{{Short description|British politician}} {{for|the Canadian lumber merchant and politician|Evan John Price}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Update|date=February 2017}} {{BLPrefimprove|date=March 2023}} '''Evan David Lewis Price''' is a barrister<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr Evan David Lewis Price|url=https://www.barstandardsboard.org.uk/barristers-register/84CD2AF2C4C72C0482D99CA66D0DF5D4.html |publisher=Bar Standards Board |accessdate=31 March 2023}}</ref> at Ten Old Square chambers, Lincoln's Inn<ref>{{cite web |title=Evan Price |url=https://www.tenoldsquare.com/barristers/evan-price/ |publisher=Ten Old Square |accessdate=31 March 2023}}</ref> in London and a Conservative politician.
==Background== Born and raised in Wales, Price attended Sandhurst and joined the Royal Regiment of Wales, serving in Germany, Hong Kong and Northern Ireland as well as England and Wales. After seven years in the army, he left in 1993 and went to university. He qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1997,<ref>{{cite web | publisher= Ten Old Square Chambers website| title= Profile | url=http://www.tenoldsquare.com/Evan%20Price.pdf | accessdate=2008-03-29}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> specialising in property, insolvency and commercial litigation, and also advises on constitutional and administrative matters.<ref>{{cite web | title=About me |publisher=Evan D. L. Price | url=http://www.evanprice.co.uk/index_files/about_me.htm | accessdate=2008-03-29 }}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Political career== Price's grandfather was the first minister of state for Welsh affairs, who was also appointed a member of the European Assembly (the forerunner to the Parliament).
Price has campaigned in elections all over the country, in Brecon & Radnor and Blaenau Gwent as well as Sedgefield and London. He has advised the Conservative Party on a number of issues, as part of a committee of lawyers about constitutional reforms, and as an individual about the effects and possible effects of policy ideas on the law and the law on policy ideas.<ref>{{cite web| title=My politics |publisher=Evan D. L. Price| url=http://www.evanprice.co.uk/index_files/my_politics.htm| accessdate=2008-03-29}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
On 28 March 2008, it was announced that he had been placed second on the Welsh Conservatives' list of candidates for the European Parliamentary elections in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Conservative Party|url=http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=wales.news.story.page&obj_id=143316 |title=European election candidates list unveiled |accessdate=2008-03-28 }}{{dead link|date=February 2017}}</ref> This caused some controversy as he had used an address in London for his nomination papers{{cn|date=March 2023}} and used this address as this is the location of his principal residence. He emphasised that he is also registered to vote in Wales.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080331014446/http://www.evanprice.co.uk/ Evan D. L. Price website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100208063005/http://www.evanprice.blogspot.com/ Evan's Thoughts, political and legal blog of Evan D. L. Price] *[http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=wales.news.story.page&obj_id=143316 Welsh Conservatives]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://conservativehome.blogs.com/goldlist/2008/02/welsh-candidate.html Q&A Session for ConservativeHome]
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