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Description
A bronze inscription in the public library of Bridgend calls Richard Price ""Philosopher. Preacher. Actuary. Cfaill Dynolryw"" Friend of Humanity]. He was all these and something more. Son of a Welsh Presbyterian of Calvinistic leaning, Richard Price was educated for the ministry. That he belonged in the best of Dissenting tradition was exhibited at an early age in his own interest in Arianism, an interest fostered by the academy at Pentwyn where he studied. Here he met the works of Samuel Clar.
About the Author
Carl B. Cone is professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Burke and The Nature of Politics, volumes I and II, The University of Kentucky: A Pictorial History, and the editor of Hounds in the Morning: Sundry Sports of Merry England.