Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar tradition of Welsh free-metre poetry, namely Carolau Richard White (1931), Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi… (1931), Canu Rhydd Cynnar (1932) and Hen Benillion (1940). Parry-Williams edited several further volumes of modern poetry and prose. His analysis of the craft of poetry, Elfennau Barddoniaeth (1935), does not always reflect his own subtler practice. He was a frequent adjudicator in the literary
PASCOE, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1893 - 1963), industrialist Born at Truro, Cornwall, 19 March 1893, son of Frederick Richard Pascoe. He married in 1936 Margaret Esson, daughter of Col. F.J. Scott, and had one son and one daughter. He was educated at Exeter School and St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. Mechanical Sciences). He entered industry as an apprentice at the Leeds Forge. During World War I he served as an officer with the Durham County Light
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher . 1939) in 1962 and they raised three sons together, Richard Alun (b. 1967), Jonathan Michael (b. 1970) and Andrew Damian (b. 1975). At the time Pask was a games master at Tredegar Comprehensive School. When he was selected for the Lions tour to South Africa that year the Monmouthshire Education Committee granted him permission to go but refused to pay him his salary for his extended leave, which many
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi , that John's son Richard, in 1765, married the heiress of the Warburtons of Cheshire, who had inherited one-half of the Penrhyn estate; in 1785 he completed the purchase of the other half from the Yonges of Devon, and thus brought together into one compact unit the 'Warburton-Yonge moieties,' so often referred to in the rent-rolls of the estate for the first half of the 18th century. John Pennant, it
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller : the Morris brothers of Anglesey (Richard, William, and Lewis), Hugh Davies, the author of Welsh Botanology, John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys, who accompanied him on all his Welsh travels ('To his great skill in the language and antiquities of our country I am myself much indebted'), Moses Griffith, a native of Bryncroes, Llyn, his faithful servant and self-taught draughtsman who travelled
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author published. These are - Anningait and Ajutt … A Greenland Tale Inscribed to Mr. Samuel Johnson, 1761; Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals, 1762; Poems with a Dramatic Entertainment, 1771; A Pastoral Elegy, 1773?; Poems, 1780 (a reprint of the 1771 work). Thomas Pennant refers to the 1780 work in his Tours in Wales, ii, whilst Richard Morris, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, knew of the
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author fled to Scotland. The archbishop's officers searched the house of the Godleys in Northampton. In 1590 Penry produced A Briefe Discovery in answer to the attacks of Richard Bancroft on the Scots Church. He re-entered England in September 1592, and allied himself with the London Separatist followers of Henry Barrow. The vicar of Stepney betrayed his whereabouts and he was arrested 22 March 1592/3 at
PENSON, RICHARD KYRKE (1815? - 1885), architect
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
PERROT family Haroldston, died before he could grant it, whereas Edward VI valued him and dubbed him a Knight Bachelor in 1549. Although he was not yet twenty Perrot replaced the recently deceased Richard Devereux as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in Edward VI's first parliament in 1547. Backed by his courtier step-father Sir Thomas Jones and Lord Treasurer Paulet Perrot's Court career prospered during the reign of
PERROT family Haroldston, -health. His anti-piracy activities are chiefly of interest because of the bitter feud which they created between him and Richard Vaughan, deputy-admiral in Wales and chief commissioner for piracy in Carmarthenshire, who deeply resented Perrot's interference in what he regarded as his sphere of influence. In September 1579 Perrot was given command of a squadron of five ships with orders to cruise off

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