Frederick George Hilton Price
Frederick George Hilton Price (20 August 1842 – 14 March 1909) was an English banker, antiquarian, archaeologist and geologist.
[1] Much of his early leisure was devoted to the history of Child's Bank, and in 1875 he published Temple Bar, or some Account of Ye Marygold, No.
Always keenly interested in the prehistoric as well as historic annals of London, he formed a collection of antiquities of the stone and Bronze Ages, of the Roman period, of Samian ware vessels imported during the first and second centuries from the south of France, English pottery ranging from the Norman times down to the last century, tiles, pewter vessels and plates, medieval ink-horns, coins, tokens (many from the burial pits on the site of Christ's Hospital), and so forth; the whole of his collection was secured to form in 1911 the nucleus of the London Museum at Kensington Palace (reported in The Times, 25 March 1911).
He took a leading part in the excavation of the Roman villa at Brading in the Isle of Wight, the remains of which were by his exertions kept open to the public for some time, and on which, in conjunction with John E. Price, he read a paper before the Royal Institute of British Architects in December 1880 (printed in the Transactions of that society, 1880–1, pp.
On the excavations at Silchester or Calleva Atrebatum (of the research fund of which he was treasurer) he read a paper at the Society of Antiquaries on 11 February 1886 (printed in Archæologia, 1.
[2] He collected fossils, particularly of the Gault formation at Folkestone, about which he wrote a number of articles;[1] he was elected fellow of the Geological Society in 1872.
His books, coins, old spoons, and miscellaneous objects of art and virtu fetched at auction (1909–1911) the sum of £2606 10s.
