John Henry Augustin Prichard, later Riseley-Prichard, (17 January 1924 in Hereford – 8 July 1993 in Thailand) was a British insurance broker and racing driver. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
John Riseley-Prichard raced for several seasons in the 1950s though he is probably remembered more by the scandal over his later life.
He raced a Riley in national events in 1952 for two seasons, finishing third in a 1500 cc sports car race at Cornwall’s Davidstow circuit. He then bought a Connaught A-type from Rob Walker for 1954 and won the MRC F1 Race at Davidstow and later raced it at that year’s British GP, though spun out after 40 laps. He won in it in the F1 class at a Prescott hillclimb and an F1 race at Crystal Palace and went on to finish third in a Davidstow Libre race and at Castle Combe’s Joe Fry Memorial Trophy race. He also competed in the Snetterton Libre and the Madgwick Cup at Goodwood, plus for sports car races had a Cooper Connaught, in which he took a second and two third place finishes at Brands Hatch plus competed in it at Silverstone’s International Trophy race.
He raced in 1955’s Le Mans 24 Hours, sharing an Aston Martin DB3S with Tony Brooks, though they retired after nine hours. However, after the trauma of the race’s terrible accident, he retired from racing and concentrated on his profession as a Lloyd’s insurance broker though later in the year allowed T.Brooks to race his Connaught.
Unfortunately later in life he left Britain to evade a police investigation regarding child pornography and lived in Thailand. He eventually moved from Bangkok to a remote village and after a long illness (allegedly AIDS) he died there in 1993.
