Prescott
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Prescott is of English origin; habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English preost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.[1]
Prescott may refer to:
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[edit] People
- Abel Prescott
- Abel Prescott, Jr.
- Abraham Prescott, 19th century New England luthier
- Alan Prescott, English rugby league footballer
- Albert Benjamin Prescott
- Benjamin F. Prescott
- Breidis Prescott, boxer
- Edward C. Prescott, Nobel prize-winning economist
- H. F. M. Prescott, author, academic and historian
- Henry Prescott
- Jacquelyn Prescott
- James W. Prescott, psychologist
- Jim Prescott, fictional character in TV series 24
- John Prescott, The Noble Lord Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull, British Labour politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- John Robert Victor Prescott, Australian geographer
- Johnathan Prescott
- Katherine Prescott
- Norm Prescott
- Paul Prescott
- Peter Prescott (disambiguation)
- Rebecca Minot Prescott
- Richard Prescott, British general who was captured twice during the American Revolution
- Robert Prescott
- Robert Prescott (actor)
- Samuel Prescott, American who completed Paul Revere's midnight ride
- Samuel Cate Prescott, MIT dean and pioneer food technologist
- Sidney Prescott, fictional character in the Scream trilogy of movies
- Stef Prescott, Filipina actress
- William Prescott, American revolutionary commander
- William H. Prescott, American historian
- W. W. Prescott (William Warren Prescott, 1855-1944), educator and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Also
- James Prescott Joule, English physicist, after whom the SI unit of work, the joule, is named
- Samuel P. Bush (Samuel Prescott Bush)
- Prescott Bush
[edit] Places
- Canada
- Prescott, Ontario
- Prescott Island, Nunavut
- USA
- Prescott, Arizona
- Prescott College, a small liberal arts school specializing in environmental studies
- Prescott, Arkansas
- Prescott and Northwestern Railroad, a railroad in southwest Arkansas
- Prescott, Iowa
- Prescott, Kansas
- Prescott, Massachusetts, former town
- Prescott, Michigan
- Prescott, Oregon
- Prescott, Washington
- Prescott, Wisconsin
- Prescott Township, Minnesota
- United Kingdom
- Prescott, Gloucestershire, parish in Gloucestershire
- Prescot, Merseyside
[edit] Other uses
- Prescott, the code name of a generation of Intel Pentium 4 processors
- Prescott Speed Hillclimb, a motorsport event in Gloucestershire, England
- Prescott Pharmaceuticals, a fictional medical company used by Stephen Colbert on the segment "Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA" on The Colbert Report
- Prescott Observatory, an astronomical observatory in Arizona
[edit] See also
- Prescot, town in Merseyside, England
[edit] References
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