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=== House Notes === | === House Notes === | ||
| − | proposed 1868.11.24<br />in A6:2 address has (Temple Bar) as well as Clarendon Gardens | + | proposed 1868.11.24<br />in A6:2 address has (Temple Bar) as well as Clarendon Gardens<br />death noted in report of the council for 1909: Mr. F. G. Hilton-Price had served the Institute as Honorary Treasurer, and was well known as an Egyptologist and a collector of antiquities. |
=== Notes From Elsewhere === | === Notes From Elsewhere === | ||
Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909) was an employee, and later a partner, of the London bank Child & Co. He was also a distinguished amateur historian, archaeologist and collector.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was born in Dalston, north east London, on 20 August 1842. He was the eldest of seven children of Frederick William Price, a clerk in Child & Co, and his wife Louisa Tinson.<br />In 1866 his widowed father married Emma Chatterton Green (1834-1910). They had a further five children together.<br />In 1867 Hilton Price’s father became a partner in Child & Co, and in 1874, senior acting partner.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was educated at Crawford College, Maidenhead<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was given the name ‘Hilton’ in honour of an uncle. Although officially a forename, he appears to have adopted it as part of his surname, being generally known as Mr Hilton Price.<br />Despite this preference, there is no evidence that he ever officially changed his name. His children had the surname Price<br />After a short period as a junior clerk in another London bank, Hilton Price joined Child & Co in May 1860. Child & Co, perhaps alone among English banks of the period, made it possible for a clerk to work his way all the way up the bank to the level of partner, and Hilton Price’s career followed this course. In 1887, the year before his father died, Frederick George Hilton Price was promoted to fill a vacancy in the partnership. 14 years later, in 1901, he became senior acting partner. He retained that position until his death in 1909.<br />In 1879 Hilton Price was one of the original members of the council of the Institute of Bankers, of which he was later deputy chairman. He also served on the council of the Central Bankers’ Association (a predecessor of the British Bankers' Association).<br />Hilton Price was an enthusiastic amateur historian, archaeologist and collector. In all these fields, he wrote and published meticulously researched and ground-breaking articles<br />Child & Co itself was one of the earliest-established banks in England, and Hilton Price developed a keen interest in its history. One of his earliest-published monographs told the story of Child & Co and its premises. He returned to the subject later in his book The Marygold by Temple Bar (1902).<br />He wrote books on the old street signs of the City of London and on the early history of banks and banking in London, both of which remain important today as works of reference.<br />Many of Hilton Price’s publications were reports of work in progress rather than completed investigations. His own copies of his publications – some of which are held in The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s archives – are copiously annotated with further information, some of which went on to appear in later editions of his works.<br />Hilton Price explored and sometimes excavated numerous archaeological sites in England and Wales, and wrote numerous papers recording and analysing his findings.<br />When Child & Co’s Fleet Street premises were demolished and rebuilt in the late 1870s, Hilton Price undertook an excavation of the site. He published accounts of his findings in the 1890s. It is probable that it was his discoveries about the history of the site that led to the inclusion of unusual vaulted ceilings within the bank’s new premises.<br />Hilton Price was an avid collector with a wide range of interests, including English (particularly London) and Egyptian antiquities. Among his most notable collections were important sets of spoons, coins and fossils.<br />Many of the fossils in his collection derived from the Gault formation of Folkestone, on which he became an expert and wrote a substantial number of articles. Another of his articles related to fossils discovered during the excavation of the site of the new Law Courts in the Strand, almost opposite Child & Co.<br />He exhibited, and published a catalogue of, his collection of Egyptian antiquities.<br />Hilton Price was an active member and office holder in numerous historical, archaeological, geological and zoological societies, including:<br />· Society of Antiquaries (fellow and director) <br />· Royal Geographical Society (fellow) <br />· Anthropological Institute (vice president and treasurer) <br />· London Topographical Society (president) <br />· Geological Society (fellow and council-member) <br />· Geologists’ Association (treasurer) <br />· Zoological Society of London (fellow and vice president) <br />· Royal Numismatic Society (fellow and vice president) <br />· Society of Biblical Archaeology (council member and vice president) <br />· Egypt Exploration Fund (president)<br />On 5 November 1867 Hilton Price married Christina (1842-1928), daughter of William Bailey of Oaken, near Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. They had two children together:<br />· Etheldred Louisa Hamilton Price, 1871-1965 <br />· Wilfrid George Hilton Price, 1874-1953<br />The family lived successively in Paddington, Marylebone and, at the time of Hilton Price's death, at 17 Collingham Gardens, South Kensington.