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 * ✅Sir George Pocock
 * ✅Isaac Pocock
 * Isaac John Innes Pocock
 * Lewis Pocock
 * ✅Nicholas Pocock
 * ✅Nicholas Pocock (historian)
 * Robert Pocock
 * William Puller Pocock
 * William Innes Pocock
 * ✅Edward Pococke

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 * Edward Pococke
 * ✅Richard Pococke
 * Leonard Poe
 * Ranulf le Poer
 * Robert le Poer
 * Roger le Poer
 * Walter le Poer
 * ✅Norman Robert Pogson
 * ✅Jean Poingdestre
 * ✅✅John Pointer (antiquary)

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 * William Pointer
 * Philip of Poitiers
 * Richard Pokeridge
 * Saint Pol
 * Joel Samuel Polack
 * John Bede Polding
 * Arthur Pole
 * Sir Charles Morice Pole
 * David Pole
 * Sir Edmund de la Pole
 * Sir Geoffrey Pole

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 * Sir Henry Pole
 * John de la Pole
 * John de la Pole
 * Margaret Pole
 * Michael de la Pole Michael de la Pole, called in English Michael Atte Pool, first Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389), son of Sir William de la Pole (d. 1366); chiefly occupied from 1355 onward, for many years, with the war against the French; first summoned to parliament as a baron, 1366; took part under the Black Prince in the famous siege of Limoges, 1370: attached himself to John of Gaunt, and in the Good parliament (1376) stood strongly on the side of the crown: appointed admiral north of the Thames, 1376; superseded as admiral, December 1377; became the most trusted personal adviser of the young king Richard II on the retirement of John of Gaunt to Castile; appointed chancellor of England, 1383; unsuccessfully advocated a policy of peace in his speech to parliament, 1884; incurred much odium on account of his great wealth; created Earl of Suffolk, 1385; opposition to liim formally organised (1386) under Richard II's uncle, lxmas, duke of Gloucester: his dismissal demanded by both Lords and Commons, who were apprehensive of large pecuniary demands for the prosecution of the war; dismissed, in spite of King Richard IPs reluctance, and articles of impeachment drawn up against him, charging him with misappropriation of funds and remis%ness in carrying on the war, 1386; convicted on three charges, tad sentenced to the loss of the lands and grants he had received contrary to his oath, and was committed to prison until he had paid au adequate fine: released from custody by Richard II on the termination of the Wonderful parliament, his fine remitted, and himself reinstated as Klchard IPs adviser; compelled (November 1387), by dread of the meeting of parliament, to flee the realm; reached Paris after many difficulties; died at Paris. During us absence be wa* condemned to death, and his title and - forfeited.
 * Michael de la Pole
 * Michael de la Pole
 * Ralph Pole
 * ✅Reginald Pole Reginald Pole (1500–1558), cardinal and archbishop of Canterbury; son of Sir Richard Pole, by his wife Margaret; educated at Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford; B.A., 1515; received several preferments while a youth and still a layman; sent by Henry VIII at his own wish to Italy, 1521, where he studied at Padua, and visited Rome: returned, 1527, and was elected dean of Exeter: studied at Paris, 1529-30; returned to England, soon after which Henry VIII, desirous to obtain his approbation of his divorce, pressed him to accept the archbishopric of York; refused the offer, though genuinely fond of Henry VIII; disapproved of the royal supremacy over the English church, and was allowed (Jauuarj1632) to return to Padua; formulated at Henry VIII's request (1536) his views on Henry VIII's divorce and the divine institution of the papal supremacy in his treatise Pro Ecclesiastics Unitatis Defensione severely criticising Henry VIII's conduct; declined au invitation to return to England: summoned to Rome in November by Pope Paul III to act on a committee to draw up a scheme for reforming the discipline of the church; took deacon's orders and was made a cardinal, December 1536; nominated papal legate to England, February 1537, and despatched thither by Pope Paul III; travelled through France, where Francis I was summoned by Henry VIII to deliver him up as a rebel; received an intimation from Francis I that he must leave France; mode his way to Cambray, and eventually to Liege, where he was safe from extradition; returned to Rome, and (1538) heard of the arrest of his mother and eldest brother on charge of treason; accepted a mission from Pope Paul III to form a league of Christian princes against Henry VIII, which, however, failed, chiefly