Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PROGER family son was WILLIAM PROGER, Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire in the 1588 Parliament. William had two sons, DAVID PROGER and Philip Proger (for whom see B); David's grandson was that colonel CHARLES PROGER ' of the Guards,' who had to redeem his estate at £330 for siding with the king in the Civil Wars, and was probably (though not certainly) the 'Col. Progers' who took part in recapturing Monmouth
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 , and by 1957 most of the Welsh heartland had Labour MPs. Labour won Caernarfon in 1945, Merionethshire in 1950; Conwy in 1950, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire in 1951 and Carmarthenshire in 1957. He was the agent for the by-election in Carmarthenshire in 1957 which was won by Megan Lloyd George, who had left the Liberal Party for Labour after her defeat in 1951 in Anglesey. But the most notable victory
PROTHERO, THOMAS (1780 - 1853), solicitor, colliery proprietor, and influential citizen antagonist, John Frost. His residence was, at first, ' The Friars ' and, later, ' Malpas Court,' which long remained in the possession of his family. He was high sheriff of the county in 1846. He died suddenly in London 24 April 1853, age 73. He had been twice married. Two of his grandsons, Sir GEORGE WALTER PROTHERO (1848 - 1922), historian, and ROWLAND EDMUND PROTHERO, baron Ernle (1851 - 1937
PRYCE family Newtown Hall, This family, which supplied seven sheriffs of Montgomeryshire, and was for long prominent in the affairs of the county, claimed descent from Elstan Glodrydd, founder of the 'Fourth Royal Tribe of Wales' and bore the arms attributed to that prince, ' gules, a lion rampant regardant or.' The first member of the family to be described as of Newtown Hall was DAVID AB EINION (of Mochdre and Kerry
PRYCE, THOMAS (1833 - 1904), antiquary Born 5 September 1833, son of David Pryce of Tre-derwen Hall, Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Liverpool College. After leaving school he went out to Java, where in 1863 he married the daughter of Jacobus G. T. and Aldouse van Motman of Dramaga. He remained in Java for twenty-eight years and afterwards proceeded to the Hague. There he stayed another four or five years before he
PRYCE, THOMAS MALDWYN (1949 - 1977), racing driver Tom Pryce was born in Denbighshire, on 11 June 1949, and brought up in Nantglyn. He was the second son of Jack Pryce (died 2007), a police constable and later a sergeant, and his wife Gwyneth (née Hughes, died 2009), a district nurse. His older brother, David J. Pryce (1947-1950), died at the age of three. There were signs early on that he would be involved in the world of motoring: as a young
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet through the marriage of his eldest daughter, Lowry, who was his heiress, with Robert Evans of Tan-y-bwlch. By 1632, too, his widow, Elizabeth (daughter of Peter Meyrick of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern) had married Griffith Lloyd. An Edmund Price got the living of Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, 5 February 1637, and was transferred in June 1639 to the living of Llanfechell, Anglesey (by this time he is entered in
PRYSE family Gogerddan, This family traces its descent from Gwaeth-foed, lord of Ceredigion, etc. The first member to be associated with the northern part of the county of Cardigan, i.e., with Gogerddan, was probably RHYS AP DAVID LLOYD (Burke, Peerage, Baronetage …, 1936 ed.), to whom poems were written by various bards, e.g., Siôn Ceri, Huw Arwystli, Mathew Brwmffild, and Lewis Môn (Cwrtmawr MS. 12B). The bard Lewis
PRYTHERCH, WILLIAM (1804 - 1888), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 25 April 1804 at Tŷn-yr-heol, Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas William Rytherch. He was educated at Carmarthen and used to help David Charles (I) in the public services. In 1825 he began to preach in Caeo chapel, and in 1831 he married Joyce, daughter of Thomas Evans of Pumpsaint. After leaving Caeo he lived in various places in Carmarthenshire - Llanegwad, Llanfynydd, Betws
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist Born 6 October 1836 in Bridge Street, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest child of Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans. Her father was a lawyer, and a grandson of David Davis of Castellhywel (1745 - 1827), whilst her mother was the daughter of Thomas Morgan, a surgeon of Newcastle Emlyn, and grand-daughter of Daniel Rowland of Llangeitho (1713 - 1790). During childhood she attended a school
PUGH family Mathafarn, The first prominent member of the family was Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, the poet who fl. c. 1480 and who was the author of a number of vaticinatory poems about Henry Tudor (Henry VII). He apparently possessed an extensive estate on both sides of the river Dyfi above Machynlleth. The line was continued by EVAN AP DAVID LLOYD and by HUGH AB EVAN, whose son, JOHN AP HUGH, served as a county

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