Bartholomew Price

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Reverend Bartholomew Price (1818 – 29 December 1898) was an English

educator
.

This grave marker in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford confirms the birth and death date of Bartholomew Price, and also provides information about his wife

Life

Bartholomew Price was born at

integral calculus, the calculus of variations, the theory of attractions, and analytical mechanics.[1]

In 1853 he was appointed

Greenwich Observatory
.

On 20 August 1857 at Littleham near Exmouth in Devon, Bartholomew Price married Amy Eliza Cole, the eldest daughter of William Cole Cole, Esq. [sic] of Highfield, Exmouth. The marriage was conducted by the Revd Francis Jeune, the Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. The couple moved into 11 St Giles' Street,[2] where their seven children were born between 1858 and 1870. They moved out in 1891.

In 1891 Price was elected

Master of Pembroke College, which dignity carried with it a canonry of Gloucester Cathedral.[1]
He also seems to have donated an interesting astronomical clock to Gloucester cathedral.

In 1889 he was one of the shareholders in Silver's factory in Silvertown, East London, an immensely profitable rubber company. That year saw a major strike by Silver's workers for higher pay but after 12 weeks the strikers were forced back to work by hunger. Bartholomew Price was the shareholder who moved the motion of thanks in the Managing Director at the shareholders meeting in February 1890.[3]

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from c.1887 until his death in December 1898.[4]

The Revd Bartholomew Price died in Oxford on 28 December 1898 and was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford.[5] His grave marker reads: “BARTHOLOMEW PRICE D.D., F.R.S. / FOR 45 YEARS SEDLEIAN PROFESSOR OF NATURAL / PHILOSOPHY – MASTER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, / CANON OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL / BORN AT COLN ST DENIS, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 14 MAY 1818 / DIED AT OXFORD, 28 DEC. 1893 / AND HIS BELOVED WIFE AMY ELIZA, DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM COLE COLE OF EXMOUTH, BORN 19 SEPTEMBER 1835, DIED 14 OCTOBER 1909.”

Nowadays, Professor Price is best remembered as one of the teachers of

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
.

Writings

References

  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Price, Bartholomew". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 313–314.
  2. ^ https://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/stgiles/tour/east/11.html
  3. ISBN 9781907103995
    .
  4. ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
  5. ^ Monthly Notices, Royal Astronomical Society (1899).
Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
1892-1898 		Succeeded by
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