Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRITCHETT family, clerical family Medicine He came from Richard's Castle (on the boundary between Salop and Herefordshire) to Narberth, in the later 17th century, as a licensed medical practitioner, and practised there 'for many years'; he married Sarah, daughter of Charles Evans of Pen-y-wenallt and sister of the historian Theophilus Evans (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 247). Two of his sons call for
PROGER family claiming to be a branch of the Herbert family - in Blome's List of Gentry (1673) the surname ' Herbert ' is attached to several of the persons named in this article. Its original seat was Wern-ddu in Llandeilo-bertholau, Monmouth, but a younger branch is associated with Gwern-vale (in the 14th century, ' tir Gronw Foel'), Crick-howell, Brecknock. The pedigree is given by Theophilus Jones, G. T
PROSSER, DAVID LEWIS (1868 - 1950), archbishop Born 10 June 1868, son of David Prosser of Tŷ Gwyn, Llangynnor, Carmarthenshire and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Llandovery College and Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a third-class honours degree in history; he took his B.A. in 1891 and his M.A. in 1895. He was ordained deacon, 18 December 1892, by Bishop Basil Jones of St. David's and licensed to the curacy of Holy
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales Labour members of Parliament who took an active part in the campaign, namely Cledwyn Hughes, Goronwy O. Roberts, T. W. Jones, Tudor Watkins and S. O. Davies, should be reprimanded, but he was overruled by the wisdom of Huw T. Edwards and James Griffiths who cautioned toleration. After James Griffiths was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, the Labour devolutionists had the upper hand over their
PRYCE family Newtown Hall, Vaughan, was a well-known eccentric, who married three times, his last lady, the widow of Roger Jones of Buckland, Brecknock, having to insist on the removal of the embalmed corpses of her two predecessors from his bedroom before her marriage. Sir John had already, after the death of his second wife, written to the curate of Newtown, then on his deathbed, to ask him to deliver messages of affection to
PRYCE-JONES, Sir PRYCE (1834 - 1920), pioneer of mail order business Born Pryce Jones, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 16 October 1834, second son of William Jones, solicitor, and Mary Ann Goodwin, whose father was a cousin of Robert Owen, the social reformer. After being apprenticed at the age of 12 to a Newtown draper, he established his own business in 1859, in which year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris. He began his mail order business by sending patterns to the
PRYS, JOHN PRICHARD (fl. c. 1704-1721) Eglwys-ael, Llangadwaladr, poet Some of his work remains in manuscripts, including englynion addressed to T. Jones in reply to englynion by the latter in his Almanac for 1704, and a number of free-metre poems on themes of love, religion, and morality. A collection of some of his religious poems, entitled Difyrwch Crefyddol, was published in 1721. One of his carols is the first of Dwy o Gerddi Duwiol (see J. H. Davies, Bibliog
PRYSE family Gogerddan, of 'Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch,' 'The White Book of Roderick,' now Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5 in N.L.W. (The present whereabouts of 'Llyfr Gwyrdd Gogerddan,' 'The Green Book of Gogerddan' are not known). The pedigree of the family up to the year 1588 is given by Lewis Dwnn (Visitations, i, 44-5), based, probably, on tables compiled by Thomas Jones (c. 1530 - 1609), Fountain Gate, Tregaron; see also
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters at Cae-crin, Llanrhyddlad, Anglesey, 10 June 1840. He was educated at the British School, Llanrhyddlad, after which he was sent to R. E. Williams ('Apeles'), Independent minister of Llanddeusant, to learn Greek and Latin. When he was 13 or 14 years of age he was apprenticed to Dr. Jones of Llanfachraeth and Holyhead, but continued with his other studies. In 1855 he was sent to the Andersonian
PRYTHERCH, WILLIAM (1804 - 1888), Calvinistic Methodist minister , Nantgaredig, and Ferryside. He was ordained in 1839. In 1861 he married, as his second wife, Mrs. Jones of Llandeilo-yr-ynys. William Prytherch had a place of his own as an original and natural preacher, eloquent in speech and homely in manner. Dr. Owen Thomas thought one of his sermons the greatest he could remember. He died 20 November 1888 at Ferryside. His son WILLIAM ELIEZER PRYTHERCH (1846 - 1931
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian Born 10 September 1720 'in Brecknockshire ' according to Moravian records; it would be interesting to know precisely where, for it is clear that Pugh was a neighbour and friend of Howel Harris at a very early date - so confidential a friend that Harris used him as a go-between when he was courting Anne Williams. He appears to have been in 1741 teacher of a Griffith Jones school at Trevecka itself
PUGH, HUGH (1803 - 1868), schoolmaster and Independent minister Born May 1803 at Towyn, Meironnydd. His father had enlisted in the army, in which he served during the Peninsular War. The son was educated by John Jones of Pen-y-parc, a celebrated schoolmaster, until he was 13 years of age, when he went to London as clerk in a solicitor's office. There, he embraced every opportunity of improving his knowledge but was compelled, owing to ill health, to return to

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