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English railway pioneer, politician, and supporter of the anti-slavery movement in the nineteenth century.

British Prime Minister (1834-1835; 1841-1846), Conservative statesman, and the father of modern British policing. His father, Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (1750-1830), was a wealthy politician, industrialist, and textile manufacturer. The Peel family wealth came from cotton-spinning, the raw material of which would have been grown by enslaved people in the Americas. Peel senior was an opponent of the abolition of the slave-trade and was one of a number of Manchester manufacturers and merchants who signed a petition against abolition in 1806.

Pegram, Alfred Bertram

British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Pegram, Henry Alfred

British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most prominent colonial works are the statues of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford and Cape Town. Other colonial memorials by Pegram include a memorial to George Wyndham Hamilton Knight Bruce in Exeter Cathedral and a statue of Robert Hart in Shanghai (now lost).

Pélissier, Aimable

French military general and colonial administrator in the nineteenth century. Pélissier was Governor General of Algeria from 1860 to 1864.

Pennacchini, O. P.

Sculptor, likely of Italian origin, active in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Percy, Hugh, 3rd Duke of Northumberland

British politician in the nineteenth century. Percy was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1829 to 1830. His maternal great-grandfather, Peter Burrell I (1692-1756), was a Director of the South Sea Company (1724-1733) and sub-Governor (1736-1756). The Company was involved in the transatlantic slave-trade during this period. In 1807, Percy spoke in favour of the abolition of the slave-trade and tried unsuccessfully to introduce a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery in the colonies.

Perron, Charles-Théodore

French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Perry, Edwin Charles

Mayor of Exeter (1904).

Peynot, Émile

Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he later taught, he was awarded the Grand Prix de Rome in 1880. Inaugurated in 1889, the monumental statue of the Republic of Lyon (15 meters high) is his best-known work.

Pézeron, Jocelyn

Guadeloupean sculptor active in the twenty-first century.

Philips, Trevor

British writer, broadcaster, and politician.

Phillip, John Birnie

British sculptor in the nineteenth century. Some of his notable colonial works include architectural sculpture for the Colonial Office in Whitehall (today the Foreign. Commonwealth and Development Office) and several church memorials to individuals in India, including James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Colonel Richard Baird Smith, and Lady Charlotte Canning.

Picton-Robinson, Ian

British museum curator, based in Market Drayton in Shropshire.

Picton, Thomas

Welsh slave-owner, colonial administator, and military officer in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Picton was Governor of Trinidad from 1797 to 1803 and owned the Union estate on the island. As Governor, Picton came under severe public scrutiny for approving the torture of a 14 year old mixed-race girl named Luisa Calderón, who was illegaly subjected to picketing (a form of military punishment) in order to extract a confession from her. Picton was initally convicted of Calderón's torture in England, but had the conviction overturned by claiming such practices were permitted on the basis that Trinidad was subject to Spanish law. Picton is commemorated by a number of memorials across the UK. These include a monument in Carmarthen, a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral, and a statue in Cardiff City Hall, which was removed in 2020.

Pillot, Pierre

French soldier in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pillot fought in the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) in China and in Morocco.

Pirrie, William James

Prominent British shipbuilder in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. Pirrie was a director of the African Steamship Company in 1892, chairman of Harland & Wolff from 1895 to 1924, and Lord Mayor of Belfast (1896-1898). Harland & Wolff was actively involved in supporting Britain's maritime empire with ship-building yards across the UK.

Pitt the Younger, William

British statesman in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pitt was Prime Minister of Great Britain (1783-1801) and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801; 1804-1806). In 1793, Pitt oversaw Britain's entry into the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), leading a campaign to conquer the French colony of Saint-Domingue and restore slavery on the island. Britain's five year intervention in Haiti was a military and fiscal disaster, with over 40,000 British soldiers dying in the conflict. Although he expressed support for the abolition of the slave-trade before the House of Commons in 1792, Pitt failed to secure progress on the issue throughout his time in office. The British slave-trade was abolished in 1807 after Pitt's death, while the institution of British slavery itself was not abolished until 1833.

