Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PAGE, LESLIE ALUN (1920 - 1990), Minister (Cong.) Alun Page was born in Maesteg, Llynfi Valley, Glamorgan, where he spent his childhood. As a consequence of the depression and unemployment of the 1920s, the family moved for a period to Bexley Heath, on the outskirts of London, and he often spoke of his great indebtedness to the influence that the chapel of his denomination at Woolwich had on him. Following his family's return to Maesteg, he
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen The family traces its connection with Plas Newydd and the Isle of Anglesey to the marriage, in 1737, of Sir NICHOLAS BAYLY of Plas Newydd, with Caroline, daughter and heiress of Thomas, lord Paget of Beaudesert, Staffordshire. Their second son and heir, HENRY BAYLY (1744 - 1812) took the name Paget upon succeeding to the barony of Beaudesert in 1769, and was, in 1784, created earl of Uxbridge. It
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist Mary Primrose (1919-2005), Lady Katharine Mary Veronica (born 1922). The family seat was at Plas Newydd in Anglesey. He was educated at Wixenford School and Eton College. He married Elizabeth Shirley Vaughan Morgan (born 1924) on 16 October 1948, and they had two sons, Charles Alexander Vaughan, 8th Marquess (born 1950) and Lord Rupert Edward Llewellyn (born 1957), and three daughters, Lady Henrietta
PAINTER family, printers Clark's Family Bible. Further personal details concerning Thomas Painter are given by Ifano Jones in his History of Printing and Printers in Wales; e.g. Thomas Painter was mayor of Wrexham in 1859, and he was also a director of some local companies.
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian ), remained a source of constant anxiety until the situation was eased by family legacies in 1892 and 1894 and Civil List awards (procured by the unsolicited efforts of Edward Owen, with many eminent backers) in 1904 and 1908, enabling him to go into semi-retirement; while his appointment in 1910 as assistant inspecting officer to the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales revived his health at a
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Born 4 May 1727, elder son of Paul Patton (died 1752) of Bagillt, Flintshire, and his wife Margaret, daughter and heiress of Edward Griffith of the same. This branch of the Patton (or Panton) family resided at Coleshill, but they traced their ancestry through the Pantons of Plas Panton (purchased by Paul Panton, junior, in 1811) to Marchweithian. The Griffith family of Bagillt descended from
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn Madryn was not the original home of the Parrys. The first of the family in Wales was GEOFFREY PARRY (died 24 April 1658), an officer in the Parliamentary army, a zealous Puritan who hailed from Paston in Salop, and married one of the daughters of Cefn Llanfair in Llŷn (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 224); their son was the first LOVE PARRY (1654 - 1707) - there were as many as six of the name in the
PARRY, ABEL JONES (1833 - 1911), Baptist minister Born 21 November 1833 at Temperance Bach, Rhyl, son of Thomas and Susie Parry. The family moved to Abergele and later to Liverpool, where he joined the Calvinistic Methodists, but shortly afterwards became a Baptist. In 1854 he began to preach and was admitted to Pontypool College. In 1858 he was ordained at Zion chapel, Cefn-mawr, as successor to Ellis Evans (1786 - 1864), and became the first
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Born in 1508 or 1507 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Dore valley, Ewias, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Parry and his wife Alice. The pedigree of this wide-branching family is given by Theophilus Jones in History of the County of Brecknock (3rd ed.), iv, 2-3. Guto'r Glyn sang (200-4 and 216-20 of the University of Wales edition of his poems) to 'Harri Ddu o Euas,' Blanche's great-grandfather; her
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Born between March 1507 and March 1508 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Golden Valley of the River Dore, Ewias / Ewyas, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Myles and his English wife Alice (Milborne). It was a Welsh-speaking household. There are nine bardic poems that refer to Blanche's family: five by Guto'r Glyn and one each by Gwilym Tew, Howel Dafi, Huw Cae Llwyd and Lewys Morgannwg (see article on
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon Edgar Parry was born on 1 May 1919 in the Post Office, Salem, Betws Garmon, Caernarfonshire, the second child of Gruffydd Henry Parry, a farmer of Hafod y Rhug, Llanrug, and his wife Helena Parry (née Williams). He had an elder sister Mary (Vaughan Jones) who became a Biology teacher and headmistress. The family subsequently moved to Plas Glanrafon, Waunfawr where Edgar was brought up. Edgar
PARRY, GEORGE (1613? - 1678), cleric, and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms Born c. 1613, the son of James Rhys Parry. Some details concerning the connection of the family with Herefordshire and Brecknock are given in the article on the translator's father, and, more fully, in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 276-301, and iii, 13-6-many of the details being taken from the prefaces to George Parry's version of the Psalms (in NLW MS 641C). George, the son

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