Founder Profile
Samuel Lowell Price
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Samuel Lowell Price possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply analytical background in advanced corporate accounting, complex commercial bookkeeping, and early Victorian financial regulation. Operating as a fiercely dedicated professional who aggressively navigated the highly chaotic early days of British corporate law, this intensely numerical foundation provided the exact strategic leverage required to successfully pioneer the massive Price Waterhouse firm.
Founding Story
Samuel Lowell Price was an absolutely brilliant English accountant, fiercely astute financial pioneer, and the profoundly influential founding patriarch fundamentally responsible for architecting the earliest roots of the massive PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) global empire. Operating as an incredibly talented accountant in London during the massive industrial boom of the mid-19th century, Price aggressively recognized the incredibly critical necessity for standardized corporate bookkeeping and rigorous financial auditing. In 1849, he relentlessly launched his own independent accounting practice, completely revolutionizing professional financial stewardship. By fiercely partnering with Edwin Waterhouse in 1865, his absolutely rigorous commitment to numerical integrity and massive institutional transparency completely laid the historic corporate bedrock for what would ultimately become the largest professional services monopoly in human history.