1860, officially retiring from the Navy on 9 June 1860. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 2 June 1869, and for a time was Justice of the Peace for Surrey. He died at his home No. 7 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London, on 18 November 1874, and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery. Personal life On 5 July 1815 he married Mary Anne Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral Philippe d'Auvergne, and had several children. His son, the Reverend Isaac Philip Prescott (d. 1898) married Caroline Mary Parke, daughter of Captain Edward Parke, RN, in 1842, and served as rector of Kelly, Devon. His daughter Henrietta (d. 1875), married Admiral Sir Stephen Lushington, and was the author of Poems, written in Newfoundland (1839) and The Sea Spirit and Other Poems (1850). His second daughter Catherine married Louis Diston Powles. See also List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador References |- 1783 births 1874 deaths People from Kew, London Royal Navy personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars Royal Navy personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Governors of Newfoundland Colony Royal Navy admirals Lords of the Admiralty Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery