Career
He was the President of the Oxford Architectural Society (later the Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society) from November 1854 to November 1855. John Prideaux Lightfoot was born 23 March 1803 at Crediton, Devon, England. Lightfoot married Elizabeth Ann Le Blanc on 15 July 1835 at Street Luke"s Church, Chelsea.
They had eight children.
Lightfoot succeeded Joseph Loscombe Richards as Rector of Exeter, or head of the college, while Sir George Gilbert Scott"s proposal for a new chapel inspired by the Sainte Chapelle in Paris was under consideration. The building programme during Lightfoot"s tenure also included the Gothic revival library of 1856 and new Rector"s lodgings in the Georgian style (1857).
The completed tapestry was presented to the College in 1890, three years after Prideaux"s death at the Rectory at Exeter on 23 March 1887.