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    Robert Prentice of Scotland and Brazil
    By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
    Fall 2006 and Revised 17 Sep 2010

    We received an email of 18 Aug 2006 from Pedro Moreira who is researching Robert Prentice of Brazil. Here is what we have so far:

    1. Robert Prentice was an Architect or Engineer, b. c. 1870s or 1880s, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who played a very important role in the modernization of the Architecture in Rio at the beginning of the 20th century in the 1920s and 1930s. For an example, see #17 at http://www.bndes.gov.br/english/projects3.asp .

    So far we have no further information about him, other than that he apparently was Scottish and that he worked with a partner, an Austrian named Anton Floderer, b. 1884.

    We do note the possibility that Robert may have had 2 or more children:

    • On 24 Jan 1942, Capt. George Prentice, R.A., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Prentice of Rio de Janeiro m. Jean Tait in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was the dau. of "the late J. A. T. Tait and Mrs. Tait of Inveralmond, Ctraigs Avenue, Edinburgh.

    • On 26 Jun 1948 at St. Katharine's Church, Merstham, Surrey, a few miles south of London, Ronald Russell Prentice, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Prentice of Rio de Janeiro and 13 Monk's Drive, N.W.3, was m. to Sonia Clary, only dau. of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Bowring of the Georgian House, Merstham, Surrey. (They had a son, Flying Officer Norman Harvey Bowring, RAF, who went missing from air operations in Dec 1943 and was believed dead.) Ronald and Sonia had 1 or more children, including:
      1. Robert Ronald Prentice, b. 23 Sep 1952. His parents were identified as Ronald R. Prece and Sonia (nee Borwring) of Villa Anna 10 Rue du Marechal Gallieni, Sevres, France.

    Who are Robert Prentice's Parents?

    Whether Geprge and Ronald Russell Prentice are related to Robert Prentice the Architect or Engineer needs further investigation.

    There seems a chance that Robert Prentice is #5vi in our Fall 2001 article about John Prentice of Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland .

    We have no present evidence that he worked in Brazil, but his South American connection raises that possibility and the time frame seems to fit.

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