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PYM, ROBERT JOHN. _b._ 1787; in Samuel Jerrold’s company at
Sheerness 1812; bag bearer to the registrars of the court of
chancery, with charge of the daily cause lists 1815–54; built
a private theatre at the rear of his residence in Wilson st.
Gray’s inn lane for the use of students for the stage, where he
himself with J. Reeve, Strickland, Marston, Selby, Bedford and
others often acted; acted Caleb Quotem in The Review 1846; gave
up the theatre 1847, but it was used to 1853; the house was also
known as the Gough st. amateur theatre, now Havelock hall and
used as a London city mission station 1896. _d._ 33 Holford sq.
Pentonville, London 16 Sept. 1866. _N. and Q. 8 s_, _vi_ 427,
476 (1894).
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.
Q
QUAGLIENI, ANTONIO. _b._ Italy; served with the Brothers
Giulium, circus proprietors in Italy; had an equestrian company
in France; came to England with his talented equestrian family
in 1856; a circus director in Cardiff 1862; naturalised in
England 20 Feb. 1866; returned to Brescia, Italy with a fortune
1870; his wife Amalia Gasperini Quaglieni _d._ 22 Dec. 1882 aged
63; they had 10 children all in the profession, their son Luigi
Quaglieni was manager of a circus when aged only seventeen. _d._
Brescia July 1892.
QUAIN, SIR JOHN RICHARD (youngest son of Richard Quain of
Ratheahy, co. Cork). _b._ Ratheahy 1816; educ. Göttingen and
Univ. coll. London, fellow 1843; LL.B. London 1839, univ. law
scholar; examiner in law to univ. of London several years, and
member of the senate June 1860; practised as a special pleader
1841–51; barrister M.T. 30 May 1851, bencher Nov. 1866 to Jany.
1872; went northern circuit; Q.C. 23 July 1866; attorney general
for county palatine of Durham 2 Sept. 1868 to Dec. 1871; judge
of court of queen’s bench 5 Jany. 1872 to death; serjeant-at-law
9 Jany. 1872; knighted at Windsor castle 22 April 1872; his law
library was presented to Univ. college, London by his brother
Richard Quain 1876; author with Henry Holroyd of The new system
of common law procedure 1852. _d._ 22A Cavendish sq. London 12
Sept. 1876. _bur._ Marylebone cemet. Finchley 18 Sept., marble
bust of him placed in hall of Middle Temple Jany. 1888. _A
generation of judges._ _By their reporter_ (1886) 30–8; _Law
Times 23 Sept. 1876 p._ 357.
QUAIN, JONES (half-brother of preceding). _b._ in the south
of Ireland Nov. 1796; educ. Adair’s school Fermoy, and Trin.
coll. Dublin, scholar 1814, B.A. 1816, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1833;
anatomical teacher at Tyrrell’s school of medicine in Aldersgate
st. London 1825; professor of general anatomy and physiology
at Univ. coll. London 1831, resigned 1835; fellow of univ. of
London 1836–58; translated and edited Louis Martinet’s Manual of
pathology 1826, 4 ed. 1835; author of Elements of descriptive
and practical anatomy for the use of students 1828, 10 ed. 3
vols. 1890; and with Erasmus Wilson of A series of anatomical
plates in lithography with references and physiological
comments, 2 vols. folio 1836–42. _d._ London 31 Jany. 1865.
_bur._ Highgate cemet. _Lancet 4 Feb. 1865 p._ 136; _Proc. of
Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 49–50 (1867).
QUAIN, RICHARD (brother of preceding). _b._ Fermoy July 1800;
studied medicine in London and Paris; assistant to Richard
Bennett, demonstrator of anatomy at London univ. 1828, senior
demonstrator of anatomy there 1830, and professor of descriptive
anatomy 1832–50; M.R.C.S. 18 Jany. 1828, F.R.C.S. 11 Dec. 1843,
member of council 1854, president of the college 1868, Hunterian
orator 1869; assistant surgeon to Univ. college hospital 1834,
surgeon and special professor of clinical surgery 1848–66,
consulting surgeon and emeritus professor of clinical surgery
1866; represented royal college of surgeons in general council
of education 14 July 1870 to 14 June 1876; surgeon extraordinary
to the queen 25 Nov. 1862 to death; F.R.S. 29 Feb. 1844;
edited with W. Sharpey, Jones Quain’s Elements of anatomy, 5
ed. 2 vols. 1848; author of The anatomy of the arteries of the
human body with lithographic drawings 1844; The diseases of
the rectum 1854, 2 ed. 1855; Clinical lectures 1884. _d._ 32
Cavendish sq. London 15 Sept. 1887. _bur._ Finchley, portrait
by George Richmond, R.A. in secretary’s office at royal college
of surgeons and bust by Thomas Woolner in council room there.
_British medical journal ii_ 694 (1887); _Lancet ii_ 687 (1887).
QUARTLEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ Bath 5 July 1808; studied wood
engraving in Wales and Paris from 1824; went to New York 1852,
helped to illustrate Picturesque America 1872, and Picturesque
Europe 1875; painted Niagara falls, Buttermilk falls, and
Catskill falls. _d._ New York 5 April 1874. _Appleton’s American
Biog. v_ 147 (1888).
NOTE.--His son Arthur Quartley, _b._ Paris 24 May 1839, a well known
artist, _d._ New York 19 May 1886.
QUARTLY, FRANCIS (3 son of James Quartly, cattle breeder
1720–93). _bapt._ 26 Oct. 1764; a famous breeder of North Devon
cattle 1794–1836, when he sold the herd and retired; visited by
Arthur Young 1796; presented by Bath and West of England soc.
with a silver teapot for ploughing 60 acres of land with the
double furrow plough in a new district 1801; received from his
friends his full length portrait (standing by the side of the
cow Cherry) 1850. _d._ Great Champson estate, Molland-Botreaux,
North Devon 23 July 1856. _Journal Royal Agricultural soc. of
England_ (1850) 680–1; _Jas. Sinclair’s Devon breed of cattle_
(1893) 42–61, 386–8.
QUAYLE, MARK HILDESLEY (only child of Mark Hildesley Quayle,
clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1770–1804). _b._ 4 July
1804; educ. at St. John’s coll. Camb.; called to Manx bar 1825;
clerk of the rolls of the Isle of Man 1847 to death. _d._
Castletown, Isle of Man 19 March 1879. _Law Times lxvi_ 456
(1879).
QUEENSBERRY, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM DOUGLAS, 7 Marquess of (only
son of 6 marquess of Queensberry 1779–1856). _b._ Edinburgh 18
April 1818; educ. Eton; styled viscount Drumlanrig 1837–56;
cornet 2 life guards 27 July 1838, sold out 19 Jany. 1844; M.P.
Dumfriesshire 1847–56; comptroller of H.M.’s household 4 Jany.
1853 to July 1856; P.C. 7 Feb. 1853; colonel of Dumfriesshire
militia; lord lieut. of Dumfriesshire 28 Aug. 1856 to death;
succeeded as 7 marquess 19 Dec. 1856; a huntsman, shooter,
pugilist, horse racer, deer stalker, and fisher; a frequent
otter hunter; a good swimmer, crossed the Thames below
Greenwich; kept hounds at Kinmount; backed horses extensively
but was very unfortunate, bet £10,000 to £500 on Saunterer
for the Goodwood cup July 1858 which he lost; _shot himself_
accidentally at Kinmount, co. Dumfries 6 Aug. 1858. _Sporting
Times 13 June 1885 p._ 2; _Sporting Review xl_ 158–59 (1858);
_G.M. v_ 309 (1858); _Times 10 Aug. 1858 p._ 10, _16 Aug. p._ 10.
QUEKETT, JOHN THOMAS (youngest son of Wm. Quekett 1767–1842,
master of Langport gr. sch. 1790–1842). _b._ Langport, Somerset
11 Aug. 1815; educ. at King’s coll. London and London hospital;
L.S.A. 1840; assistant conservator of Hunterian museum at royal
college of surgeons Nov. 1843, conservator 1856 to death,
demonstrator of minute anatomy 1844, professor of histology 1852
to death, his collections of 2,500 microscopic preparations were
purchased by the college; secretary of the Microscopical society
1841–60, president 1860; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 7 June 1860; the
Quekett Microscopical club was established 1865; author of A
practical treatise on the use of the microscope 1848, 3 ed.
1855; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological
series in the museum of the royal college of surgeons, 2 vols.
1850–5; Lectures on histology, 2 vols. 1852–4; Catalogue of
plants and invertebrates 1860; author with John Morris of
Catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants in the
museum of the royal college of surgeons 1859. _d._ Pangbourne,
Berkshire 20 Aug. 1861. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xii_ 25–7 (1863);
_Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. iv_ 79 (1864); _I.L.N. 31 Aug.
1861 p._ 227 _portrait_.
QUEKETT, WILLIAM (brother of preceding). _b._ Langport 3 Oct.
1802; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1831; C. of
South Cadbury, Somerset 1825; C. of St. George’s-in-the-East,
London 1830–41; incumbent of Ch. Ch. Watney st. London 1841–54;
founded with Sidney Herbert the Female emigration society 1849;
R. of Warrington, Lancs. June 1854 to death; his work in London
is described by Charles Dickens in an article entitled What a
London curate can do if he tries, in Household Words 16 Nov.
1850 pp. 172–6; he is also depicted as Dr. Lyman in Battledon
rectory. _d._ Warrington rectory 30 March 1888. _Wm. Quekett’s
My sayings and doings_ (1888) 2 _portraits_.
