A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Price, Samuel
PRICE. (Captain, 1831. f-p., 14; h-p., 80.)
Samuel Price, born 1 Jan. 1793, is eldest son of Barrington Price, Esq., of West House, Brighton (brother of Sir Uvedale Price, Bart., of Foxley, co. Hereford), by Lady Maria Lyon Bowes, daughter of John ninth Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn. He is grand-nephew and godson of Admiral Hon. Sam. Barrington, brother of the first Viscount Barrington. His brother, William Price, was killed in America in 1814, while serving in the Poictiers 74.
This officer entered the Navy, 18 Sept. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Virginie frigate, Capt. John Poo Beresford, attached to the force in the North Sea; and was subsequently employed on the Halifax and Home stations in the Révolutionnaire 44, Capt. Hon. Henry Hotham, Cambrian 40, and Theseus and Poictiers 74’s, all commanded by Capt. J. P. Beresford, and Favorite sloop, Capts. Benj. Clement and Robt. Forbes. While attached to the Theseus he served in her boats, in the capacity of Midshipman, in two attempts made to destroy a French 80-gun ship moored under the batteries in Vigo harbour. He was frequently, too, engaged in boat affairs under the enemy’s batteries along the French coast; and in 1809 he was present at the destruction of the shipping in Aix Roads and in the operations connected with the expedition to the Walcheren. After having acted for a short period as Lieutenant in the Favorite, he was confirmed, 3 July, 1812, to that rank in the Edinburgh 74, Capts. Rowland Mainwaring and Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, under the latter of whom we find him, at the close of 1813, assisting at the capture of a convoy and the destruction of the enemy’s batteries at Port d’Anzo, besides participating in the unsuccessful attack upon Leghorn. Joining shortly after the latter event the Bacchante 38, Capts. Wm. Hoste and Fras. Stanfell, he proceeded to the coast of North America, and in 1814 accompanied the expedition up the Penobscot. He came home in Oct. of the same year; attained the rank of Commander 18 Sept. 1815; and was lastly, from 16 Sept. 1828 until advanced to his present rank 25 June, 1831, employed on the Irish station in the Trinculo 18.
Capt. Price married, 20 July, 1831, Dorothea Grace, eldest daughter of Hugh Kennedy, Esq., of Cultra, co. Down, by whom he has issue a daughter. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.