From 'The Meteor',  February 7^th 1888.
Professor Bonamy Price died at his residence in London on 8 January 1888 after a very distinguished career.  When 14 years old, he was sent from Guernsey as a private pupil to Rev. Charles Bradley, of High Wycombe, the father of the present Dean of Westminster.  He afterwards entered Worcester College, Oxford, and while resident of Oxford, was an occasional pupil of  Dr. Arnold, at Laleham.  In 1829 he obtained a double First Class in Classics and Mathematics, being the only Double First of his time.  He did not compete for a Fellowship at any college, but a few years ago was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Worcester College.   

Dr. Arnold, at this time Headmaster of Rugby, had formed so high an opinion of Price, that he determined to have him among the under-masters, and consequently appointed him to the Mathematical Mastership in February, 1830.  Price, who had meantime built a house for the reception of boarders (held successfully by Rev. C. Evans; Rev.  C. B. Hutchinson; and Mr. Donkin) was appointed to a Classical Mastership and given charge of a division of the Fifth Form.  In 1838 he took the Twenty (which had then only existed for a few years), and remained master of it until he quitted Rugby in 1850, shortly after Dr. Taits appointed to the Deanery of Carlisle.

In 1868 he was elected to the Professorship of Political Economy at Oxford.  The other candidate was Mr. T. Harold Rogers, who had held the Chair for the proceeding five years, and had made himself highly unpopular with the Conservative majority of convocation by his extreme political opinions,  the result was a foregone conclusion, and Mr. Price was elected by a large majority.

He published several works on Political Economy, and of late years served on two Royal Commissions - The Duke of Richmond's Commission on Agriculture, and Lord Iddesleigh's on Depression in Trade and Commerce.

Mr. Price married, in 1834, Lydia Rose, the daughter of the Rev. Joseph Rose, Vicar of Rothley.

We quote the following passages from the 'Spectator' of January 14 -  "In Professor Bonamy Price, Oxford and England have lost the greatest of Dr. Arnold's Rugby Staff, and the one who has been most profoundly and effectually impressed by Dr. Arnold's conceptions of the power and duty of a teacher.  In deed, we should think that while Arnold had perhaps the greater success in inspiring a deep sense of law and duty in those of his pupils who were a little deficient in susceptibility to the government of moral ideas. Bonamy Price must have surpassed even his chief in that great quality of a teacher, the capacity to exhilarate, as well as to awaken the intelligence of his pupil.  "Of all the teachers who are in the highest degree impressive and stimulating to their pupils, while they remain their pupil., there is, we suspect, hardly one in ten who remain equally impressive and stimulating to them after they cease to be his pupils, and come back to him on a basis of social equality - so few are there who can throw off the didactic attitude of mind, and assume that of genuine sympathy and comradeship.  But Bonamy Price had that power in the fullest degree.

And yet the character of his intellect was not of a kind, to take pleasure in vague, appreciation.  No man knew better exactly what he meant, or was sharper to detect the shallowness of empty generalities or pretentious mysticism.

Like all Dr. Arnold's friends and followers, Bonamy Price had the deepest possible interest in politics, and was, indeed, quite as much of a political as of a moral teacher.  Like Socrates, he read in the State the virtues of the individual character writ large, and taught his pupils to see them as he did.

At Oxford his loss will be, and, indeed, has already been, severely felt.  Latterly his academic influence was thrown into what may be properly called, for want of a less political phrase, the Conservative side.  And since he never lost his hold over the Statesmen of the day (even Mr. Gladstone in his bantering criticism of Professor Bonamy Price's view of the Irish Land Question in 1881, indicated the hearty respect he felt for the Economist whose judgement he rejected), his influence at Oxford was always counted for a good deal even with his opponents, all the more because, as a layman and a Broad Churchman, that influence was never ascribed to sacerdotal prepossessions.  Indeed, few of our great teachers have exerted a stronger influence than he in both widening and purifying the sphere of English liberty, and in deepening the sense, of that moral responsibility whereby liberty gains in dignity and influence, much more than it loses by the restraints to which it voluntarily submits."

1b.  Kennett Price 1815-1867 was a pupil at Rugby and in his 20's migrated to New South Wales in Australia, where he married Mary M. Lang and had seven children.

1c.  Martha Price married Arthur Hardy in South Australia, Arthur was a colleague of her brother Henry Price.  Nothing is know about Edward  Price 1828-1860 and another brother Frederick Octavius Price 1830-1847 died at school at Rugby.

1d.  Henry Price who was born in Guernsey Channel Islands in 1819 was a pioneer of the Pt Lincoln area of South Australia.  For anyone interested in the story of Henry Price it would be advisable to purchase a copy of the book:  The Henry Price Diary: Being the Story of Henry Price and Isabella Young, Pioneers in the Port Lincoln Area of South Australia 1849-1853. Ed. J. Casanova, 1997.                 continued page 28