The only son of Sir George Prevost, 1st Baronet, by Catherine Anne, daughter of Major-general John Phipps, he was born at Roseau on Dominica on 20 August 1804.
[1] Prevost was a pupil and disciple of John Keble, whom he frequently visited at Southrop; there he met Isaac Williams, whose sister Jane he married on 18 March 1828.
He was curate to Thomas Keble at Bisley, Gloucestershire, from 1828 to 1834, when he was instituted on 25 September to the perpetual curacy of Stinchcombe in the same county.
[1] Prevost, retiring by nature, was a consistent supporter of the Oxford movement, and contributed to Tracts for the Times.
He translated the Homilies of John Chrysostom on the Gospel of Matthew for the Library of the Fathers Oxford, 1843, 3 vols.