PREVOST

Sir George , 2 Baronet (only son of sir George Prevost 1767–1816, governor general of Canada). b. Roseau, Dominica 20 Aug. 1804; succeeded to the baronetcy 5 Jany. 1816; educ. Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1827; C. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1828–34; P.C. of Stinchcombe, Gloucs. 25 Sept. 1834 to death; rural dean of Dursly 1852–66; proctor of diocese of Gloucester and Bristol 1858–65; hon. canon of Gloucester 1859 to death; archdeacon of Gloucester 1865–81; with Thomas Keble wrote No. 84 of Tracts for the times, Whether a clergyman be bound to have morning and evening prayers daily in his church; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the gospel of St. Matthew for Dr. Pusey’s Library of the Fathers, Oxford, 3 vols. 1843; edited The autobiography of Isaac Williams 1892; author of A manual of daily prayers 1846, 2 ed. 1851. d. Stinchcombe 18 March 1893. H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey iii 37, 280 (1894); Daily Graphic 22 March 1893 p. 9 portrait .