_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.
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.
PRICE, SIR RICHARD GREEN-, 1 Baronet (son of George Green
1769–1819). _b._ Cannon bridge, Madely, Herefordshire 18 Oct.
1803; practised as solicitor 34 years; assumed the name of Price
28 Feb. 1861; treasurer of Radnorshire 1850–61; M.P. Radnor
boroughs April 1863 to Feb. 1869; contested Radnorshire 13 Feb.
1874; M.P. co. Radnor 1880–5; created a baronet 23 March 1874;
sheriff of Radnorshire 1876. _d._ Norton manor, Presteign,
Radnorshire 11 Aug. 1887. _bur._ Norton 14 Aug.
PRICE, SIR ROBERT, 2 Baronet (only son of sir Uvedale Price,
1 baronet 1747–1829). _b._ Foxley, co. Hereford 3 Aug. 1786;
M.P. co. Hereford 1818–41; M.P. city of Hereford 1845 to Jany.
1857; succeeded his father 14 Sept. 1829. _d._ 11 Stratton st.
Piccadilly, London 5 Nov. 1857.
PRICE, WALTER. _b._ Ruddington, Notts. 9 Oct. 1834; played in
the Notts’ cricket eleven 1869–70; member of the ground staff at
Lords’ 1868–76; cricket coach at Rugby 1876; one of the regular
umpires of the Marylebone cricket club latterly. _d._ 4 Sept.
1894.
PRICE, WILLIAM. _b._ near Rhydri, near Caerphilly,
Glamorganshire 4 March 1800; educ. St. Bartholomew’s and the
London hospitals; L.S.A. and M.R.C.S. 1821; in practice at
Treforest and then at Llantrissant, near Cardiff; joined the
Chartist agitation of Nov. 1839, after the defeat of John
Frost escaped to France disguised as a woman; studied ancient
Welsh literature so assiduously that his mind became weakened,
imagined that he was the archdruid in direct descent from
Treharne Brydydd, who flourished in 1300; on his head he wore a
whole fox skin, the head ears and tail included, he had light
green trousers, a scarlet vest with gold buttons, and a light
green cloak deeply scolloped around the border; took Gwenllian
Llewellyn to be his housekeeper and wife 1882, named his son
Iesus Grist, the son dying he attempted to cremate the body at
the High Green fields near Llantrissant, the police interfered
and took him into custody, tried at Cardiff assizes where Mr.
Justice Stephen ruled that he had not violated any law and he
was discharged; spent much money in litigation; had two other
children Iesus Grist and Penelopen Elizabeth. _d._ Ty Cletar,
near Llantrissant 23 Jany. 1893, his body cremated at Cae’r Llan
hill 31 Jany. in presence of many people, the ashes distributed
over the ground, personal estate sworn under £100. _Western
Mail, Cardiff 24 Jany. 1893 p._ 6 _portrait_, _25 Jany. p._
6, _27 Jany. p._ 7, _1 Feb. p._ 6 _two views of cremation,
likenesses of widow and 2 children_; _Graphic xxix_ 100 (1884)
_portrait_; _I.L.N. 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 138 _portrait_; _Black and
White 4 Feb. 1893 p._ 154 _portrait_; _Times 25 Jany. 1893 p._
6, _1 Feb. p._ 10; _Law Reports, Queen’s bench division xii_
247–56 (1884).
PRICE, WILLIAM EDWIN (only son of William Philip Price, railway
commissioner). _b._ 10 Jany. 1841; educ. Eton 1850–6; matric.
from univ. of London 1857, B.A. 1859; at royal military academy
Woolwich; lieut. 36 regt., retired Feb. 1865; capt. Royal south
Gloucester militia 27 Dec. 1867, major 21 June 1880 to death;
M.P. Tewkesbury 1868–80; M.P. Tewkesbury April 1880 but election
declared void. _d._ Tibberton, near Gloucester 10 Feb. 1886.
_Times 11 Feb. 1886 p._ 12.
PRICE, WILLIAM PHILIP (son of William Price of Gloucester). _b._
1817; a timber merchant of Gloucester and Grimsby, the firm
being Price, Walker and Co. limited; sheriff of Gloucester 1848;
M.P. city of Gloucester 1852–9; M.P. Gloucester 30 April 1859,
unseated on petition; M.P. Gloucester 1865–73; deputy chairman
of Midland railway 1864–70, chairman 1870, resigned May 1873; a
railway commissioner 2 Aug. 1873 to death. _d._ Tibberton court,
near Gloucester 31 March 1891.
PRICHARD, HENRY (son of George Prichard of Clapham, Surrey,
solicitor). _b._ 1811; educ. Dr. Burney’s school, Greenwich;
admitted solicitor 1834; secretary to Society for suppression
of vice, London 1836–69; chief clerk to V.C. sir Richard Malins
1869 to death. _d._ 14 Stanley gardens, Kensington park, London
5 March 1873. _Law Times liv_ 409 (1873).
PRICHARD, ILTUDUS THOMAS (5 son of James Cowles Prichard, M.D.
of Bristol). _b._ 16 Dec. 1826; educ. Rugby 1843; ensign 15
Bengal N.I. 16 April 1846, lieut. 15 Nov. 1848 to 1859; edited
the Delhi gazette with great success; a pleader in the high
court at Agra; barrister G.I. 9 June 1865; author of How to
manage it, a novel, 3 vols. 1864; The mutinies in Rajpootana,
being personal narrative of the mutiny at Nusseerabad, with
residence at Jodhpore 1860; The administration of India from
1859 to 1868, 2 vols. 1869; The chronicles of Budgepore, or
sketches of life in Upper India, 2 vols. 1870; translated and
supplemented J. L. E. Ortolan’s The history of Roman law 1871.
_d._ Dera Doon, Himalayas 23 Dec. 1874.
PRICKETT, LANCELOT GEORGE (son of Thomas Prickett of
Bridlington, Yorkshire). _b._ 15 Dec. 1856; educ. Engineering
coll. at Cooper’s hill 1875, fellow 1878; assistant engineer in
public works department, India 1879; his service lent to the
Indian midland railway co. 1887; assistant sec. to government in
the railway branch of public works department May 1892 to death;
executive engineer Nov. 1892; a member of Calcutta light horse;
hon. sec. to Simla Fine arts club; A.I.C.E. 6 Feb. 1883. _d._
Calcutta 27 Feb. 1895. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. C.E. cxxii_
399–400 (1895).
PRIDEAUX, CHARLES GREVILE (son of Neast Grevile Prideaux,
solicitor, Bristol). _b._ 19 Dec. 1810; educ. Balliol coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. and M.T. 2 May 1836;
Q.C. 13 Dec. 1866; bencher of Lincoln’s inn 11 Jany. 1867 to
death, and treasurer 1884; recorder of Helston June 1868 to Nov.
1876; recorder of Exeter 15 Nov. 1876 to Dec. 1879; recorder
of Bristol Dec. 1879, with a salary of £500 a year, to death;
author of A practical guide to the duties of church-wardens
1841, 16 ed. 1895; The act to amend the law for the registration
of voters 1843, 2 ed. 1851. _d._ Holland lodge, Portland
terrace, Regent park, London 18 June 1892.
PRIDEAUX, FANNY ASH (2 dau. of Richard Ball, of Portland House,
Kingsdown, Gloucestershire). _m._ at Clifton 14 April 1853
Frederick Prideaux; author of Claudia, a poem 1865; The nine
days’ queen, a dramatic poem 1869; Philip Molesworth and other
poems 1886; Basil the Iconoclast, a drama of modern Russia