Henry Habberley Price was born on 17 May 1899 in Glamorgan, Wales. A philosopher, he specialised in epistemology, particularly the problem of knowledge of the external world. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1922, followed by Assistant Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, he also spent time at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1924, he became Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, followed by Wykeham Professor of Logic and Fellow of New College, Oxford in 1935, retiring in 1959. He was made Visiting Professor at UCLA in 1962.
President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1939, he was a regular contributor to its journal and proceedings. In addition to his series of Gifford Lectures, he gave the Sarum Lectures at Oxford in 1970. Price was regarded as an outstanding lecturer and considerate supervisor. Important works include Perception (1932), Hume’s Theory of the External World (1940), Thinking and Experience (1953), Some Aspects of the Conflict Between Science and Religion (1953), Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (1972), Philosophical Interaction with Parapsychology, posthumously published in 1995.