on account of the jealousies between Francis I and Charles V; returned to Rome in 1540, when Pope Paul III bestowed on him the legation of the patrimony; one of the three legates appointed (1540) to open the council of Trent; vainly endeavoured, on the death of Henry VIII in 1547, to reconcile England with the holy see, through the Protector Somerset and the Earl of Warwick: just missed election as pope, though supported by the Spanish party, 1549; favoured by the new pontiff, Juliu? Ill; nominated papal legate to the queen on Mary's accession, but hindered from coming to England by the Emperor Charles V'e reluctance to allow him to influence Queen Mary before her marriage with his son Philip; his attainder reversed in November 1554, after the marriage, and he himself permitted to return, Queen Mary praying him to come, not as legate, but only as cardinal and ambassador: entrusted with the care of Queen Mary by her husband, Philip, on Philip's leaving England in October 1555; raised to the dignity of cardinal-priest, December 1555, Queen Mary designing him to succeed Cranuier as archbishop; occupied with the proceedings in a synod of both convocations for the reform and settlement of the affairs of the English church and its reconciliation with Rome; consecrated archbishop of Canterbury, March 1556: chancellor of Cambridge University, 1656; found that he had underestimated the difficulties of reconciling the realm with Rome, the question of the restoration of church property proving an especial stumbling-block, as no assurances of immunity to the lay proprietors could allay their disquiet: his anxieties increased by the war between Pope Paul IV and Philip II, and by the violent personal animosity of Pope Paul IV, who cancelled his legation and stigmatised him privately as a heretic; died at Lamin-th Palace on 17 Nov. 1568, the evening of the day of Mary's death; buried in St. Thomas's Chapel, Canterbury. His De Concilio was printed at Venice in 15U2, his De Unitate at IuKoldU.lt in 1887. His life WM animated by a single purpose, the restoration of that ecclesiastical system which Henry VIII had shattered.
 * Sir Richard de la Pole

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 * Richard de la Pole
 * Thomas Pole
 * Sir William de la Pole
 * William de la Pole William de la Pole, fourth Earl and first Duke of Suffolk (1396–1450), son of Michael de la Pole, second earl of Suffolk; served in Henry V's French wars, and after Henry V's death fought under the Duke of Bedford; created Earl of Dreux, e. 14S6, and on the death of the Earl of Salisbury in 1428 succeeded to the command of the English forces; forced to surrender at Jargeau, soon after Jeanne d'Arc had raised the siege of Orleans, 1429; ransomed himself and (1430) again took part in the war; occupied himself with home politics from 1431; admitted a member of the council, 1431, becoming an advocate of peace; inclined, by his marriage to the widowed Countess of Salisbury, to connection with the Beanfortti; came forward as the chief opponent of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, who after Bedford's death (1435) led the war party: desired that Henry VI should marry Margaret of Anjou, and defeated Gloucester's project to unite him to a daughter of the Count of Armagnac. 1442; escorted Margaret to England, November 14 14; peace negotiations continued under hi.- influence without definite result through 1446; with Queen Margaret spared no pains to effect the overthrow of Gloucester, who was arrested at the parliament summoned nt Bury, February 1447, and died five days later; left without a rival by the death of Cardinal Beaufort six weeks after; had Richard of York deprived of the command in France and.-out into banishment as lieutenant of Ireland, thereby in.-nrring his implacable enmity, which, however, troubled him little, as he had Henry VI's support; became a duke, 1448, thereby reaching the summit of his power; had become, unpopular, in consequence of the cession of the English possessions in Anjou and Maine, to which he hud agreed at the time of the royal marriage, and was finally discredited by the renewed outbreak of war in France and the English losses, 1449; accused by the Commons (1450) of having sold the realm to the French, and was committed to the Tower of London; banished by Henry VI for live years (March 1450), a compromise by which Henry VI hoped to save him and satisfy the Commons as well; intercepted when off Dover and beheaded at sea, poesibly at the institution of Richard of York. He married Alice, daughter of Thomas Chaucer, probably a granddaughter of the poet.
 * Sir William Pole
 * William Pole
 * William Wellesley-Pole
 * Henry Stedman Polehampton
 * ✅Robert Polenius
 * Edward Polhill
 * John William Polidori
 * ✅Lord Polkemmet
 * Hugh Pollard
 * Sir John Pollard
 * Leonard Pollard
 * Sir Lewis Pollard
 * Robert Pollard
 * William Pollard
 * William Pollard-Urquhart
 * Henry Pollexfen
 * John Pollexfen
 * Sir Charles Edward Pollock
 * Sir David Pollock
 * Sir George Pollock
 * Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock
 * Sir William Frederick Pollock
 * Robert Pollok
 * Lord Polton
 * Thomas Polton
 * ✅Baron Polwarth
 * Richard Polwhele
 * Theophilus Polwhele
 * Earl of Pomfret
 * ✅Countess of Pomfret
 * John Pomfret
 * Samuel Pomfret
 * John Ponce
 * Arthur Pond
 * Edward Pond (almanac-maker)
 * John Pond
 * John Ponet
 * Lady Emily Charlotte Mary Ponsonby
 * ✅Sir Frederic Cavendish Ponsonby
 * ✅Frederick George Brabazon Ponsonby
 * George Ponsonby
 * Henry Ponsonby
 * Henry Frederick Ponsonby
 * John Ponsonby
 * John Ponsonby
 * ✅John William Ponsonby
 * Richard Ponsonby
 * Sarah Ponsonby
 * William Ponsonby
 * William Ponsonby
 * William Ponsonby
 * ✅William Brabazon Ponsonby
 * ✅Robert Pont
 * ✅Timothy Pont
 * Roger of Pont l'Êveque
 * Pontack (tavern-keeper)
 * ✅Mungo Ponton
 * Arthur William Poole
 * Edward Stanley Poole
 * George Ayliffe Poole
 * Jacob Poole
 * John Poole
 * Jonas Poole
 * Joshua Poole
 * ✅✅Maria Poole
 * Matthew Poole
 * Paul Falconer Poole
 * Reginald Stuart Poole
 * Robert Poole
 * ✅Sophia Poole
 * Thomas Poole (tanner)
 * Herbert Poor
 * Richard Poor
 * Alexander Pope [Alexander Pope (1688-1744), poet; son of Alexander Pope (1641 ?-1717), a Roman catholic linen draper of London; a precocious child, and calledthe little nightingale from the beauty of his voice; his health rained and his figure distorted by a severe illness at the age of twelve, brought on by perpetual application; began at an early age to imitate his favourite authors became Intimate (c. 1704) with William Wycherley I who introduced him to town life: came into notice by the publication of the Pastorals in 1709,iuTon8on'8 Poetic Miscellanies *; publiahed anonymously (1711) the Essay on Criticism which was warmly praised by Addison in tbeSpectator became known to the Addison circle  his Messiah* published in the Spectator 14 May 1712; published Rape of the Lock in Lintot's Miscellanies 1712, and separately, 1714; published (1713)Windsor Forest which appealed to the tories by its references to the peace of Utrecht, and von liiui the friendship of Swift; drifted apart from Addison's little senate and became a memlxjr of theScriblerus Club an informal association, which included Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Atterbury, Oxford, and others; issued (1715) the first volume, of his translation of theIliad(completed in 1720), which reflected with genuine rhetorical vigour the classicism of the time; bought (1719) the lease of a house at Twickenham, where he lived for the rest of his life; a close friend of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Martha Blount, 1715-22; after the final publication of theIliadwas engaged for a time on task work, editing the poems of Parnell in 1722, and beginning an edition of Shakespeare for To M son, which appeared in 1825; assisted in his translation of the Odyssey by William Broorne and Elijah Fenton; issued his translation of the Odyssey 1725-6, which brought an addition of fortune, though not much of fame; published theDunciad (anonymously), 1712, thereby making an unprecedented stir among authors; issued an enlarged edition, 1729, though the poem was not acknowledged till it appeared in Pope'sWorksin 1735; hisDuuciadattacked in numerous rejoinders, which caused him some mortification; led by Bolingbroke's influence over him as a friend and philosopher into writing theEssay on Man(1733) and the four Moral Essays which were the only parts completed of a series of poems intended to embrace a systematic survey of human nature; published (1733) his translation from Horace of the first satire of the second book, the first of a series