William Price (orientalist)

In 1810, he was appointed assistant secretary and interpreter to the embassy of Sir Gore Ouseley to Persia which travelled there from 1811 to 1812.

[1] On his return to England, Price wrote and taught oriental languages at the seminary of his friend, Alexander Humphreys, at Netherstone House, near Worcester.

He set up a private printing press in his house, and became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London and the Asiatic Society of Calcutta.

[1] Price kept a diary in Persia, and made hundreds of drawings, of landscapes and buildings.

He published:[1] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed.