Gregory Price (politician)
Gregory Price | |
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| Born | 6 August 1535 |
| Died | 19 March 1600 (aged 64) |
| Occupation | Politician |
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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.)
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.