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 the Artillery at Dumdum : retired, 1834 : Provost of St. Andrew's, 1842–61 : revived and established the Golf Club : LL.D. and knighted, 1856 : died Jan. 12, 1861.

PLAYFAIR, SIR PATRICK (1852–)

Son of Patrick Playfair : educated at Loretto, and Glasgow University : partner in firm of Barry & Co., merchants, Calcutta : has been President and Vice-President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, and Member of the Bengal Legislative Council : Additional Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1893–7 : Sheriff of Calcutta, 1896 : K.B., 1897.

PLAYFAIR, SIR ROBERT LAMBERT (1828–1899)

Born 1828 : son of George Playfair, Inspr-General of Hospitals in Bengal : joined the Madras Artillery, 1846 : and the Staff Corps, 1861 : Lt-Colonel, 1867 : Executive Engineer and Assistant Political Resident at Aden, 1852–62 : assisted in suppressing the slave trade, and in the occupation of Perim, 1857 : wrote the History of Arabia Felix or Yemen from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time, 1859 : F.R.G.S., 1860 : Political Agent at Zanzibar, 1862 : Consul-General in Algeria, 1867 : wrote works on Algeria, Tripoli, Cyrenaica, Morocco, Tunisia, and books of travel : The Story of the Occupation of Persia : 1886 : K.C.M.G., 1886 : LL.D. St. Andrew's, 1899 : died Feb. 18, 1899.

PLOWDEN, SIR HENRY MEREDYTH (1840–)

Born 1840 : son of George Augustus Chichele Plowden : educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Cambridge : in the Harrow XI, 1858 : Cambridge Cricket XI, 1860–3 : Captain, 1862–3 : called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1866 : Government Advocate at Lahore, 1876–7 : Senior Judge of Chief Court, Panjab, 1880–94 : K.B., 1887.

PLOWDEN, SIR TREVOR JOHN CHICHELE (1846–1905)

I.C.S. : born 1846 : son of Trevor Chichele Plowden : educated at Winchester : went out to Bengal, 1868 : Under Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, 1872 : and in the Foreign Department, 1877 : Resident, Turkish Arabia, 1880 : Consul-General, Bagdad, 1880 : Commissioner of Ajmir, 1885 : Resident in Mewar, 1885 : in Kashmir, 1886 : Commissioner of Hydera- bad Assigned Districts, 1888–91 : Resident at Hyderabad, 1891–1900 : retired : C.S.I., 1893 : K.C.S.L, 1898 : died Nov. 5, 1905.

PLOWDEN, SIR WILLIAM CHICHELE (1832–)

I.C.S. : son of William Chichele Plowden, F.R.S. : educated at Harrow and Haileybury : went to the Upper Provinces in the Civil Service, 1852 : in the mutiny, 1857, was at Umbala, and in political charge of cavalry about Umbala, Meerut, Jalandhar, Saharanpur : Secretary, Board of Revenue, N.W.P. : Census Commissioner for India, 1881 : Member of Governor-General's Legislative Council : retired, 1885 : M.P. for Wolverhampton, 1886–92 : K.C.S.L, 1886.

POCOCK, SIR GEORGE (1706–1792)

Son of Rev. Thomas Pocock, F.R.S. : born March 6, 1706 : entered the Navy, 1718, under his uncle, the first Lord Torrington : served in a number of ships : in the West Indies : in command of the Leeward Islands station, 1747–8 : went out to India in 1754 : Rear Admiral, 1755, second in command to Admiral C. Watson (q.v.), whom he succeeded in 1757, and held the command until 1759 : fought two naval actions in 1758–9 with the French, off the Coromandel coast, without definite results : returned to England, 1760 : K.B. and Admiral, 1761 : took Havana, 1762 : retired, 1766 : died April 3, 1792.

POGSON, N. R. (1828?–1891)

Government Astronomer at Madras Observatory : held the post from 1861 : made important contributions to astronomical knowledge and literature, as gained from observations at the Madras Observatory : discovered 8 minor planets and 20 new variable stars, and acquired much additional information regarding the fixed stars : died at Madras, June 23, 1891 : C.I.E.<section end="Pogson, N. R." />