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PROBY, JOHN, 1ST BARON CARYSFORT (I), eldest son of John Proby MP, Elton, Hunts., and Hon. Jane Leveson-Gower, sister of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower (qv); b. 25 Nov 1720; adm. Jan 1735/6 (Edwards'); Jesus Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 15 Dec 1737, scholar 1738, matr. 1738; BA 1741/2; MA 1742; adm. Inner Temple 1 Feb 1739/40; MP Stamford 1747-54, Huntingdonshire 1754-68; created Baron Carysfort (I) 23 Jan 1752; Privy Councillor (I) 4 Aug 1758; a Lord of the Admiralty Apr – Jul 1757, Jan 1763 – Aug 1765; KB 23 Mar 1761; Grand Master, Grand Lodge of England (Freemasons) 1752-3; m. 27 Aug 1750 Hon. Elizabeth Allen, elder dau. of John Allen, 2nd Viscount Allen (I); d. at Lille, France 18 Oct 1772. DNB.

PROBY, JOHN JOSHUA, 1st EARL OF CARYSFORT (I), only son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort (I) (qv); b. 12 Aug 1751; in school list Jun 1764; left 1767; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. nob. 21 Dec 1767, matr. 1770; MA 1771; LLD 1811; succ. as 2nd Baron Carysfort (I) 18 Oct 1772; KP 5 Feb 1784; created Earl of Carysfort (I) 20 Aug 1789; Privy Councillor (I) 26 Sep 1789; MP East Looe 4 Feb – 11 Jun 1790, Stamford 1790 – 21 Jan 1801; Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin 20 May 1800 – Oct 1802; created Baron Carysfort (UK) 21 Jan 1801; Privy Councillor 12 Feb 1806; Joint Postmaster-General 20 Feb 1806 – May 1807; his second marriage brought him into the political grouping led by his wife’s brother Lord Grenville; FRS 4 Feb 1779; DCL Oxford 3 Jul 1810; m. 1st, 18 Mar 1774 Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Sir William Osborne, Bart, , MP (I); m. 2nd, 12 Apr 1787 Elizabeth, second dau. of Right Hon. George Grenville PC MP, Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury; d. 7 Apr 1828. DNB.

PROBY, CHURCHILL, second son of Rev. Charles James Proby, Canon of Windsor, and Vicar of Twickenham, Middlesex, and Frances, eldest dau. of Rev. John Sharrer, Vicar of Canwick, Lincs.; b. 10 Jun 1818; adm. 26 Sep 1832 (Stikeman's); KS 1833; d. unm. Jul 1851.

PROBY, CHARLES, eldest son of Capt. Charles Proby, Royal Navy, Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard, and Sarah, dau. of Capt. Philemon Pownall, Royal Navy, Plymouth, Devon; nephew of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort (I) (qv); b.; adm. 19 Apr 1775; left Aug 1781; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 21 May 1781, aged 16, Gilbert scholar 6 Nov 1781; BA 1785; MA 1787; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Jun 1779 [check], Inner Temple 1 Jun 1779, called to bar 16 Nov 1786, left Inner Temple by Nov 1790; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1789-90); ordained deacon (Winchester) 6 Mar 1790, priest 29 Jun 1792 (Peterborough); Curate, Tansor, Northants 1792; Rector of Stanwick, Northants, from 27 Aug 1793 (reinstituted 20 Jan 1803); Chaplain, Royal Navy 1794; Vicar of Shawston, Leics., 8 Dec 1802; Prebendary of Lincoln from 20 Aug 1808; Rector of Denford with Ringstead, Northants, from 12 Mar 1812; m. 1st, 11 Jan 1791 Susan Mary, eldest dau. of George Cherry, Nottingham Place, London, Commissioner for Victualling the Navy; m. 2nd, 1 Jan 1796 his first cousin Catherine, second dau. of Very Rev. Baptist Proby DD, Dean of Lichfield; d. 3 Jul 1822.

PRITCHARD, WILLIAM BENNING, son of William Tarn Pritchard, Doctors’ Commons, London, solicitor (previously proctor, Doctors’ Commons), and Jane, eldest dau. of William Benning, Fleet Street, London, law bookseller; b. 31 Jan 1849; adm. 30 Sep 1862 (James'); QS 1864; left Christmas 1866; adm. solicitor Mich. 1873, firm Pritchard & Sons, Gracechurch Street, London; m. 11 Aug 1874 Helen Sophia Littlejohn, dau. of James Johnstone Paul, Surgeon, Royal Navy; d. 14 Oct 1913.

PRITCHARD, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1738/9; left 1740.

PRITCHARD, ROBERT; b.; adm. 10 Jan 1780; left Midsummer 1781.

Pritchard, Martin Lewin Blake, son of Eric Alfred Blake Pritchard MD FRCP, and Clodagh Mary Hawtayne, d. of Herbert William Lewin of Farnham Common, Bucks; b. 12 Apr. 1933; adm. Sept. 1946 (G); left July 1951; St John’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1951, BA 1954, MA 1962; Univ. Coll. Hosp., BChir 1958, MB 1959; DObstRCOG 1964, MRCGP 1972; practised in Woodbridge, Suffolk; m. 1966 Leonora Morris of Godalming, Surrey; d. 4 Dec. 1983.

PRITCHARD, GEORGE; b.; adm. 14 Jan 1782.

PRITCHARD, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS 1640-4.