William Francis Prideaux (1840–1914)

A colonel in the British Indian Army, W. F. Prideaux served in India for much of his career, especially in the Foreign and Political Departments. After his retirement from the army in 1895, decorated CSI, he lived in Kent, where he pursued scholarly work. Besides archaeological papers, he published bibliographies of Edward Fitzgerald (1901) and of Robert Louis Stevenson (1903) (“Prideaux, Col. William Francis”; “Col. W. F. Prideaux”).