Horace Price

Horace MacCartie Eyre Price (3 August 1863 – 21 November 1941) was a missionary of the Anglican Church.

Memorial to Price in Ely Cathedral

Horace Price was born in Malvern into an ecclesiastical family on 3 August 1863: his father was W. Salter Price.[1] He was educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Cambridge (whence he gained a Cambridge Master of Arts {MA Cantab}),[2] made deacon at Advent 1886 (19 December), by Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, at St James's, Piccadilly[3] and ordained priest the following year. 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. He was consecrated bishop on Candlemas 1906 (2 February) at Westminster Abbey, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury.[5] Returning to the UK he was Assistant Bishop of Ely and Archdeacon of Ely (1919 onwards), Vicar of Pampisford (1919–1921) and Canon Residentiary of Ely Cathedral (1921 onwards)[6] until his death on 21 November 1941.[7] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

References

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. "Ordinations on Sunday Last". Church Times (#1248). 24 December 1886. p. 1007. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
4. Ecclesiastical Intelligence. New Bishop of Fukien The Times Wednesday, 13 December 1905; pg. 12; Issue 37889; col F
5. "Consecration of bishops". Church Times (#2246). 9 February 1906. p. 167. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 March 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
6. "Price, Horace MacCartie Eyre". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
7. "Obituaries" The Times Saturday, 22 November 1941; pg. 6; Issue 49090; col E

Church of England titles
New title	Bishop in Fukien 1905–1918	Succeeded by John Hind
Preceded by William Cunningham	Archdeacon of Ely 1919 to 1941	Succeeded by William MacKennal