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DeutschRichard Prideaux
Richard Prideaux | |
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| Member of Parliament for Bodmin | |
| In office 1640–1640 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1606 Thuborough |
| Died | 1667 (aged 61) |
| Children | Jonathon Prideaux (1646–1710) |
| Parent | Jonathan Prideaux (d. 1637) |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, Oxford |
Richard Prideaux (1606–1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
Prideaux was the son of Jonathan Prideaux (d.1637), of Theuborough, now known as Thuborough,[1] in the parish of Sutcombe, Devon. He enrolled at Exeter College, Oxford on 13 December 1622, aged 16. He lived at Theuborough. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bodmin in the Short Parliament.[2]
Prideaux died at the age of 61.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 620, pedigree of Prideaux
- ^ a b Foster, Joseph, ed. (1891). "Prichard-Pyx". Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714. pp. 1208–1224. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
- ^ "PRIDEAUX, Jonathan (c.1646-1710), of Theuborough, Sutcombe, Devon and Trecarne, St. Mabyn, Cornw. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 23 October 2023.