Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine Born in 1617, at Cnwclas ('Knucklas'), parish of Heyop, Radnorshire, the son of Richard Powell and his wife, Penelope, daughter of William Vavasor of Newtown (Grazebrook and Rylands, Visitation of Shropshire, ii, 324, 407, 468-9; C. B. Northcliffe, Visitation of Yorkshire, 329-31). He spent some time at Clun as schoolmaster (Examen, 16), if not as curate (Life, 124) with his great-uncle Erasmus
POWELL, WILLIAM (Gwilym Pennant; 1830 - 1902), poet
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal there in 1974 to be the successor of the Reverend T. Glyn Thomas at Ebeneser, Wrexham. The Ebeneser congregation moved to a new building and a new location within a year of Eifion's arrival. Eifion moved again to become minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at Minny Street, Cardiff, in 1984. During his time at Wrexham and Cardiff, he lectured on World Religions at the University College Bangor
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher ). From his mother, Mary Cowper-Johnson, he derived the more literary blood of the poets John Donne and William Cowper. Born 8 October 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father's first parish, but in 1879 the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset, then, in 1885, to Montacute vicarage, Somerset. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1894 drifted into the post of
PREECE, Sir WILLIAM HENRY (1834 - 1913), electrical engineer
PRICE family Rhiwlas, gun to Humphrey Thomas of Bodelwyddan. His son was CADWALADR WYNN, Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements He was called 'Cadwaladr fab Siôn ap Cadwaladr' by the poet Edward Urien and 'Cadwaladr Prys' by two other poets - Siôn ap William Griffith and Ieuan Tew Brydydd. W. W. E. Wynne (Breese, Kalendars) says that he adopted the surname Price. He was Member of Parliament for
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon Clement Price Thomas was born on 22 November, 1893 at Abercarn, Monmouthshire, the youngest of nine children of William Thomas, a grocer and Rosamund Gertrude Price, the daughter of a clergyman. After a secondary education at Newport High School and at Caterham School, Surrey he proceeded to University College, Cardiff in 1913 with the ultimate ambition of entering the dental profession. On the
PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
PRICE, MARGARET BERENICE (1941 - 2011), singer Margaret Price was born on 13 April 1941 in Blackwood, the daughter of Thomas Glyn Price and his wife Lilian Myfanwy (née Richards). She was educated at Pontllanfraith Secondary School, and her original ambition was to be a biology teacher. Though her father was a skilled pianist, he did not favour a musical career for his daughter, but at the age of fifteen she was awarded a scholarship to
PRICE, RICHARD (1723 - 1791), philosopher doctrines of Kant. Annuity calculations led to F.R.S. (1765), and Reversionary Payments, 1771, with his 'Northampton Tables,' 1780, placed actuarial valuation for assurance and pensions on a scientific basis, William Morgan, his nephew, being trained by him. Four Dissertations, 1767, brought him a D.D. from Aberdeen (1767). Appeal … on the National Debt, 1772, urged the re-establishment of the Sinking
PRICE, ROBERT (1655 - 1733), judge circuit in 1700. He was appointed a baron of the Exchequer, 24 June 1702, and became one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, 16 October 1726. Before this he had won renown in Parliament - he sat for Weobley in several Parliaments - particularly when in 1695-6, he opposed, successfully, the grant which William III proposed to make, to his Dutch favourite, Hans William Bentinck, who had been
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and

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