| Authorised form of name | Price; Richard (1723 - 1791) |
| Dates | 1723 - 1791 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Tynton, Llangeinor, Glamorgan |
| Date of birth | 23 February 1723 |
| Date of death | 19 April 1791 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Bunhill Fields, London |
| Activity | Education:
The Fund Academy (a Dissenting college), London. DD (1756, Glasgow)
Career:
Preacher to various dissenting congregations; wrote 'Review of the principal questions in morals' (1756); 'An appeal to the public on the subject of the National Debt' (1769); intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Priestley
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/12/1765 |
| Relationships | Son of Rev Rhys Price, a Calvinist; uncle of William Morgan (FRS 1790) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
William P Griffith, 'Priestley in London' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 1-16
Bernard Bailyn, '1776: The British Dimension' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 179-199
J D Holland, 'An Eighteenth-Century Pioneer - Richard Price, DD, FRS (1723-1791)' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 43-64, plate |
| Code | NA7102 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/003657 | Price, Richard | nd |
| NLB/64/301 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to R. Thomas Esquire; Rhestr y Delyn, Bredon | 10 March 1923 |
| L&P/6/124 | Paper, 'Duration of human life in town and country compared' by Richard Price | 1775 |
| L&P/5/176 | Paper, 'Observations on the proper method of calculating the values of reversions depending upon survivorship' by Richard Price | 8 March 1770 |
| L&P/6/14 | Letter, 'Further proofs of insalubrity or marshy places' from Richard Price to Samuel Horsley | 21 December 1773 |
| L&P/8/133 | Letter, 'Loss of speech after resuscitation from drowning restored by electricity' from Houlton Harries to Richard Price | 1785 |
| EC/1765/21 | Price, Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/003659 | Price, Richard | nd |
| P/0102 | Portrait of Price, Richard | |
| L&P/6/140 | Letter, 'Of life annuities' from Richard Price to John Pringle | 1775 |
| IM/003658 | Price, Richard | c.1903 |