Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Price, 2nd Baronet (3 August 1786 – 6 November 1857) was a British baronet and Member of Parliament.
Robert Price was the only son of Sir Uvedale Price, the writer on the Picturesque, by Lady Caroline Carpenter, fourth daughter of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel.[1]
He was MP for Herefordshire from 1818 until 1841.[2] On 8 July 1823 he married his first cousin Mary Anne Elizabeth, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Robert Price, Canon of Salisbury and Prebendary of Durham, by his second wife Mary Anne Saunderson. The marriage took place at the house of Barrington Price, then of Haslemere[3], 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 City in 1845; he was unopposed, and remained the MP until January 1857. He was "of Whig principles; in favour of an extension of the franchise and short parliaments".[4]
He died 5 or 6 November 1857 without issue, whereupon the baronetcy became extinct. His widow died March 1878.[5]
References
- ^ Robinson, Rev. Charles John (1873): A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire. Longman & Co.
- ^ Griffith, John Edward (1914): Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families. Horncastle: Morton & Sons.
- ^ The London Magazine vol. VIII, July-December 1823, p.231. London: Taylor & Hessey.
- ^ Dod, Robert Phipps (1857): The Parliamentary Companion for 1857, p.258. London: Whittaker & Co.
- ^ Duncumb, Rev. John. Collections towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Herefordshire.
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Uvedale Price |
Baronet (of Foxley, Herefordshire) 1829–1857 |
Succeeded by Extinct |
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