Richard Prideaux

{{Short description|English politician}}{{Infobox Member of Parliament

| name = Richard Prideaux

| office =

| constituency_MP2 = Bodmin

| term_start2 = 1640

| term_end2 = 1640

| honorific_suffix = MP

| birth_date = 1606

| death_date = 1667 (aged 61)

| parents = Jonathan Prideaux (d. 1637)

| alma_mater = Exeter College, Oxford

| birth_place = Thuborough

| children = Jonathon Prideaux (1646–1710)

| honorific_prefix = Sir

}}

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Richard Prideaux (1606–1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

Prideaux was the son of Jonathan Prideaux (d. 1637), of Theuborough, now known as Thuborough,Vivian, Lt.Col. J.n L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 620, pedigree of Prideaux in the parish of Sutcombe, Devon. He enrolled at Exeter College, Oxford, on 13 December 1622, aged 16. He lived at Theuborough. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Bodmin in the Short Parliament.{{cite book |editor-last=Foster |editor-first=Joseph |title=Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 |year=1891 |pages=1208–1224 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119380|access-date=14 June 2013 |chapter=Prichard-Pyx}}

Prideaux died at the age of 61.{{Cite web |title=PRIDEAUX, Jonathan (c.1646-1710), of Theuborough, Sutcombe, Devon and Trecarne, St. Mabyn, Cornw. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/prideaux-jonathan-1646-1710 |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}