James Price (1571 – 6 January 1641) was a Welsh politician who sat in the

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ...

from 1624 to 1626. Price was the son of John Price (John ap Rys) of Pileth, an officer in the wars of Queen Elizabeth, and educated at the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to Call to the bar, call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with whi ...

(1588) and

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The l ...

(1589). Price was

High Sheriff of Radnorshire History The office of High Sheriff is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The Office of High Sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 190 ...

in 1601 and 1613.W R Williams ''The Parliamentary History of the Principality of Wales''
/ref> In 1624, he was elected Member of Parliament for

Radnorshire Radnorshire () was Historic counties of Wales, one of the thirteen counties of Wales that existed from 1536 until their abolishment in 1974, later becoming a Districts of Wales, district of Powys from 1974 to 1996. It covered a sparsely populat ...

. He was re-elected MP for Radnorshire in 1625 and 1626. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of (?Eustace) Whitney of Whitney, Herefordshire; they had 6 sons and 4 daughters.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Price, James 1571 births 1641 deaths Members of the Middle Temple Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for constituencies in Wales English MPs 1624–1625 English MPs 1625 English MPs 1626 High sheriffs of Radnorshire