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at the age of seventy-four years. He was born in London in
1840, and was educated at Aldenham School, Hertfordshire.
From the first his energies were devoted to our Eastern
Empire. He served in the India Office in 1859, joined the
Bombay Infantry as an ensign the following year, and was
promoted in 1862. He was assistant Political Kesident at
Aden in 1864, and was attached to the Bombay Staff Corps
the following year. He took part in Mr. Eassam's Mission to
King Theodore of Abyssinia in 1864, and from some time
in 1866 till April, 1868, was kept in captivity at Magdala
by order of the King.
Lieutenant Prideaux received the medal for the Abyssinian
campaign and was made Political Agent at Zanzibar 1873.
He was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Government
of India in the Foreign Department in 1875, and filled the
position till 1879. He was Political Agent at Bhopal in
1879-80. Subsequently he was Agent
to the Governor-
General with the ex-King of Oudh, and Superintendent of
Political Pensions at Calcutta, and officiating Kesident in
the East Kajputana States in 1882-83. He was afterwards
Resident at Jaipur, acting Resident in Kashmir, and Resident
in Mewar, reaching the rank of Colonel in 1890. In 1893-94
Colonel Prideaux was acting Agent to the Governor- General
in Rajputana, and in 1894-95 again Resident in Jaipur.
He was nominated a Companion of the Star of India in
January, 1895, reverted to the military department in April,
1895, and was placed on the unemployed supernumerary list
in 1898. He was the author of Tlie Lay of the Himyarites,
an edition of ihe Letters of S. T. Coleridge and Bibliographies
of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, of Coleridge and
E. Fitzgerald, and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society. He had been a member of our Society since 1878.
To the Numismatic Chronicle for 1884 he contributed an
important article on the coinage of Axum, previously quite
he also contributed a number of articles on the
unstudied ;