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THOMAS PRYCE, J.P., PENTRE HEYLIN. In the death of Mr. Pryce the Powysland Club has lost one of the most diligent Members of its Council, an active contributor of matter and illustration to the pages of its Collections, and a donor to the Museum. Born at Trederwen Hall, in Llandrinio, on the 5th of September, 1833, he was the sixth and youngest son of Mr. David Pryce and Anne his wife, the daughter of Mr. Tannatt, of Bryntanat. For his education he was sent to the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool, then under the charge of the Rev. John Saul Howson, M.A., the joint author, with the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, M.A. (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), of The Life and Epistles of St. Paul, and later, widely known as the genial Dean of Chester. One of his contem- poraries at the College was the present Lord Justice Rigby. From the College he went out to Java, where he remained some eight and twenty years. There, on November 28th, 1863, he married Rosalie, daughter of Jacobus G.T. and Aldouse van Motman of Dramaga, Java, by whom he had issue two sons and three daughters. The elder son died in infancy, and the eldest daughter is the wife of the Rev. R. S. Edwards, Rector of Westcote Barton, in the diocese of Oxford. From Java Mr. Pryce removed with his iamily to the Hague, where he resided four or five years, returning to his native country to enjoy the fruits of a busy and successful career, and settling down in 1890 at Pentre Heylin, in Llandysilio. But his aim was, by no means, to indulge in a well earned otium," whether cum or sine dignitate but rather to apply his activities in other directions. Being a man of active habits and great business capacity, he was able to put a great deal into his day's work and it was well it was so. For besides his own home