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price died on 14 March 1909 at Cannes, France, following an operation. An obituary declared that he had been a man who had ‘an intimate knowledge of business, of wide culture [and was] possessed of a fine presence and of genial disposition’.<br />He was buried at Finchley, London, in a plot adjoining his father’s grave.<br /><br />Died Cannes. Career spent with Child’s Bank. Interest in Egyptology and was President of Egyptian Exploration Fund. Collector of antiquities and published various papers.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> | Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909) was an employee, and later a partner, of the London bank Child & Co. He was also a distinguished amateur historian, archaeologist and collector.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was born in Dalston, north east London, on 20 August 1842. He was the eldest of seven children of Frederick William Price, a clerk in Child & Co, and his wife Louisa Tinson.<br />In 1866 his widowed father married Emma Chatterton Green (1834-1910). They had a further five children together.<br />In 1867 Hilton Price’s father became a partner in Child & Co, and in 1874, senior acting partner.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was educated at Crawford College, Maidenhead<br />Frederick George Hilton Price was given the name ‘Hilton’ in honour of an uncle. Although officially a forename, he appears to have adopted it as part of his surname, being generally known as Mr Hilton Price.<br />Despite this preference, there is no evidence that he ever officially changed his name. His children had the surname Price<br />After a short period as a junior clerk in another London bank, Hilton Price joined Child & Co in May 1860. Child & Co, perhaps alone among English banks of the period, made it possible for a clerk to work his way all the way up the bank to the level of partner, and Hilton Price’s career followed this course. In 1887, the year before his father died, Frederick George Hilton Price was promoted to fill a vacancy in the partnership. 14 years later, in 1901, he became senior acting partner. He retained that position until his death in 1909.<br />In 1879 Hilton Price was one of the original members of the council of the Institute of Bankers, of which he was later deputy chairman. He also served on the council of the Central Bankers’ Association (a predecessor of the British Bankers' Association).<br />Hilton Price was an enthusiastic amateur historian, archaeologist and collector. In all these fields, he wrote and published meticulously researched and ground-breaking articles<br />Child & Co itself was one of the earliest-established banks in England, and Hilton Price developed a keen interest in its history. One of his earliest-published monographs told the story of Child & Co and its premises. He returned to the subject later in his book The Marygold by Temple Bar (1902).<br />He wrote books on the old street signs of the City of London and on the early history of banks and banking in London, both of which remain important today as works of reference.<br />Many of Hilton Price’s publications were reports of work in progress rather than completed investigations. His own copies of his publications – some of which are held in The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s archives – are copiously annotated with further information, some of which went on to appear in later editions of his works.<br />Hilton Price explored and sometimes excavated numerous archaeological sites in England and Wales, and wrote numerous papers recording and analysing his findings.<br />When Child & Co’s Fleet Street premises were demolished and rebuilt in the late 1870s, Hilton Price undertook an excavation of the site. He published accounts of his findings in the 1890s. It is probable that it was his discoveries about the history of the site that led to the inclusion of unusual vaulted ceilings within the bank’s new premises.<br />Hilton Price was an avid collector with a wide range of interests, including English (particularly London) and Egyptian antiquities. Among his most notable collections were important sets of spoons, coins and fossils.<br />Many of the fossils in his collection derived from the Gault formation of Folkestone, on which he became an expert and wrote a substantial number of articles. Another of his articles related to fossils discovered during the excavation of the site of the new Law Courts in the Strand, almost opposite Child & Co.<br />He exhibited, and published a catalogue of, his collection of Egyptian antiquities.