Dr. Bernard Price, OBE, (1877 – 9 July 1948) was the founding Chief Engineer and later General Manager of the Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Company in

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between 1911 and 1936. Price was born in England, in 1877 and was employed by the consulting engineers

Merz & McLellan Merz and McLellan was a leading British electrical engineering consultancy based in Newcastle. History The firm was founded by Charles Merz and William McLellan in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1902 when McLellan joined Merz's existing firm establishe ...

from 1901 until leaving for South Africa in 1909. He was President of the

South African Institute of Electrical Engineers The South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE) is a professional association representing electrical and electronic engineers, technologists and technicians in Southern Africa. The organisation is listed as a recognised Voluntary Asso ...

in 1915, and was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the SAIEE in 1940.Crouch, M: ''The First Ten Decades'', Chris van Rensburg Publications, 2009, Dr Price was a benefactor of the

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, being instrumental in the founding of the

Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research The Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) is a paleontological, paleoanthropological and archeological research institute operated through the Faculty of Science of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously know ...

. The annual Bernard Price Memorial Lecture, named in his honour, is hosted by the SAIEE and the University of the Witwatersrand.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Bernard 1877 births 1948 deaths South African electrical engineers Officers of the Order of the British Empire English emigrants to South Africa