Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Ednywain Bendew, and Margaret Griffith was a great-grand-daughter of John Jones (c. 1578 - 1658) of Gellilyfdy. Paul Panton was educated at Westminster School (from 1739 to 1740), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 25 June 1744). He matriculated in 1746, and had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 21 December 1744. Called to the Bar, 14 November 1749, he practised for some time. He married, 1 March 1756, Jane
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn , another Love, did not grow to man's estate, and in 1780 his sister Margaret married her cousin THOMAS PARRY JONES -PARRY (1762 - 1835) of Llwyn Onn, near Wrexham. This gentleman brought new life to Madryn by his comprehensive care and his wide-awake business methods; he was at the head of the movement, helped by his ambitious fellow brother-in-law G. Ll. Wardle, to build a road from Portinllaen to the
PARRY, ABEL JONES (1833 - 1911), Baptist minister secretary of Llangollen Baptist College. In 1867 he went to Great Cross Street chapel, Liverpool, which he left in 1871 to take charge of Cloughfold, an English chapel at Rossendale. In 1877 he received a call to Bethesda chapel, Swansea, to succeed R. A. Jones. In 1885 he went to Caernarvon to edit the Genedl Gymraeg but, later in the same year, left to take charge of the English Baptist church at
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, 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, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary Hugh Jones (Erfyl) as president and Edward Parry as secretary, a post he held until 1839. A history of The Chester Cambrian Societies was written by Thomas Edwards in 1906. In 1826 Parry promoted a scheme for the establishment of a Sunday evening 'lecture' in Welsh at one of the churches, and the constant residence of a Welsh clergyman whose duties were to be exclusively devoted to the spiritual
PARRY, HENRY (1766? - 1854), cleric and antiquary at Holywell. Letters written by him are preserved in the Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), Thomas and David Pennant, and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) collections in N.L.W. - e.g. in NLW MS 165C, NLW MS 1807E, NLW MS 1893E, NLW MS 2590E, NLW MS 2591E, NLW MS 4877E and NLW MS 4878E. He died 17 December 1854.
PARRY, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London premises. He was a member of the Gwyneddigion (vice-president 1807, president 1808) and of the Cymreigyddion. When in 1804 the periodical Y Greal was started by these societies, he was one of the committee of four placed in charge - W. O. Pughe and Thomas Jones (Bardd Cloff), representing the Gwyneddigion, Parry and John Jones (Glan-y-gors) the Cymreigyddion (correct the error on this point in Cymm
PARRY, IDRIS FREDERICK (1916 - 2008), scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster Folk-tale (OUP 1972), Hand to Mouth and Other Essays (Carcanet Press 1981), Speak Silence (Carcanet Press 1989), The Trial (translation, Penguin 1994). During his time at Bangor he had met Eirwen Lloyd Jones from Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire (died 1992), and they married in 1941. They had two daughters. Idris Parry died in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, on 25 January, 2008 and was cremated at Weeley (Essex).
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms He was a member of some branch of the old-established family of Parry of Poston, Herefordshire (cf. Parry, Blanche), and Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig, Brecknock - for pedigree, see Theophilus Jones, Brecknock [iv, 2-3, 155], and Llyfr Baglan. James Parry may be the James ap Rhys Parry mentioned in Llyfr Baglan, 37; at the time that his son George Parry went to Oxford (17 January 1633/4) the father
PARRY, JOHN (1789 - 1868), stonemason and musician Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on 12 September 1846. A daughter and two other sons soon followed. John and Mary Parry, with their two youngest sons William and Caleb, emigrated on the Buena Vista in 1849 as part of the 249-strong group of Welsh Mormon Saints under the leadership of Captain Dan Jones. On arriving in New Orleans they took passage on a steamboat up the Mississippi and
PARRY, JOHN (1812 - 1874), Calvinistic Methodist minister, college tutor, and editor Edwards himself - there is probably justice in the verdict of J. Cynddylan Jones that Parry did too much of their work for them, but that Lewis Edwards did them more real good. He was ordained in 1845, and was moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association in 1866. In 1844 he married Sarah Gee, sister of the publisher Thomas Gee. When Gee, in 1853, started the Welsh encyclopaedia Y

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