William Price (High Sheriff)
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William Price (1690 – 4 July 1774) was a Welsh High Sheriff and antiquarian.
Price was a member of the Price family from Rhiwlas, in the parish of Llanfor, near Bala, Wales. He was the grandson of William Price, a Member of Parliament and Royalist colonel during the English Civil War. [1] Price was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating there in 1707. He left Oxford University without taking a degree.[2] He served as High Sheriff of Merionethshire from 1730 to 1731, and High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire (a county where he owned extensive property) from 1731 to 1732. He was an antiquarian: letters from him about antiquarian remains and the Bala eisteddfod of 1747 are held by the British Museum. Five bards composed englynion in his honour at an eisteddfod in Bala in 1738. He died on 4 July 1774. His younger son was the MP Richard Thelwall.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Owen, Bob. Price family, of Rhiwlas, in the parish of Llanfor, Mer. Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1891/2). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. ISBN 978-1855068438 (reprint).
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