Pryce Pryce-Jones (October 16 1834 - 1920) was one of the first to succeed in the mail order business. He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was apprenticed to a local draper, John Davies, and took over Davies's business in 1856. In the same year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris of Newtown. Pryce-Jones started with his own little shop selling drapery just off Broad Street. Renamed the Royal Welsh Warehouse, the business flourished. Wikipedia
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