Edward William Price (1832 – 14 November 1893) was an Irish-born Australian civil servant, who served as Government Resident of the Northern Territory between 1876 and 1883.
[6] Price married Mina Hamilton, a fellow Irish emigrant, on 6 November 1860 in Adelaide.
Price's wife and children all died together in 1875 when a ship they were travelling on, the SS Gothenburg, was wrecked off the coast of Queensland.
[1] On 1 July 1876, Price was appointed Government Resident of the Northern Territory, succeeding George Byng Scott.
He also started a Church of England congregation in the Residency, partly funded by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.