Founder Profile
Samuel Lowell Price
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Samuel Lowell Price?
Samuel Lowell Price is a founder of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was founded in 1849 with William Cooper, Edwin Waterhouse and William M. Lybrand.
- Company founded
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Founded
- 1849
- Co-founders
- William Cooper, Edwin Waterhouse and William M. Lybrand
Background
Trained as an accountant in London during the 1840s railway and joint-stock company boom, when demand for independent audits was growing.
Founding Story
Samuel Lowell Price (1821-1887) was an English accountant who opened a practice in London in 1849. In 1865 he went into partnership with Edwin Waterhouse and William Holyland, the firm that became Price Waterhouse & Co. That firm later opened in the US in 1890 and merged with Coopers & Lybrand in 1998 to form PwC.
His partners in the practice were William Hopkins Holyland and Edwin Waterhouse. Samuel Lowell Price was born in 1821.