Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (3 August 1786 – 6 November 1857) was a British

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and

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. Robert Price was the only son of Sir

Uvedale Price Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (baptised 14 April 1747 – 14 September 1829), author of the ''Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful'' (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesqu ...

, the writer on the

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, by Lady Caroline Carpenter, fourth daughter of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel. He was MP for

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from 1818 until 1841. On 8 July 1823 he married his first cousin Mary Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Price, Canon of

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and Prebendary of

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, by his second wife Mary Anne Sanderson. The marriage took place at the house of Barrington Price, then of

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, the youngest of his six uncles on his father's side. Sir Uvedale Price died in 1829 and Robert succeeded as 2nd Baronet of Foxley. Sir Robert stood for election to the constituency of

Hereford Hereford () is a cathedral city, civil parish and the county town of Herefordshire, England. It lies on the River Wye, approximately east of the border with Wales, south-west of Worcester and north-west of Gloucester. With a population ...

City in 1845; he was unopposed, and remained the city's MP until January 1857. He was "of Whig principles; in favour of an extension of the franchise and short parliaments". In 1820, he began buying up leases, leading to the founding of Tondu Ironworks. His Glamorgan Coal and Iron Company prospered during the 1830s and 1840s, but by 1850 it was struggling because of a fall in iron prices and Sir Robert was in danger of

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until the works were bought in 1854 by

John Brogden and Sons John Brogden and Sons was a firm of Railway Contractors, Iron and Coal Miners and Iron Smelters operating, initially as a general contractor, from roughly 1828 until its bankruptcy in 1880. Formation The business started in the 1820s when John ...

.Higgins, LS, The Brogden Pioneers of the early industrial development in Mid-Glamorgan, National Library of Wales Journal, Vol XX, No. 3, Summer 1978, pp 240–252.Rees, Gwilym J, Tondu House – A History of Ownership and Tenants (1650–1963), published by the author (1997) He died on 5 or 6 November 1857 without issue, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct. His widow died in March 1878.Duncumb, Rev. John. ''Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Herefordshire''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Sir Robert, 2nd Baronet 1786 births 1857 deaths People from Hereford Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857