Background
PRICE, Thomas Rees was born on February 20, 1848 in Merthyr Tydvil. Son of late Rees Price, of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, and Hannah Rhys, of Llandilo, Carmarthenshire.
manager Assistant General Manager
PRICE, Thomas Rees was born on February 20, 1848 in Merthyr Tydvil. Son of late Rees Price, of Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, and Hannah Rhys, of Llandilo, Carmarthenshire.
Studied at private school, Ballarat, Victoria. Melbourne; Normal College, Swansea, South Wales. Trained for railway service by late Joshua Williams, General Manager of Vale of Neath Railway, etc.
Filled various positions on Great Western Railway until 1880.
Entered service of Cape Government as District Traffic Superintendent at Grahamstown. Acting Assistant Traffic Manager, Cape Town, 1880. Assistant Traffic Manager, Port Elizabeth, 1881.
Traffic Manager of the Eastern System, 1882. Traffic Manager, Northern System, 1892. Cape Government Railway Agent in the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1892.
Chief Traffic Manager, 1893. Assistant General Manager of Railways, 1901. Acted as railway I fig adviser to Sir James Sive wright in the negotiations with the Transvaal Government, which resulted in the Railway Convention of 1891.
Justice of the Peace Cape Colony and Transvaal. Horn Colonel Transvaal Railway Engineer Corps. President of the C.S.A.R. Amateur Athletic Association, Johannesburg.
Member of Geographical Society of Lisbon. Railway Commissioner South African Railways, Johannesburg, since 1902.
Clubs: Civil Service, Cape Town; Rand, Transvaal Volunteer Officers, Johannesburg; Pretoria; Bloemfontein; East London.
Spouse 1872, Mary,daughter of Matthias Howell, of Neath.
Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, cartulary-register 1908; Companion of St. Michael and St. George 1901. Sir.