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Helen Forder
2004
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The
Reverend Thomas Price (1787 - 1848)
Born on the 2nd
of October 1787, Thomas was the second son of the
Reverend Rice Price, and his wife Mary (née
Bowen), a family whose first language was Welsh.
They were living at the time at Llanfihangel Bryn
Pabuan, Breconshire.
A diligent pupil, Thomas attended the village
school where he first learned English, then was
sent to a school at the Vicarage house of
Llanafan Fawr, two miles away. |
Rev.
Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) |
| He had
wide-ranging interests, from the academic to the
manual arts and he acquired some skill as a
craftsman through watching others at their work
and practising in his own workshop when he was
prevented from following his favourite form of
recreation, walking in the countryside. He
is quoted as saying ... 'I know not on the
face of the earth a region more beautiful, more
blissful, and all in all more desirable than the
land of Wales'. |
| In 1805
Thomas Price becames a student at Brecon Grammar School, lodging in the
town, and remaining there for a probationary term
of seven years prior to becoming ordained a
deacon of the Established Church by Dr. Burgess,
Bishop of St. David's. He then lived in
Builth with his widowed mother while serving the
Radnorshire curacies of Llanllyr yn Rhos and
Llanfihangel Helygen. |
| Thomas
Price spent the last twenty-seven years, of his
life at Cwmdu, Breconshire. In 1848,
when he was ill, Lady Llanofer sent the Miss
Williamses (of Aber- pergwm) in her carriage to
bring him back to Llanofer 'for the benefit of
change of air and scene'. Sadly he was
too ill to undertake the journey and died shortly
afterwards. He is buried in the churchyard
of the Parish Church, Cwmdu. |
The Vicarage, Cwmdu |
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