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Apart from the fact that by his marriage to Lucy Rodd-first cousin to James Rodd who married Bridget Price of Pilleth, her first husband's aunt-Robert Price had in a sense become her kinsman, Lady Joanna clearly had a great admiration for him, as well as deep sympathy with his private sorrows. She was also very strongly drawn to him as a close friend of her husband, and perhaps above all she valued the high reputation he had won as a judge, known to abhor anything even faintly smacking of corruption and partiality. Thus one can understand her choice of Justice Robert Price to be sole executor of her will, and as we shall see, one of the trustees of her several charities. When exactly Lady Joanna's school charities came into effect is rather unsure, because not only have the original deeds vanished but there exist no continuous records of either the masters or the trustees at Llan- elwedd and Old Radnor. It seems likely that, although she had arranged for her school charities some 16 years before drawing up her will in 1718, they were designed to come into effect only at her death which occurred in that year. Thus, one might expect to have found the charities coming into effect in 1719 or 1720. That this was not the case is suggested by the claim in a Builth Wells guide of 1939 written by the Revd. D. Edmondes Owen, that Llanelwedd School was endowed in 1725. The delay resulted from the fact that Lady Joanna's income derived in part from the estate of her first husband, James Price, esq., of Pilleth, who had died in November 1677, and whose will was proved in January 1678. James, the last male Price of Pilleth, left two daughters-Hester by his first wife, Hester Kyrle, and Anna by his second wife, Joanna Gwynne (later to be Lady Joanna Hartstonge). Anna married a Mr. Hughes, and on his death became the wife of Sir W. Lacon Childe of Kinlet, Salop, but she died childless in 1703. Hester, married to Sir John Morgan, Bt., of Kinnersley, Herefordshire, had died in 1692 leaving a son, Thomas, and four daughters. The son, Thomas, had married, leaving at his death in 1714, an heir John. The youngest of the four daughters, Priceilla, had married (as his third wife) Sir W. Lacon Childe, a widower by the death of Anna, nee Price, Joanna's only daughter. This complicated inter-relationship is shown in the accompanying family tree: Hester Kyrle (1) = James Price = (2) Joanna Gwynne1 (d. 1659 n I (d. (1677) I (d. 1718) Sir John Morgan = Hester Anna = (1) Thomas Hughes (d. 1693) (d. 1692) (d.s.p. 1703) (2) Sir W. Lacon Childe Sir Thomas 3 other Daughters Priceilla2 (d. 1714) Sir John (3rd Bt.) iShe married secondly c. 1684 Sir Standish Hartstonge (d. 1701) by whom she had an only son, Gwynne (d.s.p. 1709). 2She married, as his 3rd wife, Sir W. Lacon Childe (d. 1719) and died 1734.