Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary he had urged the society to undertake. He examined critically the translation prepared by Le Gonidec, and in 1829 crossed to France with a copy of Dr. John Davies's Latin and Welsh Dictionarium to facilitate the completion of the work. On this journey he searched the libraries of Brittany and Paris in vain for Welsh or Breton manuscripts. As early as this he was suggesting that a literary society
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant was buried (as ' Thomas Price ') 13 March 1703/4; his will, dated 6 March, was proved 27 May; his son John was an executor and inherited the property, probably heavily burdened with debt.]
PRICE, THOMAS WALTER (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869), journalist and poet Born 23 December 1829 in Glamorgan. After emigrating to the U.S.A., he spent some time in Minersville, Pa. He also spent some time in California during a ' gold rush ' period and whilst here he was bardic teacher to Taliesin Evans (Tal o Eifion), some poems by whom he sent over to Wales to his friend John Jones (Talhaiarn). He came to Wales in 1855, but was back in 1856, in which year he and L. W
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet Caradog Prichard was born on 3 November 1904 in Bethesda, the youngest of the three sons of John Pritchard and his wife Margaret Jane (née Williams). (The spelling 'Prichard' was Caradog's whim.) John Pritchard worked at the Penrhyn Quarry and had been one of the 2,800 quarrymen involved in the bitter 1900-3 industrial dispute there, although he probably returned to work before the end of the
PRICHARD, JOHN (1817 - 1886), architect Architect, John Prichard, Restorer of this Cathedral …' is placed in the aisle under the window of the south wall in the south-western tower.
PRICHARD, JOHN (1796 - 1875), Baptist minister and tutor Born 25 March 1796, son of John and Jane Prichard of Tan-y-graig, Llaneilian, Amlwch. The family moved to Llandudno where he worked in a mine until he had saved sufficient money to go to Toxteth Park school, Liverpool. He returned to Llandudno where, for some time, he kept a school. In 1816 he became a Baptist, and in 1819 began to preach. He went to Abergavenny College in 1821, and in 1823 was
PRICHARD, JOHN (1821 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters
PRICHARD, THOMAS JEFFERY LLEWELYN (d. 1875?), travelling actor and author is best remembered today is The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti, which was first published at Aberystwyth in 1828 ('Printed for the Author by John Cox '). This book ran into several editions - the second edition (Cowbridge) has a preface written by the author at Builth, September 1839, with references to William Owen Pughe, David Owen (Brutus), and W. J. Rees, Cascob; the third
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist not surprising when it is remembered that chancellor John Owen (1698 - 1755) had on more than one occasion summoned him to the bishop's court at Bangor for daring to express the opinion as he came out of church that his sermon was unscriptural. After discussing the moral state of the district with the Rev. Lewis Rees at Pwllheli, he heard of Jenkin Morgan, a schoolmaster and preacher, who was at
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (d. 1713), Particular Baptist one of the more prominent disciples of John Miles. For all that, in the days of the Commonwealth, he can hardly be called a consistent or an obedient disciple; soon after he was ordained as minister of the strict Baptist cause at Abergavenny in 1653 he (and two others from the same church) were accused of sending a letter of good-will to Henry Jessey, the great pillar of the free-communion
PRISIART, JOHN WILLIAM - see PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM

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