PRICE, Andrew (son of Roger Price of Leigh, Essex). b. Lee, Kent 23 July 1754; educ. Magd. coll. Oxf., chorister 1767–72, usher of the school 1772–88; B.A. 1775, M.A. 1778; ordained deacon 22 Sept. 1776, priest 20 Dec. 1778; chaplain of Ch. Ch. Oxf. and of bishop Warner’s coll. at Bromley 1778–1800; R. of Britwell Salome, Gloucs. 1782 to death; V. of Down Ampney, Gloucs. 1778 to death. d. Britwell Salome 7 June 1851.
PRICE, Annie, her maiden name was Annie Allen. b. County Tyrone, Ireland 1842; weighed 245 lbs. in 1856, afterwards scaled 525 lbs., fell to 400 before her death; travelled with Adam Forepaugh’s circus in U.S. of America; exhibited in the museums about Gotham, New York; m. (1) Mr. Pettit, who died leaving her with 2 children; m. (2) at 210 Bowery, New York an Albino. d. New York Nov. 1889, lay in state in an ice box at 19 Bayard st. New York. bur. Greenwood cemetery.
PRICE, Astley Paston (3 son of Dr. Price of Margate). b. 1826; studied chemistry at Giessen under Justus von Liebig and took the Ph.D. degree; studied in Paris under Théopile J. Pelouze; assistant to Dr. August W. Hofman at Royal college of chemistry, London 1845; held an appointment in the School of mines; chemist in the silver works of Dillwyn and Co. Swansea 1851–7; a consulting chemist in London from 1857; had much practice in chemical patent cases, conducted the case Young v. Fernie in which the validity of Young’s patent for making parafine oil was maintained; took out patents for manufacture of sugar, the treatment of metals and ores, the distillation of carbonaceous materials and the treatment of sewage; F.C.S.; A.I.C.E. 23 May 1865. d. Margate 3 April 1886. Report on Forbes and Price’s patent process for deodorizing sewage of towns (1871); Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii 458–60 (1886).
PRICE, Benjamin (eld. son of Isaac Price of Builth). b. Wales 1804; in a business house in Worcester to 1822; a presbyterian minister 1830; minister of a Free church, Christ church, Ilfracombe 1845 to death; the various Free churches of England united in 1863 and he was elected the first bishop president and consecrated in London Aug. 1876 by bishop Cridge of the Reformed episcopal church in America. d. Horne villa, Ilfracombe 6 Jany. 1896.
PRICE, Bonamy (eld. son of Frederick Price of St. Peter’s Port, Guernsey). b. St. Peter’s Port 22 May 1807; educ. Worcester coll. Oxf., scholar 1828–35, double first class 1829; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; mathematical master at Rugby 1830, classical master 1832–8, in charge of the form known as The Twenty 1838–50; served on the commissions on Scottish fisheries, the queen’s colleges in Ireland, agriculture and the depression of trade; Drummond professor of political economy at Oxford 6 Feb. 1868 to death; president of economical section of Social science congress at Cheltenham 1878 and Nottingham 1882; honorary fellow of Worcester coll. Oxf. 1883 to death; author of Suggestions for the extension of professorial teaching in the university of Oxford 1850; The principles of currency, six lectures delivered at Oxford 1869; Currency and banking 1876; Chapters on practical political economy 1878, 2 ed. 1882. d. London 8 Jany. 1888. Temple Bar Aug. 1888 pp. 494–508; I.L.N. 21 Jany. 1888 p. 58 portrait.
PRICE, Charles (eld. son of Thomas Price, vicar of Merriott, near Crewkerne, Somerset). b. Merriott 1776; educ. Ilminster and Wadham coll. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, M.B. 1802, M.D. 1804; fellow of his college to 1821; admitted candidate of coll. of physicians 1 Oct. 1804, fellow 30 Sept. 1805, censor 1807, delivered the Harveian oration 1820; physician to Middlesex hospital 19 June 1807 to 16 May 1815, practised at Brighton 1815 to death; physician extraordinary to William 4, 23 Aug. 1832. d. Brighton 8 Sept. 1853. Munk’s Roll of coll. of Physicians iii 25 (1878).
PRICE, David. b. 1790; entered navy 1 Jany. 1801; present at battle of Copenhagen 2 April 1801; captain 13 June 1815; commanded the Portland in the Mediterranean 1834–8; granted the order of the Redeemer of Greece; superintendent of Sheerness dockyard 1846–50; R.A. 6 Nov. 1850; commander-in-chief in the Pacific 17 Aug. 1853 to death; shot himself on board the President, 50 guns, off Petropaulovski in Kamchatka 30 Aug. 1854. bur. on shore on the opposite side of the bay 1 Sept. A.R. (1854) 403, Part ii pp. 199, 540.
PRICE, Edward. b. 10 June 1816; 2 lieut. R.A. 19 Dec. 1834, colonel 31 Aug. 1865, col. commandant 27 June 1883 to death; inspector and purchaser of horses for the remounts of the R.A. 4 April 1865 to 31 March 1876; M.G. 28 June 1868, L.G. 27 May 1880; placed on retired list with hon. rank of general 1 July 1881; C.B. 21 March 1859. d. 13 Gledhow gardens, South Kensington, London 13 Aug. 1887.
PRICE, Edward. b. 1840; a printer in Birmingham; a member of Mrs. Jessie Pollock’s stock company in Aberdeen where he became a favourite; a member of Chatterton’s company at Drury Lane; m. Emma Ryder, dau. of Mrs. Pollock by her first husband Corbet Ryder; with his wife lessees of the old theatre Marischal st. Aberdeen 1869–73, where he produced Little Em’ly (in which he acted with success Micawber). The Rivals, and The Prompter’s box; travelled with Isabel Batemen’s company; acted at Greenock John Grist in Jane Shore, Cheal in The Profligate, and David Deans in Jeanie Deans. d. from a fracture of his ankle Greenock infirmary 8 Feb. 1895. bur. Greenock. J. K. Angus’ A Scotch play-house, Aberdeen (1878) 49; Life of E. L. Blanchard i 272, 340, ii 490, 722 (1891).
PRICE, George Uvedale. b. 3 April 1821; ensign 1 Bombay N.I. 2 May 1840, captain 5 July 1849; captain 3 Bombay European regiment 15 Nov. 1853, major 16 July 1864; lieut. col. Bombay staff corps 12 Sept. 1866; placed on unemployed supernumerary list 1 July 1881; M.G. 1 July 1881; L.G. 14 Jany. 1887. d. St. Leonard’s 7 Dec. 1891.