Background
He was the eldest son of Richard Price, a merchant.
He was the eldest son of Richard Price, a merchant.
Entering the Middle Temple on 29 May 1823, was called to the bar in 1830, and practised on the western circuit. Price was a sub-commissioner of the Public Record Commission, and helped Benjamin Thorpe with his Ancient Laws and Institutes of England (1840). As a scholar of northern European literature, he had a reputation with Jacob Grimm, Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin and Edgar Taylor.
He died of dropsy on 23 May 1833, at Branch Hill, Hampstead.