David Price (Welsh Independent minister)

Price began life as a working miner and recalled this period when addressing a public meeting called by Henry Austen Bruce during the 1857-8 Aberdare Strike.

In 1843, he was one of fourteen members from Ebenezer who left to establish the new church at Siloa, Aberdare, and Price was directly involved, as a workman, in the constriction of the original building, and served as its treasurer for many years.

[2] Siloa was established at the very time when Aberdare was rapidly developing as an industrial settlement as a result of the growth of the steam coal trade.

[2] In contrast to his namesake contemporary among the Baptists of Aberdare, Thomas Price, he work was mainly concentrated in his immediate locality but he established a reputation as an effective leader and powerful preacher.

They did, however, share a natural antipathy towards trade unionism, as demonstrated by David Price's remarks during the 1857–8 Aberdare Strike.