John Eustace Prescott (2 January 1832 – 17 February 1920) was an Anglican priest[1] and author in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
[2] Prescott was born in Wakefield, educated at Peterborough Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1859.
[3] After a curacies in Whissendine and Hawkshead he was the incumbent at St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge[4] and then St Mary's, Carlisle.
[2] 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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