A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Price, Charles Henry
PRICE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Charles Henry Price is brother of Retired Commander Hervey Price.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Nov. 1810, on board the Sabine sloop, commanded by his brother, Capt. Geo. Price, under whom he served for some time on the Cadiz station. Towards the close of the war we find him employed in the Baltic in the Persian 18, Capt. Chas. Bertram, and on the Dutch coast in the Amphion 32, Capt. Jas. Pattison Stewart; and, at the commencement of the peace, stationed in the Nimrod 18, Capt. John Macpherson Ferguson, on the Scottish coast, and in the Sophie sloop, Capt. Sir Wm. Saltonstall Wiseman, at St. Helena, for the detention of Buonaparte. In the two ships last mentioned he held the rating of Master’s Mate. He was afterwards for five years employed in the West Indies as Mate and Acting- Lieutenant in the Sophie, Tamar, and Serapis – the latter commanded by Capt. Geo. Vernon Jackson. On 6 Dec. 1824 he was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. He exchanged about the same period into the Primrose 18, Capt. John Stoddart; and in June, 1825, returned to England as First of the Bustard, with a constitution much impaired from the effects of yellow fever. He has since been on half-pay.
In 1827 Lieut. Price was presented with the freedom of the city of Hereford. He married, 18 Sept. 1838, Mary, second daughter of the late Rev. Chas. Taylor, D.D., Chancellor of the diocese of Hereford, by whom he has issue one daughter.