Henry Strong Price

Henry Strong Price (8 May 1825 – 30 November 1889), generally known as H.S. Price, or simply Harry Price, was a pioneer sheep pastoralist of South Australia, best known as founder and proprietor of Wilpena Station at Wilpena Pound, today a national park.

Born at Marlborough, Wiltshire on 8 May 1825, Price was the second son of Peninsula War veteran Captain David Molloy Price of the 36th Regiment, and Mary, nee Strong. His elder brother, who remained in England, was Dr. Richard Edmonds Price (1822-1900), M.R.C.S., a captain in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and a mayor of Marlborough.

Seeking adventure and fortune in his own right, Price arrived in South Australia as a cabin passenger on the barque Fortitude in April 1842, just a month before his seventeenth birthday. The newly arrived youth became connected that same year with Charles Campbell, a livestock overlander from New South Wales. In January 1843 Campbell and Price took out an occupation licence for a grazing run in the Mid North of South Australia at Hill River, their resident stock keeper being William Roach. By 1844 Campbell and Price had parted, moving on to other interests. In the case of Price, he had soon expanded his pastoralist pursuits to include both the Mid North and Eyre Peninsula.

Price eventually made his way over to nearby Booborowie Station, owned by brothers William Browne and John Browne, both medical doctors, also from Wiltshire, with whom he then began a lasting and intimate connection. He not only managed some of their pastoral interests, but also went into working partnerships with them. As well, years later, the Price and Browne families became related when Harry Price's daughter, Helen Mary, married to Leonard, eldest son of Dr William Browne.

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