Background
The eldest son of John Pridden, a bookseller of Ludgate Hill and friend of Joseph Brasbridge, by his wife Anne, daughter of Humphrey Gregory of Whitchurch, Shropshire, he was born in London on 3 January 1758.
The eldest son of John Pridden, a bookseller of Ludgate Hill and friend of Joseph Brasbridge, by his wife Anne, daughter of Humphrey Gregory of Whitchurch, Shropshire, he was born in London on 3 January 1758.
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1781, and was ordained soon after, and was incorporated Master of Arts
He entered Street Paul"s School, London on 3 August 1764, aged 7, and went on 15 April 1777 to The Queen"s College, Oxford. at Saint John"s College, Cambridge. Pridden was successively afternoon lecturer at Tavistock Chapel, London (1782), minor canon of Street Paul"s Cathedral (November 1782), and vicar of Heybridge, Essex (July 1783). He was curate (from 1783 to 1803) of Saint Bride"s, Fleet Street, where the rector was non-resident.
Vicar of Little Wakering, Essex (1788).
Chaplain to Earl Powlett (1789). Priest in ordinary of his majesty"s Chapel Royal (1795).
And minor canon of Westminster Abbey. He was vicar of Caddington, Bedfordshire, from 1797, when he resigned his Essex livings.
And finally was rector of the united parishes of Saint George, Botolph Lane, and Saint Botolph, Bishopsgate.
He had no issue.