of his most felicitous writings, continued intermittently until the close of his life: occupied himself in the meantime with the publication of his earlier correspondence, which he edited and amended in such a manner as to misrepresent totally the literary history of the time, and also employed a series of discreditable artifices to make it appear that it was published against his wish; assisted Edmund Cur 11, the publisher, who had printed his Familiar Letters to Henry Cromwellin 1726, to publish hisLiterary Correspondence in 1735, and then endeavoured to disavow him; ungenerously took advantage of Swift's failing powers in 1741 ha order to saddle him with the responsibility for a similar publication in 1741; lost his friend, Arbuthnot, by death, 1735; deprived of the society of Boliugbroke, who retired to France, 1735; undertook, by the advice of William Warburton, to complete the 'Dunciadby a fourth book, which appeared in 1742, and contains some of his finest verses; his last literary quarrel the result of a reference in it to Colley Gibber; buried in Twickenham Church. His writings accurately reflect the tendencies of his age, and with reference to that age he was certainly a great poet. Satire and didactic poetry corresponded to the taste of such an epoch; and his scholarly sense of niceties of language led him to polish all liis work with unwearied care. The first collective edition of hisWorksappeared In 1751. The standard edition is that edited by Whitwell Elwin q. v. and Mr. W. J. Courthope, and published between 1871 and 1889.
 * Alexander Pope
 * Alexander Pope
 * Clara Maria Pope
 * Elizabeth Pope
 * Jane Pope
 * Maria Ann Pope
 * Sir Thomas Pope
 * ✅✅Thomas Pope
 * Sir Thomas Pope
 * Walter Pope
 * John Pope-Hennessy
 * Alexander Popham
 * Edward Popham
 * Sir Francis Popham
 * Home Riggs Popham
 * Sir John Popham
 * Sir John Popham
 * William Popple
 * William Popple
 * ✅Viscount Porchester
 * John Pordage
 * Samuel Pordage
 * Eleanor Anne Porden
 * William Porden
 * Robert Porrett
 * Richard Porson Richard Porson (1769–1808), Greek scholar; Mb of the pariah clerk at Bast Ruston, near North Walsham: showed an extraordinary memory when a boy, and attracted the attention "f T. Hewett, the cnrnte of the parish" who eduoaU-1 him with his own sons; placed at Eton bv Mr. Norris of Witton I'ark, 1771; a fund started to maintain him at Cambridge by Sir George laker on Norris's death; entered at Trinity Col*. 1778- scholar. 1780: Craven scholar, 1781: first  kanccllor'i medallist and fellow, 1782; M.A., 1785: berarne widely known by hisLetters to Travissee TRAVW, GBOROK, 1788-9; lost his fellowship, which expired, 1792, owing to his refusal to take orders, and failed to obtain a lay fellowship, for which he applied; an annuity of 100. purchased for him by his admirers, on which be took rooms at Essex Court in the Temple: was elected regiu* professor of Greek at Cambridge University, November 1792, but continued to live in London, absorbed in private study: his society much sought by literary men: married (1796) Mrs. Lunan (d. 1797 ), the sister of James Perry, one of his intimate friends; edited four plays of Euripides, Hecuba(1797 and 1802),Orestes(1798), PhceniswE (1799), and Medea(1801), his finest single piece of criticism being the Supplement to the preface in the second edition of the Hecuba in which he states and illustrates certain rules of iambic and trochaic verse; died in London, and was buried in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, His memory was remarkable, not only for its tenacity, but also for its readiness. In later life he gave way to intemperance. His transcripts of Photius from the Gale MS. and of theMedeaand Plxrniasre are marvels of calligraphy. His literary remains were published after his death, between 1812 and 1834. HisCorrespondenceappeared in 1867. He definitely advanced Greek scholarship in three principal respect;: (1) by remarks upon countless points of Greek idiom and usage: (2) by adding to the knowledge of metre, and especially of the iambic trimeter; (3) by emendation of texts.
