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{{Short description|English accountant}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}(File:Samuelprice.png|thumb|right|150px|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.BOOK, Accounting for Success: a History of Price Waterhouse in America 1890-1990, 1993, Harvard Business School Press, 978-0-87584-328-5,weblink registration,

Career

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 running the firm that is now famous.In 1865 he was joined by Holyland and Waterhouse 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,BOOK,weblink Papers on Accounting History, R. H., Parker, Garland Publishing, 1984, 140, 9781317964018, 31 October 2021, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.Price died in 1887.WEB,weblink Price Waterhouse, Reference for Business, 31 October 2021,

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