<br />Hilton Price was an active member and office holder in numerous historical, archaeological, geological and zoological societies, including:<br />· Society of Antiquaries (fellow and director) <br />· Royal Geographical Society (fellow) <br />· Anthropological Institute (vice president and treasurer) <br />· London Topographical Society (president) <br />· Geological Society (fellow and council-member) <br />· Geologists’ Association (treasurer) <br />· Zoological Society of London (fellow and vice president) <br />· Royal Numismatic Society (fellow and vice president) <br />· Society of Biblical Archaeology (council member and vice president) <br />· Egypt Exploration Fund (president)<br />On 5 November 1867 Hilton Price married Christina (1842-1928), daughter of William Bailey of Oaken, near Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. They had two children together:<br />· Etheldred Louisa Hamilton Price, 1871-1965 <br />· Wilfrid George Hilton Price, 1874-1953<br />The family lived successively in Paddington, Marylebone and, at the time of Hilton Price's death, at 17 Collingham Gardens, South Kensington.<br />Frederick George Hilton Price died on 14 March 1909 at Cannes, France, following an operation. An obituary declared that he had been a man who had ‘an intimate knowledge of business, of wide culture [and was] possessed of a fine presence and of genial disposition’.<br />He was buried at Finchley, London, in a plot adjoining his father’s grave.<br /><br />Died Cannes. Career spent with Child’s Bank. Interest in Egyptology and was President of Egyptian Exploration Fund. Collector of antiquities and published various papers.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> | ||
Latest revision as of 11:00, 22 January 2021
| Frederick George Hilton Price FSA, FGS, FRGS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1842 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1909 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
12 Upper Berkley St., Portman Square [1868] 25 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Hill [1872] 29 Weymouth-street, W. [1879] 17 Collingham Gardens, SW [1894] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | banker | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ASL Council 1870 Member
AI Council 1871 Member
AI Council 1872 Member
AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Member
AI Council 1875 Member
AI Council 1877 Member
AI Council 1878 Treasurer
AI Council 1879 Treasurer
AI Council 1880 Treasurer
AI Council 1881 Treasurer
AI Council 1882 Treasurer
AI Council 1883 Treasurer
AI Council 1884 Treasurer
AI Council 1885 Treasurer
AI Council 1886 Treasurer
AI Council 1887 Member
AI Council 1888 Vice President
AI Council 1889 Member
AI Council 1890 Member
AI Council 1891 Member
AI Council 1892 Member
AI Council 1893 Member
AI Council 1894 Member
AI Council 1895 Member
AI Council 1896 Member
AI Council 1897 Member
House Notes
proposed 1868.11.24
in A6:2 address has (Temple Bar) as well as Clarendon Gardens
death noted in report of the council for 1909: Mr. F. G. Hilton-Price had served the Institute as Honorary Treasurer, and was well known as an Egyptologist and a collector of antiquities.
Notes From Elsewhere
Frederick George Hilton Price (1842-1909) was an employee, and later a partner, of the London bank Child & Co. He was also a distinguished amateur historian, archaeologist and collector.
Frederick George Hilton Price was born in Dalston, north east London, on 20 August 1842. He was the eldest of seven children of Frederick William Price, a clerk in Child & Co, and his wife Louisa Tinson.
In 1866 his widowed father married Emma Chatterton Green (1834-1910). They had a further five children together.
In 1867 Hilton Price’s father became a partner in Child & Co, and in 1874, senior acting partner.
Frederick George Hilton Price was educated at Crawford College, Maidenhead
Frederick George Hilton Price was given the name ‘Hilton’ in honour of an uncle. Although officially a forename, he appears to have adopted it as part of his surname, being generally known as Mr Hilton Price.
Despite this preference, there is no evidence that he ever officially changed his name. His children had the surname Price
After a short period as a junior clerk in another London bank, Hilton Price joined Child & Co in May 1860. Child & Co, perhaps alone among English banks of the period, made it possible for a clerk to work his way all the way up the bank to the level of partner, and Hilton Price’s career followed this course. In 1887, the year before his father died, Frederick George Hilton Price was promoted to fill a vacancy in the partnership. 14 years later, in 1901, he became senior acting partner. He retained that position until his death in 1909.
In 1879 Hilton Price was one of the original members of the council of the Institute of Bankers, of which he was later deputy chairman. He also served on the council of the Central Bankers’ Association (a predecessor of the British Bankers' Association).
Hilton Price was an enthusiastic amateur historian, archaeologist and collector. In all these fields, he wrote and published meticulously researched and ground-breaking articles
Child & Co itself was one of the earliest-established banks in England, and Hilton Price developed a keen interest in its history. One of his earliest-published monographs told the story of Child & Co and its premises. He returned to the subject later in his book The Marygold by Temple Bar (1902).
He wrote books on the old street signs of the City of London and on the early history of banks and banking in London, both of which remain important today as works of reference.
