Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Chancery. In 1770 he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of Chester (Williams, Welsh Judges, 77); in 1776 he was raised to the Exchequer bench, and was knighted. He retired in 1799, and died 2 January 1803.
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer service to sport. In 1986 he was elected president of the BBBC, and the Board's new headquarters in south London was named 'Jack Petersen House'. He became vice-chairman of the Sports Council for Wales, and also served as a councillor for the Plasnewydd ward in Cardiff. He married Annie Elizabeth 'Betty' Williams, the daughter of Thomas Baker Williams, a Cardiff auctioneer, on 9 October 1935. Their son
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist producing a wider range of commercial material. The Press was supplemented by a variety of commissions for illustrations for books such as Alun Lewis' In the Green Tree (1949), Cledwyn Hughes' A Wanderer in North Wales (1949) and Gwyn Williams' Against Women (1953) and In Defence of Women (1960). He also experimented with book publishing, and published Susanna and the Elders, (1948), and Sauna (1949). His
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 (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister , 25-6), though he miscalls him ' W. Phillips ' tells us of his troubles at Pwllheli. His wife died and he married a certain ' Anne ' from near Carmarthen - Thomas Morgan tells us that Milbourn Bloom was a tenant of hers. Of this marriage, two sons and four daughters were born; the two eldest daughters married Independent ministers at Denbigh; the elder of these, wife of David Williams, was the
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author ) Margaret Williams, Bryncoch, Llanwrda (1912). He retired from his pastorate in May 1940 and died unexpectedly in a society meeting at Seion, Pont-y-gwaith, not far from his home, on 20 June 1944. He was buried at Lledr Ddu Public Cemetery, Trealaw.
PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet Born 12 April 1810 at Bala. He was educated at Bala, where he was also apprenticed as a printer with Robert Saunderson. He later moved to Chester where for a period he supervised the printing works of John Parry (1775 - 1846), who published Y Drysorfa and Goleuad Cymru, to which Tegidon contributed many articles. About 1850 he moved to Portmadoc as secretary to the Welsh Slate Company; later he
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born in 1810, at Pontrhydfendigaid, Cardiganshire, eldest son of David and Mary Phillips, Ty-mawr. His parents were in humble circumstances and he spent his early years with his maternal grandmother, Jane Jones, a cousin of John Williams, Lledrod (1747 - 1831). He received his early education at home and in the Sunday School. When about 14 he was deeply moved by a religious revival in the
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Williams, Lewis Valentine and J. H. Griffiths. After the war T. B. Phillips returned to the colliery in Cwmdu where he was soon in charge of a heading that became known in the colliery as Tommy Phillips's District. He won the admiration of the colliery officials, some of whom tried to persuade him to accept a managerial position. But he turned down every offer. Eventually the request came from Rees Rees
PHILLIPS, Sir THOMAS WILLIAMS (1883 - 1966), permanent secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service
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 composed by John Howell, William Edwards, Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), and David Saunders. In 1828, a monument to Picton was erected at Carmarthen by public subscription; in 1836, one of the first Welsh biographical dictionaries claimed that his 'meritorious life was distinguished for his zeal in the service of his country'; in 1846 the by then unsafe original Carmarthen monument was replaced by a

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