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PHILLPOTTS, EDWARD COPLESTON, son of Right Rev. Henry Phillpotts DD, Bishop of Exeter, and Deborah Mary, dau. of William Surtees, Hedley, Northumberland, Receiver-Gen. of Durham and Northumberland; b. 25 Nov 1812; adm. 11 Apr 1825 (Stikeman's); KS 1827; rowed v. Eton 12 May 1831; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1832; BA 1835; ordained deacon 1835, priest 1836; Rector of St. Michael’s, Sutton Bonington, Notts., 27 Jan 1837; Vicar of Newlyn, Cornwall 24 Nov 1838; Rector of Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon 26 Nov 1838; Vicar of Lezant, Cornwall 1847; m. 1840 Georgiana Lukin, dau. of Rev. Robert Fitzwilliam Hallifax, Rector of Richards Castle, Shropshire; d. 27 Jan 1866.

PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH, elder son of Col. Charles Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, North America, Commissioner Colony of Carolina in London, and his second wife Eliza, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. George Lucas, Governor of Antigua; b. 25 Feb 1745/6; at school under Markham (H. H. Ravenel, Eliza Pinckney, 1896, 209-12); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1764; adm. Middle Temple 24 Jan 1764, called to bar 27 Jan 1769; returned to Charleston 1769; took part in political agitation against British rule and elected to Provincial Congress; Capt., 1st Regt. Carolina troops in revolutionary army on outbreak of rebellion; ADC to Washington 1777; served under General Hare 1778; in command Fort Moultrie during siege of Charleston 1780, and became prisoner of war on its capitulation; delegate to Convention which framed constitution of the USA, to the State Convention that ratified it and to the State Constitutional Convention 1790; declined seat on US Supreme Court and Cabinet office under Washington; US Minister to France 1796; on his return, elected to Congress as Federalist; defeated candidate for Vice-Presidency of US 1800 and for Presidency 1804; held rank of Maj. -Gen. in US Army; m. 1st, 28 Sep 1773 Sarah, sister of Arthur Middleton (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jun 1786 Mary, dau. of Benjamin Stead; d. 26 Aug 1825.

POWELL, WILLIAM THOMAS ROWLAND, elder son of William Edward Powell (qv), and his first wife; b. 4 Aug 1815; adm. 24 May 1830 (Stikeman's); Ensign, 37th Foot 1 Jun 1832; Lieut., 26 Jun 1835; Capt., 6 Apr 1838; retd. 1 Mar 1839; MP (Conservative) Cardiganshire 1859-65; DL JP Cardiganshire; m. 1 May 1839 Rosa Edwyna, elder dau. of William George Cherry, Buckland, Herefs.; d. 13 May 1878. [Perhaps “Thomas Powell, Esq., Aberystwyth”, who signed Play Protest 1847].

POYNTER, SIR EDWARD JOHN, BART., only son of Ambrose Poynter FRIBA, Park Street, Westminster, architect and Inspector, HM Schools of Design, and his first wife Emma, dau. of Rev. Edward Forster; b. 20 Mar 1836; adm. 3 Jun 1847 (Rigaud's); Min. Can. 1849; left Whitsun 1849; went to Ipswich GS and then to Brighton Coll.; studied art in England 1854-6, Paris 1856-9; a painter; ARA Jan 1869, RA 29 Jun 1876, President Royal Academy 4 Nov 1896-1918; member, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 1883; Slade Professor of Art, University Coll. London 1871-5; Director for Art and Principal of National Art Training School, South Kensington 1875-81; Director, National Gallery 1894-1905; FSA 7 Jun 1894; member, Society of Dilettanti 1895; knighted 25 Nov 1896; created baronet 2 Aug 1902; KCVO 3 Jun 1913; GCVO 3 Jun 1918; Hon. DCL Oxford 1898; Hon. LittD Cambridge 1898; author, Ten Lectures on Art 1879; m. 9 Aug 1866 Agnes, dau. of Rev. George Browne Macdonald, Wolverhampton, Staffs., Wesleyan Methodist minister; d. 26 Jul 1919.

PRESTON, JOSEPH, only son of Capt. Thomas Preston, Royal Navy, and his first wife Sophia, dau. of Joseph Clover; b. 28 Dec 1826; adm. 11 Jan 1841 (G); rowed v. Eton 29 Jul 1845; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 16 Jun 1845; 33rd Wrangler 1849; BA 1849; MA 1852; ordained deacon 1860, priest 1861 (both London); Curate, St. Michael’s, Chester Square, London 1860-2, Wymondham, Norfolk 1863-6, Reymerston, Norfolk 1866-74, St. Helen’s, Norwich 1875-82; m. 29 Jul 1862 Marian Anne, sister of William Graham Green (qv); d. 13 Feb 1900.

