Modern English biography

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.