A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Price, Hugh
PRICE. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Hugh Price entered the Navy, 28 Feb. 1807, as a Supernumerary, on board the Northumberland 74, Capt, Nathaniel Day Cochrane, bearing the flag of Hon. Sir Alex, Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief in the West Indies, where, from the following March until April, 1810, he served under the orders of Capt. John Ellis Watt, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Heureux, Hart, Julia, Heureux again, and Forester. He then returned to England with convoy in the Blonde frigate, Capt. Thos. Huskisson; and in Jan. 1811, after having been for six months borne at Woolwich on the books of the Thisbe 28, Capt. Wm. Rogers, and Safeguard, Lieut.-Commander Geo. Augustus Hire, was received on board the Crescent frigate, Capt. John Quilliam, attached to the force in the Baltic. He served next at Halifax, from April, 1813, to Oct. 1815, in the Bold 14, Capt. John Skekel, Narcissus 32, Capts. John Rich. Lumley, Jas. Galloway, and Alex. Gordon, and Centurion, Lieut.-Commander Rich. Stuart. The Bold was wrecked in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 27 Sept. 1813. Having been advanced to the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 28 Feb. 1815, Mr. Price, at the close of that year, returned to England in the Canso 10, Lieut.-Commander Crooke. He has since been on half-pay. He is married and has issue.