PELLATT

Apsley (eld. son of Apsley Pellatt, inventor of the gla lenses known as deck lights, d. 21 Jany. 1826). b. 80 High Holborn, London 27 Nov. 1791; in busine with his father at the Falcon gla works, Holland st. South wark; took out a patent for crystallo-ceramic or gla incrustation 1819; took out a patent for improvements in the manufacture of pre ed gla articles 1831, and another with his brother Frederick for improvements in the composition of gla 1845; A.I.C.E. 13 Feb. 1838, member of council 1840; member of court of common council of city of London 7 years; M.P. South wark 1852–7; contested South wark 31 March 1857 and 2 May 1859; introduced a bill for facilitating di enter’s marriages 1854, 1855 and 1856, his bill to define the law as to cro ed cheques was pa ed and became the act 19 and 20 Vict. cap. 25, 23 June 1856; resided at Staines 1843 to death; one of jurors at exhibition of 1862, and wrote the report on gla manufactures; author of Memoir on the origin, progre and improvement of gla manufactures 1821; Brief memoir of the Jews in relation to their civil and municipal disabilities 1826; Curiosities of gla making 1849. d. of paralysis at house of his brother-in-law Mr. Field, Balham, Surrey 17 April 1863. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxiii 511 (1863); H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i 67–9 (1865); Puseley’s Commercial companion (1858) 166; I.L.N. xxii 237 (1853) portrait . Note. —In 1851 he rediscovered the art of making crackle gla for which Venice was so celebrated.