PULLING, William. Educ. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1817; R. of Blackmanston, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; R. of Dymchurch, Kent 1 May 1835 to death; author of Select sermons, with appropriate prayers translated from the original Danish of N. E. Balle 1819; Sonnets in the Italian style with an essay on sonnet writing 1841, 2 ed. 1844; Biographical sketch of M. de Lamartine, with a translation of Meditations and Religious harmonies 1849. d. 1860.
PULMAN, George Philip Rigney (son of Philip Pulman 1791–1871). b. Axminster, Devon 21 Feb. 1819; printer and bookseller at Crewkerne 1848; edited the Yeovil Times some years; founded at Crewkerne Pulman’s Weekly news and advertiser 10 March 1857, owner and editor of it to June 1878, when he sold it with his bookselling business; obtained a bronze medal for his artificial fishing flies at Great Exhibition 1851; published The western agriculturist about 1843, and the United counties miscellany 1849 to July 1851; author of The book of the Axe 1841, 4 ed. 1875; The vade mecum of fly fishing for trout 1841, 3 ed. 1851; Rustic sketches, being poems on angling in the dialect of East Devon, Taunton 1842, 3 ed. 1871; Local nomenclature, a lecture on the names of places, chiefly in the West of England 1857; author with prince L. L. Bonaparte of The song of Solomon in the East Devonshire dialect 1860. d. The Hermitage, Uplyme, South Devon 3 Feb. 1880. bur. Axminster cemet. 7 Feb. John Trotandot’s [i.e. G. P. R. Pulman’s] Rambles, warnings, and recollections (1870) with portrait of G. P. R. Pulman; Academy 14 Feb. 1880 p. 120.
PULMAN, James. b. 1783; portcullis pursuivant 30 May 1822; yeoman usher of the black rod 1830 to death; Richmond herald 23 July 1838 to 1846; Norroy king of arms 18 April 1846 to 1848; Clarenceux king of arms 14 June 1848 to death. d. East hill, Wandsworth 29 Oct. 1859. G.M. Dec. 1859 p. 655.
PULMAN, John (eld. son of Thomas Pulman of Lampford Brett, Somerset). b. 1803; barrister M.T. 17 Jany. 1845; looked upon as a pillar of the church; author of A letter of remonstrance addressed to J. C. Barrow, by a Protestant Father 1859; The extradition treaty, the church of the poor and church rates 1861; The Anti-state church association unmasked 1864; An exposure of the fallacies in Mr. Spurgeon’s sermon on baptismal regeneration 1864, 2 ed. 1864; A letter to the archbishops and bishops on the civil and ecclesiastical courts 1867; A letter to the queen on the coronation oath 1869; The subordinate clergy and the bishops, which of them should bear rule 1870. d. 11 April 1888.
PULSFORD, Robert (youngest son of Wm. Pulsford of Wimpole st. London). b. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Camb.; M.P. Hereford 5 Oct. 1841 to 23 July 1847. d. 6 Upper Belgrave st. London 12 June 1888.
PULVERMACHER, Isaac Lewis or Louis (son of Meyer Pulvermacher, d. Breslau, Prussia 1854). b. Kempen, Prussia 1815; apprenticed to a jeweller; a jeweller in Vienna and Prague; commenced studying and working in electricity in Prague; invented a series of batteries in the form of a chain and bands made from flexible zinc and copper wire, which give out a continuous current of galvanism 1844, this is an improvement of the voltaic pile, and is a producer of galvanism that can be worn on the body; settled in Berlin 1846 and in Paris 1850; came to London and opened a place of business at 118 Leadenhall st. 1849, removed to 194 Regent st. 1861, where he sold his galvanic bands and electric belts; established depôts in Stockholm and New York; naturalised in England 29 Jany. 1868; author of Practical guide for the electro-medical treatment of diseases by Pulvermacher’s hydro-electric chains 1856. d. Windmill hill house, West Hampstead, London 12 Sept. 1884. bur. West Hampstead cemetery 14 Sept. London Figaro 20 Sept. 1884 p. 6 portrait.
PUMPHREY, Thomas (son of Stanley Pumphrey). b. Worcester 10 June 1802; educ. Ackworth school 1812–15; a glover in his father’s business at Worcester 1817; a minister among the Friends 1822 to death; superintendent of Ackworth school 1834–62, during which time great improvements were made in the school buildings, presented with £1400 and a collection of books; author of A brief view of the Society of Friends on prayer 1828. d. Ackworth 31 July 1862. bur. 5 Aug. Annual Monitor (1863) 123–46; Biog. Cat. of lives of Friends (1888) 532–6, 798–802; J. Ford’s Memoir of T. Pumphrey (1864) portrait.
PUNCHARD, William Henry. b. 1835; of the firm of Punchard, M’Taggart, Lowther and Co., engineers and contractors for public works, 151 Cannon st. London; among the works he was interested in constructing were the Bedford and Northampton railway, the Great Marlow railway, and the West Lancashire railway; railways in Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Malta, Tasmania, South Australia, Uruguay, and Brazil; with his partners he likewise made tramways in Buenos Ayres and the harbour of La Guaira in Venezuela; in conjunction with Thomas Brassey he made the Callao dock, Peru. d. 25 Dec. 1891. Times 1 Jany. 1892 p. 4.
PUNSHON, William Morley (only child of John Punshon, mercer, d. 1840). b. Doncaster 29 May 1824; educ. Doncaster gr. sch. to 1835; clerk to Mr. Morley, timber merchant, Hull 1837–40; joined the Methodist society in Hull Nov. 1838; minister at Whitehaven 1845, ordained 1849; minister at Newcastle 1849–52, at Sheffield 1852–5, at Leeds 1855–8; minister of Hinde st. circuit London 1858–61, of Islington circuit 1861–64; minister at Bristol 1864–7; presided over the annual conferences in Canada 1868; created LL.D. by Victoria univ. of Cobourg June 1872; superintendent of Kensington circuit, London 1873–5; one of the general secretaries of Wesleyan Methodist missionary society 1875 to death; elected president of Wesleyan conference 29 July 1874; author of Tabor on the class meeting, a plea and an appeal 1849; John Bunyan, lectures 1857; Pulpit orations 1861; Sabbath chimes, meditations in verse 1867; The prodigal son, four discourses 1868; Sermons 1882. d. Tranby, Brixton Hill, London 14 April 1881. bur. Norwood cemet. 19 April. F. W. Macdonald’s Life of W. M. Punshon (1887) portrait; T. MacCullagh’s Memorial sermon (1881); W. Smith’s Old Yorkshire ii 138–41 (1890) portrait; Leisure hours. By A Journalist (1878) 79–80; C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London (1874) 261–9; Drawing room portrait gallery, third series (1860) portrait xv; Graphic x 150, 153 (1874) portrait.
PURCELL, Edward (youngest son of Tobias Purcell of Limogue castle, Queen’s county). Entered navy 9 June 1804; captain 25 Aug. 1828; admiral on h.p. 12 Sept. 1865. d. Bath 3 Dec. 1869.