Richard Price (Radnor MP)

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Richard Price (1773 – 10 April 1861){{Rayment-hc|r|1|date=May 2014}} was a Tory politician from Wales. He was the member of parliament (MP) for Radnor from 1799 to 1847.

Price was the eldest son Richard Price, a lawyer of Norton Manor, Knighton whose brother was Chase Price, the MP for Radnorshire.{{cite web

| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/price-richard-1773-1861

| title = PRICE, Richard (1773-1861), of Knighton, Rad.

| work = The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820

| editor = R. Thorne

| year = 1986

| accessdate = 15 May 2014

}} He was educated at University College, Oxford.

The Radnor seat was under the patronage of the 5th Earl of Oxford, whose uncle secured the seat for Price when a vacancy arose in 1799. Price developed his own support base, and within ten years was opposing Oxford's interests in Radnor.

He was a largely silent MP, supporting Tory administrations, and by 1832 had spoken in the House of Commons only to oppose parliamentary reform.

He died 10 April 1861, aged 88.