Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, DAVID (1812 - 1904), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet and editor Association at Aberafan, 1854. In 1873 he went to live in Swansea, where he died 5 June 1904, and was buried in Crug-glas cemetery. A volume of his devotional poems was published under the title Y Dyn Crist Iesu. He and Thomas Levi were joint editors of a children's magazine, Yr Oenig, 1853-6. Many of his writings are to be found in the various Calvinistic Methodist periodicals.
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Rowland, took an interest in him and arranged for him to borrow Cymru and other Welsh periodicals. His father and stepmother tried to wean him from his interest in the Welsh language, but his Welshness was reinforced when he had the company of Owen Morgan Edwards on a train journey to Pembrokeshire. When he was 14 years old he returned to Tre-fin as an apprentice tailor to his uncle J.W. Evans, and as
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (fl. 1836) Penrhyn,, hymnwriter She was the author of twenty-five hymns which were discovered by Richard Griffith (Carneddog) among the manuscripts of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion). Carneddog copied the hymns and they were published for the first time in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1906. A note on the manuscripts, in the hand of Alltud Eifion, stated that she was the mother of Dr. Thomas Hughes (1793 - 1837), a physician, of Plas-ward
PHILLIPS, EVAN (1829 - 1912), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 22 October 1829 in a cottage called Milestone in the Capel y Drindod neighbourhood; his mother was a second cousin of Christmas Evans 's. When he was a little over 20 years of age he began to preach at Capel y Drindod chapel. He then spent two years at Atpar school, Newcastle Emlyn, and in 1853 was admitted to Trevecka College. Early in October 1859 he married Anne Jones of Cwrcoed, near
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian or twelve years during the minority of colonel Owen Brigstocke's father. He was thus able to make use of the excellent library collected there by Owen Brigstocke, the brother of William Brigstocke who had come into the estate of Blaen-pant on his marriage with the co-heiress. It was probably this library which stimulated him to take an interest in Welsh antiquities. He corresponded with Samuel
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, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister
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 . 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 (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, 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

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