Hetley Price

Stuart Hetley Price (14 June 1922 – 15 March 1977)

Price was educated at Loughborough Grammar School from 1931 to 1940. He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, taking a B.A. in history in 1943, and then read for Part I theology in 1944. He was ordained in 1945. His first post was as Curate at St Michael and All Angels, Bournemouth, after which he was Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester. He was then successively Secretary to the SCM; Rector of Didsbury; a Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral and, his final post before elevation to the episcopate, Archdeacon of Manchester. He died, following complications brought on by a stroke, in March 1977. His son Simon Price (1954–2011) became a historian of ancient Roman religion.