Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, MORGAN WALTER (1902 - 1963), general secretary of the Labour Party Born in Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 June 1902, one of the six children of William Phillips, but he was brought up in Bargoed, Glamorganshire. He left school when he was 12 years old to become a colliery surface worker. When he was 18 years old he became a member of the Caerphilly divisional Labour Party, secretary of the party in Bargoed, 1923-25, and chairman of the Bargoed Steam Coal Lodge
PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' ground for believing that he was deceived by the declarations of James II in his Indulgence of 1687. In a report that was sent up to London, some time in 1690, about the state and condition of several noncon- formist ministers in Wales, Phillips is described as living on a small farm at Dredgman Hill near Haverfordwest, and as receiving £8 a year from his people if the times were favourable, less if
PHILLIPS, PHILIP ESMONDE (1888 - 1960), Rear Admiral Born 16 June 1888, younger son of P.S. Phillips, Crumlin Hall, Monmouthshire. He married in 1933 Mrs Ellinor Curtis, daughter of Capt. Glen Kidston (the marriage was dissolved in 1950); there was one son. Phillips was educated at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He was awarded the D.S.O. and bar during World War I. In 1927 he became Chief Staff Officer to the Rear Admiral of Submarines
PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist Born at Talgarth, Brecknockshire, 15 October 1854, son of Thomas Phillips, registrar. He was educated at the Normal College, Bangor (he was later tutor there) and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1884 with first class in science; he subsequently gained a D.Sc. degree of London University for research work on seaweed. He returned to Bangor in 1884 as a lecturer in biology at
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI (c. 1730 - 1812), banker and jeweller Born probably at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. With his brother, MOSES, he came to London (he had property in Lambeth) and settled at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. There they were befriended by a Phillips, whose surname they adopted, and were baptized (Moses on 23 June 1755) at S. Mary's church, Haverfordwest. Samuel was one of the founders of the Haverfordwest Bank and the Milford Bank. He married
PHILLIPS, Sir THOMAS (1801 - 1867), barrister and author Born in 1801 at Ynys-garth, Clydach, in the parish of Llanelly, Brecknock, the son of Thomas [who died at Llanellen, 6 January 1845, aged 80] and Anne Phillips. In his youth the family moved to Trosnant, near Pontypool. He was articled to Thomas Protheroe, an attorney of Newport, and became his partner. The two men took an active part in local politics in the period of the Reform Act, and, in
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire . Among his pupils were J. Rhys Kilsby Jones, and the two first missionaries who went to Madagascar - David Jones and Thomas Bevan. Sermons by Phillips were published in 1803, 1808, 1811. Besides these he published a Catechism, 1812; Natur Cyfamod Eglwys, 1815; Sypiau Grawnwin …, 1818; Ychydig o Hymnau Efengylaidd, 1821 (2nd ed., 1842); and - his more important work - a short commentary (in Welsh) on
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1806 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and Welsh secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society , and took a prominent part in the founding (in 1864) of the C.M. General Assembly, becoming, in 1865, its second moderator. He died at Hereford 28 October 1870. There is a biography in English, of which there is a Welsh version (London, 1871). His eldest son was THOMAS LLOYD PHILLIPS (1832 - 1900), minister and schoolmaster Religion Education He was apprenticed to Thomas Gee, and in 1856 published
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Born 5 January 1868 at Lan, in the parish of Llan-y-cefn, Pembrokeshire, the son of Levi and Phoebe Phillips. A member of the historic Baptist church of Rhydwilym, he became first of all a pupil-teacher at Whitland, but in 1886 entered Llangollen Baptist College as a candidate for the ministry. Two years later he won a scholarship at University College, Bangor. There he became a student of Henry
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1760 - 1851), surgeon and benefactor of education Born in London, 6 July 1760, son of Thomas Phillips of Llandegley, Radnorshire. He received his medical education at Hay and in London, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. After serving in the Navy, he was in practice first in Calcutta and then in Botany Bay, before settling in India in 1802, where he became a member of the Calcutta Medical Board. He returned to London in 1817
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
PHILLIPS, THOMAS LLOYD (1832 - 1900), minister - see PHILLIPS, THOMAS

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