PRICE, James. b. 1814; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin; from an early age a contributor to the Dublin evening packet, with which he was officially connected, for many years as editor, 1838 to death. d. Dublin 14 Jany. 1853. The Evening Packet 15 Jany. 1853 p. 3.
PRICE, James (son of Robert Price, vicar of Shoreham, Kent). b. 1804; landscape painter; exhibited 26 pictures at R.A. 7 at B.I., and 28 at Suffolk st. 1842–76. d. 14 Woodland villas, Blackheath, Kent 23 June 1879.
PRICE, James. Formed a collection of pictures at his residence, Barcombe, Paignton, Devon chiefly of the early English school, these 91 pictures were sold at Christie’s 15 June 1895 and produced £87,143 15s., Gainsborough’s portrait of Lady Mulgrave brought 10,000 guineas, Turner’s Helvoetsluys made 6,400 guineas, and Reynold’s Lady Melbourne fetched 2,300 guineas; the dispersion of this, the finest collection of the kind ever in the market, excited great interest and the bidding was so rapid that the sale occupied only three hours; his books were sold by auction on 25–28 June 1895. d. 25 Berkeley sq. London 23 Jany. 1895, will proved for £149,382. Times 15 June 1895 p. 11; Athenæum 22 June 1895 p. 813–4; Catalogue of collection of pictures formed by J. Price (1895) with 60 illustrations.
PRICE, James (2 son of James Price of Newton park, Monkstown). b. 18 Jany. 1831; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851; engineer in chief of the Midland great western railway of Ireland 1862–77; one of three engineers to report on the purification of the Liffey 1874; an engineer in Dublin from 1877 to death; reported to government on light railways and tramways in Ireland; deputy professor of engineering Trin. coll. Dublin 1887; president of Institution of civil engineers, Ireland 1895; M.I.C.E. England 1 March 1870, Telford medal and premium for a paper On the testing of rails 1871, and a second Telford medal for a paper on Movable bridges 1879; introduced the bascule bridge into Ireland. d. Dublin 4 April 1895. Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxi 327–9 (1895).
PRICE, John (4 son of sir Rose Price, 1 baronet of Trengwainton, near Penzance 1768–1834). b. 20 Oct. 1808; a settler on the Huon river in Van Diemen’s land 1835; an adept in recapturing bushrangers; police magistrate at Hobart Town 1838–46; presented with a service of plate value £300; chief superintendent of the convict settlement at Norfolk Island 1846–53; inspector general of penal establishments and hulks in Victoria 5 June 1854 to death; struck down with a shovel and struck with stones by the convicts employed on the jetty at Williamstown, near Melbourne 26 March 1857. d. in Dr. Wilkin’s house 27 March 1857, seven of the convicts were executed for taking part in this murder. Biographical memoir of the late Mr. John Price (1857).
PRICE, John Edward. In business in Cowcross st. City of London some years; well known archæologist, especially interested in the Roman occupation of London; F.S.A. 25 May 1871; author of A descriptive account of the Guildhall of the city of London 1886; and with F. G. Hilton Price A description of the remains of Roman buildings at Morton near Brading in the Isle of Wight 1881; resided 27 Bedford place, London. d. Harvey road, Leytonstone about 25 Jany. 1892. Proc. of Soc. of Antiquaries xiv 135 (1891–3).
PRICE, Morton, (stage name of Horton Rhys). b. 1823 or 1824; an amateur actor; went to America with his wife Catherine Lucette 1859; appeared at the Metropolitan, New York 23 May 1859 as Citizen Sangfroid in Delicate Ground, and Pierre Chase in All’s fair in love and war, when he failed to please his audience; concluded his theatrical tour through Canada 15 Dec. 1859; played in the English provinces 1860–8; gave, with his wife, a musical entertainment called A double courtship at Sadler’s Wells 27 Sept. 1862; lessee of a small hall, called a theatre, in Brooklyn, New York 1868; attacked the actors and managers of America in an English journal over the nom de plume of “Imported Sparrow”; author of A theatrical trip for a wager, through Canada and the United States 1861. d. Birmingham 8 May 1876.
PRICE, Peter (brother of Benjamin Price). b. Builth, Breconshire 16 Feb. 1824; with a builder at Tredegar; a builder at Builth; head of firm of Price and Dicksee, builders and contractors, Cardiff; an advocate of the Free public library act 1853; hon. sec. of the Free library, Cardiff, the first in Wales 1861–74; member of the town council 1886; sec. of Cardiff building soc., the cashier made away with £10,000 of the money, Price gave up nearly the whole of his property to meet the deficiency; a member of the school board 5 years. d. 12 Windsor place, Cardiff 4 Oct. 1892. bur. Cardiff cemetery 7 Oct. The Accountant 15 Oct. 1892 p. 776; South Wales Daily News 5 Oct. 1892 p. 6 portrait, 8 Oct. p. 6.
PRICE, Peter Charles (son of David Price of Margate, surgeon and M.D.) b. Margate 29 Dec. 1832; educ. Chatham house, Ramsgate; entered at royal college of chemistry, London 1849; studied medicine at King’s college 1850; M.R.C.S. 1854; assistant to William Fergusson 1854; a consulting surgeon 7 Green st. Grosvenor sq. London from 1858; surgeon to Blenheim free dispensary, to the Great northern hospital, and to infirmary for Sick children at Margate; assistant surgeon at King’s college hospital 1860 to death; made a special study of excision of the knee joint; competed for the Jacksonian prize essay of the college of surgeons on A description of the diseased conditions of the knee which requires amputation of the limb, his essay refused by three ignorant surgeons; author of Contributions to the surgery of diseased joints 1859, No. 1 only; On scrofulous diseases of the external lymphatic glands 1861; The winter climate of Mentone, with hints to invalids 1862. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 13 Nov. 1864. A description of the diseased condition of the knee joint which requires amputation (1865), memoir pp. xiii–xix portrait; Medical times and gazette ii 608–10 (1864).
PRICE, Ralph. b. 8 Feb. 1780; master of Ironmongers’ co. 1834 and 1837. d. Sydenham 3 April 1860.