Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born at Oswestry, 9 March 1830, son of the Rev. Edward Price. He attended schools first in Birmingham and then in Montgomeryshire before going to Bala College under Lewis Edwards in 1848. After being there for four years he went to the Borough Road training college, London, for the year 1852-3, and here he was an exceptionally successful student. There followed two years as a schoolmaster at
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist ; she predeceased him. He died 3 June 1942.
PRICE, OWEN (d. 1671), Puritan schoolmaster . He returned to Oxford in 1655, and graduated from Christ Church in 1656. In 1657 he was appointed master of Magdalen College School. Expelled at the Restoration, he ' taught School, in which he much delighted' at various places in England, and 'became useful among the brethren, and a noted Professor in the Art of Pedagogy.' He published text books. He died at his house near Magdalen College, 25
PRICE, PETER (1864 - 1940), Independent minister Born 11 July 1864 at Dewisbren-isaf, a smallholding about 3 miles from Dolgellau, Merionethshire, the eldest of ten children of Thomas and Jane Price. Thomas Price was the eldest son of Peter and Catherine Price, Fronolau, a prominent farmhouse on the steep road from Dolgellau to Gwanas crossroads. This is the neighbourhood of the indentured land, famous in the history of the Quakers in
PRICE, WILLIAM (1597 - 1646), cleric was buried 25 October in his church.
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet Caradog Prichard was born on 3 November 1904 in Bethesda, the youngest of the three sons of John Pritchard and his wife Margaret Jane (née Williams). (The spelling 'Prichard' was Caradog's whim.) John Pritchard worked at the Penrhyn Quarry and had been one of the 2,800 quarrymen involved in the bitter 1900-3 industrial dispute there, although he probably returned to work before the end of the
PRICHARD, JOHN (1796 - 1875), Baptist minister and tutor Born 25 March 1796, son of John and Jane Prichard of Tan-y-graig, Llaneilian, Amlwch. The family moved to Llandudno where he worked in a mine until he had saved sufficient money to go to Toxteth Park school, Liverpool. He returned to Llandudno where, for some time, he kept a school. In 1816 he became a Baptist, and in 1819 began to preach. He went to Abergavenny College in 1821, and in 1823 was
PRICHARD, RICHARD (1811 - 1882), Wesleyan minister Born at Bangor 31 March 1811. He joined the Wesleyan society in 1823, began to preach in 1827, and was soon in demand as a preacher. He became a circuit assistant at Machynlleth (1829-31) and Llandysul (1831-2), was accepted as a candidate for the ministry in 1830, and began to tour in 1832. He was a minister in the following circuits: Cardiff (1832-3), Dolgelley (1834-5, 1845-7), Caernarvon
PRICHARD, ROWLAND HUW (1812 - 1887), musician , sef crynodeb o egwyddorion Cerddoriaeth. Hymn-tunes and anthems by him appeared in Haleliwia, 1849; Haleliwia Drachefn, 1855; Llyfr Emynau a Thonau (Stephen and Jones); and other collections. He moved to Holywell in 1880 to serve as an official under the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company. He died 25 January 1887, and was buried in St. Peter's church, Holywell.
PRITCHARD, MICHAEL (c. 1709 - 1733), poet '; ' Cywydd Marwnad Owen Gruffudd, Llanystumdwy ' (Owen Gruffydd (1643 - 1730)), Englynion Duwiol ' (written about 1727); ' Englynion i'r Dderwen y dihangodd Charles II iddi am ei hoedl rhag y Rowndiaid.' Pritchard's death has been variously dated, but his friend Hugh Hughes (Bardd Coch, 1693 - 1776), in his elegy upon him states that he died in 1733, aged 24, at Llanfechell, and was buried there 3 July
PRITCHETT family, clerical family living of Carew, which he held till his death. He did not reside; but we are told that he removed the fine rood-screen; on the other hand, he gave (or left) money for augmenting the vicar's stipend (Spurrell, Hist. of Carew). On 25 July 1752 he was appointed perpetual curate of the parish of S. Davids (W. Wales Hist. Records, iii, 279). He died at S. Davids in 1801 (Gents. Mag., 1801, ii, 1214-5
PROGER family taken at Raglan. James Howell names him, too, as one of the murderers of Ascham, adding that he was ' in close prison.' Nothing more is known of him. (3) JAMES PROGER - ' corp. Jas. Progers ' in the Raglan list. He too went to Spain. A letter from Cottington to Edward Proger (1651) avers that James was doing very well in Spain, yet was ready to swear that there was no place like Wales. He did indeed

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