PRIOR, MATTHEW, son of George Prior, St.Stephen’s Alley, Westminster, joiner, and Elizabeth ---; bapt.St.Margaret, Westminster 2 Aug 1664; at school under Busby three years; left after reaching the middle of the third form to assist his uncle Arthur, a vintner, at the Rhenish Wine House, Channel Row, Westminster; returned to the School under the patronage of Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (qv); KS 1681; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 2 Apr 1683, scholar 1684, matr. 1683; BA 1686/7; MA 1700; Keyton Fellow, St. John’s Coll. 5 Apr 1688; author of The Hind and Panther transvers’d to the Story of the Town and Country Mouse, 1687, written as a reply to Dryden; Secretary to Embassy, The Hague 1690-7; employed as Secretary in negotiations resulting in the Treaty of Ryswick 1697; Chief Secretary to Lords Justices of Ireland May 1697 – Nov 1699, but did not execute duties of post; FRS 23 Mar 1697/8; Secretary to Embassy, Paris 1698-9; author, Carmen Saeculare, 1699; Under Secretary of State, Southern Department May 1699 – Jun 1700; a Commissioner of Trade 1700-7; MP East Grinstead Feb – Nov 1701; joined Tories on accession of Queen Anne; a Commissioner of Customs 1712-4; went to Paris to negotiate peace Jul 1711, subsequently acting as Minister Plenipotentiary there; the Treaty of Utrecht, signed 11 Apr 1713, was familiarly known as “Matt’s Peace”; impeached by Walpole and imprisoned 1715-7; his Poems, published by subscription in 1719, earned him 4000 guineas; presented by his patron Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford (qv), with £4000 for the purchase of Down Hall, Essex; possessed aptitude for business and a knowledge of commerce; Thackeray described Prior’s as “amongst the easiest, the richest, the most charmingly humorous of English lyrical poems” (English Humourists, 1866, 175); d. 18 Sep 1721, buried Westminster Abbey, at his desire “at the feet of Spenser”; DNB.

PULTENEY, WILLIAM, 1ST EARL OF BATH, son of Col. William Pulteney, Misterton, Leics., and his first wife Mary Floyd; nephew of John Pulteney (qv); b. 22 Mar 1684; adm.; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 31 Oct 1700; Grand Tour (Italy) 1704-5; MP Hedon 1705-34, Middlesex 1734 – 14 Jul 1742; Secretary at War 25 Sep 1714 – 11 Apr 1717; one of the committee of secrecy concerning the peace negotiations Apr 1715; Privy Councillor 16 Jul 1716; one of the “three grand allies”; declined peerage in lieu of office 1721; Cofferer of the Household 28 May 1723 – Apr 1725, dismissed after quarrel with Walpole; alled himself with Bolingbroke and wrote for The Craftsman; joined Wyndham and became a “patriot”; author of pamphlet On the State of the National Debt, 1727; quarrelled with John Hervey, Lord Hervey (qv), with whom he fought a duel in Green Park 25 Jan 1731; leader of the parliamentary opposition to Walpole; struck off the Privy Council 1 Jul 1731; refused to form a ministry on Walpole’s downfall, but entered Lord Wilmington’s Cabinet without office and was readm. to Privy Council 20 Feb 1742; created Earl of Bath 14 Jul 1742; his acceptance of a peerage diminished his political significance; lampooned by Sir Charles Hanbury Williams in a series of odes; endeavoured to form an administration at George II’s request, and accepte post of First Lord of the Treasury 10 Feb 1746, but his short-lived ministry only lasted two days, and he never held political office again; Lord Lieut., Yorkshire East Riding 7 Dec 1721 – 15 Jul 1728, Shropshire from 13 Jul 1761; a brilliant parliamentary orator and great debater; a scholar and a versatile and witty writer; gave £50 towards the New Dormitory; m. 27 Dec 1714 Anna Maria, dau. of John Gumley MP, Isleworth, Middlesex, Commissary-Gen. to the Army; d. 7 Jul 1764. Buried Islip Chapel, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

Radcliffe, Geoffrey Reynolds Yonge, brother of John Edward Yonge Radcliffe (q.v.); b. April 3, 1886; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 28, 1899 (G); K.S. (non-resident) 1901; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1905, matric. Michaelmas 1905; 1st class Lit. Hum. 1909; B.A. 1909; Eldon Scholar 1911; M.A. 1912; adm. to Lincoln's Inn 1906 called to the bar Jan. 27, 1913; Fellow, Tutor, and Law lecturer New Coll. Oxon. 1920; Bursar 1924; member of the Hebdomadal Council 1926; Principal of the Law Society's School of Law 1928-40; Bursar of New College 1924-56; Emeritus Fellow since 1956; Upper Bailiff of the Weavers Company 1929, 1941 and 1952; a Governor of the School 1942; a Busby Trustee 1949; President of the Elizabethan Club 1955-8; 2nd Lieut. 23rd London Regt. (T.F.) Nov. 14, 1914; served in France 1915, and was wounded; Capt. June 1, 1916; General Staff Officer Nov. 10, 1916; Brevet Major 1918; m. Jan. 18, 1918, Sylvia, youngest daughter of Ernest Capel Cure, of South Kensington; d. July 18, 1959.

RAM, STEPHEN GEORGE, brother of Abel Ram (qv); b. 28 Apr 1783; adm.; in school list 1795; KS (aged 13) 1796; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1800, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1800, scholar 17 Apr 1801; BA 1804; MA 1807; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1806, priest 31 May 1807 (both Winchester); Curate, Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1806; Rector of Ringmore, Devon, from 1 May 1812; d. at Rome 1822.

RAM, STOPFORD, brother of Abel Ram (qv); bapt. 24 Jul 1784; in school list 1795; KS 1798; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1802, adm. pens. 1 Jun 1802, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 3 Apr 1806; served in Peninsular War; killed at battle of Talavera 28 Jul 1809.