David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Professor Pryme was elected one of the M.P.’s for the borough of Cambridge in December 1832 (population, 14,300; number of voters, about 245) . He was twice re-elected by the largely increased constituency, and retired from Parliament at the dissolution in 1841. He was a useful member of the House of Commons, and spoke clearly and sensibly; he was sometimes called upon to preside when the House was in Committee on a non-official legislator’s Bill. He wrote, chiefly from memory, some of his experiences in the House. ”

“ He had a strong veneration for his old Protestant ancestors, and revived the true spelling of their surname in the person of his son. He died at Wistow, being the senior member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, on the 2d December 1868, aged eighty-seven. ”

“ His country house was Wistow, in Huntingdonshire. He had married, in 1813, Jane Townley Thackeray, daughter of Thomas Thackeray, late surgeon in Cam bridge, and sister of Dr. Frederick Thackeray, physician in Cambridge. He had two children, Alicia (Mrs. Bayne) , and Charles De la Pryme, Esq., of the Inner Temple, M.A. of Cambridge, barrister-at-law. It is to be regretted that Professor Pryme was not a more prolific author. He was a man of great natural powers and of varied learning, a successful barrister, and a competent professor. ”