Robert Price (Liberal politician)

Sir Robert John Price (26 April 1854 – 18 April 1926)[1] was a British surgeon, barrister and Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1918, and was one of only a few British politicians to have also pursued careers in both medicine and the law.[2]

Robert John Price

He was the son of Edward Price of Highgate, North London and his wife Elvina née Mountford.[3] He was educated at Cholmeley School, better known as Highgate School, in Highgate and at University College Hospital, where he graduated M.R.C.S.E. in 1876.[3] He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1883.[3]

Price elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk,[4] and held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1918 general election.

He was knighted in 1908.[3]

Price died on 18 April 1926, a week before his 72nd birthday, at Sussex Mansions in London.[2]

Personal life

In 1881 he married Eva Montgomery, daughter of Jasper Wilson Johns, who had been a Liberal MP for the Nuneaton division of Warwickshire.[3]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
  2. "Sir Robert Price". The Times. London. 20 April 1926. pp. 18, col D.
  3. Hesilridge, Arthur G. M. (1918). Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1918. London: Dean & Son. p. 134.
  4. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 351. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.


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