Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, RAYMOND (1928 - 2001), Labour politician at this time. (In the event, Roy Hughes, the Labour MP for Newport East, obliged and went to the House of Lords.) At the time of his death Sir Ray Powell was the oldest Welsh Labour MP and firmly identified as belonging to 'Old Labour' - a member of the old school in the age of 'New Labour'. His hobbies were gardening, sport and music. He had married in 1949 Marion Grace Evans, and they had one son
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army of the king. They had been in touch with prince Charles at S. Germains and had been promised Royalist assistance. Powell gathered his forces at Carmarthen where colonel Fleming, the commissioner for disbanding, and colonel Thomas Horton attempted to bring him to action in the last week of April 1648. Fleming won an advantage in a skirmish, but in pressing home his attack found himself outnumbered
POWELL, THOMAS (1572? - 1635?), attorney and author
POWELL, THOMAS (1781 - 1842), Congregational minister and author
POWELL, THOMAS, chartist
POWELL, THOMAS (1608? - 1660), cleric
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner business associate, Thomas Prothero of Malpas and John Latch of Newport, founded the short-lived Newport Coal Association to control prices, the first coal ring in South Wales. In 1840 he resolved to exploit the steam coal in the Aberdare valley, sinking his first pit at Tir Founder; in 1842 he struck the famous four-foot seam. He followed up this success by sinking the Plough, Lower Duffryn, Middle
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine Westminster assembly, after being named by the Committee for Plundered Ministers to preach in Wales (Bodl. MS. 325 (68)). He was with Thomas Mytton's forces attacking Beaumaris in the autumn of 1648 (Phillips, Civil War in Wales, ii, 382-401). On 2 December 1649 he preached before Thomas Foot, lord mayor of London, and on 28 February 1650, before the House of Commons. Under the Act of Propagation he was an
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal family moved a mile or so away to nearby village of Gwaencaegurwen and settled at 6 Colbren Square. His mother died in 1957 at the age of 48. Eifion was brought up and started preaching at the Tabernacl, Cwmgors, under the ministry of the Reverends T. M. Roderick, Emrys Jones and Irfon Samuel. He was educated at Pontardawe Grammar School, and was specially influenced by Eic Davies, one of the teachers
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher The only one of the eleven children of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys to lay special claim to his father's Welsh ancestry. As he narrates in Autobiography (1934), his father would announce his descent from 'Roderic Mawr, King of all Wales'. His father's ancestry can be traced back some six centuries to Powyses of Montgomery, and to, more recently, the first Sir Thomas Powys of Lilford (died 1719
PRICE family Rhiwlas, men from 'Y Berfeddwlad' and led it to Bosworth Field (1485) to join men from South Wales under Sir Rhys ap Thomas. By reason of his prowess at Bosworth, he received many favours at the hand of the new king (Henry VII). (Alabaster effigies of 'Rhys Fawr' and his wife, Lowry, are in Ysbyty Ifan church). His son: Sir ROBERT AP RHYS (died c.1534) The 'sir' in this case denotes an ecclesiastic - became
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon Clement Price Thomas was born on 22 November, 1893 at Abercarn, Monmouthshire, the youngest of nine children of William Thomas, a grocer and Rosamund Gertrude Price, the daughter of a clergyman. After a secondary education at Newport High School and at Caterham School, Surrey he proceeded to University College, Cardiff in 1913 with the ultimate ambition of entering the dental profession. On the

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