Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI (c. 1730 - 1812), banker and jeweller Dorothy Hood, and amongst their children were Philip, whose grandson was Hugh Price Hughes, and Sarah (1757 - 1817), who married David Charles I. Their daughter, Eliza (1798 - 1876), married Robert Davies (1790 - 1841).
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 (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire Born 29 March 1772 at Sgythlyn, Llanfihangel Iorath, Carmarthenshire. He hailed from a deeply religious family. He was educated, from the time he was 7 years old, at various schools, including David Davis's school at Castellhywel. He was received into church membership at Pencader when he was between 14 and 15 years of age. He began to preach at Pencader in 1792 and was invited to serve Ebenezer
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal , Seth Joshua, R. B. Jones and Joseph Jenkins. At the Davies Colliery School he gained a prize from the hands of the schoolmaster R. J. Jones for an essay on South Africa. The prize was a biography of the missionary David Livingstone, and the story of his African endeavours made a huge impact on him. When he was ten years of age he succeeded in an examination for admission to the Higher National School
PHILLIPS, THOMAS LLOYD (1832 - 1900), minister - see PHILLIPS, THOMAS
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver composed by John Howell, William Edwards, Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), and David Saunders. In 1828, a monument to Picton was erected at Carmarthen by public subscription; in 1836, one of the first Welsh biographical dictionaries claimed that his 'meritorious life was distinguished for his zeal in the service of his country'; in 1846 the by then unsafe original Carmarthen monument was replaced by a
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller kept in Cyfyng chapel. The father died in 1851, and the widow and children removed to Tan-y-bwlch in the same parish. Even earlier Ellis had been obliged to take his share in the duties of two upland farms of 140 acres each, but during the winter following his father's death he was sent to a school kept by David Williams at Penmachno, which he attended for three years. In May 1854 he contracted a
PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian Crematorium, Liverpool. T. Jones Pierce had been a pupil of William Garmon Jones at Liverpool but he was greatly influenced by John Edward Lloyd whose colleague he was at Bangor. In turn he himself inspired generations of young Welsh historians and was acknowledged to be one of the most creative Welsh historians of his day. He was a pioneer in the study of the problems associated with the decay of tribalism
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author marriage, Mrs. Thrale came to know Dr. Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, David Garrick, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others; it is her friendship with Johnson which largely accounts for her fame. Johnson accompanied the Thrales on a journey to North Wales in 1774 - for his journal of this Welsh tour and Mrs. Thrale's journal, see A. M. Broadley, Doctor Johnson and Mrs. Thrale (London, 1910). Johnson also
POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter Dynol yn nghylch Ffydd, 1797; Llythyr oddi wrth John Popkin at y Parch. David Jones … yngylch Natur Crefydd, 1801. In 1812 he published a book attacking the bishop of S. Davids, Traethawd yn nghylch Natur 'Ty Dduw' neu 'Eglwys Crist,' and another similar one in 1813. [In 1816 he published Caniadau Cristionogol, a collection of his hymns.] Later on, two English books appeared: Further Remarks on the
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian J. E. Lloyd and Victor Scholderer ('Powel's Historie (1584),' N.L.W. Jnl., 1943, 15-8) have shown that these were quite irrelevant, being blocks borrowed from the 1577 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles. Powel's Historie is of the greatest importance in the history of Welsh historiography. Either in its original form (reprinted in 1811) or (more commonly) in the adaptation by William Wynne - and
POWEL, JOHN (d. 1767), weaver-poet own hand in Panton MS. 2. See also under David Jones,, 1732 - 1782?.

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