- Samuel Lowell Price
Samuel Lowell Price (1821 - 1887) was an English
accountant . He is best known for having co-founded, withWilliam Hopkins Holyland andEdwin Waterhouse , the accountancy practice of "Price Waterhouse" that now forms part ofPricewaterhouseCoopers cite book | first = | last = | title = Accounting for Success: a History of Price Waterhouse in America 1890-1990 | publisher = Harvard Business School Press | date = | isbn = 9780875843285 | editor = | url = ] .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 practioner 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, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Price died in 1887 [ [http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/10/Pricewaterhousecoopers.html Reference for Business] ] .
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