Prideaux Boy
Prideaux may refer to: * One of several persons with the surname ''Prideaux''; see Prideaux (surname) * Prideaux Castle, an Iron Age hillfort near St Blazey, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom * Prideaux Place, a country house near Padstow, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom * William Prideaux Courtney William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913) was a British biographer and civil servant. Writing as W. P. C., he was a contributor to the first edition of the '' Dictionary of National Biography''. He was the brother of Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Cour ...

Prideaux (surname)
Prideaux is both a given name and surname of Cornish origin, derived from the place called Prideaux in the parish of Luxulyan. The place-name had the form Pridias in the 12th and 13th centuries; by folk etymology both the place-name and the surname have been altered to a form based on the French or (near waters or meadow of waters). Notable people with the name include: Surname * Brandon Prideaux (born 1976), American soccer defender * Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet of Netherton (1554–1628), English lawyer * Sir Edmund Prideaux, 1st Baronet of Ford Abbey (died 1659), English lawyer and MP for Lyme Regis (1640–1659), solicitor-general and attorney-general * Sir Edmund Prideaux, 2nd Baronet of Ford Abbey (1632–1702), member of Parliament for Taunton (1680–1681), participant in Monmouth's Rebellion * Edmund Prideaux (artist) (1693–1745), English architectural artist * Humphrey Prideaux (1648–1724), Doctor of Divinity and scholar * James Prideaux (1927–2015), Am ...
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Prideaux Castle
Prideaux Castle is a multivallate Iron Age hillfort situated atop a 133 m (435 ft) high conical hill near the southern boundary of the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is also sometimes referred to as ''Prideaux Warren'', ''Prideaux War-Ring'', or ''Prideaux Hillfort''. The site is a scheduled monument and so protected from unauthorised works by the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. Physical description The remains of the first and second circular ramparts are quite distinct, although overgrown with trees on the north and east sides. They appear to be constructed of earth and rubble. The third rampart is only fragmentarily represented, but easily traced, due to the vegetation. A fourth, outermost wall is discerned on aerial photographs, or on the 1888 Ordnance Survey map.
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Prideaux Place
Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a distinguished lawyer, and was enlarged and modified by successive generations, most notably by his great-great-grandson Edmund Prideaux (1693–1745) and by the latter's grandson Rev. Charles Prideaux-Brune (1760–1833). The present building, containing 81 rooms, combines the traditional E-shape of Elizabethan architecture with the 18th-century exuberance of Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Gothic. The house contains a fine collection of works of art, including royal and family portraits, fine furniture and the Prideaux Porcelain Collection. The recently uncovered ceiling in the Great Chamber is a masterpiece of the art of the Elizabethan plasterer. In 1968 the estate comprised about 3,500 acres, excluding the St Breock estate situated abo ...
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