Herbert Price

Sir Herbert Price, 1st Baronet (1605 – 14 January 1678) was a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1678. He fought on the Royalist side in the English Civil War.

Price was the second son of Thomas Price of The Priory, Brecon and his wife Anne Rudhall and was educated in law at the Middle Temple (1622).

In April 1640, Price was elected member of parliament for Brecon in the Short Parliament and re-elected for the Long Parliament the following November. As an ardent Royalist he was disabled from sitting in Parliament on 8 May 1643. He fought as a Colonel at the Battle of Naseby and accompanied King Charles I in his retreat through Glamorgan and Brecon, entertaining him at the Priory on 6 August 1645. He may have been honoured by the King, but no records survive. He was governor of Brecon Castle and held Hereford until it was captured on 18 December 1645 and he was taken prisoner. His estates were sequestered on 13 May 1651 and his name was excepted out of the general pardon for South Wales. He became Master of the Household for King Charles II in 1661 and a justice of the peace for Breconshire in 1666. The Priory passed to Herbert's cousin Colonel John Jeffreys of Abercynrig, whose mother was a Price.