John Playfair Price (4 July 1905 – 5 May 1988) was a British diplomat, and a former President of the Oxford Union.
The son of William Arthur Price by his marriage to Edith Octavia Playfair, Price was educated at Gresham's School and New College, Oxford, where he was an Honorary Exhibitioner and President of the Oxford Union Society.
[1] After Oxford, Price joined the Diplomatic service and held Consular posts at Beijing, Nanjing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Zhenjiang, Harbin in Manchuria, Kathmandu, Gangtok in Sikkim, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Tunis, Tangier, Lisbon, Santiago de Chile, and Geneva.
[2] During 1938, he was posted back to London for a tour of duty at the Foreign Office,[1] and in 1940 was sent to Lisbon as Vice-Consul.
[4] After the Second World War he was Consul-General for Khorasan, Sistan and Persian Baluchistan, to where he was appointed in 1948.