PRITCHARD, Henry. b. 1 Jany. 1810; ensign Madras army 8 Jany. 1826; ensign 8 Madras N.I. 23 Aug. 1826, major 23 Sept. 1857; lieut. col. Madras infantry 1 Jany. 1862; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; M.G. 6 March 1868; general 20 Aug. 1878; placed on retired list 1 Jany. 1880; took part in the Goomsoor and Kolapore campaigns of 1835 and 1845. d. 14 Sunderland terrace, Westbourne park, London 20 June 1893. Graphic 8 July 1893 p. 38 portrait.
PRITCHARD, Henry Baden (3 son of Andrew Pritchard 1804–82). b. Canonbury, London 30 Nov. 1841; educ. at Eisenach and Univ. college school, London; employed in the chemical department at royal arsenal, Woolwich 1861, conducted the photographic department there to his death; proprietor and editor of the Photographic News 1878–84; author of A peep in the Pyrenees 1867, anon.; Tramps in the Tyrol 1874; Beauty spots on the continent 1875; Dangerfield, 3 vols. 1878; Old Charlton, 3 vols. 1879; George Vanbrugh’s Mistake, 3 vols. 1880; The doctor’s daughter, 3 vols. 1883; The photographic studios of Europe 1882; A trip to Sahara with the camera 1884. d. 1 Kidbrook grove, Blackheath, Kent 11 May 1884. bur. Abney park cemet. 16 May. The British journal of photography May 1884 p. 325 portrait; The year book of photography (1885) p. 26 portrait.
PRITCHARD, John (2 son of John Pritchard, banker, Bridgnorth, d. 1837). b. 24 Sept. 1796; barrister L.I. 11 June 1841; banker at Bridgnorth and Broseley; M.P. Bridgnorth 1853–68. d. Stanmore, Shropshire 19 Aug. 1891.
PRITCHARD, Thomas Sirrell (son of Thomas Pritchard, surgeon, Hereford). b. Nov. 1834; educ. Hereford coll. sch., King’s coll. sch., and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1855, M.A. 1858; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1858, went the Oxford circuit; recorder of Wenlock 10 March 1871 to death; common law editor of Law Journal reports 1879 to death; author of A handy-book for executors 1861; The jurisdiction of the quarter sessions in judicial matters 1875; edited R. Burn’s Justice of the peace, 13 ed. 1869; J. Stone’s Practice for justices, 8 ed. 1877. d. 44 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 8 Aug. 1879. Law Journal lxvii p. 307 (1879).
PRITCHARD-RAYNER, George (1 son of Henry Pritchard of Trescawen, Anglesea, d. 1881). b. 1843; cornet 5 dragoon guards 7 Nov. 1862, capt. 28 Oct. 1871, sold out 24 April 1872; sheriff of Anglesea 1879; contested Anglesey April 1880; won horse races in Ireland and England; a pigeon shooter; master of the Anglesey harriers 1876; a good all round man in all sports; m. 1871 Mary Brady, dau. of John B. Rayner, assumed name of Rayner. d. Aug. 1893. Baily’s Mag. May 1882 pp. 1–3 portrait, Sept. 1893 p. 206.
PRITCHETT, James Pigott (4 son of Charles Pigott Pritchett 1743–1813, rector of St. Petrox, Pembrokeshire from 1781). b. St. Petrox 14 Oct. 1789; architect in London 1812, and at York 1813 to death in partnership with Mr. Watson; built the deanery, St. Peter’s school, the Saving’s bank, Lady Hawley’s hospital, and Lendal and Salem chapels at York; built the asylum at Wakefield, and the court-house and gaol at Beverley; surveyor and architect on the estates of three earls Fitzwilliam. d. York 23 May 1868. Pedigree of Pritchett by G. M. G. Cullum and J. P. Pritchett (1892) pp. 5, 6.
PRITT, Lonsdale. b. 1822; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844; minister of St. Mark, Auckland, New Zealand; incumbent of Reumera, Auckland 1870 to death; archdeacon of Waikato 1873 to death. d. St. Mark’s parsonage, Reumera 31 Oct. 1885.
PRITT, Thomas Evan. Manager of London and Yorkshire bank; manager of Leeds joint stock bank; founder of Yorkshire angling association, and of the Headingley golf club near Leeds; author of Yorkshire trout flies 1885, 2 ed. 1886; The book of the grayling 1888; resided Lyntonville, near Leeds. d. Torquay 11 Sept. 1895.
PROBERT, Charles Kentish (4 son of Thomas Probert of Newport, Essex). b. Newport 1820; solicitor at Newport 1845 to death; partner with C. M. Wade of Walden 1850, they opened an office in St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 1867; member of Essex Archæological soc.; wrote in Notes and Queries, East Anglian Mag., Antiquarian Mag., and other journals; author of Arms and Epitaphs of Essex, etc., 11 vols. quarto of illuminated MSS. which he bequeathed to the British Museum library, they are catalogued as Additional MSS. No. 33,520–33,530. d. Saffron Walden, Essex 30 Nov. 1888. bur. Newport 4 Dec.
PROBERT, Martha. b. 1774; wife of Wm. Probert, one of the murderers of Wm. Weare at Gills lane near Elstree, Herts. 24 Oct. 1823, he turned king’s evidence but was hanged at Newgate for horse stealing 9 April 1825; she then called herself Heath; from that time to her death she lived at Cheltenham; found drowned in the river Chelt, near Barrette’s mill Oct. or Nov. 1857.