Samuel Lowell Price
Samuel Lowell Price (1821–1887) was an English accountant. He is best known for having co-founded, with William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse, the accountancy practice of Price Waterhouse that now forms part of PricewaterhouseCoopers.[1]
Career
[edit]He came from Bristol and was the son of a local stone potter. He went into the accountancy profession at an early age joining the local firm of Bradley, Barnard & Co. In 1848 he went into partnership with William Edwards but by 1849 that partnership had been dissolved. Later that year he became a sole practitioner at No. 5 Gresham Street running the firm that is now famous.[1][2]
In 1865 he was joined by Holyland and Waterhouse at a new office at No. 13 Gresham Street[2] and, as they became more active in the firm, he was then able to devote much of his time to the Institute of Accountants and then, when it was formed in 1880,[3] the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.[1]
Price died in 1887.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Accounting for Success: a History of Price Waterhouse in America 1890-1990. Harvard Business School Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-87584-328-5.
- ^ a b Jones, Edgar (1995). True and Fair: A History of Price Waterhouse. Hamish Hamilton. pp. 25, 31. ISBN 978-0241001721.
- ^ Parker, R. H. (1984). Papers on Accounting History. Garland Publishing. p. 140. ISBN 9781317964018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ "Price Waterhouse". Reference for Business. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
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