Name Denis Price | Died October 6, 1973, Guernsey Role Actor | |
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Spouse Joan Schofield (m. 1939–1950) Movies Kind Hearts and Coronets, Vampyros Lesbos, A Canterbury Tale, Twins of Evil, Theatre of Blood Similar People Robert Hamer, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Ian Carmichael, Alec Guinness | ||
Siblings Arthur Thomas Rose-Price Children Susan Price, Tessa Price | ||
Major-General, The Reverend Denis Price CB, CBE (28 October 1908 – 19 March 1966) was Chief of Staff, British Defence Staff in Washington from 1959 to 1962 and was later ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
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Early life
Denis Walter Price was born in Kandy in Ceylon and educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Caius College at Cambridge and the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 31 January 1929.
Army career
Price’s military appointments are as follows:
Price was created Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1945 and Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 1961.
Ministry
On leaving the army Price moved to United States and after a course of studies was ordained into the Presbyterian Church. His studies were interrupted by the illness from which he later died, but in spite of this he served as a Minister at Natural Bridge in Virginia for the two years before his death. His funeral was held at High Bridge Presbyterian Church in Virginia.
Price married Audrey de Beaufort in 1951 and had two sons and two daughters.