Many of Hilton Price’s publications were reports of work in progress rather than completed investigations. His own copies of his publications – some of which are held in The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s archives – are copiously annotated with further information, some of which went on to appear in later editions of his works.
Hilton Price explored and sometimes excavated numerous archaeological sites in England and Wales, and wrote numerous papers recording and analysing his findings.
When Child & Co’s Fleet Street premises were demolished and rebuilt in the late 1870s, Hilton Price undertook an excavation of the site. He published accounts of his findings in the 1890s. It is probable that it was his discoveries about the history of the site that led to the inclusion of unusual vaulted ceilings within the bank’s new premises.
Hilton Price was an avid collector with a wide range of interests, including English (particularly London) and Egyptian antiquities. Among his most notable collections were important sets of spoons, coins and fossils.
Many of the fossils in his collection derived from the Gault formation of Folkestone, on which he became an expert and wrote a substantial number of articles. Another of his articles related to fossils discovered during the excavation of the site of the new Law Courts in the Strand, almost opposite Child & Co.
He exhibited, and published a catalogue of, his collection of Egyptian antiquities.
Hilton Price was an active member and office holder in numerous historical, archaeological, geological and zoological societies, including:
· Society of Antiquaries (fellow and director)
· Royal Geographical Society (fellow)
· Anthropological Institute (vice president and treasurer)
· London Topographical Society (president)
· Geological Society (fellow and council-member)
· Geologists’ Association (treasurer)
· Zoological Society of London (fellow and vice president)
· Royal Numismatic Society (fellow and vice president)
· Society of Biblical Archaeology (council member and vice president)
· Egypt Exploration Fund (president)
On 5 November 1867 Hilton Price married Christina (1842-1928), daughter of William Bailey of Oaken, near Codsall, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. They had two children together:
· Etheldred Louisa Hamilton Price, 1871-1965
· Wilfrid George Hilton Price, 1874-1953
The family lived successively in Paddington, Marylebone and, at the time of Hilton Price's death, at 17 Collingham Gardens, South Kensington.
Frederick George Hilton Price died on 14 March 1909 at Cannes, France, following an operation. An obituary declared that he had been a man who had ‘an intimate knowledge of business, of wide culture [and was] possessed of a fine presence and of genial disposition’.
He was buried at Finchley, London, in a plot adjoining his father’s grave.
Died Cannes. Career spent with Child’s Bank. Interest in Egyptology and was President of Egyptian Exploration Fund. Collector of antiquities and published various papers.
Publications
External Publications
Hilton Price wrote numerous journal articles, monographs and books, including:
· Temple Bar: or some account of 'ye Marygold,' No. 1, Fleet Street, London (London: Taylor and Francis for London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1875)
· A Handbook of London Bankers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1876)
· The Signs of old Lombard Street (London: Field and Tuer, Leadenhall Press, 1887)
· A Handbook of London Bankers with some Account of their Predecessors the Early Goldsmiths (enlarged edition) (London: Leadenhall Press, 1890–91)
· A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F G Hilton Price (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1897)
· The Signs of old Lombard Street (London: The Leadenhall press, 1902) (revised edition)
· The Marygold by Temple Bar (London: privately published by Bernard Quaritch, 1902)
· Old Base Metal Spoons (London: B T Batsford, 1908)
Read more at http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/people/list/frederick-george-hilton-price.html#X4pVYEw6GoOmrI52.99
House Publications
A Description of the Quissama Tribe.
On the Customs of the Kaffirs [Abstract]
Author(s): F. G. H. Price and Charles Hamilton. Source: Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. 8 (1870 - 1871), pp. xiv-xvii
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
He donated some items from his collections to museums during his lifetime. Others were sold after his death. As a consequence, numerous items formerly in Hilton Price’s possession can now be found in various museums, including the British Museum, the Museum of London, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
RBS has:
Notebook labelled ‘Index of some accounts in the oldest ledgers’, compiled by FG Hilton Price, late 19th century Scrapbook entitled ‘History of Temple Bar’, probably compiled by FG Hilton Price, c.1877 Notebook labelled ‘List of autographs on vouchers - Child's’, compiled by FG Hilton Price, 1879 Scrapbook relating to the history of Child & Co, the Child family and the bank’s premises and surrounding properties, probably compiled by F G Hilton Price, 1882 Proofs and copies of various articles and books written by FG Hilton Price, 1875-1902
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