Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales researching the history of Independent causes. Stephen Hughes (1912), ' Tomos Glyn Cothi ' (Thomas Evans, 1764 - 1833) (Y Dysgedydd, 1933) and ' Y Tri Brawd o Lanbrynmair ' (Adroddiad Undeb yr Annibynwyr, 1928) were some of his heroes, and he wrote about them not so much to record events as to inspire a new generation. In 1927 he was appointed editor of Y Tyst, a position he enjoyed as a means of expressing
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen was he who was largely responsible for consolidating the social and political status of the family in Anglesey, and notably so at Caernarvon, where, by securing the constableship of the castle and the mayoralty in 1785, he was successful in undermining the long-established monopoly of the Glyn family of Glynllifon in the borough. It was he, too, who together with Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Born in 1508 or 1507 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Dore valley, Ewias, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Parry and his wife Alice. The pedigree of this wide-branching family is given by Theophilus Jones in History of the County of Brecknock (3rd ed.), iv, 2-3. Guto'r Glyn sang (200-4 and 216-20 of the University of Wales edition of his poems) to 'Harri Ddu o Euas,' Blanche's great-grandfather; her
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Born between March 1507 and March 1508 at Newcourt, Bacton, in the Golden Valley of the River Dore, Ewias / Ewyas, Herefordshire, daughter of Henry Myles and his English wife Alice (Milborne). It was a Welsh-speaking household. There are nine bardic poems that refer to Blanche's family: five by Guto'r Glyn and one each by Gwilym Tew, Howel Dafi, Huw Cae Llwyd and Lewys Morgannwg (see article on
PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 . Shortly afterwards, her grandmother, Ellen Roberts, died and Winnie, in a letter to John Glyn Davies, states that she lived with her grandfather from the age of thirteen until her aunt came to live with them when she was nineteen. In 1893, at the prompting of O.M. Edwards and Edward Ffoulkes she began to contribute occasionally to Cymru, Cymru'r Plant, Y Cymro, and even The Cambrian (Utica) and Wales
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure miraculous little teacher' who took her pupils on field trips. As a fourteen-year old chorister in St Mary's Church, Kington, he suddenly realised that the alabaster tombs of Tomos ap Rhoser of Hergest (died 1469) and his wife at which he had so often gazed across the chancel were actually described in a fifteenth-century cywydd by Lewis Glyn Cothi that he had read in translation in a history of Kington
PHILIPPS family Picton, the French war of 1513 he was captain of a retinue of a hundred men and in that year he was knighted. On 16 October 1516 he became sheriff of Pembrokeshire and bailiff in eyre in the lordship of Haverfordwest. He was a patron of the bard Lewis Glyn Cothi. He died before 8 December 1520 when his son, JOHN PHILIPPS, server of the chamber, succeeded him in the offices of steward of Llanstephan and
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy Llandanock in the county of Merioneth.' Compared with the other Phylipiaid he was not a prolific writer, only four cywyddau by him being extant as far as is known. They are: (a) ' Cowydd i Mr. Gruffydd Van o Gors y Gedol yw groesawu Adref or ysgol'; (b) 'Marwnad Mr. Moris Wynn o Faesneuadd Esquier Enwog'; (c) 'Cowydd Moliant i Owen Wynn o'r Glyn, Esq., pan oedd ef yn Sirif yn Sir Feirionydd'; and (d
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian Bible in its own tongue. Yet he has no great love for the English people. If the Welsh fought with the English, 'is it not natural to defend your purse against robbers?' - and he expatiates upon the wrongs done by March lords and royal officials in Wales. He has little to say on behalf of Owain Glyn Dwr, 'who lived in a fool's paradise,' and whose claim to the princely title was 'altogether frivolous
POWELL, JOHN Charles (D. E. Jenkins, Thomas Charles, I, 71; see also a note by him in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, Trevecka Supplement 8, 273). (2) JOHN POWELL (1720 - 1766), Independent minister Religion; Born at Lanelli (Brecknock). A shoemaker in Glyn Ebwy Fawr, he was converted by Edmund Jones (Hist. of Aberystruth, 106), and began to preach. After a while (1748) he went to Carmarthen
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal there in 1974 to be the successor of the Reverend T. Glyn Thomas at Ebeneser, Wrexham. The Ebeneser congregation moved to a new building and a new location within a year of Eifion's arrival. Eifion moved again to become minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at Minny Street, Cardiff, in 1984. During his time at Wrexham and Cardiff, he lectured on World Religions at the University College Bangor

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