PRESTON, ---; b.; in school list 1764.
PRESTON, ---; b.; adm.; QS 12 May 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
PRESSE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 7723).
PRESSE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1554 (Chapter Muniments).
PRESCOTT, EDWARD, son of William Prescott, Clare Hall, Halifax, Yorks.; bapt. Halifax 20 May 1760 (IGI); at Manchester GS 1772; adm. 10 Jan 1774; KS 1774; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1778, matr. 17 Jun 1778, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1778 – void 21 Oct 1790 (expiry year of grace as V. Long Preston from 26 Oct 1789); BA 1782; MA 1785; ordained; Vicar of Long Preston, Yorkshire, from 1789; m. 31 Aug 1790 Mary Cooke, Callico Hall, Halifax, Yorks.; d. 16 Feb 1809, aged 48.
Preece, Percy John, third son of Sir William Henry Preece, K.C.B., F.R.S., engineer-in-chief to the General Post Office, by Agnes Mary, daughter of George Pocock, of Southampton; b. July 24, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; left (with Triplett) July 1889; Trin. Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. May 27, 1889); B.A. 1892; adm. a solicitor March 1897; firm, Fox and Preece, Dean's Yard, Westminster; secretary to the governing body of the school; 2nd Lieut. Rifle Brigade July 28, 1897; served in the South African War with the Army Post Office Corps; mentioned in despatches; Lieut. Feb. 3, 1900; Capt. 8th Batt. London Regt. Dec. 9, 1902; acting Major Sept. 5, 1914; Lieut.-Col. June 1, 1916; served in France in Great War I; T.D.; secretary to the governing body July 29, 1912 to Feb. 18, 1918; d. Oct. 29, 1921.
PRATT, THOMAS, son of Thomas Pratt, St. James’s, London; b.; adm.; in under school list 1715; KS 1717; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Apr 1721, aged 18. [Note that a Thomas Pratt was Under Clerk, Treasury Mar 1724 – Nov 1769, Chief Clerk Nov 1769 – Jul 1798, and Keeper of Papers, Treasury Sep 1765 – Jan 1783]
PRATT, JOSEPH, son of Richard Pratt, Vauxhall, Surrey, malt distiller, and Mary, dau. of Jonathan Chilwell, Lambeth; b. 6 May 1747; adm.; left Whitsun 1764; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 21 Dec 1764, aged 17, but did not matr.; d. 13 May 1766, of smallpox.
PRATT, JOHN THOMAS BECHER, brother of Charles Pallmer Tidd Pratt (qv); b. 5 Nov 1830; adm. 27 Oct 1841; adm. solicitor Hilary 1854; practised at Newark, Notts. (Law List, 1861); living 1866.