He was the son of Matthew Guérin Price (c.1788–1847, spelling variants of the name are found), for a period around 1820 a merchant in Naples.
[3][4] His father was from a Guernsey family, the son of Frederick Price and his wife Margaret Parker.
[3] In 1824 Price through an intermediary was enquiring about Matthew's admission to the Institute at Yverdon run by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.
[12] Ordained deacon in 1845 and priest in 1846, Price spent the years 1845 to 1853 at Lutterworth as a curate, where Robert Henry Johnson was the rector.
[5][14] Mary Louisa Raffaella, youngest daughter of Matthew Guerrin Price (ODNB spelling) of Guernsey married the Rev.
The Coventry Standard reported that the wedding took place in Lutterworth, on Christmas Eve 1850, and was carried out by the Rev.
[1] Price then took the living of Kimbolton, in the gift of William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, where he remained for five years.
He retired to Eastbourne; but around 1888 moved to the living of Willey, Warwickshire, where he spent the rest of his life.
[21] Of the daughters: Price's will gave a legacy to Florence, with the residual estate to be divided between the other children, apart from Frederick William Stephen and Edward Mat(t)hew.