Bonamy Price

Bonamy Price
Born(1807-05-22)22 May 1807
Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
Died8 January 1888(1888-01-08) (aged 80)
London, England

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

Biography

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b c "HET: Bonamy Price". www.hetwebsite.net. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Price, Bonamy" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "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.
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