PYM, Sir Samuel (son of Joseph Pym of Pinley, Warwickshire). b. 1778; entered navy June 1788; captain 29 April 1802; captain of the Atlas, 74 guns, 29 June 1804 to 13 Oct. 1808; served at battle of St. Domingo 6 Feb. 1806; sent to the Mauritius as senior officer of a small squadron July 1810, seized the Isle de la Passe 13 Aug., capitulated and became a prisoner of war 27 Aug., obtained his release Dec. 1810 when the island was captured by sir Albemarle Bertie, he was tried by court martial but acquitted; commanded the Nieman on the West Indian station 1812–5; commanded the Kent in the Mediterranean 1830–1; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837; admiral superintendent at Devonport 16 Dec. 1841 to Dec. 1846; commanded the experimental squadron in the Channel Sept. and Oct. 1845; V.A. 12 Feb. 1847; admiral 17 Dec. 1852; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 25 Oct. 1839. d. Royal hotel, Southampton 2 Oct. 1855. O’Byrne’s Naval biog. dict. (1849) 943.
PYM, Sir William (elder brother of preceding). b. Edinburgh 1772; educ. univ. of Edinb.; entered medical department of the army 1792; present at the reduction of the islands of Martinique, St. Lucia, and Guadeloupe 1794; served with the army in Sicily, Malta, and Gibraltar 1796, medical attendant of the duke of Kent, governor of Gibraltar, present during the outbreaks of yellow fever there in 1804 and 1810; in charge at St. Pierre in Martinique during an outbreak of yellow fever 1794–6, when nearly 16,000 troops died; shipwrecked in the Athénienne on the Skerri shoals between Sicily and Africa 20 Oct. 1806, when 349 persons perished out of a crew of 476; deputy inspector general of army hospitals 20 Dec. 1810; superintendent of quarantine at Malta 1811–12; placed on h.p. with rank of inspector general 25 Sept. 1816; superintendent general of quarantine 1826–55; controlled quarantine arrangements during yellow fever at Gibraltar 1828; K.C.H. 1830; knighted by Wm. 4 at St. James’s palace 21 July 1830; a chairman of central board of health during cholera in England 1832; fellow of Medical and chirurgical soc. 1816; author of Observations upon Bulam fever 1815, 2 ed. 1848. d. 38 Upper Harley st. London 18 March 1861. Proc. of royal med. and chir. soc. iv 71–6 (1864).
PYNE, George. b. 1790; alto singer and musician. d. 87 Cambridge gardens west, Notting hill, London 15 March 1877.
PYNE, Henry (eld. son of John Pyne of Somerton, Somerset). b. Martock, Somerset 1809; educ. Sherborne and Christ’s hospital; barrister G.I. 27 Jany. 1841; assistant comr. in tithe office 1841–81; edited A treatise proving that the pope never had any right to supremacy in England 1850; France and England in the fifteenth century 1870; author of Tithe commutation, table of the corn rent in lieu of tithes 1837, 2 ed. continued by G. Taylor 1876. d. Hillgrove house, Stroud, Somerset 9 Feb. 1885.
PYNE, James Baker. b. Bristol 5 Dec. 1800; a landscape painter at Bristol to 1835, and in London 1835 to death; exhibited 7 pictures at R.A., 28 at B.I., and 194 at Suffolk st. 1828–70; member of Society of British artists 1842, vice-president some years; there are pictures by him both in oil and water-colour at South Kensington museum; published Views in the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica 1839; Windsor and its surrounding scenery 1840; The English lake district 1853; Lake scenery of England 1859; resided at 203 Camden road, London. d. 29 July 1870. bur. Highgate cemet., bust at gallery of Society of British artists. J. Sherer’s Gallery of British artists ii 55–7 (1880); I.L.N. lvii 193 (1870) portrait.
PYNE, James Kendrick. b. 1785; tenor singer at Covent Garden and Drury Lane many years; a member of the choir of the Foundling hospital more than 40 years, and the musical instructor of the children. d. Francis st. Regent’s sq. London 23 Sept. 1857. bur. Highgate cemet.
PYNE, Susannah (dau. of George Pyne 1790–1877). Appeared with great success as a singer with her sister Louisa Fanny Pyne (afterwards wife of Frank Bodda) in 1842; sang in U.S. of America 1854–7; sang Adalgisa in Norma at Lyceum theatre, London 3 Oct. 1857; m. about 1870 Frank H. Standing, baritone singer known as Frank Celli. d. 18 Fitzroy st. London 5 Jany. 1886.
PYNN, Sir Henry. Served as lieutenant with South Devon militia in Ireland during rebellion of 1798; ensign 82 foot 1799, captain 30 May 1805, brevet lieut. col. 4 June 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1816; attached to the Portuguese troops 15 Nov. 1809; commanded the 18 Portuguese regiment at Fuentes d’Onor, Pyrenees and Orthes; K.T.S. 17 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815; knighted by prince regent at Carlton house 23 Feb. 1815; brigadier general in Portuguese army, then major general; lieut. governor of town and fortress of Valencia 17 Dec. 1815. d. 102A Pall Mall, London 25 April 1855. G.M. xliv 95 (1855).
PYPER, William. b. Rathen, Aberdeenshire 1797; educ. Marischal coll. Aberdeen; parochial schoolmaster at Laurence Kirk 1815–7, afterwards at Maybole; a teacher in Glasgow gr. sch. 1820; head master of Edinburgh high school 1822–44; professor of humanity at St. Andrew’s univ. 22 Oct. 1844 to death; LL.D. Aberdeen; founded a bursary at St. Andrew’s by a bequest of £500; author of Gradus ad Parnassum 1843, still used in schools; Horace with quantities 1843; revised A. Adam’s The principles of Latin and English grammar 1846. d. St. Andrew’s 7 Jany. 1861. M. F. Connolly’s Eminent men of Fife (1866) 371.
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