PRYSE, Edward Lewis (2 son of Pryse Pryse, M.P. of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire). b. 1817; cornet 6 dragoon guards 17 March 1837, captain 2 Aug. 1844; captain 3 foot 12 June 1846, sold out 20 Nov. 1846; M.P. Cardigan 1857–68; president of Cardigan liberal association; lord lieut. of co. Cardigan 27 Aug. 1857; hon. col. royal Cardigan militia 11 July 1877 to death; master of Peithyll fox hounds. d. Peithyll, Aberystwith 29 May 1888.
PRYSE, Robert John. b. 1810; known as Gweirydd ap Rhys; took an active part in the Eisteddfods; author of An English and Welsh pronouncing dictionary, in which the pronunciation is given in Welsh letters, Dinbych 1857; Hanes y Brytaniaid a’r Cymry, two parts, Llundain 1873–6, and other works in the Welsh language 1841–78. d. Bethesda, Bangor Sept. 1889. Times 3 Oct. 1889 p. 9.
PUCKLE, Elizabeth (dau. of John Smith). bapt. Eastwick, Herts. 13 Sept. 1767; a nursemaid; m. Timothy Puckle of Stapleford 23 April 1793. d. High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. 9 Dec. 1872, said to be aged 106. Thoms’s Human longevity (1879) 280–5.
PUCKLE, John (only son of John Puckle of Pentonville, London). b. 1812; Somerset scholar of Brasenose coll. Oxf. 1832–5; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839; V. of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover 1842 to death; rural dean of Dover 1846 to death; surrogate of diocese of Canterbury 1846 to death; hon. canon of Canterbury 1869 to death; proctor diocese of Canterbury 1869 to death; author of Ecclesiastical sketches of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury 1849; Parochial sermons, 4 vols. 1847–61; Church and fortress of Dover castle, illustrated from his own drawings 1864; John’s governor visits dame Europa’s school 1870, which circulated 40,000 copies. d. Dover 26 Feb. 1894.
PUDNEY, James. b. Lambeth 13 May 1830; beat Dawkins ½ mile at the Old Cope 12 Nov. 1850; beat T. Cook 10 miles at Barking 2 May 1853; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 and belt at Halifax 13 March 1854; beat W. Jackson 10 miles £50 at Wandsworth 17 Nov. 1856; beat C. Cooke 10 miles £50 at Hackney 12 Sept. 1859; won the 10 mile cup and £6 at Hackney 10 June 1861; winner of upwards of 70 races and handicaps; champion of England. Illust. sporting news 24 May 1862 p. 81 portrait.
PUGH, David (son of Charles Pugh, d. 21 Dec. 1796). b. Perry hill, Kent 14 Aug. 1789; matric. from Trin. coll. Oxf. 29 April 1809; major Montgomeryshire yeomanry about 1840; recorder of Welshpool many years; M.P. Montgomery burghs 10 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition March 1833; M.P. again 29 July 1847 to death. d. Llanerchydol, Montgomeryshire 20 April 1861.
PUGH, David (eld. son of colonel David Heron Pugh of Manoravon, Llandilo). b. 23 March 1806; educ. Rugby and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 5 May 1837; chairman of quarter sessions for Carmarthenshire 1843–52; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1857–68; contested Carmarthenshire 26 Nov. 1868; M.P. Eastern division of the county 1885 to death; sheriff of Carmarthen 1874; owner of nearly 10,000 acres of land. d. London 12 July 1890.
PUGIN, Augustus Welby Northmore (only child of Augustus Charles Pugin, architect 1762–1832). b. 34 Store st. Bedford sq. London 1 March 1812; educ. Christ’s hospital; designed the furniture for Windsor castle June 1827; executed the scenery for the ballet of Kenilworth at Drury Lane 1831; architect at Salisbury 1833–41, at Cheyne walk, Chelsea 1841, then at Ramsgate to his death, where he built for himself a house with a church adjoining on the West Cliff; joined the Church of Rome 1834; designed for the earl of Shrewsbury the addition to Alton Towers, the church at Cheadle, and the chapel and other buildings at St. John’s hospital, Alton; prepared for Charles Barry all the detail drawings for the new houses of parliament 1836–40; designed the cathedrals of Southwark, Killarney, and Enniscorthy, and many churches, chiefly Roman Catholic; author of Gothic furniture in the style of the fifteenth century 1835; Contrasts, Salisbury 1836, 2 ed. 1841; Designs for gold and silver smiths 1836; Designs for brass and iron work 1836; The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture 1841; An apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England 1843; Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume 1844, 3 ed. 1868; Some remarks on articles in the Rambler 1850; A treatise on chancel screens 1851; Church and state, or christian liberty 1875, 4 ed. 1875; a patient in a private asylum 1852, removed to Bedlam; Jane Pugin, his wife, granted civil list pension of £100, 2 Sept. 1852. d. St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate 14 Sept. 1852. Ferrey’s Recollections of A. W. N. Pugin (1861) portrait; J. C. Colquhoun’s Scattered leaves of biography (1864) 317–60; Metropolitan and provincial Catholic almanac (1853) 5–10 portrait; I.L.N. xxi 281, 282 (1852) portrait.
PUGIN, Edward Welby (eld. son of preceding). b. 11 March 1834; managed his father’s practice from 1851; exhibited 16 designs at the R.A. 1854–79; partner with Mr. Ashlin; partner with James Murray of Coventry, they designed Queenstown cathedral; he designed the church of the Immaculate Conception at Dadizeele, Belgium 1859, for which Pius IX gave him the order of St. Sylvester; designed St. Michael’s priory, Belmont, Herefordshire, the church of S.S. Peter and Paul, Cork, the Augustinian church at Dublin, the college of St. Cuthbert and the schools of St. Aloysius, Ushaw, and many churches; in five years made £40,000; designed the Granville hotel at Ramsgate in which he held a share and lost much money; claimed unjustly that his father was the architect of the houses of parliament 1867; edited some of his father’s works; author of Who was the art architect of the houses of parliament 1867, there were several pamphlets on this subject. d. 111 Victoria st. Westminster 4 June 1875. bur. St. Augustine’s church, Ramsgate 10 June, marble bust in the gardens on the cliff at Ramsgate. Builder 12 June 1875 pp. 522–3; Building News 11 June 1875 p. 670; I.L.N. lxvi 571 (1875) portrait.
PULESTON, Sir Richard, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Richard Puleston, 1 baronet 1765–1840). b. Emral, Flintshire 20 June 1789; succeeded 19 May 1840; colonel of Flint militia 24 Feb. 1846 to 14 May 1855. d. 19 Dec. 1860.