Robert Price (judge)

[1] He was educated at Ruthin Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge,[2] after which he entered Lincoln's Inn before making the Grand Tour.

[3] On 23 September 1679 Price married Lucy, eldest daughter and coheiress of Robert Rodd of Foxley in Yazor, Herefordshire, by Ann Sophia, only child of Thomas Neale of Warneford, Hampshire.

[4] With her he had two sons and a daughter but in 1690, after her adultery with a cousin of hers (whom she bore a child), the couple separated without divorce, Price providing for her and their children throughout his life and in his will.

[5] In 1682 Price was appointed Attorney General for South Wales, as well as alderman of the city of Hereford; the following year he became recorder of Radnor; then steward to Catherine of Braganza in 1684; town clerk of Gloucester 1685; and King's Counsel for Ludlow in 1686.

His elder son Thomas, who had resigned his parliamentary seat to make a Grand Tour in Europe, had died at Genoa in 1706 (by differing accounts, murder or suicide[9]), so the younger son Uvedale Tomkins Price succeeded to the family estates in Herefordshire and Denbighshire.