Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, It is frequently said that this family was a branch of the Philipps family of Picton, e.g. in Laws, Little England, 355; but it would be more exact to derive both of them from the Philipps family of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire - from Sir Thomas Philipps of Kilsant, who was also the progenitor of the Picton family. The pedigree varies in different books, e.g. Dwnn, i, 85; Meyrick, Cardiganshire, 2nd
PHILIPPS, JENKIN THOMAS (d. 1755), tutor and author
PHILIPPS, LAURENCE RICHARD (1st. BARON MILFORD, 1st baronet), (1874 - 1962), philanthropist, industrialist, sportsman, and a member of one of the most prominent old gentry families of Pembrokeshire Born 24 January 1874, the 6th son of Canon Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th baronet of Picton, and the Honourable Mary Margaret Best, daughter of the Honourable the Rev. Samuel Best. Following his education at Felsted School and the Royal School of Mines he concentrated his career on the maritime trade and in time became the chairman of the Court Shipping Line which he himself established. He was
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner £125,000 from her father, Thomas Morris, a member of the wealthy banking family in Carmarthen. Philipps purchased Amroth Castle, Pembrokeshire, in 1904 and the Plas Llanstephan estate, formerly owned by the Morris family, in 1920. As his shipping interests grew, Owen Philipps was much less reliant on his brother's assistance. He obtained control of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co. in 1910; the remaining
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. ; for details see J. Gwenogfryn Evans, Repts. on MSS. in the Welsh Language, Cardiff, and the annual reports of that period of the Cardiff Public Libraries Committee. One of the most famous early Welsh manuscripts, viz., the ' Book of Aneirin ' (now in Cardiff), had found its way to the Phillipps collection, via Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) and others (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, xi, 109-12
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister , Denbighshire (see the article Kenrick), and was the mother of Timothy Kenrick of Exeter. According to Thomas Rees, Phillips was taught by Samuel Jones of Brynllywarch, but his name does not appear in Walter Wilson's list (copy in N.L.W. Add. MS. 373) of Jones's pupils; it is however certain that he was taught by Stephen Hughes. He kept school for a while at Ynysdderw, Llangyfelach. In 1684 he went up to
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author pastor and author he strove to defend orthodox Calvinism - the basis of his prolific output - in a period when theological liberalism threatened it in the churches. Together with Thomas Rees of Merthyr he published Cofiant a Phregethau y diweddar Barch David James, Llaneurwg (1895), followed by Hau a Medi (1910), a collection of sermons by W. E. Prytherch of Swansea, and Rev. Edward Matthews of Ewenni
PHILLIPS, DANIEL THOMAS (1842 - 1905), Baptist minister and American consul Born at Tredegar, 19 December 1842, the son of Thomas Phillips, a Calvinistic Methodist minister. He was baptized into the Baptist communion at Cwm-bach, Aberdare, and, as a youth, joined the Tabernacle church, Cardiff, while working as a clerk in the town clerk's office. He was trained at Haverfordwest Baptist College, and became minister at Llantwit Major, Swansea, and Bristol, before
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister Phillips of St Clears and William Thomas of Llangyndeyrn. But in 1816, when the missioner Wright visited the church, Phillips had a coadjutor, a John Evans, who may possibly have been the man named on p. 500 of David Jones's Hanes Bed. Deheubarth, but is more likely to have been the John Evans who, at that time (1816-25), had charge of the Unitarians who then used Dark Gate chapel at Carmarthen. Phillips
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

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