Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PUGH, JOHN (1846 - 1907), Calvinistic Methodist minister, founder and first superintendent of the C.M. Forward Movement Born at New Mills, Montgomeryshire, 29 January 1846, son of John Pugh, undertaker, and Ann, his wife. The family moved to Tenby, Pembrokeshire, in 1860. Pugh went to Trevecka college, 1869-72, and was ordained at the Association held at Swansea, 1872. He became minister successively of the English churches at Tredegar, 1872-81, Pontypridd, 1881-9, and Clifton Street, Cardiff, 1889-92. He married
PUGH, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier Major-General Lewis Pugh, son of Major H.O. Pugh (1874-1954) and his wife Edith Mary née Smith, was born at the family home, Cymerau, Glandyfi, Ceredigion, 18 May 1907. He was educated at Wellington College and Woolwich Royal Military Academy and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1927. After a period with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine he was posted to India where he fulfilled a
PUGH, WILLIAM (1783 - 1842) Bryn-llywarch, Radical landlord and entrepreneur Born at Pennant, Berriw, Montgomeryshire, on 26 December 1783. His father, William Pugh (1748 - 1823) of Pennant (later of Caerhowel, which he bought in 1800), belonged to an old county family which he had enriched by his legal practice, was a pioneer of banking in Newtown, and served as sheriff in 1813; his mother was the daughter of William Lewis of Welshpool. Educated at Rugby (to 1802
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur family vault at Cwm Maethlon burial ground. DAVID WILLIAM PUGHE (1821 - 1862), physician Medicine Literature and Writing Second son of D. R. Pughe. Born at Chwaen-wen, Anglesey, 21 August 1821. He too was a physician, who trained in Dublin and London, qualified as M.R.C.S. and settled at Clynnog-fawr. He wrote poetry and contributed essays to Welsh newspapers and periodicals, and several of his
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet Born in Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Meironnydd, 7 August 1759, the son of John Owen of Rhiwywerfa near Abergynolwyn and his wife Anne Owen. The family moved shortly afterwards to the farmhouse of Egryn in Ardudwy. He claimed that in his youth he had heard Ardudwy singers in his home and had seen companies playing interludes, but what influenced him most was the reading of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, (1) The Puleston family derived their name from the vill or manor of Pilston or Puleston, near Newport, Salop, where they were settled in the reign of Henry III, and continued to hold land at least until 1433. Sir ROGER DE PULESTON (died 1294) is believed to have been the first to establish himself at Emral in Maelor Saesneg; he is described as ' de Embers-hall ' in 1283; and the following year
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge later alleged on Hamner's behalf that he occupied the house at Mrs. Puleston's request for the protection of the property, and did his utmost to prevent any depredations. The family, meanwhile, took refuge with neighbours, and although the house was retaken for Parliament temporarily c. March 1644, and finally towards the end of the year, the family does not appear to have lived there again until
PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament Born 2 June 1829 at Plas Newydd, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, eldest son of John Puleston, a descendant of the Puleston family of Emral. He was educated at Ruthin grammar school and King's College, London. He spent some time in the U.S.A., where, between 1856 and 1860, he came into prominence as the editor of two newspapers, and later as a reputable banker and as an honorary colonel under president
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, ). He was a man of strong religious convictions and, in spite of every kind of persecution, adhered to the Roman Catholic faith. From 1580 on there was a close association between him and the Houghtons of Lea Hall, near Preston, Lancashire - another family of Papists. When the earl of Pembroke, president of the Council of the Marches, began his onslaught on the Welsh Roman Catholics in 1586, we find
QUARRELL, THOMAS (d. 1709), Puritan preacher, free-communion Baptist He was probably of the same family as the first husband of the first wife of Vavasor Powell (Paul Quarrell), as James Quarrell of Shrewsbury, and as the two Quarrell s who appear in the records of the Llanfyllin congregation. At first he was usher of the Puritan school at Montgomery and remained there until the Restoration. In 1669 he was living at Whitchurch, near Cardiff, and breaking the penal
RATHBONE, WILLIAM (1819 - 1902), philanthropist His career is sketched in D.N.B. Second Supplement, and there is a biography (1905) by his daughter Eleanor Frances Rathbone. He was born 11 February 1819, of a Liverpool family whose eldest sons for six consecutive generations were named ' William ' - as many as four of these figure in D.N.B. The family was originally Quaker, but in later times became Unitarian; very prosperous in business, the

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