Richard Price , was a Welsh moral and political philosopher.

He was born at Tynton, Glamorgan, the son of a dissenting minister. Educated privately and at a dissenting academy in London, he became chaplain and companion to a Mr Streatfield at Stoke Newington. Streatfield's death and that of an uncle in 1756 improved his circumstances, and on June 16, 1757 he married Sarah Blundell, originally of Belgrave in Leicestershire.