QUENTIN, SIR GEORGE AUGUSTUS (eld. son of George Quentin of
Göttingen). _b._ 1760; served in the Gards du Corps, Hanover
1786–93; cornet in 10 Hussars 25 Feb. 1793; lieut. col. 13
Oct. 1808 to 18 March 1824; aide-de-camp to Prince Regent and
George 4 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; tried by a court martial
at Whitehall 17–31 Oct. 1814 for neglect of duty and allowing
relaxed discipline in his regiment and was reprimanded; equerry
to the crown stables 1825 to death; L.G. 28 June 1838; C.B.
4 June 1815; knighted at the Pavilion, Brighton 8 Dec. 1821.
_d._ 11 Great Cumberland st. London 7 Dec. 1851. _The trial
of colonel Quentin_ (1814); _G.M. xxxvii_ 190 (1852); _Royal
military calendar_, _3 ed. iv_ 226–31 (1820).
QUICK, HENRY. _b._ Zennor, Cornwall 4 Dec. 1792; related in
verse all the local calamities and crimes from 1830 to his
death; printed most of his poems as broadsides; author of A
new copy of verses, an account of the accident at Pendeen cove
1830; A new copy of verses on the scarcity and famine in Ireland
1847; A new copy of verses on the church erecting at Pendeen
1850; The Brison shipwreck 1851. _d._ Mill Hill Down, Zennor 9
Oct. 1857. _bur._ Zennor 12 Oct. _Boase and Courtney’s Bibl.
Cornub. ii_ 541, 1320 (1878–82); _G. B. Millett’s Penzance, past
and present_ (1880) 36 _portrait_; _Life and progress of Henry
Quick_ (1836).
QUICK, ROBERT HEBERT (eld. son of James Carthew Quick,
merchant). _b._ London 20 Sept. 1831; educ. Harrow and Trin.
coll. Camb., B.A. 1854, M.A. 1857; worked as an unpaid curate
with rev. J. Llewellyn Davies, first at St. Mark’s, Whitechapel
1855, and afterwards in Marylebone; a master in Lancaster gr.
sch. 1858, then at Guildford gr. sch., Hurstpierpoint, and
Cranley; assistant master at Harrow Jany. 1870 to Dec. 1874;
head of a preparatory school Orme square, London, and then at
Guildford 1874–81; appointed by univ. of Camb. 1881 to give the
first course of lectures on the history of education under the
newly formed syndicate for training of teachers; V. of Sedbergh,
Yorkshire 1883–7; author of Essays on educational reformers
1868, 2 ed. 1890; Essentials of German 1882; edited J. Locke’s
Thoughts concerning education 1880; reprinted R. Mulcaster’s
Positions 1888; his article on Frœbel in the 9th ed. of the
Encyclopædia Britannica (1879) was published separately; resided
Earlswood cottage, Redhill, Surrey. _d._ at the residence of
John Robert Seeley at Cambridge 9 March 1891. _Journal of
education April 1891 pp._ 188, 221–7, 257, 297; _Education April
1891 portrait_.
QUILLINAN, EDWARD (son of Edward Quillinan of Ireland, a
wine merchant at Oporto). _b._ Oporto 12 Aug. 1791; educ.
Sedgley park school, Staffs. 1800; a clerk to his father at
Oporto 1805–7; cornet 2 dragoon guards 14 July 1808, present
at Walcheren; lieut. 23 light dragoons 14 July 1810; lieut.
3 dragoon guards 24 June 1813, placed on h.p. 1814; lieut.
3 dragoon guards again 29 June 1815, placed on h.p. 31 May
1821; served in Spain 1812; wrote a satirical poem The ball
room votaries 1810; his connection with The whim, a magazine,
Canterbury 1810–11 involved him in two duels; author of
Dunluce castle, a poem 1814; The sacrifice of Isabel 1816; The
conspirators, 3 vols. 1841; translated 5 books of Camoens’s
Lusiad, published by John Adamson 1853. _d._ Loughrigg Holme,
Ambleside 8 July 1851. _bur._ Grassmere churchyard 12 July.
_E. Quillinan’s Poems_, _edited by Wm. Johnston_ (1853); _W.
Knight’s Life of Wm. Wordsworth_, _iii_ 114, 380, 521 (1889);
_Irish monthly_, _xv_ 285–8 (1887).
NOTE.--He _m._ 11 May 1841 Dorothy, 2 dau. of William Wordsworth, she
was _b._ Dove cottage, Grassmere 16 Aug. 1804, _d._ Rydal Mount 9 July
1847, she wrote Journal of a few months’ residence in Portugal and
glimpses of the south of Spain 1847, new ed. 1895.
QUILLINAN, JEMIMA K. (1 dau. of the preceding). _b._ near Dublin
1819; much beloved by William Wordsworth; a friend of all the
Lake circle; attended by 3 of Wordsworth’s descendants and Dr.
Arnold’s youngest daughter, she _d._ Loughrigg Holme 28 Jany.
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