ing of the 24th, by the enemy, Capt. Price was despatched to acquaint him with the approach of reinforcements. In carrying out his instructions he fell in with a party of the enemy, who fired at and shot him through the thigh. “In this state,” reports Rear-Admiral Malcolm, “he not only made his escape, but secured an American soldier: I trust his wound is not dangerous, as he is a gallant young man and an excellent officer.” The Volcano subsequently aided in the bombardment of Fort St. Philip, and continued on the Mississippi until the retreat of the British army. In Feb. 1815, after landing a body of troops on Dauphin Island, Capt. Price took a zealous and active part in the attack on Fort Bowyer. During the proximate siege of Fort Mobile he was sent in charge of a division of boats to intercept a force of 800 men which had been sent from the town of Mobile for the purpose of raising it. Successful in the object of his mission, he effected the capture of two schooners, in one of which were found despatches of consequence from the American General Blew.[1] The importance of Capt. Price’s performance was acknowledged in Major-General Lambert’s public letter to the War-Office. On the intelligence of peace arriving from England he was sent with a flag-of-truce to communicate the information to the Americans at Mobile, and to restore Fort Bowyer to the proper authorities. On his return to England he was advanced to his present rank 13 June, 1815. When next in command, from 1 May, 1834, until the spring of 1838, of the Portland 52, on the Mediterranean station, he was presented by King Otho with the Order of the Redeemer for his services to the Greek Government. The assistance afforded by him to jhe British mission was also acknowledged in the official letters of Sir Edm. Lyons, the Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of Athens. Since 10 Nov. 1846 he has been employed as Superintendent of the dockyard at Sheerness and Captain of the Ocean 80 and Wellington 72.
Capt. Price is a Magistrate for Brecknockshire. He married, 30 July, 1844, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Taylor, Esq., and niece of the late Admiral Wm. Taylor (1830), of Maize Hill, Greenwich. Agents – Hallett and Robinson,
PRICE. (Retired Commander, 1839. f-p., 14; h-p., 40.)
Francis Swaine Price was born 5 July, 1785. This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1793, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Childers sloop, Capt. Robt. Barlow, stationed in the Channel. In Jan. 1795 he removed to the Magnanime of 48 guns, Capts. Schomberg and Hon. Michael de Courcy, employed on the coast of Ireland; and he next, from July, 1797, to June, 1802, served in the Channel and among the Western Islands in the Boadicea 38, Capts. Rich. Goodwin Keats and Chas. Rowley. During that period he was twice wounded – once in an attack made by Rear-Admiral Chas. Morice Pole on a Spanish squadron in Aix Roads, 2 July, 1799, and again at the cutting out of a Spanish packet and gun-boat from the harbour of Corunna. In Sept. 1802 and Nov. 1803 we find him successively joining the Aggressor gun-brig, Lieut.-Commanders Thos. Thompson and Geo. Hayes, and, as Master’s Mate, the Téméraire 98, Capt. Elias Harvey, under whom he was again wounded in the action off Cape Trafalgar 21 Oct. 1805. In consideration of his sufferings he was voted by the Patriotic Society the sum of 30l He obtained his commission 30 Jan. 1806, and from the following May until July, 1807, was employed in the Channel and North Sea on board the Namur 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted. The latter was his last appointment. He accepted his present rank 6 April, 1839.
PRICE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Hugh Price entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1807, as a Supernumerary, on board the Northumberland 74, Capt, Nathaniel Day Cochrane, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex, Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, where, from the following March until April, 1810, he served under the orders of Capt. John Ellis Watt, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Heureux, Hart, Julia, Heureux again, and Forester. He then returned to England with convoy in the Blonde frigate, Capt. Thos. Huskisson; and in Jan. 1811, after having been for six months borne at Woolwich on the books of the Thisbe 28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, and Safeguard, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Augustus Hire, was received on board the Crescent frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, attached to the force in the Baltic. He served next at Halifax, from April, 1813, to Oct. 1815, in the Bold 14, Capt. John Skekel, Narcissus 32, Capts. John Rich. Lumley, Jas. Galloway, and Alex. Gordon, and Centurion, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Stuart. The Bold was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 27 Sept. 1813. Having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 28 Feb. 1815, Mr. Price, at the close of that year, returned to England in the Canso 10, Lieut.-Commander Crooke. He has since been on half-pay. He is married and has issue.
PRICE. (Retired Commander, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 34.)
James Hervey Price is youngest son of the late Capt. Chas. Papps Price, R.N.,[2] and brother (with the present Lieut. Chas. Henry Price) of the late Capt. Geo. Price, R.N.[3]
This officer entered the Navy, in June, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Badger 8, commanded by his father, Lieut. Chas. Papps Price, under whom, while employed on the coast of Normandy in protecting the island of St. Marcouf, we find him present at the cutting-out, after a fierce resistance, of a guard-vessel in the river Isigny, and also at the destruction of the barge in which Sir Sidney Smith had been captured. From Dec. 1797 to May, 1802, he served as Midshipman in the Atlas 98, and was for the most part engaged at the blockade of Brest. Joining next, in Sept. of the latter year, the Alonzo sloop, Capts. W. H. Faulkner and John Impey, he cruized in that vessel on the Irish, Baltic, and Channel stations, and was on board of her off Bognor, in Oct. 1803, during a three days’ gale, in which she lost her masts and rudder, sprang a dangerous leak, and was all but lost. On the third night, the gale having somewhat subsided, he was directed by Capt. Impey to endeavour to get a letter on shore with an account of the state to which the Alonzo had been reduced. Not daring to beach his boat, Mr. Price jumped into the serf, and, although half-drowned, succeeded in conveying the despatch to a signal-station, whence it was forwarded to Portsmouth. Soon after this occurrence he joined the Queen 98, Capts. Theophilus Jones, Fras. Pender, and Manley Dixon, in which ship, during upwards of 12 months that he
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1815, p. 728.
- ↑ Capt. Chas. Papps Price, a native of Hay, in Breconshire, entered the service at a very early age, and in May, 1778, was made a Lieutenant. Continuing actively employed with honour to himself and benefit to his country, he was appointed to the command of the island of Marcouf when threatened with an attack by the French from La Hogue. On the night of 6 May, 1798, the enemy attempted to carry the island by storm; but its gallant defender, with a handful of brave men, drove them back with immense loss, and so completely defeated them that they did not again repeat the attack. For his exemplary conduct in the affair he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and subsequently to that of Post-Captain. He died at Hereford about Jan. 1813, aged 62.
- ↑ Capt. Geo. Price obtained his first commission 14 Sept 1805, and as a reward for the distinguished gallantry he exhibited on many detached services, when senior of the Porcupine, Capt. Hon. Hen. Duncan, was promoted to the rank of Commander in 1808. His heroic conduct on one occasion induced the Patriotic Society to vote him the sum of 50l. During the defence of Cadiz he commanded the Sabine sloop, as stated in our memoir of his brother, and was actively employed at the siege of Isla de Leon. He obtained Post-rank 7 Jan. 1812; was presented, in 1817, with the freedom of Hereford; became an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital 30 July, 1833; and died 13 Nov. 1840, at the Barton, in Hereford, aged 55.
