Modern English biography

_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