Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICHARD, RHYS (Yr Hen Ficer; 1579? - 1644), cleric and poet Baylie, B.D., of S. John's College, 14 September 1626, was made chancellor of St. Davids, and later canon, the living of Llawhaden being attached to the post. He died about December 1644, and was buried in the cathedral churchyard. Rhys Prichard had a son, Samuel, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married Thomas, son of Roger Mainwaring, Bishop of St. David's. Rhys Prichard's work was first printed by Stephen
HUGHES, JOSHUA (1807 - 1889), bishop the cause of education - Church schools, Sunday schools, and higher education. In the controversy over Lampeter he favoured moving that college to Brecon to make it a college within a university of Wales. In 1870 he was nominated by W. E. Gladstone to the see of St Asaph. He was first Welsh bishop of the diocese since bishop John Wynne (1667 - 1743) left in 1727. His appointment was at first
JONES, THOMAS LLECHID (1867 - 1946), cleric, author and bibliographer Born 4 December 1867, at Tyddyn Uchaf, Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, son of Hugh Jones and Catherine his wife. He was educated at the University College, Bangor and St. David's College, Lampeter, where he took his B.A. degree in 1896. In the following year he was ordained deacon with licence to the curacy of St. David's, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He proceeded to priest's orders in 1899, and became
LLOYD, DAVID (d. 1747?), cleric and translator He was ordained deacon 27 May 1711, and priest 15 June 1712, by the bishop of Llandaff. He is described as a student of Jesus College, Oxford, on the first occasion, and a B.A. of that college on the second occasion (Llandaff subscription books). The only person of this name to have graduated at Jesus College, 1711/12, is given as ' David Lloyde, son of Phillip Lloyde of St. David's, Pembroke
MARSDEN, THOMAS (1802 - 1849), cleric and author Born in 1802 (or 1801), son of David Marsden, a lead-miner of the Lampeter neighbourhood. He was educated at S. David's College there, ordained in 1827, and licensed to Llan-y-crwys (1827-9), Tir-abad (1829-31), and again to Llan-y-crwys (1831-8). From 1838 till his resignation in 1840, he was vicar of Brymbo, and from 1843 till his death, rector of Llanfrothen. He died 24 October 1849, in his
EVANS, ILLTUD (1913 - 1972), Catholic priest Illtud Evans was born on 16 July 1913, the son of David Spencer Evans, a postmaster, and his wife Catherine (née Jones). Despite being born in Chelsea, he came from Welsh nonconformist stock. His given names were John Alban. He attended Towyn Grammar School in Merionethshire, meaning that he grew up bilingual. He was also academically gifted; he entered St David's College Lampeter in 1931 as
MORRICE, JAMES CORNELIUS (1874 - 1953), priest and Welsh scholar have become an acknowledged editor and literary historian and he could have followed a univesity career. He was nominated by the College Board for the chair of Welsh at St. David's College Lampeter in 1903 but the college Council did not accept the proposed arrangements. He was for a time lecturer in Welsh at University College Cardiff. Wales in the seventeenth century appeared in 1918 and his D.Phil
JAMES, Sir DAVID JOHN (1887 - 1967), businessman and philanthropist from Studios 1 and 2, a rendezvous for the London Welsh for a period. He had been chairman of three companies before retiring in 1957. During his life he donated substantial sums to the Nonconformist denominations and to the Church in Wales to improve the stipends and pensions of ministers, to St. David's College, Lampeter, to Pontrhydfendigaid village and to numerous other causes. In 1952 he founded
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal , became increasingly recognized, and, in 1975, he returned again to Wales on appointment as principal of St David's College, Lampeter, the first layman to hold the post. As Dean of Arts in Cardiff he had been involved in the process which saw Lampeter admitted as a 'school' within the University of Wales (a federation of which he was often critical). Now principal, he fought hard to have Lampeter fully
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) Unemployment Grants Committee. Around 1900, Philipps purchased Roch Castle and restored it as a Pembrokeshire residence. A decade later, he built another house, West Lodge, at Lydstep. On the grounds of ill health, he resigned from the Pembrokeshire seat in 1908 and was granted a peerage on 6 July as Baron St. Davids of Roch Castle in the county of Pembroke. He was made Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire in
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph , fled overseas on Elizabeth's accession, leaving Davies still 'custos' of the diocese, in which capacity he filled several vacant livings (all in 1558), till the consecration of bishop Rowland Meyrick (see Meyrick family) in December 1559. In 1561 the translation of bishop Richard Davies (1501? - 1581) to S. Davids left the see of St Asaph vacant, and Thomas Davies was elected, and was hailed by
HUGHES, JOSEPH (Carn Ingli; 1803 - 1863), cleric and eisteddfodic poet Born on Palm Sunday 1803 at Parcau, Newport, Pembrokeshire, son of David and Hannah Hughes. He was educated at the Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Ystrad Meurig (1824) grammar schools and at S. David's College, Lampeter (1827). He was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids, 1828, and priest, 1829. The only curacy he held in Wales was that of Llanfihangel Penbedw, Pembrokeshire. He was then

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