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John Pryor (Nova Scotia)
John Pryor may refer to: * John Pryor (soldier) (1750–1823), Continental Army officer * John Benjamin Pryor (1812–1890), racehorse trainer * John Arthur Pryor (1884–?), British officer and aristocrat See also * John Prior (other) {{hndis, Pryor, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pryor (soldier)
Major John Pryor of Richmond, Virginia served in the Continental Army under the overall command of Gen. George Washington in the American Revolutionary War. He served as an artillery officer from February 1777 to June 1779. From June 1779 to January 1783, he was aide-de-camp to Gen. William Alexander, Lord Stirling. He is noted as the first husband of Anne Beverly Whiting, who after leaving Pryor became the mother of explorer John C. Frémont. Pryor remarried in 1815 to Elizabeth Quarles Graves. He had no surviving children from either marriage. Major Pryor was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Pryor is buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, where on 4 June 2017 he was honored by the Sons of the American Revolution The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR or NSSAR) is an American Congressional charter, congressionally chartered organization, founded in 1889 and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky. A non-prof ... with a grave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Benjamin Pryor
John Benjamin Pryor (1812 – December 26, 1890), was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. He trained Lexington, a top racehorse of the 1850s whose excellence in competition and reputation as a sire stud continued well into the 20th century, earning the horse induction into the United States' National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1955. Birth and parentage Born in 1812 in Virginia to parents Luke Pryor and Ann Batte Lane. His brother was US Senator Luke Pryor from Alabama. Family and career John Benjamin Pryor was counted in Adams County, Mississippi on the 1850 and 1860 US Census. He was a slave owner and horse trainer, employed by the prominent Mississippi politician Adam Lewis Bingaman. He became the trainer of Lexington, the most famous race horse of the 1850s, after racing entrepreneur Richard Ten Broeck and his syndicate purchased the horse "in no very long time Lexington was shipped south to Natchez, where he was placed in charge of Adam Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arthur Pryor
John Arthur Pryor (5 November 1884 – ?) was a British Major and aristocrat, He resided at Bentworth Hall in Bentworth, East Hampshire and at Beamhurst Hall in Beamhurst, East Staffordshire East Staffordshire is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire in England. It has two main towns: Burton upon Trent and Uttoxeter. Villages in the area include Abbots Bromley, Stretton, Tutbury, Barton-under-Needwood, ... with his wife Blanche Marion, their son and two daughters, between 1925 and 1930. References Devonshire Regiment officers 1884 births Year of death missing People from Bentworth People from the Borough of East Staffordshire English brewers {{UK-army-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |