duties of that post. He practically rewrote the ‘Catalogue,’ and produced a new and revised edition (the sixth) of the ‘General Description.’ He died at the Soane Museum on 19 Aug. 1894, and was buried in Highgate cemetery. He married in 1873, and left a widow, two sons, and a daughter.
Few men were closer students of the subjects connected with the history of his profession, possessed more special knowledge, or imparted it with truer modesty. He aided in the preparation of many memoirs of architects for this ‘Dictionary,’ and himself contributed articles to vols. xli.–xliii.
Besides the works above mentioned, he produced, in conjunction with his brother:
- ‘Specimens of Decoration in the Italian Style,’ 4to, London, 1844.
- ‘Museums, Libraries, and Picture Galleries,’ 8vo, London, 1853.
- ‘Notes on the Causes of Fires in Buildings, arising from Grates, Furnaces, Stoves, and Gas, and which is the safest of the various Methods of Warming Buildings,’ 12mo, London, 1853.
- ‘Notes on Spontaneous Combustion,’ 12mo, London, 1855.
- ‘Life and Works of J. B. Papworth, Architect to the King of Würtemburg,’ 8vo, London, 1879.
- ‘Memoirs of A. W. Morant,’ 8vo, London, 1881.
- ‘The Renaissance and Italian Styles of Architecture in Great Britain, their Introduction and Development shown by a Series of Dated Examples,’ 8vo, London, 1883.
Among the papers contributed to the ‘Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects,’ the following may be mentioned in addition to those already noticed: (1) ‘Memoir of the late Joseph Bonomi, Architect and A.R.A., with Description of some Drawings of his Design for Roseneath, erected for the Duke of Argyll,’ 1869, vol. xix.; (2) ‘Notes on the Architectural and Literary Works of the late Arthur Ashpitel, F.S.A.,’ 1869, vol. xix.; (3) ‘Fall of the Dome of the Koltovskoie Church, St. Petersburg,’ 1872, vol. xxii.; (4) ‘On the Fall of the Iron Dome of the Anthæum at Brighton,’ 1872, vol. xxii.; (5) ‘Professor Donaldson: his Connection with the Institute,’ 1 Feb. 1886; (6) ‘Notes on the Superintendents of English Buildings in the Middle Ages,’ new ser. 1887, iii. 185–234.
[Journal R.I.B.A. vol. i. 3rd ser. 1894, p. 618; personal knowledge.]
PARADISE, JOHN (1743–1795), linguist and friend of Dr. Johnson, was born at Salonica in Macedonia in April 1743, being the son of Peter Paradise (d. 1 Feb. 1779), English consul in that town, who married a daughter of Philip Lodvill [q. v.] He was educated at Padua, but resided for the greatest part of his life in London. His talent for the acquisition of languages was remarkable; he knew ancient and modern Greek, Latin, Turkish, French, Italian, and English. On 14 April 1769 he was created M.A. of Oxford University, and on 3 July 1776 the degree of D.C.L. was conferred on him. He was elected F.R.S. on 2 May 1771. His house was always open to literary men, and he entertained the leading personages of that date. Johnson frequently dined with him, and on one occasion met Dr. Priestley there at dinner. When Johnson started an evening club at the ‘Essex Head’ in Essex Street, Strand, London, in December 1783, Paradise was one of the constant attendants. Sir Joshua Reynolds, when analysing the qualities of its members, enumerated him among the ‘very learned.’ A letter from Johnson to him, dated from Lichfield, 20 Oct. 1784, acknowledged his ‘great and constant kindness,’ and he was one of the mourners at Johnson's funeral. Paradise was a friend of Sir William Jones, and two Greek lines by him are mentioned in a letter written by the Duchess of Devonshire in October 1782 (Life of Sir W. Jones, i. 466). Paradise is described as very silent, modest, and amiable. He lived at one time in Charles Street, Cavendish Square, but he died at Great Titchfield Street, London, on 12 Dec. 1795.
He married ‘a beautiful and lively American,’ with a very ‘neat and small figure,’ who once made Barry the artist dance a minuet with her. She was passionate, and her anger sometimes prevailed over her good sense. Some particulars of an altercation with Mary Moser are given in Smith's ‘Nollekens and his Times’ (i. 347–9). She was once so irritated by Baretti that she turned the boiling water of her tea-urn upon him. On another occasion, when a servant brought her a dirty plate, she threatened, in the presence of a large dinner party at her own house, to break his head with it should he bring another one in the same state. A rout at her house in February 1782, when Pacchierotti the singer was present, is described in a letter from Fanny Burney (Diary and Letters, ii. 116–22), and Charlotte Burney gives an account of a ball at her house on Twelfth night, January 1784, when she showed bad manners. About 1805 she went with her children to America, where she owned considerable property.