 * Adam de Port
 * John Port
 * John Port
 * Abraham Portal
 * Gerald Herbert Portal
 * Stanier Porten
 * John Porteous
 * William Porteous
 * Anna Maria Porter
 * Charles Porter
 * Classon Emmett Porter
 * Endymion Porter
 * Francis Porter
 * George Porter (royalist)
 * ✅✅George Porter (conspirator)
 * George Hornidge Porter
 * George Richardson Porter
 * Henry Porter
 * James Porter (diplomat)
 * James Porter (died 1798)
 * Jane Porter
 * Jerome Porter
 * John Scott Porter
 * Josias Leslie Porter
 * Mary Porter
 * Robert Porter
 * Sir Robert Ker Porter
 * Sarah Porter
 * Thomas Porter
 * Walter Porter
 * Whitworth Porter
 * William Porter
 * William Henry Porter
 * Beilby Porteus
 * Dukes of Portland
 * Earls of Portland
 * ✅Titular Earl of Portland
 * Baron Portlester
 * Joseph Ellison Portlock
 * ✅ Nathaniel Portlock
 * Edward Berkeley Portman
 * William Portman
 * William Portman
 * Earl of Portmore
 * Duchess of Portsmouth
 * Earl of Portsmouth
 * Mauritius de Portu
 * John Pory (Master of Corpus)
 * ✅John Pory
 * Robert Pory
 * Jacob Post
 * Beale Poste
 * ✅✅John Postgate (activist)
 * Thomas Postlethwaite
 * James Postlethwayt
 * John Postlethwayt
 * Malachy Postlethwayt
 * Matthew Postlethwayt
 * Joseph Pote
 * John Potenger

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 * ✅✅Joseph Holden Pott
 * ✅Percivall Pott
 * ✅Barnaby Potter
 * Charles Potter
 * ✅Christopher Potter
 * Christopher Potter
 * Francis Potter
 * ✅George Potter
 * ✅Hannibal Potter
 * ✅John Potter (archbishop)

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 * John Potter (author)
 * John Phillips Potter
 * Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter
 * Richard Potter
 * Richard Potter
 * Robert Potter
 * Thomas Potter
 * Sir Thomas Potter
 * Thomas Bayley Potter
 * Thomas Joseph Potter
 * Thomas Rossell Potter
 * William Potter
 * Eldred Pottinger
 * Henry Pottinger
 * Israel Pottinger
 * John Pottinger
 * Laurence Holker Potts
 * Robert Potts
 * Thomas Potts (clerk)
 * ✅✅Thomas Potts (writer)
 * Sir John Poulett
 * Sir John Poulett
 * Sir John Poulett
 * George Poulson
 * Benjamin Thomas Pouncy
 * James Pound
 * John Pound
 * Charles Povey
 * Thomas Povey
 * Mrs Powell
 * Baden Powell
 * David Powell
 * Edward Powell
 * Foster Powell
 * Gabriel Powell
 * George Powell
 * ✅Sir George Smyth Baden Powell
 * Griffith Powell
 * Humphrey Powell
 * John Powell
 * Sir John Powell
 * John Powell
 * ✅Joseph Powell (painter)
 * John Joseph Powell (legal writer)
 * Martin Powell
 * Nathaniel Powell
 * Richard Powell (physician)
 * Robert Powell
 * Thomas Powell
 * Thomas Powell
 * Vavasor Powell
 * ✅✅William Powell (English actor)
 * William Samuel Powell
 * Henry Power
 * Joseph Power
 * Lionel Power
 * Sir Manley Power
 * ✅Marguerite Power
 * ✅Marguerite A. Power
 * ✅✅Richard Power
 * Tyrone Power
 * Viscount Powerscourt
 * ✅Dukes of Powis
 * ✅Marquises of Powis
 * Earl of Powis
 * William Henry Powis
 * George Powle
 * Henry Powle
 * ✅Thomas Orde-Powlett
 * Robert Pownall
 * Thomas Pownall
 * John Powrie-Ogilvy
 * Horatio Powys
 * Littleton Powys
 * Sir Thomas Powys
 * Thomas Littleton Powys
 * John Poyer
 * John Poynder
 * John Poynet
 * Edward Poynings
 * ✅Michael de Poynings
 * Robert de Poynings
 * ✅Thomas Poynings
 * Ambrose Poynter
 * William Poynter
 * Anthony Poyntz
 * Francis Poyntz
 * John Poyntz (captain)
 * Robert Poyntz (writer)
 * Robert Poyntz (royalist)
 * Stephen Poyntz
 * ✅Sydenham Poyntz tick}}
 * ✅Winthrop Mackworth Praed
 * Miles Prance
 * Anne Pratt
 * Sir Charles Pratt
 * Sir Charles Pratt
 * Sir John Pratt
 * John Pratt
 * John Burnett Pratt
 * John Henry Pratt
 * Sir John Jeffreys Pratt
 * John Tidd Pratt
 * Josiah Pratt
 * Sir Roger Pratt
 * Samuel Pratt
 * Samuel Jackson Pratt
 * ✅Sir Thomas Simson Pratt
 * Robert Sidney Pratten
