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

Buckingham Browne & Nichols

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is a private school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Charles River. The school educates students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. It was established by a merge of two independent schools, the Buckingham School founded...

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Early life

Pratt was born in Glen Cove, New York

Glen Cove, New York

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 in 1913, the son of lawyer and financier John Teele Pratt

John Teele Pratt

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 and Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt

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; and grandson of oil industry pioneer Charles Pratt

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He was the fourth of five children. His brothers-in-law were Paul Nitze

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 and Robert H. Thayer

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Pratt studied at Harvard College

Harvard College

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, graduating in the class of 1936.

Career

He was headmaster of the private Browne & Nichols, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols

Buckingham Browne & Nichols

Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, often referred to as BB&N, is a private school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Charles River. The school educates students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. It was established by a merge of two independent schools, the Buckingham School founded...

, in Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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 from 1959 (or earlier) to 1968.

Personal life

Pratt became engaged to Aileen Kelly, from Massachusetts (born in Monte Carlo, 1915, died 1976) in 1935, and they had four children, the youngest of which is singer-songwriter Andy Pratt

Andy Pratt (singer-songwriter)

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Pratt died 18 March 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 61.

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.

External links

• Edwin Pratt's 1931 passport from www.passportland.com