Sir Curtis Alexander Pricewas the Warden of a college founded in 1379 by who?
Curtis Price Sir Curtis Alexander Price, KBE (born in Springfield, Missouri, USA, in 1945) was the Warden of New College, Oxford, between October 2009 and September 2016. He was previously Principal of the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 to 2008 and Professor of Music in the University of London. He retired as the Warden of New College at the end of August 2016.
Payne Fisher Fisher was the son of Payne Fisher, one of the captains in the royal life guard while Charles I was in Oxfordshire, and grandson of Sir William Fisher, knight. He was born at Warnford, Hampshire, in the house of his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Neale. He matriculated at Hart Hall, Oxford, in Michaelmas term, 1634; three years later he moved to Magdalene College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he first developed 'a rambling head' and a turn for verse-making. He left the university suddenly, around 1638, and entered the army in the Netherlands. There he fought in the defence of Boduc.