Shadrach Pryce was a Welsh Anglican priest and educationalist in the last part of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th. Pryce was born in Dolgellau, Merionethshire the son of Hugh Price (1793-1851), a draper, and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1863, he began his career as a teacher at Dolgelly Grammar School after which he was Rector of Yspytty then Vicar of Llanfihangel Aberbythych. During this time he was also the Government Educational Inspector for Breconshire and Carmarthenshire (1867–1894).