Humphry, a learned clergyman of the church of England, was born at Padstow in Cornwall in 1648. He studied three years at Westminster under Dr Buxby; and then was removed to Christchurch, Oxford. Here he published, in 1676, his Marmora Oxoniensis ex Arundelianis, Seldenianis, aliquid confusa, cum perpetuo Commentario. This introduced him to the lord chancellor Finch, afterward earl of Nottingham, who in 1679 presented him to the rectory of St Clements near Oxford, and in 1681 bestowed on him a prebend of Norwich. Some years after he was engaged in a controversy with the Papists at Norwich, concerning the validity of the orders of the church of England, which produced his book upon that subject. In 1688 he was installed in the archdeaconry of Suffolk; to which he was collated by Dr Lloyd, then bishop of Norwich. In 1691, upon the death of Dr Edward Pococke, the Hebrew professorship at Oxford being vacant, was offered to Dr Prideaux, but he refused it. In 1697, he published his Life of Mahomet, and in 1702 was installed dean of Norwich. In 1710 he was cut for the stone, which interrupted his studies. PRIDEAUX for more than a year. Some time after his return to London, he proceeded with his Connection of the History of the Old and New Testament; which he had begun when he laid aside the design of writing the History of Appropriations. He died in 1724.