Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, GRIFFITH (1561 - 1620), principal of Jesus College, Oxford
PRICE family Rhiwlas, children included the heir, CADWALADR (Price) (below), Dr. Elis Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire, Thomas Vaughan, Pant Glas, and two other sons who became abbots of Aberconway (Griffith, Pedigrees, 204). Sir Robert, who became cross-bearer to Cardinal Wolsey, died before or in 1534; his will was proved at the P.C.C. of Canterbury; he also was buried in Ysbyty Ifan church. CADWALADR AP ROBERT CADWALADR
PRICE, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Orientalist Born in 1762 at Merthyr Cynog near Brecon, shortly before the preferment of his father (of the same name) to be vicar of Llanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth. After his father's death in 1775, David Price received a free education at the hands of David Griffith (1726 - 1816). master of Christ College School, Brecon, and his father's erstwhile rector. After one term (1779-80) at Jesus College, Cambridge
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician his tune ' Natalia ' appeared in G. Harris's Haleliwiah Drachefn; see R. D. Griffith, Hanes Canu Cynulleidfaol Cymru, 157, 162. When his brother died, Price sold the cottage and emigrated to Australia. He had intended returning to this country on the Royal Charter but, fortunately for himself, failed to catch it - the ship, it will be remembered, was wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, 20 October 1859
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 , Thomas Vaughan, and Griffith Hiraethog, a Welsh bardic grammar, proverbs, and miscellanea. According to bishop Richard Davies, it was he who caused the Paternoster, the Creed, and the Decalogue, to be printed in Welsh, i.e., he was responsible for the publication of the Welsh primer Yn y Lhyvyr hwnn of 1546/7. He entered into the controversy provoked by Polydore Vergil's attack on the Geoffrey of
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist connections with Welsh religious and political life in a series of reminiscences which he contributed to Y Genedl Gymreig in 1925. His articles on T.E. Ellis and Sir Ellis Griffith in The Welsh Outlook are amongst the best that were written about them. In 1941, he was appointed chancellor of the bishopric of Bangor. He married 6 September 1904, Emily Ann, daughter of Maurice Foster of Egryn Abbey in Ardudwy
PRICE, PETER (1864 - 1940), Independent minister revivalist Evan Roberts visited Bethania. Peter Price was disturbed and, in a somewhat long and pretentious letter in the Western Mail on 31 January 1905, he ventured to criticise the Revival and especially Evan Roberts's methods. Thereafter, in the religious history of Wales, Peter Price's name was associated with this protest and the agitation which followed it. In October 1910 he was installed as
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster the Church of Rome. Besides the cywydd to Price written by Siôn Phylip there is one by another neighbour, Edmwnd Prys, archdeacon of Merioneth (B. M. Add. MS. 14874; see also T. R. Roberts, Edmwnd Prys). E. D. Jones (in N.L.W. Jnl., v, 234-6) shows that N.L.W. Brogyntyn MS. 2, a ' Book of Welsh Kowydde,' was written by Humphrey Davies, vicar of Darowen, for Theodore Price, then a canon of Winchester
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister part as he did in furthering the work of the Friendly Societies, particularly those of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, and the ' Ivorites.' Dr. Price - he was given a Ph.D. by Leipzig University - took a prominent part in political and educational activities. His attacks on the Welsh Education Reports (1846-7), and on the standpoint taken by the Rev. John Griffith, vicar of Aberdare, in regard
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters probable. He married twice: (1) in 1775, Catherine, daughter of David Roberts of Llan-dyfrydog - she died in 1779, leaving a daughter; (2) in 1785, Gwen, daughter of William Owen of Crafnant near Harlech (afterwards of Fronolau, Penmorfa) - she died in 1797, leaving five children. Though his father had been an Independent, Prichard was a zealous Methodist. He farmed Boteiniol in Llantrisant parish, but
PRITCHARD, EVAN (Ieuan Lleyn; 1769 - 1832), poet with his grandfather at Tŷ-mawr, and after his grandfather's death in May 1795 he continued to live at the same place with his uncle Lewis Charles. About this time he kept school at Llanddeiniolen. In 1800 he went to England as a customs officer, returning to Wales about 1812. He married, in 1816, Mary Roberts of Hen-dy, Bryncroes, and had two sons and a daughter. After returning to Llŷn he was a
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

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