Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
PHILLIPS, THOMAS LLOYD (1832 - 1900), minister - see PHILLIPS, THOMAS
PHILLIPS, Sir THOMAS WILLIAMS (1883 - 1966), permanent secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service Born 20 April 1883, second son of Thomas Phillips, a schoolmaster at Cemaes, Montgomeryshire, and Jane Ryder (née Whittington), his wife. In 1897 he entered Machynlleth county school where he gained numerous exhibitions and a B.A. degree of the University of London before leaving school in 1902 for Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated with first-class hons. in classics (Lit. Hum.) and won
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy manuscripts. Perhaps the most interesting of the miscellaneous poems are the cywyddau ymryson - poems written in bardic controversies, with his own brother, Rhisiart Phylip, for precedence at Nannau - with his uncle, Siôn Dafydd Siencyn, with Edmund Prys, with Thomas Prys of Plas Iolyn, and, most interesting of all, with Siôn Tudur of S. Asaph. Siôn Phylip was also associated with three other ymrysonau, viz
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), a soldier Born in August 1758, a younger son of Thomas Picton of Poyston, Pembrokeshire. He was commissioned in 1771 as ensign in the 12th regiment, then commanded by his uncle, but did not see active service until the capture of S. Lucia in 1796. His period of office as military governor of Trinidad occasioned violent controversy. His reputation was mainly due to his command of the 'fighting' 3rd division
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver Thomas Picton was born on 24 August 1758 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the seventh of the twelve children of Thomas Picton (1723-1790), a landowner who traced his ancestry back to the Norman knight William de Pyketon, and his wife Cecil (1728-1806), daughter of the Reverend Edward Powell and a half-sister to Richard Turberville (TURBERVILLE family of Coity, Glamorganshire). Growing up at
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller Born at the farmhouse of Tan y Clogwyn in the parish of Dolwyddelan, adjoining Tŷ Mawr, Wybrnant, 29 January 1841, the youngest but one of nineteen children of Thomas Pierce, five by his first wife, and fourteen, including Ellis, by his second wife Elizabeth. He received little formal education - the rudiments of the Welsh language he acquired under his father's tutorship at the Sunday school
PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian
PIERCE, THOMAS MORDAF (1867? - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author
PIERCE, WILLIAM (1853 - 1928), Congregational minister and historian Born of Welsh parents at Liverpool, 21 April 1853. He was called to the Congregational ministry under the influence of E. Herber Evans, Caernarvon. From 1875-9 he was student at Brecon College. He ministered at Bideford, Devon (1879-82); Leytonstone (1882-7); Soho Hill, Birmingham (1887-9); New Court, Tollington Park (1889-96); West Hampstead (1896-1904); Doddridge, Northampton (1905-10
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (1827 - 1888), civil engineer , and he laid out one of the best cricket grounds in the country at Marchwiel. He died in London 24 March 1888, and was buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. By his wife Sarah, daughter of Thomas Davies of Montgomery, whom he married in 1855, he had three sons and six daughters.
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author A friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Born 16 January 1741 at Bodfel, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, only child of John Salusbury, Bachygraig, Flintshire, and Hester Maria (died 1773), daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton, bart., of Combermere and Lleweni. Her inordinate pride in her Welsh ancestry can be understood if it be remembered that on the paternal and the maternal sides she was a descendant of

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