PRESTON, GEORGE HENRY, eldest son of George Preston (KS 1805, qv); b. 2 May 1823; adm. 28 Jun 1830; KS 1837; Capt. of the School 1841; left 1841; St. Bees Coll.; ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 (both Chester); Curate, St. Paul’s, Stalybridge, Cheshire 1846-8; held other curacies; Chaplain at Rio de Janeiro 1864-78; living Madron, Cornwall, in 1881 (1881 Census); m. 1st, Sarah Coulter; m. 2nd, ---; d. 8 Jun 1903.

PRICE, DAVID, son of William Price, Flint; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1688, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1689; BA 1691/2; Usher at Felsted School, Essex, from 1693; ordained; Rector of Hatfield Peverel, Essex 1702; d. 1731.

PRICE, HOWELL, son of David Price, Breconshire; b.; adm.; KS 1686; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1689, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690; 3rd in “ordo” 1692/3; BA 1692/3; MA 1696; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1695, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1696 – c. 1699.

PRICE, P.; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the congratulatory verses written to Queen Elizabeth by the QSS 1598 (British Library, Royal MSS). [Possibly Peter Price, St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, matr. as pens. Lent 1597/8].

PRICHARD, THOMAS, son of Robert Prichard, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire; b.; in school lists 1656; KS (aged 16) 1660; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1662, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663; BA 1665/6; MA 1669; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1668 – c. 1673; ordained deacon (Ely) 24 Sep 1670, perhaps priest (London) 17 Feb 1678/9.

PROBY-JERMY, HENRY FRANCIS, brother of Charles Proby (qv); b.; adm. 1 Jun 1779; KS (aged 13) 1782; left Whitsun 1786; assumed additional surname of Jermy while still at school, having inherited in 1781 the estate of his godfather Francis Jermy, a merchant and banker at Leghorn, Italy; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Mar 1786, kept seven terms, name off books 18 Mar 1791.

PULTENEY, JOHN, elder son of Rev. Richard Fawcett DD, Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Prebendary of Durham, and Elizabeth Brown; bapt. Grendon, Warwicks. 9 Nov 1766 (IGI); adm. 27 Apr 1778; KS (aged 12) 1779; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1783, matr. 26 Jun 1783, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1783 – void 15 Feb 1787; damages of £7, 000 were awarded against him in May 1802 in suit for crim. con. brought by George Markham (adm. 1769, qv); assumed surname of Pulteney in lieu of Fawcett by royal licence 9 Aug 1813, “from grateful and affectionate regard to the memory of Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath”; m. 8 Aug 1803 Elizabeth Evelyn, divorced wife of George Markham (adm. 1769, qv), and sister of John Sutton (adm. 1779, qv); d. 24 Jun 1849.

PUREFYE, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1569-70 (Chapter Muniments).

PYKE, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1664, adm. pens. 1664, scholar 1665; BA 1667/8; MA 1671; ordained priest (Lincoln) 17 May 1668; Vicar of Weston, Herts., from 20 May 1668; Chaplain, Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1671-81; d. 1735. [but note will Rev. John Pyke, Weston, Staffs. (sic), proved PCC 4 Dec 1731 (sic)]

QUIN, JAMES, son of Walter Quin, Dublin, poet and preceptor of Charles I; b.; adm.; KS 1636; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1639, matr. 6 Dec 1639, aged 18, Westminster Student; BA 1642; MA 1646; ejected from Studentship by Parliamentary Visitors for non-submission; Wood, who had several times heard him “sing with great admiration”, recorded that Quin had “the best bass voice in England, but wanted skill” (Life and Times, ed. Clark, I, 287); Cromwell was so charmed with his voice that he procured Quin’s restoration to his Studentship; reported in 1651 to be “non compos”; d. insane Oct 1659. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. DNB.