Richard Evan Price
1786–1864
Merchant, mine owner, and agriculturalist in Chile. Arrived in South America (probably Buenos Aires, Argentina) about 1815. Married Josefa Claro y Salazar (d. 1830) in Santiago, Chile, in 1819. Settled in Valparaiso, Chile, in 1824. Met CD in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1832. Married Francis or Frances (Fanny) Christopher Nugent Patrickson, daughter of John White, British vice-consul in Valparaiso, and widow of Thomas Patrickson (d. 1837, merchant in Valparaiso), in 1837. Father of John MacNeile Price, baptised in Liverpool in 1843.
Sources
‘Beagle’ diary, pp. 75, 79
Liverpool, England, Church of England baptisms, 1813–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 16 January 2018)
Méndez Beltrán 2004, p. 188
The Times, 15 September 1828, p. 4
Bibliography
‘Beagle’ diary: Charles Darwin’s Beagle diary. Edited by Richard Darwin Keynes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1988.
Méndez Beltrán, Luz María. 2004. La exportación minera en Chile 1800-1840: un estudio de historia econoómica y social en la transición de la colonia a la República. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria.
