Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher Alun Pask was born on 10 September 1937 at Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire, the second of the three sons of David Gwyn Pask (1910-1979) and his wife Winifred Dovey (née Bray, 1910-1976). Alun Pask was a student at Pontllanfraith Grammar School and Loughborough College during the 1950s. He was proficient academically and was a keen sportsman. Initially for both the Grammar School and Rhymney Valley
PAUL AURELIAN (fl. late 5th century), saint Penychen in south-east Glamorgan. He and his eight brothers lived in a district called 'Brehant Dincat,' which Doble identifies with Llandingat (i.e. Llandovery). At a tender age, he was placed by his parents in the school of S. Illtud, where David, Samson, and Gildas were fellow-pupils. At the age of sixteen Paul left S. Illtud's monastery to live a hermit's life in a lonely place, where he was ordained
PAULINUS (fl. late 5th century), saint No 'Life' of this saint is known. In Rhygyfarch's 'Life of S. David' (chapter x), David is stated to have completed his education under S. Paulinus (Paulens), who is described as a 'scribe, a disciple of S. Germanus the bishop.' When Paulinus became blind, David is said to have miraculously restored his sight. Later in the 'Life' (chapter xlix), Paulinus is the aged bishop who advises that David
PAYNE, FFRANSIS GEORGE - see PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure Born 21 November 1900 in Kington, Herefordshire, to Francis George Holton Payne (1865-1909) and Hannah Elizabeth Payne (née Lewis) (1867-1937). His father was a Welsh-speaking native of Cardiff who owned a draper's shop in Kington and who died when Ffransis Payne was nine years old. From the local elementary school he went to Lady Hawkins' School, Kington, where his imagination was aroused by 'a
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author members of the Calvinistic Methodist Historical Soc. He wrote for the Western Mail and published Beulah, Margam, 1838-1938, a historical hsketc (1938), and a biography, The Rt. Hon. George Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor of London, 1884-5 (1938).
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Born 14 June 1726 at Flintshire, the son of David Pennant and Arabella (née Mytton). His father only entered into possession of Downing in 1724, on the death of Thomas Pennant, the last survivor of a younger branch of the family, who bequeathed it to him. The original home of the Pennants was Bychton in the same parish (Whitford). The first to settle in Downing was John Pennant the great-great
PENRY, DAVID (1660? - 1721?) Llwchwr area. The Common Fund granted him £6 during the years 1690-3, and another sum of £9 was given by the Presbyterian Board. For a time, he served the congregation meeting at Tirdwncyn, in the parish of Llangyfelach, and was released from there on 14 January 1701 in order to assist at Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen. In 1705, the wardens of Llan-non report that 'one David Penry' and a number of
PERROT family Haroldston, , and the uneventfulness of the expedition, to discredit him at Court. He was able, nevertheless, to clear himself completely. A little later, in 1580, Thomas Wyrriott, a former yeoman of the guard and the younger brother of George a justice of the peace, preferred a bill of slanderous charges against him, which he exhibited before the Privy Council. The latter deemed them to be slanderous libels and
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 Born it is believed, at Llan-y-bri, Carmarthenshire; he had a brother, John, who was successor-elect to him as schoolmaster at Trelawnyd (T. A. Glenn, Newmarket Notes, ii, 20), and a nephew who went to Carmarthen Academy. David Peter says that Perrot was taught by William Evans (died 1718) at Carmarthen - this would seem (as Perrot's name does not appear in the Academy lists) to refer to Evans's

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