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Copyright
Helen Forder
2004
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The
Reverend Thomas Price (1787
- 1848)
Born on the 2nd of October 1787,
Thomas was the second son of the Reverend Rice Price, and his wife Mary
(née Bowen), a family whose first language was Welsh. They were living at
the time at Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Breconshire.
A diligent pupil, Thomas attended the village school where he first learned
English, then was sent to a school at the Vicarage house of Llanafan Fawr,
two miles away.
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Rev. Thomas
Price (Carnhuanawc)
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He had wide-ranging
interests, from the academic to the manual arts and he acquired some skill
as a craftsman through watching others at their work and practising in his
own workshop when he was prevented from following his favourite form of
recreation, walking in the countryside. He is quoted as saying ...
'I know not on the face of the earth a region more beautiful, more
blissful, and all in all more desirable than the land of Wales'.
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In 1805 Thomas Price became
a student at Brecon Grammar
School, lodging in the town, and remaining there for a probationary term of
seven years prior to becoming ordained a deacon of the Established Church
by Dr. Burgess, Bishop of St. David's. He then lived in Builth with
his widowed mother while serving the Radnorshire curacies of Llanllyr yn
Rhos and Llanfihangel Helygen.
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Thomas Price spent the last
twenty-seven years, of his life at Cwmdu, Breconshire. In 1848, when he was ill, Lady
Llanofer sent the Miss Williamses (of Aber- pergwm) in her carriage to
bring him back to Llanofer 'for the benefit of change of air and scene'.
Sadly he was too ill to undertake the journey and died shortly
afterwards. He is buried in the churchyard of the Parish Church,
Cwmdu.
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The
Vicarage, Cwmdu
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