Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SAUNDERSON, ROBERT (1780 - 1863), printer and publisher cholera at New Orleans, 24 October 1832 (Seren Gomer, 1833, 94), in his twenty-third year. His literary remains, Gweddillion o Waith Barddonol Charles Saunderson, were published by his father in 1845 (extracts in Beirdd y Bala, ed. O. M. Edwards); there is an elegy upon him by Tegidon (John Phillips, 1810 - 1877) who had been one of his father's apprentices. Another son was ROBERT SAUNDERSON (1814
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author Born 24 June 1774 at Garndeifo-fach in the parish of Llanfair Nant y Gôf, Pembrokeshire, the fifth son of Henry and Ann Shadrach. When he was 7 years old the family migrated to Burton in the English part of the county. He was there for only three years, returning to an aunt at Moylgrove, where under the influence of the Rev. John Phillips he became a member of the Independent church. He received
STEPNEY family Prendergast, the diocese of S. Davids for life. He was also registrar of the diocese. He married (1), 1565, Margaret (c. 1546 - ante 1573), daughter and coheiress of Thomas Catharn of Prendergast, who brought him the manor of Prendergast, and (2), before 1573, Mary, daughter of William Philipps of Picton. In local politics he became prominent within a group of gentry, led by William Philipps, in opposition to
THIRLWALL, CONNOP (1797 - 1875), bishop of S. Davids in 1860), but he set to work to learn Welsh, and within a year was able to preach in Welsh; a volume of his Welsh sermons was published under the editorship of E. O. Phillips in 1877, although it must be confessed that his Welsh was stiff and largely unintelligible to the masses. He was a vigorous and generous bishop. He is said to have distributed £40,000 in charity, including the amounts
THODAY, DAVID (1883 - 1964), botanist, university professor parts of the Tripos in 1905 and 1906, and he won the Walsingham Medal in 1908. After serving as university demonstrator in botany at Cambridge for two years (1909-11) he was appointed a lecturer in Physiological Botany in Manchester University in 1911 and became Harry Bolas Professor of Botany in Cape Town University, South Africa in 1918. In 1923 he succeeded Reginald W. Phillips as Professor of
THOMAS, EDWARD (1925 - 1997), champion boxer and an outstanding boxing trainer and a public figure in the life of Merthyr Tydfil against France and the United States of America. He soon turned professional under the guidance of Sam Burns but he still worked his shifts as a miner. Thomas made a name for himself as one of Britain's exceptionally gifted boxers. 1948 was an important year for him. He fought eight contests and won seven. Thomas won the Welsh welterweight championship against Jack Phillips in London on 31 May and then
THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP (Gwilym Rhondda; 1861 - 1954), colliery official Born 27 October 1861, son of Mary Thomas (née Phillips) and her husband of Treorchy, Glamorganshire. In 1874 he left the local school at the age of 12 to commence work as an office-boy with the Ocean Coal Co.; he rose to become general manager in 1926, retiring in 1933. He was director of the company 1927-37, and of many other coal companies besides. He was well known as an organiser of social
TREGELLES, SAMUEL PRIDEAUX (1813 - 1875), Biblical scholar and linguist . Although Tregelles left the Plymouth Brethren for the Church of England, he retained to the end some of their characteristic doctrines. Educated at the Rev. T. Sheepshank's grammar school, Falmouth (1825-8), he moved, when 15 years of age, to Neath Abbey, where he was engaged in the iron-works (1829-35), probably as a clerk, but according to D. Rhys Phillips, he was there apprenticed as an engineer and
TREGONING, WILLIAM EDWARD CECIL (1871 - 1957), industrialist 1950 as J.P. for over 36 years, having been an outstanding chairman of the Llanelli magistrates court for many years. In October 1901 he married Nancy, daughter of J. Beavan Phillips, and they had four sons and two daughters. He lived at Portiscliff, Ferryside, St. Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, and died 9 March 1957.
TURBERVILL, EDITH PICTON - see PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge - John Selden, who dedicated to him his Vindiciae Maris Clausi; Thomas Hobbes, who visited him thrice weekly at one period; Sir Matthew Hale, his Acton neighbour; and Edward Stillingfleet, who preached his funeral sermon. He died on 10 December 1674, and was probably buried in the Temple Church, London. He gave some support to the king's forces during the Civil War (see J. R. Phillips, Civil War, ii
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1663 - 1722) Derllys Court,, social and religious reformer , the latter being a first cousin to Lucy Walter, mother of the duke of Monmouth. During the last twenty years of his life John Vaughan was the leader of religious and educational life in Carmarthenshire. He and his friend Sir John Philipps, of Picton castle, Pembrokeshire, succeeded with the aid of the S.P.C.K. in making their respective counties the most progressive in Wales. John Vaughan paid

Search results

157 - 168 of 183 for "phillips picton"