Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet
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Sir George Prevost, 2nd Baronet (1804–1893) was an English churchman, a
Tractarian The Oxford Movement was a theological movement of high-church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the Uni ...
who became
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in 1865.


Life

The only son of Sir George Prevost, 1st Baronet, by Catherine Anne, daughter of Major-general John Phipps, he was born at
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on
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on 20 August 1804. He succeeded to the baronetcy on 5 January 1816. Matriculated at
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on 23 January 1821, he graduated B.A., taking a second class in '' literæ humaniores'', and a first class in the mathematical school in 1825. He proceeded M.A. in 1827; was ordained deacon in 1828, and then priest in 1829. Prevost was a pupil and disciple of
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, whom he frequently visited at
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; there he met Isaac Williams, whose sister Jane he married on 18 March 1828. Through life he was on good terms with his old college friend
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. He was curate to
Thomas Keble Thomas Keble (25 October 1793, in Fairford – 5 September 1875) was a Church of England clergyman, younger brother of John Keble. Keble was Vicar of Bisley, Gloucestershire from 1827 to 1873. He contributed four of the ''Tracts for the Times'', t ...
at
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, from 1828 to 1834, when he was instituted on 25 September to the
perpetual curacy Perpetual curate was a class of resident Parish (Church of England)#Parish priest, parish priest or Incumbent (ecclesiastical), incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland (name of the combined Anglican churches of England an ...
of
Stinchcombe Stinchcombe is a small village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England on the B4060 road between Dursley and North Nibley. The church is called St Cyr's and its churchyard contains 40–60 gravestones. The population taken at the 2011 ...
in the same county. Prevost was
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of
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from 1852 to 1866, and Honorary
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of the 11th (Dursley) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteer Corps,''Army List''. proctor of the
diocese of Gloucester and Bristol The Diocese of Gloucester is a Church of England diocese based in Gloucester, covering the non-metropolitan county of Gloucestershire. The cathedral is Gloucester Cathedral and the bishop is the Bishop of Gloucester. It is part of the Province ...
from 1858 to 1865, archdeacon of Gloucester from 1865 to 1881, and honorary canon of
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from 1859 until his death at Stinchcombe on 18 March 1893. He was buried in Stinchcombe churchyard on 23 March.


Works

Prevost, retiring by nature, was a consistent supporter of the Oxford movement, and contributed to ''
Tracts for the Times The Tracts for the Times were a series of 90 theological publications, varying in length from a few pages to book-length, produced by members of the English Oxford Movement, an Anglo-Catholic revival group, from 1833 to 1841. There were about a do ...
''. He translated the ''Homilies'' of
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on the
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for the ''
Library of the Fathers The ''Library of the Fathers'', more properly ''A library of fathers of the holy Catholic church: anterior to the division of the East and West'', was a series of around 50 volumes of the Church Fathers, annotated in English translation, publishe ...
'' Oxford, 1843, 3 vols. He edited the ''Autobiography of Isaac Williams'', London, 1892, and printed his archidiaconal charges and some sermons.


Family

By his wife Jane Williams, who died on 17 January 1853, Prevost had issue two sons: George Phipps (1830–1885), who held a colonel's commission in the army; and Charles, the third baronet (died 1902).


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