Richard Price

Richard Price ( born February 23, 1723 in Llangeinor, Glamorgan, † April 19, 1791 in London, England) was a Welsh ethical philosopher, preacher of the English Dissenter and an active pamphleteer in the American Revolution. He maintained contacts with writers of the Constitution of the United States. For most of his life he spent as a pastor in the Newington Green Unitarian Church, where he may be the person he has most influenced met her, Mary Wollstonecraft, who used his ideas in egalitarianism in the fight for women's rights in the French Revolution. In addition to his work as a political philosopher, he was also active in the Royal Society.

Early career

Richard Price was born the son of a Dissenter pastor in Llangeinor, Glamorgan. He received private lessons and in a school for Dissenters in London, he was chaplain and companion of his master in Stoke Newington, which is used to close and now in inner London. Died in 1757 his master, and his uncle and he married Sarah Blundell from Leicestershire. A year on it, the family moved to Newington Green in North London, in a house that was already a hundred years old. Richard Price was a pastor in the Newington Green Unitarian Church, a church that is still regarded as a radical Unitarian church.

Friends and contacts

In the Church and in his house he was, of founding fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, other American politicians such as John Adams, the second president of the United States was later, British politicians such as George Lyttelton and Prime Minister William Pitt philosophers such as David Hume, supporters of the French Revolution and other political guests visited. Price had a good relationship with its neighbors and community members.

Together with his neighbor James Burgh and Thomas Rogers, he organized every day a dinner that went from house to house.