Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1810-1863), poet Born probably at Llanbryn-mair, son of Robert Parry, curate of that parish, and Mary, his wife, daughter of John Jones of Esgair Ifan. While he was still a small child his father was given the living of Eglwys-bach, Denbighshire (1810-26) and the family went to live in that place (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 311). He himself had originally intended to take orders, and was
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher College and the University College, Bangor, where one of his college contemporaries comented how they played with his initials - R.I.P.; 'He was', he said, 'somewhat of a Rip-van-Winkle, and it was wished that he would Rest in Peace!' He graduated with first-class Honours in History in 1929. He won the Robert Jones Scholarship which enabled him for two years to undertake research work taking as his
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer received instruction from two Tal-y-sarn poets, Owen Edwards ('Anant'), a quarry man, and H.E. Jones ('Hywel Cefni'), a shopkeeper, both of whom competed regularly at local eisteddfodau and published their successful englynion in periodicals, especially Y Geninen. As early as 1906 Williams Parry wrote an awdl on ' Dechrau Haf ' for an eisteddfod at Ffestiniog. In 1907 he was a competitor for the chair at
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Rhys”. There also he met Enid, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Picton Davies, whom he married 20 May, 1936. In 1929, on the death of Sir John Morris-Jones, Thomas Parry was appointed lecturer in his old Department at Bangor, now headed by [Sir] Ifor Williams. There, the vigorous and versatile young scholar flourished. His early publications include numerous articles on Siôn Dafydd Rhys and his
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author Born 18 December 1910 in Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, the eldest of the three children of Lewis Thomas and his wife Mary Emiah (née Jones). Though registered as Emiah Jane, she was known throughout her life as Amy. Educated at Pontyberem school, Llanelli Girls' Grammar School, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she graduated in 1932 with first class honours in Welsh, she
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet on for five years as a pupil-teacher. He then attended Holt Academy under James Oliver Jones. He spent the last four months of 1876 as a temporary teacher at Loveston school, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. In 1877 he entered Bangor Normal College, and on completing the course in 1879 he was appointed schoolmaster at Rhyd-ddu, where he remained until his retirement in 1923. Parry-Williams's poetry
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar , however, and the teenage Parry-Williams also made the acquaintance of the town's poets, Iolo Caernarfon, Tryfanwy and Eifion Wyn, a friend of his father's. During this period he began to keep his matter-of-fact diary, a habit he maintained for the rest of his life. Parry-Williams matriculated at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth in 1905 and graduated with first class honours in Welsh in 1908
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure sons, Ifan and Ceri. He moved first to Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and then to a flat in St Fagans Castle when the Folk Museum was opened in 1948. During World War II he was seconded to the Art Department of the National Museum where he became familiar with the paintings of Welsh artists such as Hugh Hughes and was the first to draw attention to the work of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, Radnorshire, in an article
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi -Pennant in 1841), who was raised to the British peerage in 1866 as lord Penrhyn. Previous to that he had sat in the Commons for Caernarvonshire for twenty-five years. He died 31 March 1886. It was his son, the 2nd baron (born 30 September 1836 - 1907) who lost the famous election of 1868 to Sir Love Jones Parry, but who won it back in 1874. Though one of the most generous landlords in the country, he
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister , revealed that the chapel was vested in the pastor, and accordingly Perkins was able to resume possession at Pencader - his opponents worshipped for some years in a private house near Cwmhwplin, but in 1785 built a new chapel at Pencader, with Jonathan Jones as pastor. Perkins's cause quickly declined, and he sold his rights in the old chapel to the congregation. He removed to Kidwelly, and thence to
PERROT family Haroldston, died before he could grant it, whereas Edward VI valued him and dubbed him a Knight Bachelor in 1549. Although he was not yet twenty Perrot replaced the recently deceased Richard Devereux as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in Edward VI's first parliament in 1547. Backed by his courtier step-father Sir Thomas Jones and Lord Treasurer Paulet Perrot's Court career prospered during the reign of
PERROT family Haroldston, . Besides these he had a number of illegitimate children of whom the most important were Sir James Perrot, by Sibil Jones of Radnorshire, Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Hatton, and a daughter who married David Morgan, gent. In 1580 he donated lands and properties of the yearly value of £30, free of all charges, to the town of Haverfordwest, and these became known as ' The Perrot Trust.' Through the

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