Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author Born 18 December 1910 in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, the eldest of the three children of Lewis Thomas and his wife Mary Emiah (née Jones). Though registered as Emiah Jane, she was known throughout her life as Amy. Educated at Pontyberem school, Llanelli Girls' Grammar School, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she graduated in 1932 with first class honours in Welsh, she
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet on for five years as a pupil-teacher. He then attended Holt Academy under James Oliver Jones. He spent the last four months of 1876 as a temporary teacher at Loveston school, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. In 1877 he entered Bangor Normal College, and on completing the course in 1879 he was appointed schoolmaster at Rhyd-ddu, where he remained until his retirement in 1923. Parry-Williams's poetry
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar the 'double-double', that is to say, to win both Chair and Crown at the National Eisteddfod on two separate occasions. The First World War was a turbulent period for Parry-Williams. Like his fellow lecturer in Welsh, T. Gwynn Jones, he stood as conscientious objector, publishing anguished poems on the pages of the pacifist journal, Y Deyrnas, as well as in Y Wawr, the provocative magazine produced
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure sons, Ifan and Ceri. He moved first to Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and then to a flat in St Fagans Castle when the Folk Museum was opened in 1948. During World War II he was seconded to the Art Department of the National Museum where he became familiar with the paintings of Welsh artists such as Hugh Hughes and was the first to draw attention to the work of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, Radnorshire, in an article
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi -Pennant in 1841), who was raised to the British peerage in 1866 as lord Penrhyn. Previous to that he had sat in the Commons for Caernarvonshire for twenty-five years. He died 31 March 1886. It was his son, the 2nd baron (born 30 September 1836 - 1907) who lost the famous election of 1868 to Sir Love Jones Parry, but who won it back in 1874. Though one of the most generous landlords in the country, he
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister , revealed that the chapel was vested in the pastor, and accordingly Perkins was able to resume possession at Pencader - his opponents worshipped for some years in a private house near Cwmhwplin, but in 1785 built a new chapel at Pencader, with Jonathan Jones as pastor. Perkins's cause quickly declined, and he sold his rights in the old chapel to the congregation. He removed to Kidwelly, and thence to
PERROT family Haroldston, died before he could grant it, whereas Edward VI valued him and dubbed him a Knight Bachelor in 1549. Although he was not yet twenty Perrot replaced the recently deceased Richard Devereux as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in Edward VI's first parliament in 1547. Backed by his courtier step-father Sir Thomas Jones and Lord Treasurer Paulet Perrot's Court career prospered during the reign of
PERROT family Haroldston, . Besides these he had a number of illegitimate children of whom the most important were Sir James Perrot, by Sibil Jones of Radnorshire, Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Hatton, and a daughter who married David Morgan, gent. In 1580 he donated lands and properties of the yearly value of £30, free of all charges, to the town of Haverfordwest, and these became known as ' The Perrot Trust.' Through the
PERROTT, THOMAS (d. 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor Hanes y Bed., 185) asserts that Perrot's ' Arminianism ' led many of his students to forsake Calvinism. In fact, however, there is no real evidence that he went beyond Baxterianism; and it is no more logical to ascribe the Arminianism of Jenkin Jones or Samuel Thomas to Perrot's direct teaching than it would be to blame that uncompromising Calvinist Vavasor Griffiths for the Arianism of his pupils
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology Elizabeth Jones, Blaenplwyf, near Aberystwyth, but her death on 22 March 1953 at a young age weighed heavily upon him the rest of his days. He himself died 30 November 1995, in Newport and his ashes were interred in his wife's grave in Aberystwyth town cemetery.
PETER, JOHN (Ioan Pedr; 1833 - 1877), Independent minister and college tutor, and Welsh scholar Born at Bala 10 April 1833, son of Peter Jones, millwright, and his wife Ellen. He was a pupil at the Bala free school (today the grammar school), then in 1847 began working as a millwright. His tramps across country stimulated his interest in geology and antiquities; he was also interested in poetry, and in 1849 he and his friends, among whom was Thomas Charles Edwards, founded 'Cymdeithas
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

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