PRESCOTT, Sir Henry (son of admiral Isaac Prescott 1737–1830). b. Kew Green, Surrey 4 May 1783; entered navy 16 Feb. 1796; commander of the Weasel brig. 4 Feb. 1808; actively engaged on west coast of Italy 1808–11; commanded the boats of the squadron in the capture or destruction of 32 store-ships and 7 gunboats at Amantea 25 July 1810; captain 25 July 1810; commanded the Aurora frigate 1821–5 at Rio Janeiro and on the west coast of South America; governor of Newfoundland 29 Sept. 1834 to 20 July 1841; R.A. 24 April 1847; a lord of the admiralty 20 July to 23 Dec. 1847; admiral superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 15 Dec. 1847 to 1 Oct. 1852; V.A. 15 April 1854, admiral on h.p. 9 May 1860, retired on a pension 9 June 1860; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 7 Leinster terrace, Hyde park, London 18 Nov. 1874. Prowse’s History of Newfoundland (1895) 448 portrait; I.L.N. lxv 252 (1874), lxvi 23 (1875).
PRESCOTT, Henry James (2 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). b. 5 July 1802; banker London; director of bank of England 1835–56, deputy governor 1847–9, governor 1849–50. d. Brighton 13 Aug. 1856.
PRESCOTT, William. Entered Madras army 1815; lieut. 2 Madras N.I. 31 March 1818, major 8 Oct. 1839 to 28 Aug. 1843; lieut. col. of 38 N.I. 28 Aug. 1843 to 1845, of 1 N.I. 1845–6, of 3 N.I. 1846–9, of 16 N.I. 1849–53, and of 4 N.I. 1853 to 25 Sept. 1854; commandant at Trichinopoly 5 May 1854 to 6 June 1856; col. of 28 N.I. 3 Oct. 1857 to 1869; general 10 April 1874. d. Genoa 2 Dec. 1876.
PRESCOTT, William George (1 son of William Willoughby Prescott, banker 1776–1836). b. 16 Dec. 1800; partner in Prescott, Grote and Co., bankers, Threadneedle st. London; cut his throat with a razor at Clarence villa, Roehampton, Surrey 29 April 1865, inquest mental derangement 2 May, personalty sworn under £250,000, 3 June 1865. Times 3 May 1865 p. 5, 4 May p. 11.
PRESS, Edward (son of rev. Edward Press, B.A.) b. Barnham Broom, Norfolk 1801; a solicitor at Hingham, Norfolk 1826–56, and at Norwich 1856 to death; coroner of Norfolk 1828 to death, d. Castle Meadow, Norwich 15 May 1878. Norwich Mercury 18 May 1878 p. 5.
PRESSLY, Sir Charles (eld. son of Charles Pressly). b. Warminster, Wilts. 1794; educ. Warminster and Midhurst, Sussex; sec. to board of stamps April 1826; sec. to consolidated board of stamps and taxes June 1833; a comr. of excise 6 Jany. 1849; deputy chairman of inland revenue 1855, chairman Nov. 1856 to 1863; C.B. 6 Feb. 1861, K.C.B. 6 July 1866. d. 1 Avenue road, Regent’s park, London 1 Feb. 1880.
PREST, Charles. b. Bath 16 Oct. 1806; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1829, at Manchester 1833–6, at Bristol 1836–9, at Birmingham 1839–42, in London 1842–8 and 1851 to death, at Hull 1848–51; secretary to the committee of privileges; as secretary reorganized and extended the Home mission work 1857 to death; president of the conference at Camborne 1862; author of The home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1855; Fourteen letters on the home work of Wesleyan Methodism 1856; The witness of the Holy spirit 1864. d. Lee, Kent 25 Aug. 1875. Illust. Times 23 Aug. 1862 p. 269 portrait; I.L.N. xli 204 (1862) portrait.
PREST, Edward (eld. son of John Prest). b. 1824; educ. St. John’s coll. Camb., scholar; B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; chaplain to Sherburn hospital 1851–7, and master 1857–61; hon. canon of Durham cath. Dec. 1860 to 1863; R. of St. Mary’s, Gateshead, and master of King James’ hospital 6 May 1862 to 1881; official of the dean and chapter of Durham 1880; resident canon and archdeacon of Durham 1863 to death; member of Gateshead sch. board 28 Nov. 1870, then vice-chairman; R. of Ryton-on-Tyne 1881 to death. d. Ryton rectory 26 Oct. 1882.
PREST, Edward Henry. Educ. Durham sch. and Jesus coll. Camb., rowed stroke oar in the Cambridge boat against Oxford 1878, and bow oar 1879 and 1880; won the university pairs with H. R. Jones 1880; B.A. 1880, M.A. 1884; assistant master of Repton sch. 1880–7; head master of Barnard Castle sch. Durham 1887 to death. d. Barnard Castle 18 Oct. 1893.
PREST, Thomas Peckett. Author of a romance entitled The string of pearls in the Penny Sunday Times 1841, in 1842 Dibdin Pitt wrote a two-act drama founded on this story and named it Sweeney Todd, the barber of Fleet st. which was produced at the Britannia theatre in 1842, and is still played there and at other theatres; wrote The miser of Shoreditch, a drama, Standard theatre 2 Nov. 1854, and a prize drama Lucy Wentworth, or the village-born beauty, City of London theatre 28 Oct. 1857; edited The magazine of curiosity and wonder, collected from the most authentic sources by T. Prest, No. 1 Nov. 5, 1835, No. 30, May 26, 1836; author of Angelina or the mystery of St. Mark’s abbey 1841; Gallant Tom or the perils of a sailor 1841; Ernestine de Lacy or the robber’s foundling 1842; The death grasp or a father’s curse 1844; The maniac father 1844; Martha Willis 1844; The old house of West street or London in the last century 1846; The gipsy boy 1847; The blighted heart or the old priory ruins 1849; Jack Junk or the tar for all weathers 1851; Richard Parker or the mutiny at the Nore 1851; The miller and his men or the secret robbers of Bohemia 1852.