John Prior

(1727-1789)

LBT ID: JoPrior1789	B/BAP: 1727-04-04 DIED: 1789-05
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (May 1789) 467; Venn
Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was assistant master at Eton (1759-89). His obituary describes him as an unassuming man bereft of patronage; his daughter Harriett Arabella married Joseph Goodall, later headmaster of Eton.
REFERENCES TO John Prior: Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, 9 October 1786 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, 30 October 1786 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Found 1: ¶ 16 Ch. VII. 1791-1796 Found 1: ¶ 5