Price, Horace MacCartie Eyre

PRICE, HORACE MACCARTIE EYRE: Church of England bishop; b. at Malvern (36 m. s.w., of 246 Birmingham), England, Aug. 3, 1863. He received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1885; M. A., 1889); was ordained deacon, 1886, and priest, 1888; entered the service of the Church Missionary Society, in which he remained, except for a year, till his consecration as bishop of Fuh-Kien, China, in 1906. His appointments were: missionary and vice-principal of the Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, 1886–89; curate of Wingfield, Suffolk, 1889–90; principal of the society's boys' school at Osaka, Japan, 1890–97; acting secretary for the society at Osaka, 1897–98; principal of the society's divinity school in the same city, 1900–03, and secretary for the society, 1899–1904; did missionary work there, till 1906, acting also as examining chaplain to the bishop of Osaka, 1899-–1906, as archdeacon of Osaka, 1901–06, and as secretary for the society in central Japan, 1904–1906. These posts he left to take up the duties of his bishopric.