Bonamy Price

Bonamy Price (22 May 1807 – 8 January 1888) was a British political economist.

Bonamy Price
Born	(1807-05-22)22 May 1807 Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died	8 January 1888(1888-01-08) (aged 80) London, England

Biography

He was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey,^[1] the son of Frederick Price and his wife Maria Martha Vardon.^[2][3] He lived on the island until age 14.^[2]

Price left Guernsey and came under the tutelage of the Rev. Charles Bradley in High Wycombe, where he was taught alongside William Smith O'Brien.^[2][4] He matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1825, where he received double first in classics, graduating B.A. in 1829, M.A. in 1832.^[3][5] During his time at Worcester College, he was occasionally studied under Thomas Arnold, at Laleham; who went on to become head master of Rugby School, and offered Price a role as assistant master of mathematics at the school. Price remained a teacher at Rugby from 1830 until 1850.^[4] Price married Lydia Rose, daughter of Joseph Rose who was the vicar at Rothley, on 18 December 1834.^[4][6][7]

In 1868 Price was elected Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, and was thrice re-elected to the post, which he held till his death.^[1] U.S. Senator from Missouri Carl Schurz quoted extensively from one of Price's treatises during his Senate speech of 14 January 1874.^[8] He was in charge of Economics Department at the 1878 National Association for the Promotion of Social Science congress at Cheltenham, as well as the 1882 congress at Nottingham.^[9] In 1883 he was elected an honorary fellow of his college. In addition to his professorial work, he was in much request as a popular lecturer on political economy.^[1] Price was also a member of Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression & Commission on the Depression of Trade and Commerce.^[6]

Price became ill in February 1886 and his health declined; he moved from Oxford to London for treatment until his death.^[10] His daughter Bertha married Daniel Conner Lathbury.^[11]

Works

• Principles of Political Economy (1878)
• Concerning Currency and Banking (1876)
• Practical Political Economy (1878)

References

1. "HET: Bonamy Price". www.hetwebsite.net. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
2. Curthoys, M. C. "Price, Bonamy (1807–1888)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22742. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Price, Bonamy" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
4. "Death of professor Bonamy Price". St James's Gazette. 9 January 1888. p. 10.
5. "Death of professor Bonamy Price". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 10 January 1888. p. 5.
6. "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 January 1888. p. 6.
7. "Marriages". London Evening Standard. 29 December 1834. p. 4.
8. "The Currency — Specie Payments," Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 634-645.
9. "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 14 January 1888. p. 16.
10. "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Sheffield Evening Telegraph. 9 January 1888. p. 2.
11.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Price, Bonamy". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 314.

External links

• Page with additional bio info and genealogy