 * Thomas Prence
 * ✅✅John Patrick Prendergast
 * Thomas Prendergast
 * Thomas Prendergast
 * Archibald Prentice
 * Edward Prentis
 * Stephen Prentis
 * ✅Sir Henry Prescott
 * Robert Prescott
 * Viscount Preston
 * Sir Amyas de Preston
 * ✅✅George Preston
 * Gilbert de Preston
 * Sir John Preston
 * John Preston (Scottish judge)
 * John Preston
 * Richard Preston
 * Sir Simon Preston
 * Thomas Preston
 * Thomas Preston
 * Walter de Preston
 * William Preston
 * William Preston
 * ✅Loud Prestongrange
 * John Prestwich
 * Sir Joseph Prestwich
 * Sir George Pretyman
 * George Prevost
 * ✅✅George Prevost
 * Louis Augustin Prevost
 * Arthur Price
 * Bartholomew Price
 * Bonamy Price
 * Carbery Price
 * Sir Charles Price
 * Charles Price
 * Daniel Price (priest)
 * David Price
 * David Price
 * Edmund Price
 * Ellen Price
 * Ellis Price
 * Francis Price
 * Hugh Price
 * James Price
 * ✅John Price
 * ✅John Price (classical scholar)
 * John Price
 * John Price
 * John Price
 * ✅John Price
 * Joshua Price
 * Laurence Price
 * Owen Price
 * ✅Richard Price
 * ✅✅Richard Price (barrister)
 * Robert Price
 * Sampson Price
 * Theodore Price
 * Thomas Price
 * Thomas Price

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 * ✅Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
 * ✅Uvedale Price
 * William Price (reader)
 * William Price (pastor)
 * William Price
 * William Price
 * William Price (orientalist)
 * Evan Prichard
 * ✅James Cowles Prichard
 * ✅Rhys Prichard

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 * ✅Robert Pricke
 * Robert Pricket
 * ✅✅John Pridden
 * Thomas Pride
 * ✅✅Sir Edmond Prideaux
 * Frederick Prideaux
 * ✅Humphrey Prideaux
 * John Prideaux
 * John Prideaux
 * Matthias Prideaux
 * Joseph Priestley Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), theologian and man of science; eldest child of Jonas Priestley, a Yorkshire cloth-dresser; adopted by his father's sister, Sarah Keighley, a strong Oalviuist; educated at Batley grammar school and at Heckmondwike, and (1751) entered Daventry academy under Caleb Ashworth to study for the presbyterian ministry; engaged (1755) as assistant and successor to John Meadows (1676-1757), presbyterian minister at Needham Market; after a little time rejected the atonement, the inspiration of the sacred text, and other doctrines; became minister at Nantwich, 1758, and (1761) tutor in languages and belles-lettres at Warrington academy; hon. LL.D. Edinburgh, 1764; F.R.S., 1766; became minister of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, 1767; publishedAn Essay on Government 1768, containing the sentence to which Jeremy Beutham considered himself indebted for the phrase the greatest happiness of the greatest number; librarian or literary companion of the Earl of Shelburne, 1772-80: published his Examination of Scottish Philosophy his first effort in psychology, 1774: began to enunciate (1775) his doctrine of the homogeneity of man, which brought on him the imputation of atheism; elected an associate of the French Academy of Sciences soon after 1772, member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, 1780; elected junior minister of the New Meeting, Birmingham, 1780; published (1782) the best known, though not the best, of his theological writings, his History of the Corruptions of Christianity which was burned by the common hangman at Dort hi 1786; ultimately rejected the doctrine of the infallibility of Christ, publishing his History of Early Opinions concerning Jesus Christ 1786; involved in a controversy with Samuel Horsley, which lasted till 1790; produced (1790) the first instalment of his General History of the Christian Church; intended (July 1791) to be present at a dinner of the Constitutional Societyof Birmingham to commemorate the fall of