The king of rabbiting

Often referred to as the Rabbit King, Richard Lloyd-Price was not only considered to be the leading authority on rabbit shooting in Britain during the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods, but was also nominated by Baily’s Magazine as one of the 60 best game Shots in the country in 1903.

Owner of the vast 64,000-acre Rhiwlas estate in Merionethshire in North Wales, he devoted much of his life to rabbit preservation, both for sporting purposes and as a means of making money through the sale of rabbits to game dealers, poulterers and butchers in northern manufacturing towns.

Something of an innovative character, he pioneered sporting lets for paying Guns