PRICE, JOHN, brother of William Price (left 1769, qv); b.; in school list Jun 1764; KS (aged 14) 1769; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Apr 1775.
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, 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, 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.
PRICE, EDWARD, son of John Price, Bodfari, Flintshirte; b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 19, Westminster Student to c. 1639; BA 1625; MA 1628 (incorp. Cambridge 1639); ordained; Vicar of Carleton in Craven, Yorkshire, from 16 Apr 1638; also Vicar of Featherstone, Yorks., in 1638; m.; d. 1674.
PRICE, DAVID, son of William Price, Flint; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1688, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1689; BA 1691/2; Usher at Felsted School, Essex, from 1693; ordained; Rector of Hatfield Peverel, Essex 1702; d. 1731.
PRESTON, ISAAC, son of Isaac Preston, Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk, and his second wife Hester, dau. of Jonathan Pettingall, Hempnall, Norfolk; bapt. Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk 21 Jul 1754 (IGI); in school lists 1764; KS (aged 13) 1767; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, but went to Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jul 1772; BA 1776; MA 1779; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Jun 1769, called to bar 15 Jun 1781; Recorder of King’s Lynn; d. unm. 1 May 1796.
PRESTON, GEORGE, son of George Preston (adm. 1769, qv); b. ; in school list 1801; KS (aged 14) 1805; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1809, adm. pens. 13 May 1809, scholar 1810; BA 1813; MA 1821; ordained; Curate, Shotley and Harkstead, Suffolk 1815; an Usher at the School Oct 1818 – Jun 1826, Under Master from Jun 1826; Chaplain to Foundling Hospital 1820; Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, from 11 Dec 1829; m. 19 Aug 1822 Emma, dau. of Richard Van Heythuysen, John Street, Bedford Row, London, solicitor; d. 6 Sep 1841, aged 50. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey (memorial tablet in Dark Cloister).
PRESTON, GEORGE HENRY, eldest son of George Preston (KS 1805, qv); b. 2 May 1823; adm. 28 Jun 1830; KS 1837; Capt. of the School 1841; left 1841; St. Bees Coll.; ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 (both Chester); Curate, St. Paul’s, Stalybridge, Cheshire 1846-8; held other curacies; Chaplain at Rio de Janeiro 1864-78; living Madron, Cornwall, in 1881 (1881 Census); m. 1st, Sarah Coulter; m. 2nd, ---; d. 8 Jun 1903.