Shadrach Pryce was a Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 Anglican priest

Priest

A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

 and educationalist  in the last part of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th.

Pryce was born in Dolgelly in 1841, and educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1863, he began his career as a teacher

Teacher

A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

 at Dolgelly Grammar School

Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor

Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor , also known as CMD, is a college in Gwynedd, Wales at Dolgellau, serving the areas of Meirionydd and Dwyfor. It has a bilingual language policy and offers the possibility of studying most subjects through the medium of Welsh...

 after which he was Rector

Rector

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 of Yspytty

Ysbyty Ifan

Ysbyty Ifan is a small but historic village in Conwy County Borough, north Wales. Nearly all the population speak Welsh.-History:Ysbyty Ifan, until 1189, was known as Dôl Gynwal. Then, it came to the attention of the Knights of St John, who set up a hospice...

 then Vicar

Vicar

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 of Llanfihangel Aberbythych

Llanfihangel Aberbythych

Llanfihangel Aberbythych is a community located in Carmarthenshire, Wales....

. During this time he was also the Government Educational Inspector for Breconshire and Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. It is the 3rd largest in Wales. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford...

. Later he was Archdeacon

Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

 of Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

, then Examining Chaplain

Chaplain

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 to the Bishop of St David’s

John Owen (bishop)

John Owen was the Professor of Welsh at the St David's College, as well as the Dean of St Asaph. He became the Bishop of St David's in 1897....

. From 1899 to 1910 he was Dean of St Asaph. He died on 17 September 1914.
His brother

John Pryce

John Pryce was a Welsh clergyman and writer on church history, who became Dean of Bangor Cathedral.-Life:Pryce was the second son of Hugh Price . He was educated at Dolgellau grammar school before matriculating at Jesus College, Oxford in 1847. He obtained his B.A. degree in 1851...

 was Dean

Dean (religion)

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 of Bangor

Bangor Cathedral

Bangor Cathedral is an ancient place of Christian worship situated in Bangor, Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol....

 and his daughter a published novelist.