Richard Green-Price

{{Short description|Welsh Liberal politician}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}

Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st Baronet (18 October 1803 – 11 August 1887), was a Welsh Liberal politician.

File:Norton Manor (1294045).jpg

Born Richard Green, he assumed the additional surname of Price as heir to his maternal uncle Richard Price of Norton Manor, Radnorshire. He was returned to Parliament for Radnor in 1863, a seat he held until 1869, and later represented Radnorshire between 1880 and 1885. In 1874 he was created a baronet, of Norton Manor in the parish of Norton in the County of Radnor{{London Gazette |issue=24071 |date=3 March 1874 |page=1453}} and in 1876 served as High Sheriff of Radnorshire.{{London Gazette|issue=24293|page=638|date=12 February 1876}}

File:Monument to Sir Richard Green Price - geograph.org.uk - 818019.jpgGreen-Price died in August 1887, aged 83.{{cite book|title=The Times Register of Events in .... |publisher=The Times|year=1887|page=xlviii}} He is commemorated by a Grade-II-listed red granite obelisk near Hengwm Hill north-west of Norton.{{cite web |url=https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?id=8947 |title=Full Report for Listed Buildings: Price Monument |date=26 March 1985 |publisher=Cadw |access-date=21 May 2022}}

References

{{Reflist}}

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
  • {{Rayment-bt|date=March 2012}}

{{S-start}}

{{S-par|uk}}

{{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Radnor | years = 1863–1869 | before = Sir George Cornewall Lewis | after = Marquess of Hartington}}

{{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Radnorshire | years = 1880–1885 | before = Arthur Walsh | after = Arthur Walsh}}

{{S-reg|uk-bt}}

{{s-new | creation}}

{{S-ttl

| title=Baronet
(of Norton Manor)

| years=1874–1887

}}

{{s-aft | after= Richard Dansey Green-Price }}

{{S-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green-Price, Sir Richard, 1st Baronet}}

Category:1803 births

Category:1887 deaths

Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Category:High sheriffs of Radnorshire

Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies

Category:UK MPs 1859–1865

Category:UK MPs 1865–1868

Category:UK MPs 1868–1874

Category:UK MPs 1880–1885

{{Wales-UK-MP-stub}}

{{Liberal-UK-MP-stub}}

{{UK-baronet-stub}}