William Price (orientalist)


William Price was an English orientalist.

Life

Price was born at Worcester. In 1810, he was appointed assistant secretary and interpreter to the embassy of Sir Gore Ouseley to Persia which travelled there from 1811 to 1812.
On his return to England, Price wrote and taught oriental languages at the seminary of his friend, Alexander Humphreys, at Netherstone House, near Worcester. He set up a private printing press in his house, and became a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of London and the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. He died in June 1830.

Works

Price kept a diary in Persia, and made hundreds of drawings, of landscapes and buildings. He deciphered many cuneiform inscriptions. He published: