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Humphrey Prideaux was born of good family at Place, in Cornwall, on the 3rd of May 1648. The third son of Edmond Prideaux. His mother was a daughter of John Moyle.
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Humphrey Prideaux was born of good family at Place, in Cornwall, on the 3rd of May 1648. The third son of Edmond Prideaux. His mother was a daughter of John Moyle.
He received his early education at the grammar schools of Liskeard and Bodmin. In 1665 he was placed at Westminster under Busby, and in 1668 went on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degrees in the following order: B. A. , 1672; M. A. , 1675; B. D. , 1682; and D. D. , 1686.
His account of the famous Arundel marbles just given to the university appeared in 1676. In 1679 he was appointed to the rectory of St Clement's, Oxford, and Hebrew lecturer at Christ Church, where he continued until February 1686, holding for the last three years the rectory of Bladon with Woodstock.
In 1686 he exchanged for the benefice of Saham in Norfolk. He took an active part in the controversies of the day, publishing the following pamphlets: "The Validity of the Orders of the Church of England" (1688), "Letter to a Friend on the Present Convocation" (1690), "The Case of Clandestine Marriages stated" (1691).
Prideaux was promoted to the archdeaconry of Suffolk in December 1688, and to the deanery of Norwich (he had long been one of the canons) in June 1702. In 1694 he was obliged, through ill health, to resign the rectory of Saham, and after having held the vicarage of Trowse for fourteen years (1696-1710) he found himself incapacitated from further parochial duty.
Many of the dean's writings were of considerable value. His Life of Mahomet (1697) was really a polemical tract against the deists and has now no biographical value. Both it and his Directions to Churchwardens (1701) passed through several editions. Even greater success attended The Old and New Testament connected in the History of the Jews (1716), a work which not only displayed but stimulated research.
He is noted for his work on a life of Mohammed, which was mainly a polemical tract against the Deists, and "the Old and New Testament Connected and a History of the Jews and Neighboring Nations in the Time of Christ", which for a long time was the standard history of the Jews between the canons; it was frequently reprinted, and was translated into French (1722), and into German (1726).
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In religion his sympathie inclined to Low Churchism. Low Churchism the principle that the Church of England is really little different from the Protestant Nonconformist churches in England and thus that the authority of the Episcopate and the priesthood, as well as the sacraments, are of comparatively minor importance.
He was inclined to Whiggism in politics.
On 16 February 1686 Prideaux married Bridget Bokenham, only child of Anthony Bokenham of Helmingham, Suffolk, and left a son Edmund Prideaux.
