Both of these works, especially the latter, had remarkable popularity, the Chiefs being translated into German and Russian.  She had greater talent than her sister, but like her, while possessed of considerable animation and imagination, failed in grasping character, and imparting local verisimilitude.  Both were amiable and excellent women.  A romance, Sir Edward Seaward’s Diary (1831), purporting to be a record of actual circumstances, and ed. by Jane, is generally believed to have been written by a brother, Dr. William Ogilvie P.

POWELL, FREDERICK YORK (1850-1904).—­Historian, ed. at Rugby and Oxf., called to the Bar at the Middle Temple 1874, became an ardent student of history, and succeeded Froude as Prof. of Modern History at Oxf. in 1894.  Absorbed in study, he wrote less than his wide and deep learning qualified him for.  Among his works are A History of England to 1509, and he also wrote on Early England up to the Conquest, and on Alfred and William the Conqueror.

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH (1802-1839).—­Poet, s. of a sergeant-at-law, was b. in London, ed. at Eton and Camb., and called to the Bar 1829.  He sat in Parliament for various places, and was Sec. to the Board of Control 1834-35.  He appeared to have a brilliant career before him, when his health gave way, and he d. of consumption in 1839.  His poems, chiefly bright and witty skits and satirical pieces, were pub. first in America 1844, and appeared in England with a memoir by Derwent Coleridge in 1864.  His essays appeared in 1887.

PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING (1796-1859).—­Historian, b. at Salem, Massachusetts, the s. of an eminent lawyer, was ed. at Harvard, where he graduated in 1814.  While there he met with an accident to one of his eyes which seriously affected his sight for the remainder of his life.  He made an extended tour in Europe, and on his return to America he m., and abandoning the idea of a legal career, resolved to devote himself to literature.  After ten years of study, he pub. in 1837 his History of Ferdinand and Isabella, which at once gained for him a high place among historians.  It was followed in 1843 by the History of the Conquest of Mexico, and in 1847 by the Conquest of Peru.  His last work was the History of Philip II., of which the third vol. appeared in 1858, and which was left unfinished.  In that year he had an apoplectic shock, and another in 1859 was the cause of his death, which took place on January 28 in the last-named year.  In all his works he displayed great research, impartiality, and an admirable narrative power.  The great disadvantage at which, owing to his very imperfect vision, he worked, makes the first of these qualities specially remarkable, for his authorities in a foreign tongue were read to him, while he had to write on a frame for the blind.  P. was a man of amiable and benevolent character, and enjoyed the friendship of many of the most distinguished men in Europe as well as in America.