Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
PRICE, DAVID (fl. 1700-1742), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Nothing is known about his early life but it is thought that he was educated at Roger Griffith's Academy at Abergavenny. He was ordained minister of Maesyronnen church, Radnorshire, c. 1700. He lived at Llwyn-llwyd, in the parish of Llaneigon, Brecknock, where he kept a grammar school - Hugh Evans of Bristol and Howel Harris of Trevecka were among his pupils. In 1735 Carmarthen Academy was
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver Dilys Price was born in Bournemouth on 3 June 1932, the only child of Thomas John Evans (1899-1973), born in Treherbert, and Elizabeth M Evans (née Gould, 1906-1963), from Aberaman, near Aberdare. Her father served in the Royal Air Force during the Great War, before going into service in Bournemouth following a religious conversion by missionaries. There, in 1929, he married Elizabeth Gould. Soon
PRICE, EDWARD (1797 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 1 April 1797 at Carreg-y-big, Llangwm, Denbighshire. A blacksmith (who shod many cattle for drovers at Llangwm), he was a good representative of the popular culture of his region, had often seen Twm o'r Nant acting in interludes, and could still, in much later years, repeat long stretches of interludes. But listening to Thomas Charles's sermons turned his thoughts to religion, and in 1826 he
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician Born in 1816 at Pen-lan, a mountain cottage in Pant-y-dwr, S. Harmon, Radnorshire, son of John Price; both his parents died when he was young. He began to take an interest in music at an early age. He had become acquainted with Hafrenydd (Thomas Williams, 1807 - 1894), in whose Ceinion Cerddoriaeth, 1852, six of Price's hymn-tunes, including the very well known ' St. Garmon,' appeared; in 1855
PRICE, ISAAC (1735? - 1805), Congregational minister Born at Gellicrugion, near Llanwrtyd, Brecknock, c. 1735. He was brought up in a religious home where itinerant preachers stayed and received what education was available in the neighbourhood. He showed an early inclination for the pulpit and went to Joseph Simmons's school at Neath. He began to preach at Troedrhiwdalar as assistant to the aged and ailing preacher Thomas Morgan. He was ordained
PRICE, JOHN (1600? - 1676), classical scholar and divine Born in London, c. 1600, of Welsh parentage. He was educated at Westminster, whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1617, but, being a Roman Catholic, he did not matriculate, and left the University without a degree. He accompanied Thomas Howard, one of the sons of the earl of Arundel, to Italy, where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Laws. After returning to England he went to
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches fairly certain that he was the John Pryse who obtained the degree of B.C.L. at Oxford, 29 February 1523/4, and the 'Apprise' who was admitted to the Middle Temple, 5 November 1523. By about 1530 he was one of Thomas Cromwell's officials, and, in that way, came into the employment of the king. He was servitor at the wedding of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. As a notary public and principal registrar of the
PRICE, MARGARET BERENICE (1941 - 2011), singer Margaret Price was born on 13 April 1941 in Blackwood, the daughter of Thomas Glyn Price and his wife Lilian Myfanwy (née Richards). She was educated at Pontllanfraith Secondary School, and her original ambition was to be a biology teacher. Though her father was a skilled pianist, he did not favour a musical career for his daughter, but at the age of fifteen she was awarded a scholarship to
PRICE, OWEN (d. 1671), Puritan schoolmaster Born in Montgomeryshire. He went up to Jesus College, Oxford, in October 1648. According to Anthony Wood, he remained there four years, and then 'was called to the charge of a public school in Wales, where he advanced his scholars much in Presbyterian principles.' The school has not been identified, and Price's name does not appear in Dr. Thomas Richards's list of Puritan schoolmasters in Wales
PRICE, PETER (1864 - 1940), Independent minister Born 11 July 1864 at Dewisbren-isaf, a smallholding about 3 miles from Dolgellau, Merionethshire, the eldest of ten children of Thomas and Jane Price. Thomas Price was the eldest son of Peter and Catherine Price, Fronolau, a prominent farmhouse on the steep road from Dolgellau to Gwanas crossroads. This is the neighbourhood of the indentured land, famous in the history of the Quakers in
PRICE, RICHARD (1723 - 1791), philosopher ,' Dissenting minister and tutor Religion Education Richard Price's father. Son of Rees Price, Betws, he was educated at Bryn-llywarch, succeeded (1697-1739) Samuel Jones, both as pastor, at Cildeudy, Bridgend, and Betws, and as tutor, at Tyn-ton. He was maternal uncle and testamentary guardian of Ann Maddocks (formerly Thomas, the 'Maid of Cefnydfa'), and signed her marriage settlement (1725). SAMUEL PRICE

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