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John Prince (biographer)
Rev. John Prince (1643–1723), vicar of Totnes and Berry Pomeroy in Devon, England, was a biographer. He is best known for his ''Worthies of Devon'', a series of biographies of Devon-born notables covering the period before the Norman Conquest to his own era. He became the subject of a sexual scandal, the court records of which were made into a book in 2001 and a play in 2005.
==Origins==
John Prince was born in 1643 in a farmhouse (now called Prince's Abbey) on the site of Newenham Abbey, in the parish of Axminster, Devon. He was the eldest son of Bernard Prince (d.1689) (to whom John erected a monument in Axminster Church) by his first wife Mary Crocker, daughter of John Crocker,〔Courtney, DNB〕 of the ancient Crocker family seated at Lyneham House in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon. Lyneham was,〔Pevsner, p.553〕 After ''Hele''〔Vivian, p.254〕 the second earliest known home of the Crocker family, one of the most ancient in Devon according to the traditional rhyme quoted by Prince himself which he called ''"that old saw often used among us in discourse"'':〔Prince, Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.274〕
''"Crocker, Cruwys,〔Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard〕 and Coplestone'',〔Coplestone of Copplestone〕
''When the Conqueror came were at home"''
John Prince had a family connection to his great contemporary John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722). Prince's father Bernard Prince had married secondly (as her second husband) to Jane Drake,〔Vivian, p.296〕 a daughter of Philip Drake of Salcombe, third in descent from John V Drake of Axmouth, father of John VI Drake (d.1558) of Ash, in the parish of Musbury. Jane was thus 3rd cousin of Sir John VIII Drake (d.1636) of Ash, the father of Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet (d.1669), whose sister was Elizabeth Drake, mother of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722).〔Vivian, pp.292-297〕 Sir John Drake, 1st Baronet (d.1669) was John Prince's godfather,〔Courtney, William Prideaux Courtney, biography of Prince, John (1643-1723), published in Dictionary of National Biography, London, 1885-1900, Volume 46, quoting: "Worseley, John, Duke of Marlborough, i. 2–6"〕 and one of Prince's ''Worthies'' was Sir Bernard Drake (d.1586) of Ash, son of John VI Drake (d.1558).
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