Background
The son of John Prescott, he initially studied law and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1909.
engineer civil engineer Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
The son of John Prescott, he initially studied law and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1909.
He subsequently took up a career in civil engineering, acting as a consultant to a number of government committees on water supply and roads. During the First World War he was commanding officer of 222nd Field Company, Royal Engineers, part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front. He was invalided home to the United Kingdom in 1915. but stood down at the 1922 election.
Prescott was awarded a CBE in 1920 for his role is raising troops in Tottenham and was knighted in 1921. He was appointed in 1924 as a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex, and in 1929 served as High Sheriff of the county. Prescott retired to Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire.
In the King's Birthday Honours 1938, he was honoured for his work with the water board by being made a baronet, of Godmanchester in the county of Huntingdon. in the same year he served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
[31st United Kingdom Parliament] He was elected at the 1918 general election as Coalition Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham North, A longtime member of Middlesex County Council where he served as an alderman and vice-chairman, he represented the authority on the Metropolitan Water Board (MWB). He was also a member of a number of other committees connected with Middlesex, a member of the Worshipful Company of Paviors and the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass and a Freeman of the City of London.