John MacNeile Price FGS FRGS (5 August 1843 – 11 November 1922) was a British civil engineer and the Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
[4] He was the first qualified and competent Surveyor General in Hong Kong's history from 1873 to 1889.
He was conversant with electrical engineering developments both in Europe and America.
As a result, the government offered $19,000 for fifty arc lamps and pumping water up to the houses on the Peak.
He sued the Robert Fraser-Smith, founder of the Hongkong Telegraph in November 1883 who accused him of jobbery and corruption but lost the case.