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(ARIBA 1948; MRIA) Price studied part-time at the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff, South Wales from 1939 to 1942. During this period he was articled to R. S. Griffiths & Partners. In 1942 Price successfully passed the Intermediate Exam of the RIBA in London and then proceeded to enlist in the British Army. Between 1942 and 1946 he was first stationed in Nigeria (where he was seconded to the Royal Engineers building Hospitals) and was then stationed successively in Germany, France, Belgium and Holland. From 1946 to 1947 Price participated in a Correspondence Course under Mr. Stuart Stanley MIA FRIBA and was employed as an Assistant at R. S. Griffiths & Partners in the town of Tonypandy in the county of Glamorgan, Wales. He also worked part time for Messrs. Morgan & Thomas Architects in South Wales. In June 1947 Price successfully passed the Final Examination of the RIBA in London. On 16 August 1947 he submitted his Preliminary Statement to RIBA, confirming that he was 'desirous of admission'. His address on the statement was noted as 3 Station Road, Treochy, Rhondda, South Wales. Price completed the RIBA Candidate's Separate Statement (Associate) on 30 August 1947. Lewis John FRIBA, of the Welsh School of Architecture, completed the form as the Proposer and confirmed that Price was 'a fit and proper person' to be admitted as an Associate of the RIBA and stated that Price 'produced excellent work whilst at the school.' A separate RIBA Proposer's document completed by Price and dated 7 September 1947 recorded the signatures of three architects as his Proposers - all of whom were Fellows of the RIBA. The three architects were Lewis John, Arthur G Lynham and Morgan Willmott who all confirmed that from their personal knowledge of Price they recommended him for election. Price's submission to RIBA was successful and he was duly elected as an Associate. Price signed the formal RIBA Declaration on 9 February 1948, undertaking inter alia 'to advance the interests and objects' of the RIBA. The details of Price's career in the following 25 years have not yet been determined. By 1974 Price was employed as the Chief Architect of the City of Salisbury in Rhodesia. At some point - presumably due to the declaration of Independence in 1980 and the concurrent renaming of Rhodesia as the Republic of Zimbabwe - Price relocated to neighbouring South Africa. This was a route chosen by many other Civil Servants in similar positions in the newly independent country. Price chose to live to Pietermaritzburg, and was presumably employed as an architect by the Local Municipality, as the City Engineer of Pietermaritzburg formally advised RIBA in July 1984 that Price had passed away in Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg on 16 June 1984 (aged 62). The RIBA file note recording Price's passing and closing his RIBA file has a pencilled note 'No NoK' at the bottom of the page - presumably 'No Next of Kin'. Reference: (Compiled and submitted by William MARTINSON) City Architect, City of Salisbury (now Harare), 1974. Ref: Minute of His Worship the Mayor 1974 - 1975, City of Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). 1975. pg 51 (Submitted by William MARTINSON) | ||
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