PRIDEAUX, Fanny Ash (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House, Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). m. at Clifton 14 April 1853 Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia 1892. d. Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 2 Sept. 1894.
PRIDEAUX, Frances Helen. b. 1858; educ. Queen’s coll. London; matriculated at univ. of London 1878, honor division; educ. at London sch. of medicine for women, demonstrator of anatomy there; gained exhibition and gold medal of anatomy at intermediate M.B. exam. of London univ. 1881; took honours in each subject in final M.B. exam. 1884; B.S. 1884; L.K.Q.C.P.I. 1883; for sometime at the Royal free hospital; assist. physician to the New hospital for women, Marylebone road, London; house surgeon at the Paddington hospital for children Oct. 1885 to her death. d. of diphtheria 22 Woburn sq. London 29 Nov. 1885, a sum of money raised to found a Prideaux prize. Lancet 5 Dec. 1885 p. 1063, 19 Dec. p. 1174.
PRIDEAUX, Frederick (5 son of Walter Prideaux of Plymouth, banker). b. 1 Portland sq. Plymouth 27 April 1817; educ. Plymouth gr. sch.; barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1840; practised at Bristol 1840–64, and in London 1864–75; reader in real and personal property to the inns of court 1866–75; a conveyancer at Torquay 1875–80, at Totnes 1880–6, and at Taunton 1886 to death; originally a quaker, then a member of church of England, finally a Baptist; author of Judgments as they affect real property 1842, 4 ed. 1854; The handbook of precedents in conveyancing 1852, 2 ed. under title of Precedents in conveyancing with dissertations on its law and practice 1856, 16 ed. 2 vols. 1895. d. Ermington, Haines hill, Taunton 21 Nov. 1891. bur. Trull church 26 Nov. In memoriam, F. P. by Mrs. Prideaux (1891); Taunton Courier 2 Dec. 1891 p. 5.
PRIDEAUX, Walter (brother of preceding). b. Bearscombe, near Kingsbridge, Devon 15 April 1806; educ. Plymouth gram. sch.; admitted a solicitor 1829, partner with John Lane, Foster lane, City of London 1835–51; a founder of the Assam tea co. 1840, secretary, director, deputy chairman, and chairman to 1888; clerk and solicitor of Goldsmiths’ co. 1851–82; a member of the Garrick club and intimate with Thackeray; author of Poems of chivalry, faery and the olden times 1840; resided Faircrouch, Wadhurst, Sussex, d. 30 March 1889. bur. Great Stanmore, Middlesex. W. H. K. Wright’s West country poets (1896) 375.
PRIDHAM, Richard. b. 1779; entered navy Aug. 1790; adjutant to the naval brigade at the reduction of Minorca Nov. 1798; wrecked in the Hussar and a prisoner in France 8 Feb. 1804 to May 1814; commander 15 June 1814; on the water guard service in Lincolnshire 1819–24; captain 22 July 1830; retired V.A. 4 Oct. 1862. d. West Hoe terrace, Plymouth 3 May 1864. O’Byrne’s Naval biography 1849 p. 929.
PRIDHAM, William. b. Plymouth 1795; one of the 4 original projectors of the Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Herald 1820, editor for sometime. d. Plymouth Oct. 1870.
PRIESTLEY, Edward Ramsden (eld. son of major Priestley, K.H.) b. 1819; ensign 45 foot 27 Nov. 1835; captain 25 foot 20 Oct. 1843; major 42 foot 17 July 1857, lieut. col. 10 Aug. 1858 to death; served against the insurgent Boers 1842, and in the Indian mutiny 1857–8; brevet colonel 10 Aug. 1863. d. Stirling 25 March 1868.
PRIESTLEY, Frederick J. B. b. 1819; ensign 82 foot 2 March 1838; ensign 25 foot 11 May 1838, lieut. 8 April 1842; captain 74 foot 22 July 1854; major Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, lieut. col. 2 March 1864; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; general 22 Jany. 1889. d. 22 Park st. Bath 17 Jany. 1894.
PRIESTLY, Richard. b. 1771; bookseller in High Holborn, London many years, his stock mainly consisting of classical works; was worth upwards of £30,000 in 1815; printed many editions of classical works, employing editors of great ability; he eventually failed in business and became bankrupt 3 Aug. 1827. d. the Charterhouse, London 4 Feb. 1852. Willis’s Current notes Aug. 1854 p. 68.
PRIESTMAN, John (son of Joshua Priestman of Thornton, near Pickering, Yorkshire). b. Thornton 1805; educ. Ackworth, Yorkshire; joined his brother-in-law James Ellis in the Old corn mill, Bradford 1824, they founded the first ragged school in Bradford 1846; a founder of the Friends’ Provident institution 1832; represented Bradford at many of the conferences called by the anti-corn-law league; refused to pay church rates which were found to be illegal, and abolished in Bradford 1835; manufacturer of worsted goods 1838, removed to larger premises 1845; gave up corn-milling 1855; a total abstainer from 1834; supported Cobden in opposing the Crimean war 1854. d. Whetley Hill, Bradford 29 Oct. 1866. H. Thompson’s Ackworth scholars (1879) p. xix; Biographical catalogue of portraits at Devonshire house (1888) 527–32.