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Henry Strong Price (8 May 1825 – 30 November 1889), generally known as H.S. Price, or simply Harry Price, was a pioneer sheep pastoralist of South Australia, best known as founder and proprietor of Wilpena Station at Wilpena Pound, today a national park. ==Early life== Born at Marlborough, Wiltshire on 8 May 1825, Price was the second son of Peninsula War veteran Captain David Molloy Price of the 36th Regiment, and Mary, ''nee'' Strong. His elder brother, who remained in England, was Dr. Richard Edmonds Price (1822-1900), M.R.C.S., a captain in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and a mayor of Marlborough. Seeking adventure and fortune in his own right, Price arrived in South Australia as a cabin passenger on the barque ''Fortitude'' in April 1842, just a month before his seventeenth birthday.〔''Southern Australian'', 12 April 1842, page 2.〕 The newly arrived youth became connected that same year with Charles Campbell, a livestock overlander from New South Wales. In January 1843 Campbell and Price took out an occupation licence for a grazing run in the Mid North of South Australia at Hill River, their resident stock keeper being William Roach. By 1844 Campbell and Price had parted, moving on to other interests. In the case of Price, he had soon expanded his pastoralist pursuits to include both the Mid North and Eyre Peninsula. Price eventually made his way over to nearby Booborowie Station, owned by brothers William Browne and John Browne, both medical doctors, also from Wiltshire, with whom he then began a lasting and intimate connection. He not only managed some of their pastoral interests, but also went into working partnerships with them. As well, years later, the Price and Browne families became related when Harry Price's daughter, Helen Mary, married to Leonard, eldest son of Dr William Browne. Another daughter of Price, Florence Annie Price, married John Jervois, eldest son of Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877-83. Governor Jervois named the Yorke Peninsula coastal township of Price after her.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Price : A town 18 km NNE of Ardrossan named by Governor Jervois and proclaimed on 3 August 1882. Florence Annie Price, who married the Governor's son. : Price Island and the Hundred of Price were named after Thomas Price, MP (1893-1909) and Premier (1905-1909) )〕 Harry Price was a busy young man. In 1851 he pioneered and then managed the Browne's 800 square mile Wilpena Station in the Flinders Ranges, which included the recently discovered Wilpena Pound, a spectacular natural amphitheatre. In doing so he selected the picturesque site for the first homestead, beside Wilpena Creek, upon a flat studded with noble native pines and majestic red gums, flanked by the soaring range of the pound. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Strong Price」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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