William Edwin Price
| Capt. William Edwin Price MP, FGS | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1841 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1886 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
Reform Club Chambers and Tibberton Court, Gloucester | ||||||||||||
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political armed services | ||||||||||||
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Major W E Price, son of Mr William Philip Price
William Edwin Price of Tibberton Court, only son of William Philip Price (see Gloucester 1852,) was b. 10 Jan. 1841, educ. at Eton 1850-6, and matric. from Univ. Coll. London 1857, B.A. 1859. Having passed the Royal Military College, Woolwich, he became Ensign 36th Herefordshire Regiment 23 April 1861, Lieut. Aug. 1863, but retired from the army Feb. 1865. He was made J. P. co. Gloucester 1869, was sometime Captain Gloucestershire R. Volunteers, Lieut. R. North Gloucester Militia 9 March 1866-7, Captain R. South Gloucester Militia 27 Dec. 1867, and Major thereof (3rd Batt. Gloucestershire regiment) 21 June 1880-6. Major Price m. 29 July 1878 Margaret 2nd dau. of Robert Needham Philips M.P. of the Park, near Manchester.
He was a partner in Price, Walker, and Co., timber merchants, Gloucester, etc. He sat for Tewkesbury 1868 till unseated June 1880, and d.v.p. at Tibberton Court 10 Feb. 1886, aged 45, leaving two sons, Morgan Philip b. 1885, and William Robert b. 1886.
in 1837 merchant William Price, a founder and director of the Gloucestershire Banking Co, bought the manor and estate of Tibberton. His son William Philip Price inherited the property the following year.
William Philip Price purchased the Hyett family's manor and lands in Bulley in 1871. The Hyett family had been lords of manor since the 18th century. In the early 18th century the manor of Bulley was owned jointly by Mr Morgan, Mr Burgess and Mr Webb. Nicholas Hyett Esq was lord of manor by 1779, followed by his son Benjamin Hyett (d. 1810) who was succeeded by his nephew William Henry Adams, who took the name and arms of Hyett in 1813. The deed of conveyance for Price's purchase is not amongst the deeds preserved in this collection. However, a draft copy exists in the Hyett family archive (D6 E38) along with correspondence and other papers concerning the transaction. The deeds listed below do include a schedule of deeds and documents relating to William Henry Hyett's lands in Bulley, drawn up in 1868 (listed as D2176/1/2/24) and documents which appear on this schedule are cross-referenced from their catalogue entry.
Part of Tibberton, Taynton and Bulley comprised a separate manor which belonged to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester (passing to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the mid 19th century). As is clear from many of the deeds listed below, this comprised a mixture of copyhold and leasehold land. In Tibberton (according to Samuel Rudder, writing in 1779) Hawker's Place was leasehold, in the possession of Daniel Ellis as lessee but almost all the other lands were copyhold of inheritance. In Bulley, most of the Dean and Chapter's lands were leasehold and during the early 19th century James Wood, the wealthy Gloucester banker, held over 100 acres of land as The Dean and Chapter's lessee. When Wood died in 1836 irregularites over his will led to a lengthy court case. John Chadborn, William P Price's father-in-law was one of Wood's executors and beneficiaries and was thought to be implicated in the affair. Wood's freehold, leasehold and copyhold lands were held by representatives for several years but were eventually partitioned in 1843 (see D2176/1/2/20 below)
Property in Rudford appears to have been acquired piecemeal by William Philip Price during the 1840s, 50s and 60s. The manor and most of the lands in Rudford were owned by the Church from the 12th century until the 19th century, having been granted to the abbey of St Peter's, Gloucester by William II and then passing to the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester at the time of the dissolution. (Samuel Rudder, writing in 1779, held this responsible for the fact that, with the exception of the manor house, there was "scarcely an inhabitable dwelling in the village"). Edward Holder was the lessee of the manor during the late 18th century and early 19th century. Some lands were copyhold and some, such as Rudford Mill, acquired by William P Price in 1865, were leasehold. Lands in Rudford had been enfranchised during the first half of the 19th century (by 1859) (although apparently lands in Tibberton remained copyhold according to notes made by Morgan Philips Price in 1965 based on a document then in his possession).
Although the records in this collection span five generations of the Price family, the majority have been generated by the activities of three individuals: William P Price (d.1891), his grandson Morgan Philips Price (1885-1973) and M P Price's son William Philips Peter, (always known as Peter), Price, (1922-1987). William Philip Price was the eldest son of merchant William Price. He was head of the Gloucester based timber firm Price and Son, (later Price, Walker and Co) and was MP for Gloucester between 1852-1859 and 1865-1873. He married Frances Ann Chadborn in 1837 thus becoming son-in-law of the wealthy Gloucester solicitor John Chadborn. He inherited Tibberton Court estate as a young man and, as the title deeds in this archive show, added to it over many years.
William Edwin Price (10 January 1841 – 10 February 1886)[1] was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.
Price was the son of William Philip Price, M.P. for Gloucester and his wife Frances Ann Chadborn, daughter of John Chadborn of Gloucester. He was educated at Eton College, at University College, London graduating BA in 1859, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He served in the 36th Regiment of Foot until his retirement in February 1865. He was a captain of the Royal South Gloucester Militia, and of the 3rd Gloucester City Rifle Volunteers.[2]
At the 1868 general election Price was elected as the Member of Parliament for the borough of Tewkesbury.[3] He was re-elected in 1874[4] and at the general election in April 1880[5] but his election was declared void on 29 June 1880.[1]
Price died at the age of 44.
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