Walter Prideaux
Walter Prideaux | |
|---|---|
 Prideaux (left) and John Hollins from a painting by Hollins | |
| Born | 1806 |
| Died | 1889 (aged 82–83) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Known for | Poetry |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Williams |
| Children | four |
Walter Prideaux (1806–1889) was an English poet and lawyer.[1] He rose to be clerk to Goldsmiths' Hall.[2]
Origins
[edit]Walter Prideaux was born 15 April 1806, at Bearscombe near Kingsbridge and Loddiswell, one of the six sons[3] of Walter Prideaux (d. 1832) of Kingsbridge and Plymouth, a partner in the Devon and Cornwall Bank, a Quaker associated with the Plymouth Brethren, having in 1812 sold Bearscombe[citation needed] and moved to Plymouth.[4] It is not clear what relation he was to the ancient gentry family of Prideaux seated variously at Orcheton, Modbury; Adeston, Holbeton; Thuborough, Sutcombe; Soldon, Holsworthy; Netherton, Farway; Ashburton; Nutwell, Woodbury; Ford Abbey, Thorncombe all in Devon, and at Prideaux Place, Padstow, and Prideaux manor, Luxulyan, in Cornwall. The wife of Walter Prideaux (Senior) was Sarah-Ball Hingston, a daughter of his partner Joseph Hingston (1764-1835) (Senior), merchant,[5] of Dodbrooke (adjacent to Kingsbridge) in Devon, by his first wife Sarah Ball (d.1790), a daughter of Joseph Ball of Bridgwater in Somerset.[6][7]
Career
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Prideaux is shown in a painting where discussions are taking place for a journey in a balloon by Charles Green, Thomas Monck Mason and Robert Hollond. The three travelled a record distance of 500 miles in 18 hours. Prideaux was included in the painting with the artist, John Hollins, and William Milbourne James.[9]
In 1840, Prideaux's poems were published as Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time[10]
Death
[edit]Prideaux died in 1889.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Thomas Monck Mason, National Portrait Gallery, accessed May 2009
- ↑ West Country poets, 1896
- ↑ A Revised Genealogical Account of the Various Families Descended from Francis Fox, of St. Germans, Cornwall: to which is appended a pedigree of the Crokers, of Lineham, and many other families connected with them, p. 16
- ↑ Stunt, Timothy C. F., The Elusive Quest of the Spiritual Malcontent: Some Early Nineteenth-Century ..., pp. 35-36
- ↑ a merchant, as stated in various deeds, e.g. of 1825
- ↑ Burke, John, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain ..., Vol.1, London, 1846, p. 577, pedigree of Hingston
- ↑ Kingston family, accessed May 2009
- ↑ John Hollins, National Portrait Gallery, London, accessed May 2009.
- ↑ "A Consultation prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburg, 1836 - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
- ↑ Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time, Walter Prideaux, 1840, accessed May 2009