Horace Price


Horace MacCartie Eyre Price was a missionary of the Anglican Church.
Horace Price was born in Malvern into an ecclesiastical family on 3 August 1863: his father was W. Salter Price. He was educated at Rossall School and Trinity College, Cambridge, made deacon at Advent 1886, by Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, at St James's, Piccadilly and ordained priest the following year. He was a CMS Missionary in Sierra Leone then a Curate in Wingfield, Suffolk before serving the Anglican Church in Japan where he eventually became Archdeacon of Osaka. In 1905 he became Bishop in Fukien, serving until 1918. He was consecrated bishop on Candlemas 1906 at Westminster Abbey, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury. Returning to the UK he was Assistant Bishop of Ely and Archdeacon of Ely, Vicar of Pampisford and Canon Residentiary of Ely Cathedral until his death on 21 November 1941. He had become a Doctor of Divinity.