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PURLING, GEORGE. Russell Barker & Stenning record him as at school under Smith, on the evidence of his presence at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783 (Memoirs of William Hickey, iii, 245-6), but Hickey is not invariably a reliable souce. Supplement states that Purling was educated under Dr. Williams 1773 and at Harrow 1774, and does not appear in any school records. He was third son of Matthew Purling, and Frances Wrangham; b. St. Helena 1764; Writer, EICS Bengal 1780, arrived in India 1 Aug 1780, factor, Assistant to Collector, Midnapur 1785, Assistant to Collector and Register, Dinajpur 1787, Collector, Birbhum 1796, and resigned in India 1801; inherited Bradford Peveril estate, Dorset, from uncle John Purling MP; d. unm. 28 Apr 1840].

PUREFYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1569-70 (Chapter Muniments).

PUREFOY-JERVOISE, GEORGE, son of Rev. George Huddlestone Jervoise Purefoy (afterwards Purefoy-Jervoise), Herriard Park, Hampshire, Rector of Shalston, Bucks., and Mary, second dau. of Rev. Wright Hawes, Rector of Shalston, Bucks.; nephew of Tristram Huddlestone Jervoise (qv); b. 10 Apr 1770; adm. 12 Jun 1781; left Aug 1786; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 5 Nov 1787; BA 1791; MA 1794; assumed additional surname of Jervoise 17 Jul 1792; MP Salisbury 17 Feb 1813-8, Hampshire 1820-6; High Sheriff, Hampshire 1830; lic. to m. 1st, 7 Apr 1799 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hall, Preston Candover, Hampshire; m. 2nd, 18 Apr 1837 Anna Maria Selina, eldest dau. of Wadham Locke MP, Rowde Ford, Wilts.; d. 1 Dec 1847.

PUREFOY, TOBIAS, son of Ralph Purefoy, Leicestershire; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1661; did not secure election to either university 1664, but elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1665, adm. pens. 29 Jun 1665, scholar 1666, matr. 1667/8; BA 1668/9; MA 1672; ordained priest (Ely) 2 Jun 1672; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. 1671-2.

PURDON, ADAM, third son of Sir Nicholas Purdon, Kt, MP (I), Ballyclough, co. Cork, and Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Stephens, Broghill, co. Cork; bapt. 5 Jul 1647; adm.; left 1656 (School List 1656, first quarter); Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 18 Mar 1662/3, aged about 17 (as pupil of “Dr. Hill, Dublin”); Capt., Sir Edward Dering’s Regt. of Foot 8 Mar 1689, retd. 1 Jan 1690; m. 1st, 1674 Frances, widow of Sir Arthur Denny, Kt, Tralee Castle, co. Kerry, and formerly of --- Jephson, and dau. of Sir Richard Kyrle, Kt; m. 2nd, 1687 Mary, third dau. of Randolph Clayton, Mallow, co. Cork; d. before Nov 1706.

PURDEY, CHARLES TALAVERA; b. 5 Mar 1813; adm. 20 Jan 1826.

Founded in 1981 as a girl’s boarding house, Purcell’s settled on its current name in 1995 to celebrate the composer’s tercentenary.
Henry Purcell was the organist at Westminster Abbey and may have studied at Westminster.

PURCELL, HENRY; b.; adm.; BB 1678-80 (Chapter Muniments 33713-5). [It has been suggested that this was Henry Purcell, the composer (c. 1659-1695), whose elder brother Charles might have been BB 1670-7; but by 1678 Henry Purcell already held appointments in royal service as Assistant to Keeper of Wood and Keyboard Instruments (since 29 Sep 1673) and Composer for Violins (from 10 Sep 1677), and he appears to have been Organist of Westminster Abbey from as early as autumn 1679. He also seems to have married no later than autumn 1680, for his eldest son was bapt. 9 Jul 1681] [Another possibility is that the BB was Henry Purcell, son of Richard Purcell, bapt. Worthen, Shropshire 31 Oct 1670 (IGI)].