Humphrey Prideaux [SEP] place of death
Humphrey Prideaux
Humphrey Prideaux (3 May 1648 – 1 November 1724) was an English churchman and orientalist, Dean of Norwich from 1702. His sympathies inclined to Low Churchism in religion and to Whiggism in politics.
Life.
The third son of Edmond Prideaux, he was born at Padstow, Cornwall, on 3 May 1648. His mother was a daughter of John Moyle. After education at Liskeard grammar school and Bodmin grammar school, he went to Westminster School under Richard Busby, recommended by his uncle William Morice
son (by his father's 2nd wife), who inherited Prideaux Place, whilst Soldon was inherited by his elder half-brother Humphrey Prideaux, husband of Honor Fortescue, a daughter of Edmund Fortescue of Fallapit, East Allington, Devon. John married Anne Moyle, but died without progeny, when Prideaux Place was inherited by his half-nephew Edmund Prideaux (d.1683), Sheriff of Cornwall in 1664, third son of his elder half-brother Humphrey Prideaux by his wife Honor Fortescue.
Prideaux Edmund Prideaux (1606–1683)