Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PROBERT, ARTHUR REGINALD (1909 - 1975), Labour politician . Following the death of the sitting Labour MP D. Emlyn Thomas, Probert was elected MP for the Aberdare constituency in a by-election in October 1954 and held the seat until his retirement in February 1974. In the 1954 by-election he was opposed by Michael Roberts for the Conservatives and Gwynfor Evans, president of Plaid Cymru since 1945. He was secretary to the Welsh PLP, 1956-59, an opposition whip
PROBERT, LEWIS (1837 - 1908), Independent minister and college principal , Portmadoc, as successor to William Ambrose. Here he started another church and in 1877 built a chapel (known as the Memorial chapel) in memory of his predecessor; both these churches were in his charge until 1886, when he returned to Siloh, Pentre. On 20 April 1898 he was elected principal of Bala-Bangor College in succession to E. Herber Evans. For the second time in their history the Independents had
PROGER family children, four daughters survived him; the eldest, Philippa, inherited his lands in Brecknock; in 1717 she married the not uninteresting cleric and writer Samuel Croxall (see D.N.B.), who lived from time to time at Gwern-vale, and rebuilt the house.
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales miners, so that they might become aware of differences between England and Wales, and the uniqueness of Wales and its language. In 1937 he married Violet Elizabeth Thomas, a Welsh-speaker from Pontarddulais, daughter of Llewelyn and Rowenna Thomas. By 1937 he was earning £3 a week as a checkweigher in the colliery of Cwm-rhyd-y-gau in the Vale of Neath. The colliery was closed during the Second World
PROTHERO, THOMAS (1780 - 1853), solicitor, colliery proprietor, and influential citizen He was the son of Thomas Prothero of Usk, attorney, clerk of the peace for Monmouthshire, recorder of Usk, and steward of the duke of Beaufort. He is believed to have been illegitimate, and this seems to be confirmed, as he filled in his birthplace in the Census of 1851 as ' Monmouthshire,' without naming the parish as was usual. Early in life he became an attorney at Newport and was admitted a
PROTHEROE, DANIEL (1866 - 1934), musician Born 5 November 1866 at Ystradgynlais, Brecknock, the son of Daniel and Eleanor Protheroe. His first instructors in music were Philip Thomas, J. T. Rees, and D. M. Lewis. A good vocalist, he won prizes when he was quite young at national eisteddfodau held in Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil, 1880-1. When he was only 16 he conducted the Ystradgynlais choir which won the prize at the Llandeilo eisteddfod
PRYCE family Newtown Hall, ), whose son DAVID was the subject of an ode and an elegy by Lewis Glyn Cothi, and whose grandson RHYS was killed, 'pro rege Edwardo,' at Banbury in 1469. The first to hold the shrievalty of the county was Rhys's grandson, MATTHEW GOCH AP THOMAS, who was sheriff in 1548. JOHN, son of Matthew Pryce by Joyce verch Evan Gwynn of Mynachdy, Radnorshire, was sheriff of Montgomery, 1566 and 1586, of Cardigan
PRYCE, THOMAS (1833 - 1904), antiquary
PRYCE, THOMAS MALDWYN (1949 - 1977), racing driver
PRYDDERCH, RHYS (1620? - 1699), Independent minister and schoolmaster pupils at the Aberllyfni school numbered between 80 and 100, and he was given a grant of £6 a year from the Common Fund of the 'Happy Union' (1690-2). He became very well known as teacher and preceptor. Among his many pupils was William Evans, Pencader, the first head of the Carmarthen Academy. He published Gemmeu Doethineb, a valuable collection of proverbs and proverbial lore. He died 25 January 1699.
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet extent of his property; in this connection see the article by A. O. Evans in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1922-3, in which it is shown that his estate included what are now the Ffestiniog slate quarries. It is known that some of this land came into the possession of the Tan-y-bwlch family - see Evans, Griffith, and Oakley (families) of Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog - possibly
PRYS, ELIS (Y Doctor Coch, The Red Doctor; 1512? - 1594) Plas Iolyn, Rhiwlas and Vaughan of Pant Glas). He was born at the beginning of the 16th century, and was educated at Cambridge, graduating Ll.B. in 1533, and D.C.L. in 1534, and from the red gown of his degree he was known as 'Y Doctor Coch' ('The Red Doctor'). He married Ellyw, daughter of Owen Pool of Llandecwyn, Merioneth, by whom he had seven children, two sons and five daughters, Thomas being the elder son. In

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