Lewis Hugh Oswald Pryce (1 August 1873 – 30 September 1930)Archdeacon Pryce. The Times (London, England), Friday, 3 Oct 1930; pg. 14; Issue 45634 was a Welsh Anglican priest'PRYCE, Ven. Lewis Hugh Oswald', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, OUP, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 12 Feb 2016 in the first third of the 20th century who rose to become Archdeacon of Wrexham.
The son of Shadrach Pryce,Welsh Biography On-line Dean of St Asaph from 1899 to 1910, he was educated at Clifton College"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p145: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948 and Pembroke College, Cambridge."Alumni Cantabrigienses; a biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900" Venn, J Part 2 Vol 5 p211: Cambridge, CUP, 1953 He was ordained Deacon in 1896; and Priest in 1897. After curacies in Lampeter and Brecon he held incumbencies in Wrexham and Bistre. He was Warden of Ruthin from 1909 to 1916; Vicar of Colwyn Bay from 1916 to 1923; and Rural Dean of Wrexham from 1923 until his appointment as Archdeacon.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30Oxford, OUP, 1929
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