PRIDEAUX, Sir Edmund, 4th Bt. (?1646-1720), of Netherton, Devon.

Of an ancient family, who had long represented Cornish and Devonshire boroughs, Prideaux was patron of the living of Tregony, whose incumbent exercised an important electoral influence in the borough.Lysons, Magna Britannia (1738), i. 361; J. Wolrige to Sir Robt. Walpole, 1 July 1727, Cholmondeley (Houghton) mss. Returned for Tregony in 1715 as a Tory who might often vote with the Whigs, he voted with the Administration, except on the peerage bill in 1719, when he was absent. He died 6 Feb. 1720.