'Thomas Price (1852-1909), premier, was born on 19 January 1852 at Harwd Brymbo, Denbighshire, Wales, eldest of seven children of John Price, stonemason, and his wife Jane, née Morris. They moved to Liverpool the next year. Tom's childhood was impoverished: his father failed to find regular employment because of intemperance. The boy embraced total abstinence and Wesleyan Methodism, and eventually convinced his father of their virtues. Tom was educated, until he began work at 9, at the St George Church of England Penny School, Everton, and later at evening classes in a mechanics' institute. He became a teacher, lay preacher and superintendent at his Boundary Street Sunday school. Apprenticed to a stonecutter, he eventually became an employer of a score of men. He pursued social issues through slum work and membership of the Liberal Reform Association and the Irish Home Rule League.' (ADB entry)
