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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.
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People
Abel PrescottAbel Prescott, Jr.Abraham Prescott, 19th century New England luthierAlan Prescott, English rugby league footballerAlbert Benjamin PrescottBenjamin F. PrescottBreidis Prescott, boxerEdward C. Prescott, Nobel prize-winning economistH. F. M. Prescott, author, academic and historianHenry PrescottJacquelyn PrescottJames W. Prescott, psychologistJim Prescott, fictional character in TV series 24John Prescott, The Noble Lord Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull, British Labour politician and former Deputy Prime Minister of the United KingdomJohn Robert Victor Prescott, Australian geographerJohnathan PrescottKatherine PrescottNorm PrescottPaul PrescottPeter Prescott (disambiguation)Rebecca Minot PrescottRichard Prescott, British general who was captured twice during the American RevolutionRobert PrescottRobert Prescott (actor)Samuel Prescott, American who completed Paul Revere's midnight rideSamuel Cate Prescott, MIT dean and pioneer food technologistSidney Prescott, fictional character in the Scream trilogy of moviesStef Prescott, Filipina actressWilliam Prescott, American revolutionary commanderWilliam H. Prescott, American historianW. W. Prescott (William Warren Prescott, 1855-1944), educator and administrator in the Seventh-day Adventist ChurchAlso
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, after whom the SI unit of work, the joule, is namedSamuel P. Bush (Samuel Prescott Bush)Prescott Bush