Background
Pratt was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1913, the son of lawyer and financier John Teele Pratt and Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. And grandson of oil industry pioneer Charles Pratt.
Pratt was born in Glen Cove, New York in 1913, the son of lawyer and financier John Teele Pratt and Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. And grandson of oil industry pioneer Charles Pratt.
Harvard University.
He was the fourth of five children. His brothers-in-law were Paul Nitze and Robert H. Thayer. Pratt studied at Harvard College, graduating in the class of 1936.
He was headmaster of the private Browne & Nichols, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols, in Cambridge, Master of Arts from 1955 (or earlier) to 1968.
Through bequests to Buckingham Browne & Nichols, there are the Edwin H. B. Pratt Faculty Fund and the Edwin and Aileen Pratt Faculty Development Fund.