Bonamy Price

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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[]

Price was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey,[1] where he lived until age 14, when he left Guernsey and entered the tutelage of Reverend Charles Bradley in High Wycombe.[2] He entered at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1825, where he received double first in classics in 1829.[3] During his time at Worcester College, he was occasionally studied under Dr. Arnold, at Laleam, who would become head master of Rugby School. Arnold would go on to offer Price a role as assistant master of mathematics at the school, where he remained from 1830 until 1850[2] Price married Lydia Rose, daughter of Joseph Rose who was the vicar at Rothley, on 18 December 1934.[2][4][5]

In 1868 he 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[4]

Price became ill in February 1886 and his health declined; he moved from Oxford to London for treatment until his death.[8] His daughter Bertha married Daniel Conner Lathbury.[9]

Works[]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "HET: Bonamy Price". www.hetwebsite.net. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Death of professor Bonamy Price". St James's Gazette. 9 January 1888. p. 10.
  3. ^ "Death of professor Bonamy Price". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 10 January 1888. p. 5.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Yorkshire Gazette. 14 January 1888. p. 6.
  5. ^ "Marriages". London Evening Standard. 29 December 1834. p. 4.
  6. ^ Wikisource-logo.svg “The Currency — Specie Payments,” Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 1st Session, pp. 634-645.
  7. ^ "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser. 14 January 1888. p. 16.
  8. ^ "Death of Professor Bonamy Price". Sheffield Evening Telegraph. 9 January 1888. p. 2.
  9. ^  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. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 314.

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