Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE family Rhiwlas, Merioneth, 1730-1, and Caernarvon, where he had extensive property, 1731-2. He was an antiquary; letters written by him to Charles Lyttleton between March 1745 and 1757, and dealing with antiquarian remains and with the eisteddfod held at Bala in 1747, survive in the Stowe collection in the British Museum. Five bards composed eulogistic englynion to him at an eisteddfod held at Bala, Whitsuntide, 1738
PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
PRICE, DAVID (Dewi Dinorwig; 1804 - 1874), Congregational minister and writer advocating exemption for Nonconformists from the necessity to pay Church rates. In 1857 he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he ministered, successively, at Utica, Newark (Ohio), and Williamsburgh (Ohio). He contributed poems and articles to Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd under the pen-name of Dewi Dinorwig. He paid a visit to Wales in 1868. He was the author of (1) Y Catechism Cyntaf (Oswestry, 1840); (2) Darlith
PRICE, HUGH (1495? - 1574), founder and first benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford the founder; he left land to the value of £60 per annum to the college. He died in August 1574 (his will, dated 8 August, was proved 31 August), and was buried in Brecon priory.
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches king. He was appointed registrar of Salisbury cathedral, 1534, and obtained leases of the rectory of Llanfihangel 'Orarth' (Iorath), Carmarthenshire 1536-7, and Brecon priory, 1537-8, and he purchased S. Guthlac's priory, in Hereford, where he took up residence. He was made secretary of the affairs of the Crown in Wales and the Marches in 1540, holding the office until his death. A dispute arising
PRICE, JOHN (1735 - 1813), Bodley's librarian, Oxford made many benefactions. He resided at S. Giles; died 12 August 1813, and was buried at Wilcote on 20 August. He wrote A Short Account of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey, 1783. This was No. 10 of Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. He also contributed an article to Archaeologia, vol. 8, entitled ' An Account of a bronze image of Roman workmanship.' Many of his letters were published in Nichols
PRICE, ROBERT (1655 - 1733), judge Born 14 January 1655, second son of Thomas Price, Giler, Cerrigydrudion, by his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Thomas Wynne of Bwlchybeudy in the same parish. From Ruthin school he went to S. John's College, Cambridge, 28 March 1672; he left without graduating, was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 8 May 1673, and qualified as a barrister in July 1679. A useful (and quite interesting) biography
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary Born 2 October 1787 at Pencaerelin in Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Brecknock, the younger son of Rice Price, vicar of Llanwrthyl in that county from 1789 to his death in 1810, and of Mary Bowen of Pencaerelin, the daughter of a vicar. In his home he heard not only the songs and traditions of the peasantry but also the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym and occasionally the strains of the harp. He attended
PRICE, THOMAS (1857 - 1925), composer, adjudicator and teacher of music as a conductor of singing festivals. In 1896 he was appointed visiting music-master in the new intermediate schools of Glamorgan. He died 8 July 1925.
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant Monmouth tradition. According to Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), he wrote in defence of the British history in answer to bishop William Lloyd, 8 December 1681, and also in answer to a work by Sir George Mackenzie. In the Brogyntyn collection there is a letter of 13 March 1681 by him in which he discusses books of travel. On 15 March 1685, when interrupted in London on a proposed journey to Italy by invitation
PRICE, WILLIAM (1597 - 1646), cleric published as Oratio funebris habita Oxoniae 22 April 1624 in laudem Doctoris White … Price joined with others to make a protest to the king against the appointment of bishop Laud as chancellor of Oxford in 1630. On 10 February 1631/2 he was instituted to the rectory of Dolgelley, Meironethshire. He married Margaret, daughter of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, the eminent antiquary. Price died at Dolgelley, and

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