Extracts from the
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (now the Essex Society for
Archaeology and History).
From
‘Transactions New Series, Volume 13 Part 2’ (1913)
IN
MEMORIAM.
LEWIS
NEWCOMEN PRANCE, M.A., F.S.A.
The
death of the Rev. Lewis Newcomen Prance, which occurred in the middle of April
[1913], has deprived our Society of an old and valued member, a constant
attendant at its Council Meetings, and one who, until quite lately, but rarely
missed an archaeological excursion. He was a man of great physical activity,
and bicycled long distances swiftly and without apparent fatigue.
Mr.
Prance graduated from Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1863 and was ordained
deacon in the following year. During those two years he held an assistant
mastership of Haileybury college. From 1869 to 1872 he was rector of Ayott St.
Peter, Herts., and in the latter year went to Stapleford Tawney, which rectory
he held, together with that of Theydon Mount, until his death. Mr. Prance, in conjunction
with a friend, transcribed and edited the registers of the parish of Stapleford
Tawney, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1892,
W[illiam]
C[hapman] W[aller]
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