William Prior (priest)

The Ven. William Henry Prior , AKC was an Anglican priest: the Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1956 until 1961.

Born on 30 September 1883, he was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1908. After a curacy at Chipping Barnet he was the Rector of Beachburg, Ontario then St Barnabas’, Ottawa. Returning to England he was Vicar of Saltash from 1925 to 1956 when he took up his Archdeacon’s appointment.

He married Eleanor Rachel, 5th child and 2nd daughter of James Arthur Wellington Foley Butler, 4th Marquess of Ormonde on 1 July 1961; and held the office of Archdeacon Emeritus until his death on 17 November 1969.