Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, ANNIE (1906 - 1986), teacher, local politician and Communist mayor of Rhondda and happy marriage by her husband, fellow-Communist Trevor Powell (1905-2006), who outlived her by 20 years and died aged 100. Annie's crowning glory came in 1979 when she was elected Mayor of Rhondda, the only Communist ever elected mayor in Wales. Her election by the Labour councillors of Rhondda was a tribute to the respect in which she was held. Her seniority on the council made her 'next in
POWELL, THOMAS, chartist speech, but others denied that he had used the words attributed to him. The jury found him guilty of sedition, but with a recommendation to mercy. Powell was sentenced to imprisonment for one year in Montgomery gaol, to give security to the extent of £400, with two sureties of £100, for his good behaviour for five years and to remain in prison until these were forthcoming. He was, however, released on
PRITCHARD, EDWARD (1839 - 1900) Selly Oak, civil engineer Born at Wrexham in September 1839. He began his career as borough surveyor of Clitheroe and was afterwards at Bedford and Warwick. He later went into private practice and was responsible for the building of waterworks, sewerage, and tramways in over 100 towns in Great Britain. He visited Constantinople to report on sewerage works and was engaged in similar duties at Cape Town and in a number of
PRYDDERCH, RHYS (1620? - 1699), Independent minister and schoolmaster pupils at the Aberllyfni school numbered between 80 and 100, and he was given a grant of £6 a year from the Common Fund of the 'Happy Union' (1690-2). He became very well known as teacher and preceptor. Among his many pupils was William Evans, Pencader, the first head of the Carmarthen Academy. He published Gemmeu Doethineb, a valuable collection of proverbs and proverbial lore. He died 25 January 1699.
PRYS, OWEN (1857 - 1934), Calvinistic Methodist minister and college principal , Goginan. When he was at Bangor his principal interests had been music and mathematics, but after leaving college he fell under the influence of Carlyle and Channing, and became interested in theology. In 1883 he went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, but on winning a £100 scholarship migrated to Trinity College. He graduated in 1886 with first class honours in the Moral Sciences Tripos. He stayed on for another
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters poverty, sometimes his circumstances improved. He was paid £360 by Messrs. Mackenzie for his Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymry, won a number of prizes at the national eisteddfod - among others one of £100 at Cardiff in 1883 for the work published later as his Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300-1650 - and in 1883 was given a Civil List Pension of £150. In 1884, being by this time old and ill, he went to live
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet period he was allowed to live rent-free in a house which Owain Myfyr had bought, the latter also paying him a salary of £100 a year for furthering his plans. A change came in 1806 when a relative of his, the Rev. Rice Pughe, of Nantglyn, Denbighshire, died, leaving him an estate in Denbighshire and Merioneth. It was then that he began to use the surname 'Pughe.' Thereafter he made his home at Egryn
RADMILOVIC, PAUL (1886 - 1968), swimmer more gold medals and participated in more Olympics than any other swimmer. He won the Welsh 100 yds. championship 15 times between 1901 and 1922. In 1929, when he was 43 years old, he won the Welsh 440 and 880 yds. championships. In 1967 he was honoured by the Hall of Fame at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one of the few British competitors to receive one of the principal honours of the swimming world. He
REES, OWEN (1717 - 1768), Independent minister 'backsliding'. He died 14 March 1768, and was buried in the old Aberdare churchyard; two acrostic verses by his eventual successor in the pastorate, Edward Evan appear on his tombstone. His widow, Mary, married again, and lived to be 100 - see her obituary in the Monthly Repository, 1818, 143. Josiah Rees was their son.
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author , and moved to Merthyr in 1835, where he married Martha Reynolds (not related) in 1842, and had nine children. Welsh movements had his ready support, and he was secretary of the Cymreigyddion Society that met at the White Lion Inn. For many years he edited the Welsh columns in weekly newspapers, including the Merthyr Express. He was an ardent eisteddfodwr, and gained over 100 prizes, chiefly for
RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet awdl to Sir Hywel y Fwyall. The awdl to the abbot of Aberconwy which The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales attributes to Casnodyn is given in NLW MS 4973B 260b to Rhisierdyn, and Peniarth MS 118 (140) attributes to Rhisierdyn the pious ode 'y Duw uchaf y Kyfarchaf …' which is ascribed in R. B. H. Poetry (col. 1251) to Bleddyn Ddu. Many manuscripts (e.g. Bodl. 1 and 2, Peniarth MS 90 and Peniarth MS 100
RHODRI ap GRUFFYDD (d. c. 1315), prince of Gwynedd ; but after some years in prison he agreed, in 1272, to quitclaim his rights in Gwynedd in return for a grant from Llywelyn of 1,000 marks. This agreement was not immediately implemented, and Rhodri escaped to England. On two subsequent occasions Edward I intervened to enforce the contract; only 50 marks had been paid by the end of 1278, but at least another 100 marks had been handed over at Aberconwy

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