Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet


Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet was a British planter and landowner who owned sugar plantations in the colony of Jamaica.

Career

On the death of his father in 1797, Price inherited a number of plantations on Jamaica,
  • Mickleton Penn – which produced sugar and rum, and in 1799 had 34 enslaved people
  • Spring Garden – which produced corn, steers, mules, horses and sheep
  • Cocoree – when inherited, Rose Price made four purchases of each
  • Worthy Park – which grew cane and produced sugar and rum.
In 1813, Price purchased Trengwainton and lived at Kenegie in nearby Gulval, until 1817, while he rebuilt the house and pleasure gardens under the direction of Mr George Brown. While rebuilding Trengwainton, the Price Baronetcy, of Trengwainton, in the parish of Madron, was created in the baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 May 1815.

Family

Price was the only child of John Price and Elizabeth Williams Brammer.
During the time Price spent at Worthy Park, he had two children with a 13-year-old slave child, Lizette Nash. These two children were educated in England on his return.
Price married Elizabeth Lambart, daughter of Charles Lambart and Frances Dutton, in 1795. He acquired the title of 1st Baronet Price, of Trengwainton in 1815. Depending on the source, they had 10 or 14 children,
Rose Price died on 24 September 1834 and is buried in the Rose Price mausoleum, Madron churchyard.