Chase Price (1731 – 28 June 1777) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1759 and 1777.

Early life

Price was the son of John Price of Knighton, then in

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, and his second wife Elizabeth Chase daughter of William Chase of Hadwall,

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.Charles Mosley, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition in 3 volumes (2003), volume 2, p. 1649. He matriculated at

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, on 24 November 1749 at the age of eighteen, and was admitted at the

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in 1751. He was

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in 1757.

William Retlaw Williams William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

, ''The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, from the earliest times to the present day, 1541–1895'' (1895), p. 175.

Political career

Price was returned unopposed as

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for Leominster at a by-election on 1 December 1759. He was re-elected unopposed at the

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but resigned his seat in March 1767. In the 1768 general election he was returned unopposed as MP for

and was re-elected in a contest at the 1774 general election.

Family

Price married Susan Glanville, daughter of William Evelyn Glanville, of St Clere in

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and his second wife Bridget Raymond on 21 March 1765. Their daughter Sarah Bridget Frances Price, born in 1767, married

Bamber Gascoyne (the younger) Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1758 – 17 January 1824), was a British politician. He was an ancestor of two British Prime Ministers, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and Arthur Balfour. He was the son of Bamber ...

. His brother Richard Price of Norton Manor, Knighton (died 1797), married Margaret Humphreys of Pennant,

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(died 1788), only daughter and heiress of Dr Charles Humphreys, and had issue. Richard's son Richard Price (1773–1861), became MP for Radnor from 1799 to 1847. By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, Price was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780),

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from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of

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Thomas Foley, and had female issue. Price was an ancestor of two British prime ministers,

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (; 3 February 183022 August 1903) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom three times for a total of over thirteen y ...

, and Arthur Balfour.

Sources

External links

Article about Chase Price at jamesboswell.info
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