Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society invites Parry to Northolt; there are two letters to him in J. H. Davies's edition of Goronwy's letters, and numerous references to him in others of the letters, e.g. in Goronwy's last letter (1767) to Richard Morris, and in Morris's last letter (1772-3, Additional Morris Letters) to Goronwy. He should not be confused with another William Parry, a sailor, who is frequently mentioned in the Morris Letters.
PARRY, WILLIAM EDWARD (1790 - 1855), rear-admiral - see PARRY, JOSHUA
PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author
PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician Music Department, fighting to establish degree courses in music, and appointing composers like Reginald Smith Brindle (his successor in the chair) and William Mathias to lectureships. He was an inspirational teacher well liked for his enthusiasm and sense of humour. Following his retirement in 1967 he returned to Cardiff. Because of his dedication to teaching, he was not a prolific composer, but his
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Oerddwr, high above the Aberglaslyn pass in Snowdonia, at the home of his cousin, the poet, William Francis Hughes ('Wil Oerddwr', 1879-1966). The post of Professor of Welsh at Aberystwyth had been vacant since the untimely death of Edward Anwyl in 1914, and when steps were taken to fill the chair after the war a vociferous campaign was mounted opposing the appointment of Parry-Williams on account of
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure miraculous little teacher' who took her pupils on field trips. As a fourteen-year old chorister in St Mary's Church, Kington, he suddenly realised that the alabaster tombs of Tomos ap Rhoser of Hergest (died 1469) and his wife at which he had so often gazed across the chancel were actually described in a fifteenth-century cywydd by Lewis Glyn Cothi that he had read in translation in a history of Kington
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author
PEARSON, ARTHUR (1897 - 1980), Labour politician Arthur Pearson was born at Pontypridd on 31 January 1897, the son of William Pearson. He received his education at local elementary and central schools. At just twelve years of age he began working as an errand boy. He worked as a chainworker at the Pontypridd Chainworks of Brown, Lennox and Co. for twenty-five years from 1913 until 1938. He was elected treasurer of the local branch of the
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller : the Morris brothers of Anglesey (Richard, William, and Lewis), Hugh Davies, the author of Welsh Botanology, John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys, who accompanied him on all his Welsh travels ('To his great skill in the language and antiquities of our country I am myself much indebted'), Moses Griffith, a native of Bryncroes, Llyn, his faithful servant and self-taught draughtsman who travelled
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister may be pointed out that his two immediate predecessors in his first pastorate (Denbigh, 1767-9) were Carmarthen students. From 1770 till 1776 he was pastor of Pantycreuddyn (Cardiganshire) and Pencader (Carmarthenshire) churches; the Congregational Fund on 4 November 1776 is found grating an ' extraordinary supply, £5, to William Perkins, Pencader, Carmarthenshire. ' He was an able, eloquent, and
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) Welsh scholar and it is, therefore, surprising that the Eglvryn Phraethineb sebh Dosparth ar Retoreg, 1595, is his only book. Perri made use of William Salesbury's book on rhetoric, which is an adaptation from the Latin, but his work is fuller and more detailed than that of his predecessor. He was also acquainted with the English books of the period and these were chiefly responsible for his claim

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