Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Born at Flint in 1723 (christened 16 August), son of Benjamin Perryn, a tradesman there. From Ruthin school (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 132) he went up to Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1740/1, but did not graduate. He had in 1740 entered Lincoln's Inn, but migrated to the Inner Temple in 1746, and was called to the Bar in 1747. He acquired great repute as a pleader in
PETTINGALL, JOHN (1708 - 1781), antiquary Born 1708, son of Francis Pettingall, vicar of Newport, Monmouthshire. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 15 March 1725, and graduated B.A. in 1728. He graduated M.A. at Cambridge 1740, and later D.D. He was for some years a preacher at Duke Street chapel, Westminster, and was appointed 3 June 1757, a prebendary of S. Paul's, London, and on 28 July 1758, prebendary of Lincoln. He was
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist Golden Cockerel Press and he was commissioned to illustrate Gwyn Jones' novel The Green Island in 1945, and he returned to Wales at the end of 1946 to re-establish the Caseg Press. He had met Marjory (Kusha) Miller (1921-2003), an artist and writer, in 1944, and they married in March 1947. They had 2 sons and a daughter, David (born c. 1947), Catrin (born 1950) and Michael (born 1957). They divorced in
PHILIPPS family Picton, 1572, he was the leader of a political faction in Pembrokeshire in opposition to the party of Sir John Perrot. He died 14 March 1573 and his brother, MORGAN PHILIPPS (died c. 1585), succeeded to his estates in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. After the dissolution of his marriage to the wife of William Scourfield, Morgan Philipps married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fletcher, registrar of Bangor
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, Jane. (2) HECTOR PHILIPPS (died 1693), who entered the Middle Temple in 1654. His political views were identical with his brother's; he became sheriff in 1688, and was Member of Parliament for Cardigan borough in 1679 (twice), 1685, 1689, and 1690; he died in March 1693. He was twice married; his first wife was a daughter of the Parliamentary commander Skippon (see in D.N.B.). He inherited his
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) three grievous blows in the months from March 1915 to July 1916: his wife died on 31 March 1915 at a London nursing home after an operation and she was buried at Roch Church; his elder son, Collwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, was killed in France on 13 May 1915; his surviving son, Roland Erasmus Philipps, was also killed in France on 7 July 1916. Lord St. Davids re-married at St. Margaret's Church
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights opening article of the March 1896 edition of Young Wales, guest-edited by Leonora and her sister-in-law Elsbeth Philipps. The heroism of Boadicea and the brave priestesses of Anglesey as portrayed by Tacitus were invoked to promote the cause, placing them as models for scores of other women who had shown comparable determination in addressing inequalities both historical and contemporary in fields such
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Born on 25 March 1863 at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, the third son of the Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are also noticed separately: Sir Ivor Philipps and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. Sir
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist assist British ships in running the blockade of the Spanish ports. After the defeat of the Republicans in March 1939, Phillips used his knowledge of shipping to charter the SS Sinaia, which took almost 2000 refugees to Mexico. Relations with his family had not improved. Despite the birth of a daughter, Sarah Jane ('Sally') on 14 January 1934, Philipps and his wife had been on distant terms for some
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Born 20 March 1862 at Beili Glas, Pontwalby, Glynneath, Glamorganshire, his grandfather's farm, the son of David and Gwenllian (née Rees) Phillips, but he was brought up at Melincourt, Resolven, in the Neath valley. He was educated at the National School, Resolven and at private schools - Burrows School, Arnold College - in Swansea. After a period as a miner he became a compositor and proof
PHILLIPS, EVAN OWEN (1826 - 1897), dean of S. Davids , chancellor in 1879, and dean in 1895; he died 2 March 1897. In 1877 he edited the Welsh sermons of bishop Connop Thirlwall.
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1847 - 1907), historian of Pembrokeshire Born 26 March 1847 at Haverford-west; his father, James Phillips, ironmonger, came of Quaker stock and was mayor of the town in 1871. Educated at a private school on S. Thomas's Green, he became a Wesleyan local preacher, although he suffered from a stammer. Late in life he entered the Bristol Congregational College, and in 1889 he was ordained minister at the Tabernacle Congregational church

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