Background
The only son of Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet, by Catherine Anne, daughter of Major-general John Phipps, he was born at Roseau on Dominica on 20 August 1804.
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George George Prevost
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Matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford on 23 January 1821, he graduated Bachelor of Arts, taking a second class in literæ humaniores, and a first class in the mathematical school in 1825.
Career
He succeeded to the baronetcy on 5 January 1816. He proceeded Master of Arts in 1827. Was ordained deacon in 1828, and then priest in 1829.
He was curate to Thomas Keble at Bisley, Gloucestershire, from 1828 to 1834, when he was instituted on 25 September to the perpetual curacy of Stinchcombe in the same county.
Prevost was rural dean of Dursley from 1852 to 1866, proctor of the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol from 1858 to 1865, archdeacon of Gloucester from 1865 to 1881, and honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral from 1859 until his death at Stinchcombe on 18 March 1893. He was buried in Stinchcombe churchyard on 23 March.
