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Charles Thomas Price (1847-1933) was educated at Cheshunt College, Cambridge. He was ordained as a Congregational minister on January 25, 1875, and married Mary Anne (Polly) Thimbleby on February 28. The couple sailed for Madagascar on March 25, 1875, where Charles Price served as a missionary for six years, and where his sons Egbert and Hereward were born. He was widowed and remarried in 1901 to Annie Beatrice Hill. After returning to England in 1882, he ministered to several congregations including: Lenham in Kent (1883-1890), Buckingham (1890-1901), Ross-on-Wye (1901-1910), and East Grinstead (1910-1914). His last congregation was at Reigate in Surrey (1916-1925), where he died in 1933.

Hereward Thimbleby Price was born in Madagascar in 1880. He studied at Oxford, where he received his B.A. and M.A. and worked on the Oxford English Dictionary. He moved to Germany in 1904, where he taught English at the Universities of Kiel and Bonn, and studied under Bülbring for his Ph.D. While in Bonn he met Elisabeth (Liese) Prym (1884-1971), who became his wife in 1911. Their son Arnold was born in 1912. Drafted into the German army in 1915, Hereward Price was captured on the eastern front by Russia and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Siberia. After his escape, he traveled across Russia to China, where he worked briefly at the Anglo-Chinese College of Tientsin before returning to his family in England via Japan and Canada. Hereward moved to the United States and became a professor of English at the University of Michigan in 1929. He became a distinguished scholar of Shakespeare, and died in 1964.

Egbert Thimbleby Price (Bret) was the son of Charles, brother of Hereward. He was born in June of 1876. He was educated at the Eltham School and Silcontes School in Wakefield. He began working at the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society in 1892, transferred to Barclay's Bank in 1895, and worked for a succession of banks and businesses until 1923. During this period he traveled widely, spending time in Berlin and South America. From 1923-1925 he lived in London, then returned to the business world until 1936 by buying a partnership in Sedgwick and Co. of Colombo. After his return to England, he worked in publications for the Institute of Sociology (1936-1938), as Editor of the Digest of Charities (1938-1940), at the Censor in the Foreign Office (1940-1946), and at the Post Office Savings Department (1946-1949). He died July 5, 1949.

Arnold Hereward Price was born in Bonn, Germany, on July 1, 1912. He came to the United States after finishing high school in Germany in 1933. Joining his parents in Ann Arbor, he became a specialist in Modern European History at the University of Michigan, receiving his A.B. in 1935, his M.A. in 1936. He married Alice Price in 1938, and from 1939 to 1941 acted as assistant supervisor of the University's archaeological laboratory in Detroit. After the lab shut down, he worked for the department of English as a research assistant on the Early Modern English Proverb Dictionary (1941-1942), and received his Ph.D. in 1942. Arnold Price then moved to Washington D.C., where he worked for the Library of Congress, specializing in Central Europe. In 1943, he left the Library of Congress and began his service with the Army, in the Office of Strategic Services, which lasted until 1946. At the conclusion of World War II, Arnold Price transferred to the Department of State until 1960. He returned to the Library of Congress from 1960 to 1979 as an area specialist for Central Europe, then performed bibliographic work for the American Historical Association until 1991. In addition to his professional duties, Arnold Price also lectured at the University of New Mexico (1947-1948) and American University (1948, 1959), and was section editor of the American Historical Review from 1961 through the 1980s. He was divorced from Alice in 1970, remarried Elizabeth Beitz, was widowed in 1986, and remarried again in 1991 to Dana Dinkins.

From the guide to the Price family papers, 1793-2004, (bulk 1856-2004), (Hoover Institution Archives)

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