Bonamy Price

Bonamy Price (22 May 18078 January 1888) was a British political economist.

Biography He was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, the son of Frederick Price and his wife Maria Martha Vardon. He lived on the island until age 14. He matriculated at Worcester College, Oxford, in 1825, where he received double first in classics, graduating B.A. in 1829, M.A. in 1832. During his time at Worcester College, he occasionally studied under Thomas Arnold, at Laleham; who went on to become head master of Rugby School, and offered Price a role as assistant master of mathematics at the school. Price remained a teacher at Rugby from 1830 until 1850.

In 1868 Price was elected Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, and was thrice re-elected to the post, which he held till his death. He was in charge of Economics Department at the 1878 National Association for the Promotion of Social Science congress at Cheltenham, as well as the 1882 congress at Nottingham. In 1883 he was elected an honorary fellow of his college. In addition to his professorial work, he was in much request as a popular lecturer on political economy. His daughter Bertha married Daniel Conner Lathbury.

Works Principles of Political Economy (1878) Concerning Currency and Banking (1876) Practical Political Economy (1878)