Some notes from Timothy Stunt included by kind permission ...
Arthur Wellesley Pridham (29 June 1815-1879) and his older brother Charles (19 Dec 1812-1886) were the fifth and fourth sons (respectively) of Joseph Pridham (1772-1828) and his wife Maria (née Dawkins, 1775-1855) of Northview House, Plymouth.
Charles matriculated at Oxford University in 1832 from Exeter College (where B W Newton was still a Fellow) graduating B.A. in 1836. His sister Caroline married [23 June 1831] Henry Borlase (1806-35, the first editor of the 'Christian Witness'), and, as a widow, in 1841 with her eight year old son George, was living with her bachelor brothers, Charles and Arthur ('Private teachers'), in Cobourg Street, Plymouth. Later in that year [1841 Census] Charles married Susannah Rachel Prideaux (whose sister, Sarah Anna had married Samuel Prideaux Tregelles in 1839), and for some years (1850s and 60s) Charles lived in Newport, County Mayo, but by 1881 [Census] they were living in Westbury, Bristol.
In 1851 [Census], Arthur (described as a 'preceptor') was living with his widowed mother in Plymouth, but, having married [1857] Amy Eales (1839-98 some twenty years younger than him) he was taking pupils at Montpellier St, Cheltenham in December 1858. In 1861 [Census] he was back in Devon (a 'private classical teacher' in East Budleigh, near Exeter), and was tutoring two pupils in his home, Alfred T Schofield (aged 14) and his younger brother Harold (aged 10).
In February 1867 (described as a 'Private Tutor') he was adjudicated bankrupt in Plymouth and was granted an order of discharge in May of the same year. By census time in 1871 he was a 'Private Tutor' in Weston-super-mare. So both brothers seem to have spent their last years in the Bristol area. I suspect that Arthur was given the names Arthur Wellesley in honour of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, who was victorious at Waterloo, ten days before Arthur Pridham's birth.
MONDAY, APR 24, 2017 : 18:53; corrected and annotated AUG 30, 2023
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A schoolteacher by profession, little is known of Arthur Wellesley Pridham. He appears to have been in fellowship among assemblies in the middle period of the 19th century in Rochdale and Weston-super-Mare. His work drew appreciative comments from William Kelly, Charles Spurgeon and others. They described his writings as "not unprofitable", "sound and gracious".
The author, fell asleep in Jesus, after a brief illness, on the 3d February, 1879, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
"The main value of this work is to be found in its pious and practical 'reflections,' and in the clear and connected outline given of the apostles reasoning, and their application to the subject in hand." – The Rock.
"Mr. Pridham does not pretend to critical research, but he illustrates the sacred Word in a plain, practical, and devotional way; so that we doubt not the volume will be found instructive and profitable to the reader." – Church of England Magazine.
"A great amount of most precious truth and able criticism. Both the tone and substance are of a very superior kind." – Quarterly Journal of Prophecy.
"Arthur Pridham's most valuable works on Romans, Ephesians, and Hebrews, are full of the freshest views of divine truth, and are quite a treasure." – British Herald.
Pridham's Notes on the Psalms was first published by Binns and Goodwin in 1852, and the second edition by James Nisbet in 1869.