Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PERROT family Haroldston, Three members of this house will be noticed. Sir JOHN PERROT (1530 - 1592), Elizabethan statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland Politics, Government and Political Movements, 1584-8 He was popularly believed to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Mary Berkeley, one of the royal ladies-in-waiting who married Sir Thomas Perrot of Haroldston. Henry knighted Sir Thomas on his marriage. Sir John was
PERROT, JOHN (1528 - 1592), statesman - see PERROT
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
PETER, DAVID (1765 - 1837), Congregational minister and academy principal preach at Penrhiwgaled. He became an assistant tutor at Swansea Academy under William Howell in 1789, received a call from Lammas Street (Carmarthen) church, 9 December 1791, and was ordained there 8 June 1792; among those who signed the call were Sarah Lewis, who afterwards became his wife, and John Ross, the well-known Carmarthen printer and publisher. He was senior tutor of the Presbyterian Academy
PETER, JOHN (Ioan Pedr; 1833 - 1877), Independent minister and college tutor, and Welsh scholar his scientific study of Welsh philology. He was a disciple of Edward Lhuyd's, and a fellow-worker with such men as Thomas Stephens and Daniel Silvan Evans and John Rhys in this country, and Gaidoz and Schuchardt (both of whom visited him at Bala) abroad. When Y Cymmrodor was founded, Peter was one of its editors, and some of his work appeared in it and in the Revue Celtique. His manuscripts are
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer Jack Petersen was born at 52, Monthermer Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff on 2 September 1911, one of the three children of John Thomas Peterson (1889-1945) and his wife Melinda Laura Rossiter. He was baptized John Charles Peterson, but adopted the spelling Petersen for his professional career. His father came to Cardiff from Cork and his grandfather was originally from Norway. Petersen's father was a
PETTINGALL, JOHN (1708 - 1781), antiquary
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist John Petts was born in Hornsey, London on 10 January 1914, the son of Ernest Petts (1881-1957), a tailor and gentleman's outfitter and an amateur magician and entertainer, and his wife Alice Selina Wade (1892-1930) who ran a florist business and created cakes and treats for children's parties. John Petts suffered from curvature of the spine, and spent a great deal of his childhood in bed, unable
PHILIP ap RHYS (fl. 1530), Tudor organist and composer composers mentioned by Thomas Morley (A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, ed. Harman [ 1952 ] p. 321); Robert Jones, John Guinneth, Robert Davies, and Morgan Grig. On f. 28 of the above-mentioned manuscript Rhys is described as being ' off Saint Poulles, in London.' His name is variously spelt, as ' Phelyppe Apprys ' (f. 28v), ' Phelype Aprys ' (f. 34), Phyllype Apryce (f. 41v), while on f
PHILIPPS family Cwmgwili, Lincoln's Inn, 1741, unsuccessfully contested Carmarthen in 1741 and sat for the borough 1751-61 and 1768-74. He was closely associated in politics with George Rice of Newton, following the Whig leaders to the death of George II in 1760, and thereafter attaching himself to the leading politicians of the day. About 1738 he began a long struggle with the Tory and possibly Jacobite Sir John Philipps of
PHILIPPS family Picton, Sometime before 17 October 1491 Sir THOMAS PHILIPPS of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire, married Joan Dwnn, daughter and heiress of Harry Dwnn (son of Owen Dwnn of Muddlescomb in Kidwelly and Katherine Wogan, second daughter of John Wogan and widow of Sir Henry Wogan) and Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Wogan of Wiston. The Kilsant (Cilsant) family claimed descent from Cadifor Fawr of
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, 1634, became the third husband of Anne, daughter of Sir William Wogan (others say John) of Wiston, Pembrokeshire. They had two sons: (1) JAMES PHILIPPS (1594 - 1675), who matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1610, and was sheriff in 1649. Like his brother Hector (below), he was a zealous Parliament man in the Civil Wars, a ' Commissioner of Sequestration ' in west Wales, a member of the army

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