the Bastille; his house at Fairhill wrecked, and nearly all his books, papers, and apparatus destroyed in consequence by the crowd, which had assembled to molest the guests; received insufficient compensation; resolved to settle in London, and in November 1791 was elected morning preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney; found that his opinions rendered life in England uncomfortable, and emigrated to New York, 1794; settled at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, where he died; adopted in America a doctrine of universal restitution He is most generally remembered as a man of science, and chiefly as a chemist, the discoverer of oxygen. In hisHistory of Electricity(1767) he anticipated the suggestion that the law of electric attraction is that of the inverse square, and explained the formation of rings (since known as Priestley's rings) when a discharge takes place on a metallic surface. He also attacked the problem of conduction, studied gases, and by the use of mercury in the pneumatic trough was able to deal for the first time with gases soluble in water. In 1774 he obtained what he termed dephlogisticated air afterwards named oxygen by Lavoisier, a discovery which was the germ of the modern science of chemistry, but owing to his blind faith in the phlogistic theory, its significance was lost on him. Cuvier has styled him a father of modern chemistry who never would acknowledge his daughter. ellaneous Works   'Theological and    Hi* were edited in    i x volume* ( 1817-88) by John Towil Rutt. His scientific works and memoir* are numerous, but have never been collected.
 * Timothy Priestley
 * William Overend Priestley
 * John Priestman
 * John Prime
 * Sir Archibald Primrose
 * Archibald Primrose
 * Sir Archibald John Primrose
 * Gilbert Primrose
 * James Primrose
 * James Primrose
 * John Prince
 * ✅✅John Critchley Prince
 * John Henry Prince
 * Martin Pring
 * ✅Andrew Pringle
 * George Pringle (covenanter)
 * John Pringle
 * ✅✅Robert Pringle (politician)
 * Thomas Pringle
 * Walter Pringle
 * Walter Pringle, Lord Newhall
 * Charles Robert Prinsep
 * Henry Thoby Prinsep
 * James Prinsep
 * ✅✅James Prior (biographer)
 * Matthew Prior
 * Thomas Prior
 * Thomas Abiel Prior
 * ✅John Prisot
 * ✅Andrew Pritchard
 * ✅Charles Pritchard
 * ✅Edward William Pritchard
 * ✅George Pritchard (missionary)
 * ✅Hannah Pritchard
 * Henry Baden Pritchard
 * John Langford Pritchard
 * ✅William Pritchard (Lord Mayor)
 * James Pigott Pritchett
 * Theophilus Pritzler
 * William Probert
 * Probus
 * ✅Granville Leveson Proby
 * ✅Sir John Proby
 * Sir John Joshua Proby
 * Sir Edmund Probyn
 * Adelaide Ann Procter
 * Bryan Waller Procter
 * ✅✅Richard Wright Procter
 * ✅✅John Proctor (historian)
 * Richard Anthony Proctor
 * Thomas Proctor (poet)
 * Thomas Proctor (painter)
 * Joseph Proud
 * Father Prout
 * John Prout
 * John Skinner Prout
 * Samuel Prout
 * William Prout
 * ✅Lord Provand
 * William Prowse
 * William Jeffery Prowse
 * Sir Francis Prujean
 * George Pryce
 * ✅✅William Pryce
 * Prydydd y Bychan
 * Prydydd y Moch
 * Abraham de la Pryme
 * George Pryme
 * William Prynne William Prynne (1600–1669), puritan pamphleteer; educated at Bath grammar school anl nel College, Oxford; B.A., 1621; barrister, Lincoln's Inn, 1628; studied law, theology, and ecclesiastical antiquities; wrote against Arminiunism from 1627, and endeavoured to reform the manners of his age; published Hi-triomaBtix directed against stage-plays, 1632; for supposed aspersion on Charles I and his queen in Histriomastix was sentenced by Star-chamber, in 1634, to be imprisoned during life, to be fined 5,000*., and to lose both bis ears iu the pillory; continual to write in the Tower of London, and (lt37) was again fined 5,000*., deprived of the remainder of