Price Seymour James

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Biografie:
geboren in Cirencester (Großbritannien)

Seymour James Price (1886- 1959)
S. J. Price, who died on May 28 last, had been a member of the Alpine Club since I928, his proposer being Brig.-General C. G. Bruce and his seconder Reginald Graham.
He was born at Cirencester on August 31, 1886, and moved to Acton at an early age, spending most of his life there until, soon after the close of the last war, he went to Eastbourne, where he died. He was largely self-educated, for he left school at the age of thirteen and, after some business experience elsewhere, entered his father's business, Price & Son, Incorporated Insurance Brokers in Acton, eventually becoming head of the firm. In 1941 he became General Manager of the Baptist Insurance Company a position that he held until 1957 and in due course disposed of the family business. In 1942 he became a Director of the Temperance Building Society and had attended a Directors' Meeting the day before his death.
He dedicated his life largely to the work of the Baptist Denomination, holding office in the Acton Baptist Church for many years and serving on a large number of Committees of the denomination. In particular, he was Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1947 and President of the Baptist Union in 1944· He had considerable literary gifts; was President of the Baptist Historical Society, and wrote a number of works on Baptist history, as well as the official history of the Temperance Building Society (1954) and a general history of the Building Society movement, published last year.
He visited the Alps in 1912 and 1913, but only commenced genuine climbing in 1920. From then on until 1927 he was out every year, except in 1924, when a severe operation prevented him. He never fully recovered his form after this illness ; in 1925 his doctor forbade serious climbs and in 1926 he was limited by the fact that he was introducing a young family to the joys of Switzerland. Christian Almer III (1882- 1931) was his favourite guide and Grindelwald his favourite centre. Records of his activities are incomplete ; he was certainly still climbing in 1932 and 1934, but was finding the strain too much for him and it is improbable that he made any ascents of note after 1934·He remained, however, a great walker almost to the close of his life and was always happy to snatch a day off work to go walking in the Cotswolds or on the Sussex Downs.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 64. Nr. 298, 1959, Seite 293-294


Geboren am:
31.08.1886
Gestorben am:
28.05.1959