The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 3 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
Mr. Rose Price, in the subsequent year, married Miss Elizabeth
Lambert, a young lady from the county of Meath, born on the 12th of
April 1782, by a singular coincidence on the very day that Admiral
Rodney’s victory saved Jamaica from being captured by the French, and
therefore about sixteen at the time of her marriage. Mr. Price served
the office of Sheriff for Cornwall in the year 1814, as his father had
done forty years before, in the year 1774. In this year also he was
made a Baronet, in consequence of a promise from King George the
Fourth, then Regent.
Lady Price died early in life, leaving a large family; and Sir Rose
Price died on the 29th September 1834, having nearly completed his
65th year.
And here I would add a few lines to commemorate a gentleman whose
progress through life was mainly guided by his connexion with this
family, and whose conduct reflects credit on them for their choice.
In compliance with a custom evidently derived from the Catholic times
of our forefathers, when every thing relating to the church was
transacted in the language of ancient Rome, all boys whose parents
were raised above the lowest state in society, went for six or twelve
months to a Latin school. Mr. John Vinicombe was among the number, but
his progress exhibited so great a superiority above other scholars of
his age, that Mr. Perkin, the Lecturer and schoolmaster, prevailed on
his father to allow of his staying an additional year. Just at that
moment Mr. John Price placed his son at the same school; and, at the
suggestion probably of Mr. Perkin, Mr. Price was induced to purchase
at some small premium a further continuance of Mr. Vinicombe at the
school, that he might assist, instruct, and be in some degree the
companion of Mr. Rose Price.
A connexion thus formed naturally went on; Mr. Vinicombe became a
member of Pembroke College, Oxford, where he obtained a Fellowship;
attended Mr. Rose Price to the school at Harrow, and acted as his
private tutor when he became a gentleman commoner of Magdalen; made
with him the tour of Europe; and finally, attended his friend and
former pupil to Jamaica, where, by a residence of about two years,
they nearly doubled the value of the estate. Soon after their return
to England Mr. Vinicombe went to his Fellowship, and became not only a
college tutor but one of the Public Examiners, under the then recent
statute, and he had confident expectations of preferment in the
church; but a premature death terminated his useful and honourable
career, occasioned (or hastened at least) by a fall from his horse. An
excellent picture of Mr. Vinicombe, by Mr. Opie, has gone to Pembroke
College, under the will of Sir Rose Price.
Rosecadgwell has been for a considerable time in the family of
Borlase. Mr. John Borlase, father of the two Doctor Borlases, removed
there from Pendeen in the latter portion of his life; and Samuel
Borlase, Esq. representative of this ancient and respectable family,
resides there at present.
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