Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PENRY, DAVID (1660? - 1721?) Dissenters met at Llwytcoed farm, within that parish. Still linked with Tirdwncyn, he christens a child there in 1708. In 1715, it is stated that he is also the minister of Crug-y-bar and Crug-y-maen, the latter in Cardiganshire. His will was proved in 1722, and it is evident that he farmed a tenement in Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, just across the river from his old home. He bequeathed his books, valued at £2
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author King's Bench took place on 21 May but he was returned to prison. He made a hasty appeal to Burghley and obtained an interview with him, but to no effect. His trial at the King's Bench opened on 25 May 1593 when he was indicted under the Act of Uniformity (1 Eliz. cap. 2). His private papers as well as his public writings were used in evidence against him. He was condemned to death and executed at S
PERROT family Haroldston, taunt that he had found his way to royal favour by means of the galliard. In spite of his attainder, his estates were soon granted, in March 1593, to his son, Sir Thomas Perrot, who was restored in blood. Perrot married (1) Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas Cheyne, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Perrot (died 1594), who married Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux (died 1576), earl of Essex, and (2) Jane
PERROT family Haroldston, Three members of this house will be noticed. Sir JOHN PERROT (1530 - 1592), Elizabethan statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland Politics, Government and Political Movements, 1584-8 He was popularly believed to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Mary Berkeley, one of the royal ladies-in-waiting who married Sir Thomas Perrot of Haroldston. Henry knighted Sir Thomas on his marriage. Sir John was
PERROTT, THOMAS (d. 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor uncertain, but he signed a document there in 1712 (Glenn, loc. cit.), and had left when John Evans's statistics were compiled c. 1714-5 - at the time of his appointment to Carmarthen, he was at Bromborough. On 2 February 1718/9, the records of the Presbyterian Fund Board speak of allowing him £10 a year if he moved to Carmarthen; according to W. D. Jeremy he went there in 1719, but according to McLachlan
PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Chancery. In 1770 he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of Chester (Williams, Welsh Judges, 77); in 1776 he was raised to the Exchequer bench, and was knighted. He retired in 1799, and died 2 January 1803.
PETER of LEE ('de Leia') (d. 1198), bishop of S. Davids reason to believe that Peter began the rebuilding, in 1181-2, of the cathedral which had been destroyed. The bishop must have been absent for long periods from S. Davids, for he was active in the king's counsels and business. In 1184 the monks of Canterbury unsuccessfully nominated him for election as archbishop; in 1188 he took the Cross but was absolved in 1189. He died 16 July 1198; his monument is
PETER, DAVID (1765 - 1837), Congregational minister and academy principal preach at Penrhiwgaled. He became an assistant tutor at Swansea Academy under William Howell in 1789, received a call from Lammas Street (Carmarthen) church, 9 December 1791, and was ordained there 8 June 1792; among those who signed the call were Sarah Lewis, who afterwards became his wife, and John Ross, the well-known Carmarthen printer and publisher. He was senior tutor of the Presbyterian Academy
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer Jack Petersen was born at 52, Monthermer Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff on 2 September 1911, one of the three children of John Thomas Peterson (1889-1945) and his wife Melinda Laura Rossiter. He was baptized John Charles Peterson, but adopted the spelling Petersen for his professional career. His father came to Cardiff from Cork and his grandfather was originally from Norway. Petersen's father was a
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist after Peter, his younger brother who had been evacuated from London, and working as a mountain guide for the Red Cross. During the war the poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) contacted them, and following a meeting in 1941, came up with the idea of producing bilingual broadsheets combining Welsh poetry and engraving. Six 'Caseg broadsheets' were produced during 1941-2, and another 2 were prepared but not
PHILIPPS family Picton, . He was sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1576. His son, Sir JOHN PHILIPPS, who was created a baronet on 8 November 1621, married (1) Anne, daughter of Sir John Perrot, who was the mother of all his children, (2) Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Dennys of Bicton, Devon. He was Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire in 1597 and 1601 and promoted the Bill for including the lordship of Llandovery in
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

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