Career
Price's father had been MP for Weobley until he became Baron of the Exchequer in 1702; the seat remained in the family, however, as his successor at Weobley was his elder son Thomas, who was then only 21 or 22. Thomas's career ended prematurely, as he died unmarried at Genoa in September 1706.
Uvedale Price's first election to represent the same constituency came in 1713, for the fourth Parliament after the Acts of Union. He was also elected in 1727.
He was married in 1714 to Anne (d.1741), daughter and coheiress of Lord Arthur Somerset of Poston Court in Vowchurch, Herefordshire (younger son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort), by his wife Mary, daughter and heiress of Sir William Russell, 1st baronet of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. They had three daughters, who died early; and an only son, Robert (1717-1761), who, by a daughter of John Shute Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington, had seven surviving sons.
Uvedale Tomkins Price died at Bath in 1764 and was succeeded at Foxley by his grandson Uvedale Price, writer on the Picturesque.
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