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Dr William Price

Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf

A Druid doctor whose son's cremation made cremation legal.

Dr William Price was an eccentric Welsh doctor and self-styled Druid, who wore a fox-skin headdress. In 1884, at the age of 83, he tried to cremate the body of his infant son, Iesu Grist, on a hill above Llantrisant.

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When
1884
Where
51.5420, -3.3750
Group
Mysterious graves

Visiting

His statue stands in Llantrisant's Bull Ring.

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