W Bro. Brian Ward Price | 50 Years in the Craft

CIVIL CAREER

Brian Ward Price was born in 1942 in London, where his father was serving with the Air Ministry. However, his roots have so far been traced back to the late 16th Century in Devon, Shropshire,Worcestershire and Yorkshire. His family spent some years in India, but eventually settled inHarrogate in 1954 where he was educated at Harrogate Grammar School.

After University in Manchester, he worked briefly as an industrial chemist in the textile industry, but in 1963 joined the Royal Air Force as a Supply Officer.

Over the years he also became an air transport specialist, an operations research analyst and computer modeller, and a Management Consultant in various Information Technology fields.

He held corporate Membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellowship of the Institute of Management.

His Air Force career, lasting nearly 34 years, took him not only to many parts of the United Kingdom but also to Malaya, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Germany with a final tour working with NATO and the European Community in Belgium.

He was appointed as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1992 and retired from the RAF in 1997.

He now lives in Harrogate, North Yorkshire with his wife Julia, a retired Junior School Teacher, whom he married in 1968. They have two children, Owen, (born 1971), and Eleanor, (born 1975); both are graduates and Owen is a Chemical Engineer and Eleanor is a doula and mother to Brian and Julia's three grandchildren.

​His hobbies and interests, besides Freemasonry, have included Gliding, Flying, instructing scouts, and genealogy, archaeology, classical music, walking, camping, and travel