Gregory Price (politician)

Gregory Price
Born(1535-08-06)6 August 1535
Died19 March 1600(1600-03-19) (aged 64)
OccupationPolitician
Spouses
  • Mary Coningsby
    (m. 1559)
  • Grissel Roberts
    (m. 1598)
Childrenwith Mary:
  • Thomas Price
Parents

Gregory Price (6 August 1535 – 19 March 1600) of Hereford, was an English politician. He served as member of parliament (MP) for Herefordshire and Hereford seven times between 1558 and 1597.[1]

He was born in London on 6 August 1535, the eldest son of Sir John Price, of Brecon and Thomas Cromwell's niece, Joan (b. c. 1515/6), daughter of John Williamson, of Southwark.[1][2]

He married firstly, by 1559, Mary, daughter of Humphrey Coningsby (d. 1558) of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, by whom he had a son:[1]

By 1598, he married secondly, Grissel (d. 1648), daughter of Walter Roberts of Glassenbury, Kent, widow of Gervase Gebons, by whom he had a daughter.[1][5]

He died on 19 March 1600.[1] His widow subsequently married, in June 1600, as his 4th wife, Sir John Poyntz of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire.[1][5] She died in 1648.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Edwards, P. S. (1982). "Price, Gregory (1535-1600), of Hereford". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Archived from the original on 23 January 2025 – via History of Parliament Online.
  2. ^ Pryce, Huw (January 2026) [2004]. "Prise, Sir John [Syr Siôn ap Rhys] (1501/2–1555)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22752. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Cooke, Robert (1886). Weaver, Frederic William (ed.). The Visitation of Herefordshire Made by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1569. Exeter: Privately printed for the Editor by William Pollard. p. 58. OCLC 714188697.
  4. ^ Jones, Theophilus; Bailey, Joseph Russell (1909). A History of the County of Brecknock. Enlarged by the Notes Collected by Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bart., First Baron Glanusk (Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire). Vol. 2. Brecon: Blissett, Davies & Co. pp. 139, 141. OCLC 558065705.
  5. ^ a b c J.J.C. "Poyntz, Sir John (c.1560-1633), of Iron Acton, Glos.". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603. Archived from the original on 25 December 2024 – via History of Parliament Online.