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Peter Prytherch was born on November 9, 1876, in Tunshill, Staffordshire, England. He had a cab proprietorship business at 10 Poplar Rd., Wrexham. He worked as a ship steward and waiter from about 1905 until 1909. He came to Canada from England in 1904, settling in Langley in about 1910. He married a woman named Annie Penningrath on June 19th, 1916. He had served in the Boer War, and served with the Canadian Engineers in the First World War. He returned to Langley in 1919, but decided in the late 1920s to stop farming; at this time he established a shoe repair business in Langley Prairie. He retired from this work in 1947, leaving it to his son Samuel to run. He was active in Langley's May Day, celebrations, Fall Fair celebrations, organizing many municipal picnics, the Canadian Veterans Association, and the Royal Canadian Legion. He died on September 18, 1955.