Edwin H. Baker Pratt Explained

Birth Name:Edwin Howard Baker Pratt
Birth Date:5 June 1913
Birth Place:Glen Cove, New York, US
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts, US
Alma Mater:Harvard College
Occupation:Educator
Employer:Westminster School
Browne & Nichols School
Father:John Teele Pratt
Mother:Ruth Baker Pratt
Children:4; including Andy
Relations:Charles Pratt (grandfather)

Edwin Howard Baker Pratt (June 5, 1913  - March 18, 1975), was an American educator and headmaster of Buckingham Browne & Nichols.

Early life

On June 5, 1913, Pratt was born in Glen Cove, New York. Pratt's father was John Teele Pratt, a lawyer and financier. Pratt's mother Ruth Baker Pratt, a Republican Congresswoman. Pratt's grandfather was Charles Pratt, an oil industry pioneer. Pratt had four siblings and was named after his maternal uncle, Edwin Howard Baker, the head of Organo Chemical Company of Cambridge.[1]

In 1936, Pratt graduated from Harvard College.

Career

From 1949 to 1968, Pratt served as the headmaster of the private Browne & Nichols, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2] He was previously a teacher at the Westminster School.[3]

Personal life

In 1935, Pratt became engaged to Aileen Kelly of Massachusetts, who had been born in Monte Carlo in 1915.[4] They married in 1936 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Pittsfield,[5] and together had four children,[3] the youngest of whom is singer-songwriter Andy Pratt.

Pratt, a resident of Marion, Massachusetts, died on March 18, 1975, at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 61.[6] His widow died the following year in 1976.

Legacy

Through bequests to Buckingham Browne & Nichols, there are the Edwin H. B. Pratt Faculty Fund and the Edwin and Aileen Pratt Faculty Development Fund.

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Notes and References

  1. News: TIMES . Special to THE NEW YORK . EDWIN HOWARD BAKER; Head of Cambridge Chemical Firm, Brother of Mrs. J. T. Pratt . February 3, 2021 . . June 26, 1941.
  2. News: HEADMASTER APPOINTED; Edwin H. B. Pratt Is Named by the Browne & Nichols School . February 3, 2021 . . May 12, 1949.
  3. News: EDWIN H. B. PRATT. November 25, 2018. The New York Times. en.
  4. News: MISS AILEEN KELLY GUEST IN PITTSFIELD; She and Fiance, Edwin H. B. Pratt, Feted at Dinner by Mrs. Loring G. Robbins. . February 3, 2021 . . June 26, 1936.
  5. News: Kelly Married to Edwin H. B. Pratt In Setting of Flowers in Berkshire Hills . February 3, 2021 . . June 28, 1936.
  6. Massachusetts Death Index, 1970-2003