Colonel Hubert Cecil Prichard (5 February 1865 – 12 November 1942) was an English

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er. He was born in

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, and played two matches for

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in 1896. He later played for

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. He left the army in 1897 and relocated to

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in Wales, where he resided at Pwllywrach. During the Second World War, he was a major in the

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and commandant of a prisoner-of-war camp. He was the son of Charles John Collins Prichard (1830–1903) and Mary Ann Thomas (1840–1898). Prichard married Nora Diana Piers (11 December 1879 – 19 December 1979) in 1905. They had three children: * Lydia Diana Williams (née Prichard; 17 April 1906 – 15 October 1982). She married Elydr Gwyn Williams (20 October 1905 — 8 November 1980). * Major Hubert de Burr Prichard (14 May 1907 – 16 August 1944). He married

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, only child of the author

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, in 1940. His son,

Mathew Prichard Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ...

, was born in 1943. Hubert was killed in the war next year. * Lt.-Col. David Matthew Caradoc Prichard (8 June 1912 – 1 June 1986). He married Elizabeth Aileen Maud Llewellyn (9 October 1914 – 14 April 2011), daughter of Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, and Magdalene Anne Harries, on 25 June 1946. They had three sons: Robert David Caradoc Prichard (17 November 1947 – 1995), Colin Hubert Llewellyn Prichard (born 19 August 1949), William de Burgh Prichard (born 31 March 1953).

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