Richard Prideaux

Sir
Richard Prideaux
MP
Member of Parliament
for Bodmin
In office
1640–1640
Personal details
Born1606
Thuborough
Died1667 (aged 61)
ChildrenJonathon Prideaux (1646–1710)
ParentJonathan Prideaux (d. 1637)
EducationExeter College, Oxford

Sir 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, 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. He fought as a Royalist in the English Civil War, and was compounded for his estate £426 in 1649. At the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he was appointed Vice-Warden of the Stannaries and surveyor-general of the Duchy of Cornwall.

Prideaux died at the age of 61.

References

  1. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.n L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 620, pedigree of Prideaux
  2. 1 2 Foster, Joseph, ed. (1891). "Prichard-Pyx". Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714. pp. 1208–1224. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  3. ↑ Watson, Paula (2002). "PRIDEAUX, Jonathan (c.1646–1710), of Theuborough, Sutcombe, Devon and Trecarne, St. Mabyn, Cornw.". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  4. ↑ "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.