Horace Price

Memorial to Horace MacCartie Eyre Price in Ely Cathedral

The Rt. Rev. Horace MacCartie Eyre Price, DD, MA was a missionary of the Anglican Church.

Horace Price was born in Malvern into an ecclesiastical family on 3 August 1863: his father was the Rev. W. Salter Price.^[1] He was educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Cambridge,^[2] and ordained in 1886.^[3] He was a CMS Missionary in Sierra Leone then a Curate in Wingfield, Suffolk before serving the Anglican Church in Japan where he eventually became Archdeacon of Osaka. In 1905 he became Bishop in Fukien,^[4] serving until 1918. Returning to England he was Archdeacon of Ely and a Canon Residentiary at the cathedral until his death on 21 November 1941.^[5]

Notes

1. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
2. "Price, Horace Mccartie Eyre (PRY882HM)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
4. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop of Fukien The Times Wednesday, 13 December 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37889; col F
5. Obituaries The Times Saturday, 22 November 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49090; col E