Author: Price, Fitzjames Tucker
Biography:
PRICE, Fitzjames Tucker (1812-38: findmypast.co.uk)
He was born on 3 April 1812 and baptised on 25 May at St. Peter’s Hereford, the son of James Price (1780-1863), a surgeon, and his wife Harriet Tucker (1784-1856), who had married at St. Mary’s, Lambeth, London, on 6 May 1811. The family lived for many years at St. Owen’s Street, Hereford. He was educated at Eton and entered King’s College, Cambridge in 1829 (matric. 1830). He was sent down from Cambridge and deprived of his scholarship for assaulting a tradesman. He then entered Trinity College Dublin in Oct. 1834 but did not proceed to a degree and returned to Hereford. In the interim he published Montem(1832) and later contributed a number of translations of classical Greek poems to Blackwood's (1836-8) which received wider circulation by being reprinted in London and provincial newspapers. He died on 3 Feb. 1838 and was buried at St. Michael’s, Breinton, Herefordshire, on 9 Feb. (findmypast.co.uk 1 Oct. 2021; ancestry.co.uk 1 Oct. 2021; Hereford Journal 7 Feb. 1838, 14 May 1856, 26 Sept. 1863; Curran) AA