John Eustace Prescott (2 January 1832 – 17 February 1920) was an Anglican priest"High Court". The Times (London, England), Monday, 11 June 1883; pg. 18; Issue 30843 and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Prescott was born in Wakefield, educated at Peterborough Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1859.Crockford's Clerical Directory p 1156: London, Horace Cox, 1908 After a curacies in Whissendine and Hawkshead he was the incumbent at St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge"Multiple News Items." Berrow's Worcester Journal (Worcester, England), Saturday, 11 July 1868; pg. 6; Issue 8645 and then St Mary's, Carlisle."Ecclesiastical". Derby Mercury (Derby, England), Wednesday, 25 April 1877; Issue 8472
He was Archdeacon of Carlisle from 1883 until his death and Chancellor of the Diocese of Carlisle from 1900.
Amongst others he wrote Everyday Scripture Difficulties, 1863 (pt 1), 1866 (pt2); The Threefold Cord, 1868; Statutes of Carlisle Cathedral, 1879; Christian hymns and hymn writers, 1883; The Clergy and Literature, 1891; and The growth of Education in England, 1898.
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