PRIOR, The Rt Hon Baron (1927-2016)

[Richard R]

James Michael Leathes PRIOR PC s of Charles Bolingbroke Leathers PRIOR (1883-1964) and Eileen Sophia Mary (1893-1978)) d of Charles Storey GILMAN (1864-1926) and Gertrude WADSWORTH (1867-1922). He m 1954 Jane Primrose Gifford d of Air Vice-Marshall Oswyn George William Gifford LYWOOD CB CBE (1895-1957), sometime head of that gentry family of Woodlands, and Hilda Jessie (1893-1982) d of Montagu Henry FOSTER (d 1913) of Stubbington, Hampshire, and had 3 sons and a dau.

Obit in Telegraph of 13 December 2016: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/12/12/lord-prior-leading-conservative-wet-obituary/

[G. Willis]

Coincidentally, I looked into the Prior family some months back, so for anyone interested:

Charles Bolingbroke Leathes Prior was a solicitor, J.P. and Official Receiver for Norwich and Great Yarmouth. His elder son (there were also two daughters), John Gilman Leathes Prior (1915-2009), was vicar of Holy Trinity, Springfield and of Christ Church, Guildford, int. al., also serving as a Chaplain to the Forces 1941-6. He had four sons and a daughter.

C. B. L. Prior's father was Leathes Prior (b. 1854), also a solicitor; he married Fanny Ellen, dau. of Charles Nathaniel Bolingbroke.

Leathes Prior was the son of Henry Prior, a Major (perhaps later attained higher rank) in the Madras Army. Henry Prior married five times, with issue from all of these marriages except the second. Leathes Prior was the eldest of three sons from his fourth marriage (in 1852), to Amelia Mary, dau. of James Browne Tompson (seemingly the individual of that name that was a Norfolk curate). The name 'Leathes' comes from Henry Prior's second wife, who bore him no issue and presumably died after only a few years (given they married in 1836, and he married his third wife in 1841); this second wife was Elizabeth Leathes Mortlock, dau. of Sir John Cheetham Mortlock, a commissioner of excise, of a family of bankers.

The record of Henry Prior's fourth marriage gives his father's name as George Prior.

[Richard R]

Very interesting and useful additional information. Thanks.

[Richard R]

Lord Prior's death notice appeared in the Telegraph and Times of 15 December 2016: PRIOR  Jim (Lord Prior of Brampton) died peacefully at Brampton on the 12th December 2016. A Memorial Service will be held in the New Year and a further announcement will be made in due course.

[G. Willis]

Just to add one thing I previously overlooked: BLG 1952 has an entry for Prior of Adstock Manor,  the family of Charles Matthew Prior, son of Henry Prior's fifth marriage to Emily Anne, dau. of Rev. C. F. R. Baylay by his wife Anne, dau. of Sir James Lake, 4th Bt. Henry Prior, according to this record, reached the rank of Major-General (presumably in the Indian Army?)

The pedigree starts- as indicated by Henry's marriage record which I mentioned above- with George Prior, of Tewkesbury, Glos.; his elder son (Henry's brother) Rev. George Sayle Prior was rector of St Breock, Cornwall. Rev. Prior's daughter Frances Josling Prior m. Ernest Augustus Prideaux-Brune, of that gentry family.

Charles Matthew Prior's son, Edward Algernon, married Katherine Olive, dau. of Sir James Stuart-Menteth, 4th Bt.

A few more interesting connections there.

[Jelena JS]

Major-General Henry Prior, Madras Infantry, died circa 1870

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23614/page/2488/data.pdf

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