PROCTER, Richard Wright. b. Paradise Vale, Salford, Lancs. 19 Dec. 1816; a barber in Long-Millgate, Manchester to his death; established a circulating library in his house 1840; sent verses to the Manchester and Salford Advertiser under name of Sylvan; author of Gems of thought and flowers of fancy 1855; The barber’s shop 1856, 2 ed. 1883; Literary reminiscenses and gleanings 1860; Our turf, our stage, and our ring 1862; Manchester in holiday dress 1866; Memorials of Manchester streets 1874; Memorials of bygone Manchester 1880. d. 133 Long-Millgate, Manchester 11 Sept. 1881. R. W. Procter’s Barber’s shop, 2 ed. (1883) memoir and portrait; Palatine note-book i 165–7 (1881) portrait.
PROCTOR, Harry (the stage name of Rowline Philp, cousin of Elizabeth Philp). An actor at the Adelphi theatre, London 1878; played colonel Muldoon in Boucicault’s The O’Dowd 21 Oct. 1880, Joe Gallon in Pettitt’s Taken from life 31 Dec. 1881, and Johnie Downs in Buchanan’s Storm-beaten 14 March 1883; had considerable literary ability and his imitative powers were remarkable. d. 55 Crowndale road, Oakley square, London 19 Nov. 1887.
PROCTOR, Henry Adolphus. b. 1784; cornet 2 life guards 14 Jany. 1801; captain 82 foot 16 May 1805, major 30 April 1812 to 26 Nov. 1818, when placed on h.p.; C.B. 19 July 1838; granted distinguished service reward 1 June 1849; colonel of 97 foot 29 Nov. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Aberhafesp hall, Montgomeryshire 13 May 1859.
PROCTOR, Richard Anthony (youngest child of Wm. Proctor, solicitor, d. 1850). b. Chelsea 23 March 1837; entered Univ. coll. London 1855, and St. John’s coll. Camb. 1856, scholar 1856–60, captain of his college boating club; 23rd wrangler 1860, B.A. 1860; read for the bar; taught mathematics in a private military school at Woolwich; hon. secretary of Royal astronomical society to 1873; lectured in U.S. of America 1873, and in Australasia 1879–80; founded Knowledge, an illustrated magazine of science, No. 1 Nov. 4 1881, converted into a monthly 1885; charted 324,198 stars from Argelander’s Survey of the northern heavens, on an equal surface projection; author of Saturn and his system 1865; The handbook of the stars 1866; Half-hours with a telescope 1868, 20 ed. 1889; Essays on astronomy 1872; The sun 1871, 3 ed. 1876; The moon 1873, 3 ed. 1876; Transits of Venus 1874, 4 ed. 1882; The universe of stars 1878; The great Pyramid 1883; Other suns than ours 1887; Old and new astronomy 1892; his name is attached to upwards of 30 works; his widow Sallie Duffield Proctor granted civil list pension of £100, 11 Feb. 1889. d. Willard Parker hospital, New York 12 Sept. 1888. Eclectic Mag. lxxxii 371 (1874) portrait; Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlix 164–8 (1889); Knowledge Oct. 1888 pp. 265–6 portrait; Illust. Review Aug. 1873 pp. 189–92 portrait.
PROCTOR, Sir William Beauchamp, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Thomas Proctor, 2 baronet, 1756–1827). b. Langley park near Acle, Norfolk 14 Oct. 1781; entered navy 4 Sept. 1794; served in the expedition to Egypt; was at bombardment of Havre 1804; served in East Indies 1808; captain R.N. 5 Sept. 1806; R.A. 23 Nov. 1841, V.A. 2 Sept. 1850; admiral on h.p. 18 June 1857. d. Langley park, Norfolk 14 March 1861. O’Byrne Naval Biog. Dict. 1849 p. 985.
PROCTOR-BEAUCHAMP, Sir Thomas William Brograve, 4 Baronet (1 son of sir W. B. Proctor, 3 baronet 1781–1861). b. Broome place, Norfolk 2 July 1815; cornet royal horse guards 16 Oct. 1835, lieut. 1 June 1838, sold out 22 Sept. 1843; major Suffolk artillery militia 18 April 1854 to 9 Nov. 1855; succeeded 14 March 1861; lieut. col. 2nd battalion of Norfolk rifle volunteers 25 March 1861 to June 1872; sheriff of Norfolk 1869; he transposed his names Beauchamp Proctor by R.L. 9 July 1862. d. Langley park, near Acle, Norfolk 7 Oct. 1874. I.L.N. lxv 379 (1874).
PRODGERS, Caroline Giacometti (dau. of Mr. Prodgers). b. 1830; readmitted to British nationality 18 Aug. 1875; the cabmen’s terror, she had an exact and minute knowledge of London and frequently had herself conveyed to within a few feet of the distance covered by a shilling fare; she was continually summoned by the cabmen, but was generally found to be correct, as to the distances; corresponded with the public analysts; was wealthy and lived in good style; she was burnt in effigy as a Guy on the 5th November about the year 1876; the divorced wife of Giovani Battista Giacometti, a captain of the Austrian navy who was naturalised in England 15 June 1876. d. 54 Queen’s road, Marylebone, London 29 April 1890.
PROPERT, John (only son of Thomas Propert Bluenpistill, Cardigan). b. 19 July 1793; a pupil of John Abernethy 30 Oct. 1811; M.R.C.S. 1814; a surgeon in London, where he had a large practice; sheriff of Cardiganshire 1857; founder of the Royal Medical benevolent college at Epsom for medical men and their widows, including a school for sons of surgeons 1855, chapel opened 1857. d. 6 New Cavendish st. London 8 Sept. 1867. Medical circular i 9 (1852) portrait; Barker’s Photographs of medical men i 39–42 (1865) portrait; Medical Times ii 334–5 (1867); Proc. of Medical and Chirurgical soc. vi 62 (1871); In memoriam, J. P. by the rev. R. Thornton (1867).
PROSSER, George Walter. b. 1795; ensign 2 foot 6 Oct. 1812, lieut. 16 Sept. 1813; captain 7 dragoon guards 8 Aug. 1822, placed on h.p. with rank of major 10 June 1826; major and superintendent of studies at royal military college 13 May 1842, lieut. governor 9 Jany. 1854 to 17 April 1857; colonel 20 June 1854. d. Windsor 12 April 1859.
PROSSER, James. b. 1789 or 1790; educ. St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Thame, Oxfordshire and chaplain of Thame union 1841–71; author of A key to the Hebrew scriptures 1838, 3 ed. 1854; Examples of the philosophical accuracy of the Hebrew text when literally translated without points; The book of Genesis without points; J. Parkhurst’s Hebrew and Chaldee grammar without points 1840; Family prayers 1851. d. The Elms, Thame 15 July 1877.