Price, Sir John (?1502-1555)
Of Brecon. Served as notary public, the king's principal register in causes ecclesiastical and secretary of the council in Wales and the Marches. By 1530 he was one of Thomas Cromwell's officials and so gained employment in the king's service. He was a servitor at the wedding of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. At the time of the Dissolution he was appointed as one of the commissioners charged with visiting religious houses and finding good cause for their dissolution. He is known to have been mild in his condemnation of some houses and to have particularly praised the educational work of some convents. He nevertheless used his position to gain leases of ecclesiastical property including Brecon Priory in 1537-38 where he lived enjoying the priory's library, until he purchased St.Guthlac's Priory in Hereford and took up residence there some time after 1540. In that year he was made Secretary of the affairs of the Crown in Wales and the Marches, which office he held until his death. He was sheriff for Breconshire in 1543 and Herefordshire in 1554; M.P. for Hereford in 1553 and Ludlow in 1554. He was knighted following the coronation of Edward VI in 1547. A noted humanist and disciple of Erasmus, he was responsible for the first book to be printed in Welsh, Yn y Lhyvyr hwnn, of 1546/7. This was in the nature of an instruction manual to the ordinary priesthood of Wales who Price felt were difficient in their duties to their parishioners. His heir was Gregory Price [G.R.]
[DWB; Thomas]
[DWB; Thomas]
Price, John (fl.1562)
Son of Edward Price of Eglwysegle. His brother was one Thomas Price founder of the Prices of Llanfyllyn and an antiquarian. John Price himself was a magistrate for the county of Montgomeryshire, the sheriff for the county in 1562 and may well have been a member of the Council of the Marches of Wales.
[W.V. Lloyd - The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
[W.V. Lloyd - The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
Price, Sir John (fl.1622)
Of Gogerddan and Aberbechan. Son of Sir Richard Price, Sheriff of Montgomery in 1591 and 1603. He was a member of the Council of the Marches and served as Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1622. He died in office and his term was completed by his father.
[W.V. Lloyd - The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
[W.V. Lloyd - The Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
Price, Sir John (?1622)
Of the Price family which provided seven Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire between 1548 and 1748. His father was Sheriff in 1659 and 1660. He was appointed Sheriff himself in March 1689 but died without issue after serving less than a month of his shrievalty. His brother Vaughan Pryce succeeded to the baronetcy.
[MC 62]
[MC 62]
Price, John (d.1747)
Tried at Montgomeryshire Great Sessions in 1747 for the murder of Richard Gothin with an hedge bill in the parish of Aston on 7 June 1747 (victim died two days later). He was ordered for execution on Thursday 10 September.
[Mossop]
[Mossop]
Price, Rev. John (1810-1895) "The Solitary of Llanbedr"
The vicar of Llanbedr Painscastle in Radnorshire for 36 years, Price is best known through the description of him in the diary of Rev. Francis Kilvert . He was a graduate of Queen's College, Cambridge and had a reputation in ecclesiastical circles for his scholarship. When he came to the parish it was remote and sparsely populated with hardly any congregation nor non-conformist community and had not had a resident vicar for some years. Price's first vicarage was a hovel and he later lived in accommodation made from bathing huts before finally settling in a cabin which had been a hen house. Despite the indifference of his parishioners and the abject squalor he lived in, he was a dedicated priest with a genuine sympathy for the poorest in society. He cared about everyone in the parish and was especially kind to tramps. The people of the district came to regard him with great respect and many times he was described as saintly. Kilvert visited him in his remote cabin and described his poverty stricken situation as being like that of the medieval hermit.
[Kilvert; Rev. D. Edmondes-Owen - "The Tramps' Chaplain: the simple annals of a Welsh hermit]
[Kilvert; Rev. D. Edmondes-Owen - "The Tramps' Chaplain: the simple annals of a Welsh hermit]
Price, John (1857-1930)
Musician, Beulah. Learned music during the great boom years after the introduction of the "Tonic Solfa" method of music teaching. At this time local choirs sprang up in almost every village in Wales, and the Gymanfa Ganu was born. Price was married in 1880 and emigrated to America soon after. He returned after just two years because of poor health and spent the rest of his days in the Beulah area. He was much in demand as a choir master and music teacher and his reputation was such that he was invited to be adjudicator at eisteddfodau across Wales. He wrote many part-songs for choirs and was a prize-winner on more than one occasion. He died in 1930.
[CAO B/X/13/1]
[CAO B/X/13/1]
Price, Llewella (b. 1870s)
Pianist. Daughter of Rhys Davies, the borough surveyor of Brecknock. Born in Talgarth in the 1870s, she studied at the Royal Academy of Music winning there every prize that was open to her. While still a student her fame was such that a testimonial fund was set up for her in Breconshire and a concert held in her honour in Brecon in December 1894. She went on to become an established soloist touring the world with Madame Melba and performing as the soloist at the opening of the Queen's Hall. She was later Professor of Music at the Guildhall School of Music and continued teaching into old age.
[CAO B/X/13/1]
[CAO B/X/13/1]
Price, Sir Richard (fl.1603)
Son of John Price (above) of Gogerddan in Cardiganshire, a member of the Council of the Marches of Wales. Richard married the daughter of Thomas Price of Aberbechan in Montgomeryshire and inherited this property through her and was appointed Sheriff of the county in 1591. He served as a magistrate for the county also and was knighted sometime before serving a second term as sheriff in 1603. He also served again briefly in 1622 when the sheriff for that year Sir John Price his son, died in office.
[W.V. Lloyd - the sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
[W.V. Lloyd - the sheriffs of Montgomeryshire]
Price (or Pryse), Sir Richard (fl.1639)
Of Gogerddan and Aberbechan, Montgomeryshire, his father and grandfather were both sheriffs of the county before him: he himself being appointed in 1639. He was created baronet by Charles I in 1641, but married a cousin of the Parliamentary General Sir Thomas Myddelton of Chirk Castle. After his year as Sheriff he seems to have kept out of County affairs. His second wife was a niece of the Earl of Gowrie who had tried to depose James VI of Scotland.
[MC 27]
[MC 27]
Price, Thomas "Carhuanawc" (1787-1848)
A native of Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, near Builth. The son of the Rev. Rhys Price, vicar of Llanwrthwl. He was educated at local village schools and at Christ College, Brecon where he became a friend of Theophilus Jones. After various curacies (he was curate of Llanyre and Llanfihangel Helygen c.1811) he was appointed vicar of Cwmdu. He contributed several drawings for volume II of Theophilus Jones' History of Brecknockshire. An accomplished harpist, he published Hanes Cymru which appeared in parts between 1836 and 1842 as well as other essays, and won several prizes for compositions on Welsh literature. He was steeped in the language and culture of Wales and was involved the 19th century movement to try to recreate a druidic tradition. He is known to have erected a cromlech in the pre-historic mode (to the consternation of modern archaeologists!) In his researches and bardic writings he was supported by Lady Llanover and others. He also supported Lady Charlotte Guest in her preparation of The Mabinogion in English. [G.R.]
[DEW; CAO B/D/CL/1/221-223]
[DEW; CAO B/D/CL/1/221-223]
