Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. ), this manuscript having 'strayed' from the Hengwrt collection (see Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt). The Sir John Williams collection of manuscripts in the National Library contains 108 Phillipps manuscripts, this group including the Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) manuscripts (details in J. H. Davies, Catalogue of Additional MSS. in the Sir John Williams Collection); at least thirty other Phillipps manuscripts
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author pastor and author he strove to defend orthodox Calvinism - the basis of his prolific output - in a period when theological liberalism threatened it in the churches. Together with Thomas Rees of Merthyr he published Cofiant a Phregethau y diweddar Barch David James, Llaneurwg (1895), followed by Hau a Medi (1910), a collection of sermons by W. E. Prytherch of Swansea, and Rev. Edward Matthews of Ewenni
PHILLIPS, EDWARD (1716 - c. 1776), cleric son of Edward Phillips of Llanfaredd, Radnorshire. He became a member of Jesus College, Oxford, 8 November 1734, 'at 18 years of age'; B.A. 1738. He was rector of Maesmynys, near Builth, 1740-76. Although, in all probability, he was at first opposed to Methodism, he invited John Wesley to Brecknock in 1743 and from that time on supported Methodism - both Wesleyan and Calvinistic.
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian Pegge, the English antiquarian, who referred to him on questions of Welsh antiquity. Phillips discussed matters raised by Pegge with Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) and Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig. Richard, in turn, showed both Pegge's and Phillips's letters to Lewis Morris. The latter, however, did not have a high opinion of Phillips, and once dubbed him 'a half-antiquary' ('darn o antiquary
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy character; they are of more value to the historian of religion than as literature. Like Edmund Prys, William Myddelton, Siôn Tudur, Edward Kyffin, and James Parry, all of whom essayed a Welsh metrical version of some of the Psalms, Siôn Phylip wrote a paraphrase of the first psalm. The religious and didactic group contains some interesting poems. One of them, Cywydd y ffenics, appears very often in the
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver Thomas Picton was born on 24 August 1758 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the seventh of the twelve children of Thomas Picton (1723-1790), a landowner who traced his ancestry back to the Norman knight William de Pyketon, and his wife Cecil (1728-1806), daughter of the Reverend Edward Powell and a half-sister to Richard Turberville (TURBERVILLE family of Coity, Glamorganshire). Growing up at
PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian Crematorium, Liverpool. T. Jones Pierce had been a pupil of William Garmon Jones at Liverpool but he was greatly influenced by John Edward Lloyd whose colleague he was at Bangor. In turn he himself inspired generations of young Welsh historians and was acknowledged to be one of the most creative Welsh historians of his day. He was a pioneer in the study of the problems associated with the decay of tribalism
PODE, Sir EDWARD JULIAN (1902 - 1968), accountant and industrialist Born in Sheffield 26 June 1902, son of Edward and Lilla (née Telfer) Pode, educated at Mount House, near Plymouth and in H.M.S. Conway, he served in the Royal Navy during World War I. In 1926 he entered on his life-work in Welsh industry when he joined Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, Ltd. as district accountant at Dowlais. When the heavy steel interests of GKN and Baldwins, Ltd. were amalgamated he
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian Edward Stradling (see the article on that family) on the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, which had been given to Powel by Blanche Parry. Lastly, he added a very inadequate continuation down to 1584. Using different founts and other devices, he carefully differentiated between Llwyd's text and the added matter. The book was somewhat comically illustrated by 'portraits' of 'the old Welsh princes' - but Sir
POWEL, WATCYN (c. 1600 - 1655) Pen-y-fai, Tir Iarll, gentleman, bard, and genealogist son of Hopcyn Powel and nephew of Anthony Powel, Llwydarth. He was instructed in the bardic art; six cywyddau by him, in the hand of Tomas ab Ieuan, Tre'r-bryn, survive in N.L.W. Llanover MS. B 1. Very little is known of him but the elegies written in his memory by Edward Dafydd and David Williams (Dafydd o'r Nant) show that he, like his uncle, was a genealogist and skilled in the art of heraldry
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, This family claims descent from Edwin ap Gronow of Tegeingl. Dafydd ap Philip ap Hywel is said to have been the first 'ap Hywel (whence Powell) connected with Llechwedd-dyrus, the first seat of the family; his wife, according to Peniarth MS 156 (see West Wales Historical Records, i), was daughter of John ap Edward of Nanteos. Their grandson, Sir THOMAS POWELL, Serjeant-at-law (1688), a Baron of
POWELL, EDWARD (1478? - 1540), Roman Catholic theologian

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