Thomas Price was twice President of the British Virgin Islands, Acting President from 1857 to 1858, and then President from 1859 to 1861,[1] and then Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica from 1861 to 1864. In 1862, Price dissolved the Dominican legislature and called a new election over a controversy from a bill pressing for a proper registration of voters' qualifications.[2]
He was the son of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet of Trengwainton, Cornwall.[3]
He had a wife, Anna, who died on the Island of Tortola in 1857, at the age of 39.[3]
References
edit- ^ "British Virgin Islands".
- ^ The Dominica Story: A History of the Island, Lennox Honychurch, 1995, p. 130.
- ^ a b Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer, 1857, p. 347.
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