his ears, and branded on the cheeks: released by Long parliament, and hi* sentences declared illegal, November 1640; defended parliament in the press on the outbreak of war, and pursued Land with great animosity; after Laud's execution published by order of the parliament the first part of an account of the trial, entitled - Canterburies Doom 1646; devoted much attention to independency, which he detested as heartily as episcopacy; was equally opposed to the ascendency of the presbyterian clergy, his theory of ecclesiastical policy being thoroughly erastian: assailed the army in various pamphlets 1647, and (1648) attacked it in the House of Commons; arrested by Pride, November 1648; retired to Swanswick, January 1649, and began a paper war against the government, demonstrating that he was bound to pay taxes to the Commonwealth neither in conscience, law, nor prudence, for which government imprisoned him for nearly three years without trial; on his release (1658) drew a parallel between Cromwell and Richard III, and (May 1668) forced his way into the House of Commons, which could only get rid of him by adjournment; walked into parliament at the head of the members; readmitted by Monck, 1660; asserted the rights of Charles II with such boldness as to IK- styled tlic a to of the ageby a royalist, and was thanked by Charles II; M.P. for Bath in'thc Convention parliament, 1660: laboured zealously to restrict the Act of Indemnity and to dUlwiMl the army; opposed the thirty-nine articles, aud, in 1661, was reprimanded by the speaker for a speech against the Corporation Bill; appointed keeper of the records iu the Tower of London; puhlUhvd hid most valuable work, Brevia Parliamenturia Rediviva 1662. He published about Uo hundred books and pamphlets, 3z
 * Alfred Reginald Pryor
 * Edmund Prys
 * Carbery Pryse
 * George Psalmanazar George Psalmanazar (1679?-1763), impostor; a native of the south of France; bis real name unknown, his designation being fashioned by himaelf from the biblical character, Shalmaneser; educated at a Dominican convent: commenced life as a mendicant, ml to insure alms styled himself a native Japanese Christian, but afterwards represented himself as still a mutan, lining on raw flesh, roots, and herbs; invented an elaborate alphabet and grammar and a worship of his own; enlisted in a regiment of the Duke of Mecklenburg, and attracted the attention of William Innes, chaplain to the Scottish regiment at Sluys, who became a confederate in the Imposture, baptized Psalmanazar as a protestant convert, and for security persuaded him to remove his birthplace to the obscurity of Formosa; came to London at the end of 1 703 and became a centre of interest, presenting Bishop Oompton with the catechism in Fonnosan (bU Invented language), ami being voluble in Latin to Archbishop Tillotson: silenced suspicion by never modifying a statement, and gained the sympathy of English churchmen by abuse of the Jesuits: published, 1704, Descrition of Formosa, with an introductory autobi  ,  Description of Formosa, with an introductory autobiography: after the withdrawal of his mentor Innes, who was rewarded by being appointed chaplain-general of the forces in Portugal (c. 1707), was unable to sustain the imposture unaided, and passed from ridicule to obscurity, although he still found patrons; renounced his past life after a serious illness in 1728; became an accomplished hebraist, wrote A General History of Printing and contributed to the Universal History; was regarded with veneration by Dr. Johnson, who used to sit with him at an alehouse in Old Street, London. In 1764 appeared his autobiographical Memoirs containing an account of the imposture.
 * Francesco Pucci
 * ✅Richard Puckeridge
 * ✅Henry Puckering
 * John Puckering
 * Sir Thomas Puckering