William Philip Price

William Philip Price (1817 – 31 March 1891) was an English timber merchant and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1852 and 1873.

Price was the son of William Price of Gloucester and his wife Frances George, daughter of Phillip George of Bristol. He was educated privately.[1] He ran a successful timber company, and was also involved in the Railway industry, being a director of the Midland Railway Company.[2] In 1840 he became a director of the Gloucester Banking Company, and was later made the chairman in 1865.[3] Price was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Gloucestershire and in 1849 was made High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.[1]

In July 1852 Price was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucester. In 1857 his re-election was investigated for bribery, and it was found that his agents had been bribing voters, although he himself was not aware of it. He was unseated in 1859.[4]

Price was re-elected MP for Gloucester in the 1865 general election, but left parliament in May 1873 to become a railway commissioner.[5] Price is the only Member of Parliament to be made both Steward of the Manor of Northstead and Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.[6]

Price married Frances Ann Chadborn, daughter of John Chadborn of Gloucester. Their son William Edwin Price was MP for Tewkesbury.[1]

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Preceded by
Henry Hope
Maurice Berkeley
Member of Parliament for Gloucester
18521859
With: Sir Robert Carden to 1859
Charles James Monk from 1859
Succeeded by
John Joseph Powell
Charles Berkeley
Preceded by
Charles Berkeley
John Joseph Powell
Member of Parliament for Gloucester
18651873
With: Charles James Monk
Succeeded by
Charles James Monk
William Killigrew Wait
Honorary titles
Preceded by
William Capel
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
1849
Succeeded by
Thomas Gambier Parry
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