Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (1844 - 1887), historian June 1881, he became the first stipendiary magistrate for West Ham, but he died six years later, on 3 June 1887, at South Hampstead, after a long illness. His main interests were historical, and his chief work is his Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches, 1874, in two volumes, the first of which gives a narrative account, while the second is a most valuable collection of original
PHILLIPS, MORGAN HECTOR (1885 - 1953), headmaster to ill-health. He moved to London where he held an educational appointment and later became director of a number of private companies. He married Jessie Whayman, daughter of A.E.P. Rae and they had a son. He made his home at Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, but died at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, 3 March 1953.
PHILLIPS, MORGAN WALTER (1902 - 1963), general secretary of the Labour Party Born in Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 June 1902, one of the six children of William Phillips, but he was brought up in Bargoed, Glamorganshire. He left school when he was 12 years old to become a colliery surface worker. When he was 18 years old he became a member of the Caerphilly divisional Labour Party, secretary of the party in Bargoed, 1923-25, and chairman of the Bargoed Steam Coal Lodge
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Garth Primary School. In 1903 the family moved from Garth to Cornydd, near Coity where they lived for 3 years before moving back to Maesteg. Then Tommy attended the Davies Oakwood Colliery School in Ewenny Road, Maesteg. While living in Cornydd he was exposed to the 1904-5 Religious Revival under the direction of his devout mother. The experience of listening to the miners singing Welsh hymns as they
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy generally believed that Rhisiart Phylip wrote nothing in free metres, Dafydd Evans of Llanrwst had in one of his manuscripts 'dau Bennill ar y Mesur Gwel yr Adeilad' which he says are by Rhisiart Phylip. Rhisiart wrote numerous englynion also. GRUFFYDD PHYLIP (died 1666) The poems of Gruffydd Phylip are as follows: I (a) elegies 26, (b) eulogies 25, (c) requests 4, (d) marriage 6, (e) miscellaneous 2; II
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver surviving war diary by a common Welsh soldier, Private Thomas Jeremiah described him as 'our commander, right hand man and the talisman of the army among his men'. He was buried in the family vault at St George's cemetery in Hanover Square, London, on 3 July 1815. In his last will and testament, he bequeathed his estates on Trinidad to his brother, Rev. Edward Picton, and £1,000 to each of his 'four
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller , and was buried, 3 August, in Bryn-y-bedd cemetery, of which he had been the chief promoter. The funeral was restricted to persons named by him, who were enjoined to say on leaving the graveside, ' Well, old Ellis is gone.' As author of historical romances and sketches of rural characters he takes his place in the history of the Welsh novel. The following are his principal publications - Nanws ach
PIERCY, ROBERT (1825 - 1894), civil engineer Born at Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, 25 January 1825, eldest son of Robert Piercy, and brother of Benjamin. He was educated at Chirk grammar school and trained in his father's office. From 1847 to 1855 he was engineer to the New British Iron Company which had collieries and works at Acrefair. He superintended the company's railways, collieries, and works, and constructed lines to Ruabon. He
PODE, Sir EDWARD JULIAN (1902 - 1968), accountant and industrialist Company of Wales, being chairman from 1962 to 1967. Under his guidance it grew to be the biggest steel company in Europe, with the output of steel increasing from half a million to 3 m. tonnes per year. He was a member of the executive committee and later president (1962-64) of the British Iron and Steel Federation and became vice-president of the Iron and Steel Institute. He took a keen interest in
POWEL, ANTHONY (c. 1560 - 1618/19), gentleman and genealogist ) is ' Llyfr Du Pantylliwydd ' (N.L.W. Llanover MS. E 3), which contains genealogies and the material usually found in the books by heraldic genealogists; this manuscript is in all probability, in his hand. Iolo Morganwg, however, attributed to him all manner of things - a 'brut' (or chronicle), a history of eisteddfodau, triads, a history of the bards of Glamorgan, etc. Iolo maintained also that
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian , ii, 340. He went up 'at 16' to an unascertained college at Oxford, but on the foundation of Jesus College (1571) migrated thither, and is believed (Hardy, Jesus College, 41) to have been the first to graduate (3 March 1572/3) from that college - he proceeded D.D. in 1583. Even before graduating he was (1570) vicar of Ruabon (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, iii, 286) and (1571) of
POWEL, THOMAS (1845 - 1922), Celtic scholar Born at Glanirfon, Llanwrtyd, in 1845, son of Thomas Powel of Llanwrtyd and Elizabeth Rowland of Pen-y-bont, Tregaron. He was educated at Llanwrtyd, at Llandovery, and then (1869) at Jesus College, Oxford, where in 1872 he graduated with honours in classics. After having been second master at the Independent College, Taunton, 1878-80, he became headmaster of Bootle College, 1880-3. In 1883 he was

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