Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PADARN (fl. c. 560), Celtic saint A reputed contemporary of David and Teilo, is associated with a small group of churches in the counties of Cardigan and Radnor. Very little authentic material concerning him can be obtained from his solitary 'Life' found in the collection of medieval manuscripts known as B.M. MS. Vespasian A, xiv. In this 'Vita' he is said to have come from Brittany, but since Paternus was the latinized name of
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Catholics, giving rise to a debate in the House of Commons, 1813. Like his father, he took a keen interest in Welsh studies and antiquities, though he understood little of the language. He lent Evan Evans's transcripts to Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and William Owen Pughe for the publication of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, and the first volume, 1801, was dedicated to him. He was also a patron of David
PARCELL, GEORGE HENRY (1895 - 1967), musician hymn tunes, many of them such as ' David', 'Wig', 'Yr Allt' winning prizes in eisteddfodau, and one short anthem, 'Duw sy'n noddfa a nerth'; all were simple and well-crafted without being ambitious. They were fashioned for church congregations whose vocal resources were known to the composer. He named one of his best tunes 'Irene' after his wife and his hymn tune 'Marchog Iesu', on words by Williams
PARROTT, HORACE IAN (1916 - 2012), teacher and composer a lecturer at Birmingham University, and in 1950 he succeeded to the Gregynog Chair of Music at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, a post he held until his retirement in 1983. He oversaw considerable growth in the Music Department, and among his pupils there were the composers William Mathias and David Harries. Ian Parrott took a lively interest in the musical traditions of his adoptive
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Welsh historiography at one point. Sir Edward Stradling, on William Cecil's suggestion, had written a tractate on the Norman conquest of Glamorgan, and had sent it to Cecil. It is clear that Cecil passed it on to Blanche Parry - perhaps for the queen, for Blanche kept the queen's books. But when David Powel was in London, probably to see about printing his Historie, Blanche Parry handed Stradling's
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Glamorgan, and had sent it to him. Burghley passed it to Blanche - for the queen to see. When David Powel was in London, probably to see about printing his Historie, Blanche Parry handed Stradling's work to him - Powel describes 'the right worshipfull Mistres Blanch Parry,' as 'a singular well willer and furtherer of the weale publike' of Wales. Powel printed the tractate in full in his Historie - see G
PARRY, DAVID (1682? - 1714), scholar (below), 10 December according to Hearne (op. cit., v 2), who added: ' being a perfect sot he shortened his days, being just turned of thirty.' Foster gives his academic career correctly, but errs (wherein he is followed by W. Wales Hist. Records, i, 253; iii, 229) in identifying him with another David Parry, vicar of Nolton and Bridell, Pembrokeshire, whose will was proved in 1720.
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet
PARRY, DAVID (1760 - 1821), Calvinistic Methodist minister
PARRY, DAVID (1794 - 1877), cleric Born 1794 at Llan-gan, near Whitland, Carmarthenshire, son of David Parry and Dorothy his wife. He was educated at Ystrad Meurig and Carmarthen grammar schools, and ordained deacon in March 1818 by bishop Burgess of S. Davids. He was licensed as curate to the parish of Crinow, near Narberth, and, in April 1819, to Llandisilio (near Clyndernwen) also. He received priest's orders in June 1819, and
PARRY, DAVID HENRY (1793 - 1826), artist - see PARRY, JOSEPH
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator Benjamin Cherry, and Williams on Executors (1930). He was elevated to the Chair in English Law at the University of London in 1930. Although David Hughes Parry was engaged in legal authorship during the early part of his career (his monograph, The Law of Succession, was published in 1937) it was in the direction of university governance and administration that his future path was to lie. As head of the

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