Edward Henry Price

Edward Henry Price (1822–1898) was an English cleric and educator. He founded two successful schools, Mostyn House School which existed until 2010, and The Philberds which was taken over to house prisoners of war during World War I, and demolished after the end of the war. Background and early life He was the son of Matthew Guérin Price (c.1788–1847, spelling variants of the name are found), for a period around 1820 a merchant in Naples. His father was from a Guernsey family, the son of Frederick Price and his wife Margaret Parker. He had at least two children out of wedlock with Carolina Maenza: Matthew (Matteo) born 1818, and Mary Caroline (Maria Carolina) born 1819. In 1824 Price through an intermediary was enquiring about Matthew's admission to the Institute at Yverdon run by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. In 1840 in Madras M. Price of the 34th Light Infantry, eldest son of M. G. Price of Brighton, married Elizabeth Donaldson Traveller, daughter of the Rev. C. Traveller. In 1844, Mary Caroline Price, born in Naples, eldest daughter of M. G. Price of Brighton, married William Bonsey at St Nicholas Church, Brighton; and was mother of Archdeacon William Bonsey. Price was educated at Rugby School under Thomas Arnold, arriving in May 1835 aged 13; at this point his father was recorded in the school register as M. Price of Great Coram Street, London. Bonamy Price, a teacher there from 1830, was his first cousin, son of Frederick Price who was a brother of Matthew Guérin Price. Edward Price was a contemporary at Rugby of Thomas Hughes, and in later life subscribed to the educational principles of Thomas Arnold. He went up the school forms in step with Hughes, and an obituarist believed that Price took part in the cricket match against an MCC team described fictionally in Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. In 1841 Price matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1845, M.A. in 1863; his father appears in Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses as M. G. P. of Brighton.