Platt, John

English manufacturer of textile machinery and Liberal politician in the nineteenth century. He was owner of the Platt Brothers & Co., which, by the mid-nineteenth century, was the largest manufacturer of textile machinery in the world. This machinery was used to process cotton - produced in plantations in the Caribbean or USA, or colonial or semi-colonial conditions in India or Egypt.

Pobeguin, Joseph

French soldier who fought in Algeria and the Sahara in the nineteenth century.

Pocahontas

Native American woman, born Amonute and also known as Matoaka, belonging to the Powhatan people in Werowocomoco, Tsenacommacah (present-day Virginia). In 1613, aged approximately 17 years old, Pocahontas was captured and held ransom by English settler colonists. Pocahontas is believed to have converted to Christianity during her captivity, although whether was of her own volition or as a result of coercive pressure is unclear. She married the tobacco planter John Rolfe the following year in 1614, with whom she had a son, Thomas Rolfe (1615 – c. 1680). Rolfe and Pocahontas traveled to London in 1616, where she was exhibited to metropolitan English society as a New World indigenous woman. In 1617, Pocahontas died of unknown causes and was buried at Gravesend, Kent.

Poeymirau, Joseph-François

French soldier in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who fought in Morocco.

Poisson, Pierre-Marie

French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Pollard, Ingrid

British artist and photographer active in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Pomeroy, F. W.

English sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include the statue of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood in Belfast, the statue of George Curzon in Kolkata, and the statue of John Nicholson in Lisburn.

Poole, Henry

British sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most notable colonial works are the two equestrian statues of Frederick Roberts in Glasgow and London, which were copies of an original statue of Roberts produced by Harry Bates and installed in Kolkata.

Poulier, Jacky

Guadeloupean sculptor active in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Powers, Hiram

American neoclassical sculptor in the nineteenth century, most well known for his marble sculpture The Greek Slave. Some of his notable imperial works include busts of slave-owners and American Presidents George Washington and Andrew Jackson, as well as a bust of the Scottish shipbuilder John Elder.

Préault, Auguste

Formé dans l'atelier de David d'Angers, il devient un des représentants les plus importants du romantisme et il incarne l'archétype de l'artiste romantique.

Price, Henry

Welsh sculptor active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale

British prince and eldest child of the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Albert Victor undertook a seven-month tour of India from 1889 to 1890.

Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn

Prince of Great Britain and the father of Queen Victoria. Edward was Commander-in-Chief, North America (1799-1800) and Governor of Gibraltar (1802-1820).

Prince George, Duke of Cambridge

British prince and military commander. George was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1856 to 1895.

Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

British Royal Navy officer and sculptor in the nineteenth century.

Princess Louise of the United Kingdom

British princess and Viceregal consort of Canada from 1878 to 1883. Louise was also a sculptor, producing works such as the statue of her mother Victoria in Kensington Gardens and the Boer War memorial in St. Paul's Cathedral.

Puech, Denys

French sculptor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Quellinus III, Artus

Flemish sculptor in the seventeenth century.

Quinn, Marc

British contemporary visual artist.

Qureshi, Murad

British-Bangladeshi politician.

Raggi, Mario

Italian sculptor working in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some of his notable colonial works include three statues of Victoria, which were sent to Hong Kong, Toronto and Kimberley respectively, as well as the statue of William Crowther in Tasmania.

Raggi, Nicolas-Bernard

French sculptor of Italian origin active in the nineteenth century.

Railton, William

English architect in the nineteenth century.

Raleigh, Walter

English statesman, writer, soldier, and colonial explorer in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Raleigh was one of the leading figures in the English colonisation of North America as well as being involved in the suppression of the Desmond Rebellions in Ireland. Raleigh also made two expeditions to Guiana in 1595 and 1617.

Ramsden, James

British mechanical engineer, industrialist, civic leader, and shipbuilder in the nineteenth century. Ramsden was managing director of the Barrow Shipbuilding Company between 1875 and 1888. During this period, the Company built ships for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and the Eastern Steamship Company.