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Richard Prideaux (1606–1667) was an English politician who sat in the
House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...
in 1640. Prideaux was the son of Jonathan Prideaux (d. 1637), of Theuborough, now known as Thuborough, in the parish of
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,
Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the English Channel to the south, and Cornwall to the west ...
. He enrolled at
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, on 13 December 1622, aged 16. He lived at Theuborough. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for
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in the
Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on 20 February 1640 and sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640. It was so called because of its short session of only three weeks. After 11 years of per ...
. Prideaux died at the age of 61.


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, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Prideaux, Richard 1606 births 1667 deaths Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall English MPs 1640 (April)