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PRICE, JOHN, son of Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Dartford, Kent, and Lettice --- (IGI); bapt. Dartford, Kent 28 Sep 1692; adm.; BB 1707; QS (aged 15) 1708; left 1712; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 May 1712, aged 18, Newman Scholar 6 Apr 1714, matr. 1714; BA 1715/6; MA 1719; ordained deacon 1714, priest 1716 (both Rochester); Head Master, King’s Sch., Rochester 1720/1 (or 1729 ?) – 39 (?); Vicar of Northfleet, Kent 1720-1; Rector of Orlestone, Kent, from 1728; Vicar of Halling, Kent, from 1729; Vicar of Chalk, Kent, from 1740; d. 11 Sep 1751.

PRICE, JOHN; b. London 1600; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, Westminster Student to 1622, but did not matr.; became a Roman Catholic; accompanied Hon. Thomas Howard to Italy, where he obtained LLD degree; went to Ireland with Lord Strafford and bacame a friend of Archbishop Ussher; edited the Apologia of Apuleius, published at Paris in 1635; made excerpts from the Greek MSS in the Imperial Library at Vienna 1637; wrote pamphlets in royalist interest during Civil War, for which he was briefly imprisoned; went abroad; settled at Florence c. 1652 as Keeper of Medals to Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Professor of Greek, Univ. Pisa; moved to Rome, where he found a patron in Cardinal Francesco Barberini; a fine scholar, and, according to Wood, “the greatest critic of his time” (Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 1105); author of two books on Apuleius, published 1635 and 1650, and other works; d. at Rome c. 1676. DNB.

PRICE, JAMES; b.; adm. 22 Jan 1773; in school lists 1780.

PRICE, HOWELL, son of David Price, Breconshire; b.; adm.; KS 1686; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1689, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690; 3rd in “ordo” 1692/3; BA 1692/3; MA 1696; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1695, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1696 – c. 1699.

PRICE, HERBERT; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1743/4; left 1748. [Perhaps Herbert Price, Cornet, 4th Dragoons 22 Apr 1757]

Price, Harry Sibree, son of W. H. Price, of Handsworth, Staffs; b. Aug. 30, 1891; adm. from the Abbey Choir School Sept. 24, 1908 (A); left Easter 1910; organ scholar, Exeter Coll. Oxon., 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; Capt. 16th Batt. London Regt. April 28, 1916; served in France 1915-9; mentioned in despatches L.G. Jan. and June 1917; M.C. Jan. 1, 1918; m.; d. 1961.

PRICE, GEORGE; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1812; left 14 May 1816.

PRICE, FRANCIS PARRY, only son of Richard Parry Price FRS, Bryn-y-Pys, Flintshire, and his first wife Dorothy, dau. of Sir John Byrne, Bart.; b. 19 Nov 1761; adm. 16 Sep 1771; in school lists 1775; m. Francisca, elder dau. of Rev. Henry Offley Wright, Mottram, Cheshire; d. 1787.

Price, ---; Usher in 1698 (HMC Egmont ii, 190). [presumably PRICE, ELLIS, son of Andrew Ellis, Dublin ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 21 Mar 1692/3, aged 18 ; BA 1699 (sic) ; MA 1700 ; ordained ; presumably “Eliseus Price”, licensed as schoolmaster at Isleworth, Middlesex 3 Nov 1702; Rector of Ysceifiog, Flintshire, from 4 Jul 1704 (successor instituted 6 Mar 1762) ; Rector of Holywell, Flintshire, from Feb 1711 (successor instituted 21 Sep 1763) ; “he had been in his younger days an Assistant at Westminster School under the celebrated Dr Busby, and became the most eminent Schoolmaster in North Wales” (Willis, Survey of St.Asaph, 1801, 427) ; described by Rev.Thomas Wilson as “a notable schoolmaster, very stiff and precise” (Wilson, Diaries, 1964, 32) ; m. Ursula, dau. of Roger Mostyn, Kilken Hall, Flints. ; buried Bagillt, Flints. 9 Feb 1762].

PRICE, EDWARD, son of Rev. Hugh Price, St. Peter’s Bailey, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1719, aged 19, but not adm. as Westminster Student.