, 395 portrait; Procter’s Literary reminiscenses (1860) 117–21 portrait; J. Evans’s Lancashire authors (1850) 208–12.
PRINCE-SMITH, John. b. England; a teacher of English in Germany; naturalised there; an active politician; author of J. P. Smith’s Uber censur Königsberg 1843; J. P. Smith’s Uber den politischen Fortschnill Preussens, Zurich 1844; Ueber die quellen der Massenarmuth, Redecte, Leipzig 1861; Der staat und der volkshaushalt, eine skizze, Berlin 1874; translated C. H. Hagen’s System of political economy 1844. d. about 8 Feb. 1874.
PRING, Daniel. b. Taunton 5 June 1789; M.R.C.S. Eng. 1811; M.D. St. Andrew’s 1822; an eminent surgeon and physician at Bath 1811–40; resided at Taunton from 1840; author of A view of the relations of the nervous system in health and in disease 1815; General indications which relate to the laws of the organic life 1819; An exposition of the principles of pathology 1823; Sketches of intellectual and moral relations 1829. d. of paralysis, Middle st. Taunton 3 June 1859. Lancet 9 July 1859 p. 51.
PRING, Ratcliffe (2 son of Thomas B. Pring of Crediton, solicitor). b. Crediton 17 Oct. 1825; educ. Crediton gr. sch. and at Shrewsbury; barrister I.T. 8 June 1849; went to Sydney 1853; crown prosecutor Brisbane 1857; member of legislative assembly Queensland from 1860; attorney general Dec. 1859 to Aug. 1865, July to Aug. 1866, Nov. 1869 to May 1870, and May 1879 to June 1880; Q.C. Queensland 1866; puisne judge of Queensland June 1880 to death; edited Statutes in force in the colony of Queensland 1862. d. Brisbane 22 March 1885.
PRINSEP, Charles Campbell. b. 1824; educ. Warfield and Wimbledon; with a mercantile firm in Calcutta 1843–6; assistant traffic manager Great western railway 1846–9; a writer H.E.I.C.S. 16 Jany. 1853; junior clerk treasury department 1850, assistant secretary 1857; statistical reporter and keeper of the records 1879; compiler of the annual statistical abstract 1867–74 and 1880, and of the navigation statement for India 1869–70; author of The moral and material progress report of India 1866–67 and 1867–68; Records of services of the honourable East India company’s civil servants in the Madras presidency 1741–1858, 1885. d. 2 Frascati, Claremont road, Surbiton, Surrey about 23 April 1887. Times 27 April 1887 p. 9.