Modern English biography

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.