Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, THOMAS (1781 - 1842), Congregational minister and author Born 1781 at Trecastle, Brecknock. He received a good education and for a time he himself kept a school in Lanelli, Brecknock. During that time he joined the congregation at Llangatock, Brecknock. He was at the Wrexham Academy (under Jenkin Lewis) from 1804 until 1808. He was ordained at Denbigh, 27 October 1808; during his time at Denbigh he took part in the founding of Congregational causes at
PRICE family Rhiwlas, . 1530) requesting him to send a ram to Mrs. Mostyn. Cadwaladr ap Robert (alias Cadwaladr Price) died in 1554 : a metrical version of the year appears in a memorial cywydd in NLW MS 436B, p.39. JOHN WYNN AP CADWALADR AP ROBERT AP RHYS, Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements When Lewis Dwnn, deputy herald at arms, visited Rhiwlas on 21 July 1588, he received the pedigree of
PRICE, CHARLES (d. 1646) Pilleth,, soldier and politician Cabinet, 23 March 1646) before May 1645, and his family never enjoyed the Monachdy estate which he had been promised on his lending £1,000 to the king. His widow compounded for Pilleth in 1653. He was a friend and correspondent of James Howell.
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born at Oswestry, 9 March 1830, son of the Rev. Edward Price. He attended schools first in Birmingham and then in Montgomeryshire before going to Bala College under Lewis Edwards in 1848. After being there for four years he went to the Borough Road training college, London, for the year 1852-3, and here he was an exceptionally successful student. There followed two years as a schoolmaster at
PRICE, JOHN (1857 - 1930), musician Born 5 March 1857 at Llangamarch, Brecknock, the son of Dafydd and Ann Price. The family moved to Beulah, near Garth, in the same county, and it was here that John Price spent the rest of his life. As a child he was taught the Hullah system of music. He joined a Tonic Sol-fa class, held by D. Buallt Jones; he also received lessons from D. W. Lewis, Brynaman, and took the diplomas of G. and
PRICE, THOMAS (MALDWYN) (1860 - 1933), musician the 'Maldwyn' was added to his name in later years; born at Talerddig in Llanbryn-mair parish, Montgomeryshire, 19 March 1860, son of Thomas Price, a blacksmith employed at the time on the building of the railway, under David Davies (1818 - 1890); the mother's name was Jane (Howell). Thomas Price, sen., had a rich bass voice and was a well-known choir-conductor; and his daughter, Jenny, won a
PRICE, THOMAS WALTER (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869), journalist and poet . Lewis (Llew Llwyfo) entertained large numbers of Welsh-Americans, Cuhelyn lecturing on some Welsh poets and Llew Llwyfo singing Welsh airs. It was as a journalist, however, that Cuhelyn came to be known in America. He was editor of Y Gwron Democrataidd (1856), a journal started in New York for the benefit of Welsh-American democrats. (There was a dispute between this paper and Y Drych because the
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters , 3765-7, 5338) - a few diaries, some accounts, medical prescriptions, notes on the family history, copies of letters and of poetry, etc. He was a collector - Bangor has several letters written by Lewis and William Morris which had somehow come into Prichard's hands (and Cardiff MS. 81 contains notes on Lewis Morris by him), and he possessed letters by Goronwy Owen. He was himself a diligent
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist not surprising when it is remembered that chancellor John Owen (1698 - 1755) had on more than one occasion summoned him to the bishop's court at Bangor for daring to express the opinion as he came out of church that his sermon was unscriptural. After discussing the moral state of the district with the Rev. Lewis Rees at Pwllheli, he heard of Jenkin Morgan, a schoolmaster and preacher, who was at
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, LEWIS (1837 - 1908), Independent minister and college principal
PROGER family claiming to be a branch of the Herbert family - in Blome's List of Gentry (1673) the surname ' Herbert ' is attached to several of the persons named in this article. Its original seat was Wern-ddu in Llandeilo-bertholau, Monmouth, but a younger branch is associated with Gwern-vale (in the 14th century, ' tir Gronw Foel'), Crick-howell, Brecknock. The pedigree is given by Theophilus Jones, G. T

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