Sir Charles Price, 1st Baronet (25 January 1747 – 19 July 1818) was a merchant in the

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, shipowner

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and politician.

Life and career

Price was the son of the Rev. Ralph Price, incumbent of

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, and his wife Sarah Richardson. He was sent to the city of London, at a young age under the care of an uncle, who lived on Snow Hill. Price was a rum and brandy merchant and shipowner with four vessels involved in South Sea whaling. He became a wealthy oil-man and banker. On the 16th December 1773, at St Michael's, Burleigh Street, Westminster, he married Mary Rugge, with whom he obtained a considerable fortune. In 1797, he was chosen as alderman of the ward of Farringdon-Without and served as sheriff in 1799. In 1802, he was chosen one of the four

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(MPs) for the city of London. In 1803 he became

and on 2 February 1804 he was created a

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. He was reelected to parliament in 1806, and 1807, but in 1812, he declined to be placed on the list of candidates. As a legislator, he seldom or ever spoke in parliament, but, like his colleague, Sir William Curtis, was a strenuous admirer, and constant supporter of Pitt's administration. He was also a magistrate, Colonel of the Fifth Regiment of Volunteers, Governor of the tackle-house and ticket-porters and president of the Commercial Traveller's Society.The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1821 Price died at his house, Spring-Grove,

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, on the 19th of July 1818, after a long decline in health .

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