Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Association diploma, and was responsible for cataloguing the Welsh section (including the collection of Robert Jones, Rotherhithe,). He was elected F.L.A. in 1913 and F.S.A. (Scotland) in 1920-21. He was promoted Borough Welsh and Celtic librarian and subsequently in 1923 joint-librarian with W.J. Salter until his retirement in 1939. D. Rhys Phillips was nurtured in the literary and cultural societies of
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 published Trysor o gân, poems for children in four volumes (1930-36), Caniadau Trefîn (1950) and Edmund Jones, 'The Old Prophet ' (1959). He married three times: (1), Hannah Clement, a nurse of Tredegar, in 1915. She died 24 April 1943. They had one daughter. He married (2), Violet Annie Burnell, schoolteacher, 13 April 1946. The marriage was dissolved unopposed at Trefîn's petition November 1950. He
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (fl. 1836) Penrhyn,, hymnwriter She was the author of twenty-five hymns which were discovered by Richard Griffith (Carneddog) among the manuscripts of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion). Carneddog copied the hymns and they were published for the first time in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1906. A note on the manuscripts, in the hand of Alltud Eifion, stated that she was the mother of Dr. Thomas Hughes (1793 - 1837), a physician, of Plas-ward
PHILLIPS, EVAN (1829 - 1912), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 22 October 1829 in a cottage called Milestone in the Capel y Drindod neighbourhood; his mother was a second cousin of Christmas Evans 's. When he was a little over 20 years of age he began to preach at Capel y Drindod chapel. He then spent two years at Atpar school, Newcastle Emlyn, and in 1853 was admitted to Trevecka College. Early in October 1859 he married Anne Jones of Cwrcoed, near
PHILLIPS, HENRY (1719 - 1789), Baptist minister Born at Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire, in 1719. At 18 he was converted by Howel Harris, went to Llanddowror to Griffith Jones, and was afterwards master of several of his circulating schools; he was a communicant of Howel Davies 's. Joining the Baptists at Pen-y-garn, Monmouth, he was baptized (1750) by Miles Harry, and underwent training for the ministry at Trosnant, and then (1751) at Bristol. In
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian According to T. M. Rees (Not. W.), he was born at Blaenau-y-pant, in the parish of Llandygwydd, Carmarthenshire (sic for Cardiganshire). O. Jones (Cymru) and Y Brython (1861, 162) state only that he was 'of Blaen-pant,' which does not necessarily imply that he was born there. Foster (Alumni Oxonienses) mentions a James Phillips who was the son of John Phillips of Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire
PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet became the chief agent of the Company, a position he retained for twenty years. As a printer he helped Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), to establish his printing press at Tremadoc in 1854. He wrote much to Y Drysorfa, Y Gwyliedydd, Y Geiniogwerth, Seren Gomer, Y Methodist, and Y Traethodydd (1849-54). He was sub-editor of Y Gwyliedydd, and was editor of the poetry in Goleuad Cymru, 1822-38. He did
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born in 1810, at Pontrhydfendigaid, Cardiganshire, eldest son of David and Mary Phillips, Ty-mawr. His parents were in humble circumstances and he spent his early years with his maternal grandmother, Jane Jones, a cousin of John Williams, Lledrod (1747 - 1831). He received his early education at home and in the Sunday School. When about 14 he was deeply moved by a religious revival in the
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Jones 's, and graduated with honours in philosophy in the University of London in 1890. He was successively minister at Kettering and Norwich, until he took charge of the Baptist Institutional church at Bloomsbury, in London, in 1905. Here his social work attracted wide attention, and he proved to be a preacher of outstanding gifts. The acme of his preaching career was his sermon to the Baptist World
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire . Among his pupils were J. Rhys Kilsby Jones, and the two first missionaries who went to Madagascar - David Jones and Thomas Bevan. Sermons by Phillips were published in 1803, 1808, 1811. Besides these he published a Catechism, 1812; Natur Cyfamod Eglwys, 1815; Sypiau Grawnwin …, 1818; Ychydig o Hymnau Efengylaidd, 1821 (2nd ed., 1842); and - his more important work - a short commentary (in Welsh) on
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal , Seth Joshua, R. B. Jones and Joseph Jenkins. At the Davies Colliery School he gained a prize from the hands of the schoolmaster R. J. Jones for an essay on South Africa. The prize was a biography of the missionary David Livingstone, and the story of his African endeavours made a huge impact on him. When he was ten years of age he succeeded in an examination for admission to the Higher National School
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy 'miscellaneous' poems some three or four are political, e.g. one on the coming of Charles II in 1660, and another in praise of Sir John Owen of Clenennau. Thomas Jones in Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol included four poems by William Phylip, whilst Dafydd Jones o Drefriw in the first edition (1759) of Blodeu-Gerdd prints five, although one of these, 'Carol i'r Gwirod,' is probably not by William Phylip. Besides these

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