DEATH OF PROFESSOR PRICE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8076, 11 January 1888, Page 2

DEATH OF PROFESSOR PRICE.

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(Per Pkess Association.) London, January 9. (Ileceived January 10, at 1.45 p.m.) The death is announced of Professor Bonamy Price, M.A.; aged 81 years.

From " Men of the Time " we obtain the followiDg brief sketch of the deceased gentleman's career:—

Price, Bonamy, M.A., born in Guernsey, May 22ad, 1807, was educated under private tutors, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a double first-class in classics and mathematics in December 1829, and proceeded to the degree of M.A. He was appointed assistant master in Rugby School in February 1830, and Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford iv February IS6S. Professor Price is the author of "The AngloCatholic Theory," reprinted from tho Edinburgh Review of October 1851; " The Principles of Currency, Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford," 1569;" Of Currency and Banking," 1876; "Practical Political Economy," 1878; an Address as President of the Economical Department of the Social Science Congress at Cheltenham, 1878; and a second at Nottingham, 1882; aud many articles iv reviews and magazines, Although Professor Price's views on^ economical matters are not generally accepted, his great abilities are universally recognised, and he is regarded as an authority on agricultural subjects. He was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression.