George Pryme
(1781-1868), Economist; MP for CambridgeSitter in 1 portrait
Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
by Charles Edward Wagstaff, published by and after Thomas Henry Gregg
mezzotint, published 1 December 1836
NPG D38917
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Flavia Swann ( Professor)
25 September 2017, 16:38
George Pryme was of Huguenot stock, originally De la Pryme. The full name was restored in the later 19thc. He was MP for Cambridge along with Thomas Spring Rice in 1832, wining 979 votes to Rice's 799. He was also the first Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, Trinity College, and the Chair in that subject was invented for him. His wife was a Thackeray and a relative of William Makepeace Thackeray.