This is a list of persons considered by John Prince (1643–1723) sufficiently notable to warrant the inclusion of their biography in his work The Worthies of Devon.
[1] While at Berry Pomeroy, John Prince worked on his magnum opus: a biography of his home county's many notable figures, which he probably finished in 1697.
He struggled to find funding for it; most publishers able to handle such a large book were based in London or Oxbridge.
The alphabetical entries from A to H fill half the book, while L to Z are squeezed into the final quarter, as money problems took their toll on his inclusions.
A second volume, detailing 115 entries chosen by Prince to redress the balance, was never published.