Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, WILLIAM (1754 - 1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author ) to have the legal disabilities of Dissenters removed. In 1799, he was appointed tutor in what had been Coward's Academy, on the occasion of its removal to Wymondley, Hertfordshire. In 1808, he engaged in controversy against the ideas of Edward Williams (1750 - 1813) of Rotherham. He died 9 January 1819. The D.N.B. has an article on him (with a list of his works), on which the present notice has
PARRY, WILLIAM EDWARD (1790 - 1855), rear-admiral - see PARRY, JOSHUA
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Oerddwr, high above the Aberglaslyn pass in Snowdonia, at the home of his cousin, the poet, William Francis Hughes ('Wil Oerddwr', 1879-1966). The post of Professor of Welsh at Aberystwyth had been vacant since the untimely death of Edward Anwyl in 1914, and when steps were taken to fill the chair after the war a vociferous campaign was mounted opposing the appointment of Parry-Williams on account of
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher
PAYNE, HENRY THOMAS (1759 - 1832), cleric and ecclesiastical historian and Welsh Languages …,' etc.; NLW MS 6258C and NLW MS 6259C consist of copies of Edward Davies Celtic Researches and the same authors' Mythology … of the British Druids, both with manuscript additions by Payne (see also NLW MS 6467D). Cwrtmawr MS 101C and Cwrtmawr MS 941C came also from the library of Payne.
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi interests of the Bulkeleys in the two Arllechwedds, the towns of Conway and Caernarvon, and the district of Nant y Betws. He had a bad beating. He died 21 January 1808, and was followed by a cousin, and the cousin by his son-in-law EDWARD GORDON DOUGLAS (1800 - 1886) Born 20 June 1800. A member of one of the most aristocratic families in Scotland (the Pennant became, by the queen's warrant, Douglas
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author , which was presented to Parliament in the session lasting from 15 February to 23 March 1587 by Edward Dunn Lee and Job Throckmorton. Penry was arrested in consequence of Whitgift's opposition to the book and he appeared before the Court of High Commission, but was later released. On 5 September 1588 he married Eleanor Godley of Northampton. In the beginning of 1588 Penry became interested in Robert
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
PETER, JOHN (Ioan Pedr; 1833 - 1877), Independent minister and college tutor, and Welsh scholar his scientific study of Welsh philology. He was a disciple of Edward Lhuyd's, and a fellow-worker with such men as Thomas Stephens and Daniel Silvan Evans and John Rhys in this country, and Gaidoz and Schuchardt (both of whom visited him at Bala) abroad. When Y Cymmrodor was founded, Peter was one of its editors, and some of his work appeared in it and in the Revue Celtique. His manuscripts are
PHILIPPS family Picton, PHILIPPS, who married (1) lady Cicely Finch, daughter of Thomas, earl of Winchilsea, (2) Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Edward d'Arcy of Newhall, Derbyshire; their daughter Margaret married Griffith Jones of Llanddowror and another daughter, Elizabeth, married John Shorter, a London merchant, whose daughter Katherine married Sir Robert Walpole. His son, EDWARD (died 1694), was sheriff of
PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer Son of Sir Erasmus Philipps and his second wife Catherine Darcy (died 15 November 1713) daughter of Edward Darcy by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Stanhope, first Earl of Chesterfield. The year of his birth is not known. According to the inscription on his monument in S. Mary's church, Haverfordwest, he died 'January 5, 1736/7, in the 77th year of his age.' This suggests 1660, which
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights commitment to health issues by mustering support for a Welsh crusade against tuberculosis, a campaign which she founded in memory of Edward VII, and which promoted the capacity of science to heal ('Lady St. Davids' Letter. The Nation's United Effort', The Cardiff Times, 8 October 1910). Within her own family, Philipps made full use of her political capabilities to support her husband's parliamentary

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