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bo May :>, 1741, he studied 



les ami there began to "in 



pose. Prom 177ft- 84 be was in the 



errioe of fill HIM- uf RUMMM, 



after whirh lie returned In Naples. 



when- in* I ' \i-ai- In- was master 



of mu.sie to Ferdinand IV. He 



t Naples, June 5, 1^U'> 



1 o'i operas, im-hided The 



of Seville, and lit- com 

 posed church IIIUM. 



Paisley. Mun. burgh, river port 

 and market town of Renfrewshire, 

 Scotland. It stands on the White 

 Cart, near its 

 union with the 

 ( 'I vie. and is 

 served by the 

 ( '.il. and Q. Sc, 

 S.W.R1 vs., being 

 7 m. from Glas- 

 gow. The old 

 Paisley arms town fe on the 



W. side of the river and the new 

 town on the E. The parish church 

 was formerly the nave of the church 

 of the abbey ; it was restored about 

 1860 and has a beautiful W. front. 

 Other remains of the abbey include 

 a chapel which contains tombs of 

 some of the Stewarts, and the tran- 

 septs. In 1888 Queen Victoria 

 erected a monument to the Stewarts 

 over the spot where Robert III 

 was buried. Other buildings in- 

 clude the town hall, municipal 

 buildings, county buildings, and a 

 free library and museum. There 

 are two infirmaries and other insti- 

 tutions for the sick and disabled. 

 Several of them were gifts from 

 members of the Coats and Clark 

 families. A handsome edifice is the 

 Coats memorial church, belonging 

 to the Baptists. There is a gram- 

 mar school of 1576 and a technical 

 school. The town has several parks, 

 one of them, St. James's, having a 

 racecourse and an observatory. 



The chief industry is the manu- 

 facture of thread, here being the 

 large mill* of the firm of Coats. 

 Other manufactures include dye- 

 ing, bleaching, distilling, and the 



making of carpet*, e|,. 



stared, soap. |,it-.i-i ,.-. it. Ship 

 I. milling IM carried on ami 1 1 



elr.'lll. elin.' WolkM. There U ft 



hurhoiir, ami (.win.- to t lie deejM-rr 

 Hi'.' of the river in I VI I large V6MeU 

 fl in reiu-h the tiiu n. 



Oriu'iiiully called Pamcleth, Pais- 

 ley grew up around an abbey 

 founded about 1 1 1,11 With iu ex- 

 tensive lands it wad given to a luy- 

 nmn at the Itefoi mat ;.,n. In 1 I*.-* 

 it was made a burgh. About I Ton 

 it began to be a manufacturing 

 centre, the famous shawls being 

 made here ; but it was the intro- 

 duction of the cotton thread in- 

 dustry about 1810 that laid the 

 foundation of its modern pros- 

 perity. It is now governed by a 

 iiuiL'ii council on modern lines, and 

 sends one member to Parliament. 

 Market days, Mon. and Thurs. 

 Pop. (1921) 84,837. See History 

 of Paisley. W .M. Metcalfe, 1909. 



Paithan. Town of Hyderabad, 

 India, in Aurangabad dist. It 

 stands on the Oodavari. 30 m. S. 

 of Aurangabad. One of the oldest 

 cities of the Deccan. it formerly 

 had a great reputation for the 

 excellence of its silk goods. The 

 present town cover? but a small 

 portion of the ancient city site 

 Pop. 7,000. 



Pakenham , SIR WILLIAM CHRIS- 

 TOPHER (b. 1861). British sailor. 

 Born July 10, 1861, he entered the 

 navy in 1874. 

 He served 

 with the 

 Japanese fleet 

 during the 

 Russo-Japan- 

 ese War, and 

 was fourth sea 

 lord, 1911-13. 

 In 1914 he 

 became rear- 

 admiral. On 

 the outbreak 

 of the Great War he commanded 

 the third cruiser squadron, and the 

 second battle-cruiser squadron at 

 Jutland, succeeding Sir David 

 Beatty as commander-in-chief of 



Sir W. C. Pakenham. 

 British sailor 



Runrll 



the l<attle ! f, NoV. 29, 



he waa president 



of the liege* Greenwich, 



ami from l!)iM to 1'.-L'2 waft 

 eommamlei in chief, N America 

 and W. Indie M, waa knighted 

 in I'.'l'i and piomoted admiral 

 in 11*22 -S>e Accolade. 



Pakhoi. Tnaty port in Kwang- 

 lun:.' prov.. ('dm. i. nt the head of 



the Gulf of Tung-king. Opened to 

 D tiade in |s77, iln import- 

 anee has Keen onsiderablv dimin- 

 ished by the opening of \V. River 

 portH and the development of 

 Tung-king and Kwangchow Wan. 

 Manganese ore is worked in the 

 neii/hlioiirhood. Pop. 20,000. 



Pakington, SIR .Ions (d. l.~>oo). 

 English lawyer. A member of a 

 Worcestershire family, he obtained 

 an official position in the courts of 

 law in 1509. He became, too, a 

 favourite with Henry VIII, < 

 be a judge, and secured a good deal 

 of property. His heir was his 

 grand-nephew. Sir John Pakington 

 (I'll!! rfr-'ft), an Kli/.al>ethan cour- 

 tier, whose son was made a baronet 

 in 1620. The baronetcy was held 

 by the Pakingtons until the death 

 of the 8th baronet in 1830. John 

 Somerset Russell, the heir of the 

 Pakingtons, took their name and 

 was made a baronet in 1846. He 

 was an M.P. from 1837 to 1->7J 

 and as a Tory was a cabinet 

 minister in the governments of 

 1852, 1858-59, and 1866-67. In 

 1874 he was made Baron Hampton, 

 a title still held by the Pakingtons. 



Pakokku. Dist. and town of 

 Upper Burma, in the Magwe div. 

 The dist. lies N. of Minbu. W. of 

 the Irawadi. Oil seeds, pulses, and 

 a little rice are grown. The Yen- 

 angyat oil fields yield petroleum. 



The town is on the right bank 

 of the Irawadi, below the Chindwin 

 confluence, and is the centre for 

 the timber trade in logs floated 

 down this tributary ; there is some 

 boat-building. Area, 6,210 sq. m. 

 Pop., dist., 410,000 ; town, 20,000. 



Pala. S. African antelope, also 

 known as the impala (q.v. ). 



Paisley, Scotland. Left, the abbey church ; right, town hall, the gift ol Q. A. Clark, built in 1887 



