Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver ship to the West Indies, where he was welcomed in Martinique by fellow-Welshman Sir John Vaughan, commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands, who made him Deputy Quarter-Master General, a position confirmed by his successor Ralph Abercromby, who valued Picton's 'stern look and harsh voice' and his assistance in capturing St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada in 1796-7. On his departure, Abercromby left
PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH (1872 - 1960), worker for women's causes and author Born in 1872 in the registration district of Hereford, a twin daughter and one of the large family of John Picton Warlow, later (1891) John Picton Turbervill of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire, and Eleanor (née Temple) his second wife. Soon after leaving the Royal School, Bath, she had her first experience of social service when she endeavoured to improve the conditions of the navvies working on
PIERCE, JOHN (1889 - 1955), author, minister (Presb.) and schoolteacher
PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian Born 18 March 1905 at Liverpool to John and Winifred Pierce. He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School and Liverpool University where he graduated with first-class honours in the School of Medieval and Modern History in 1927. He was awarded the Chadwick Scholarship (1927), the Gladstone Memorial Prize (1928) and the degree of M.A. (1929). Following a brief period as a University Fellow
PIERCE, WILLIAM (1853 - 1928), Congregational minister and historian Marprelate Tracts (London, 1911); John Penry: his life, times and writings (London, 1923).
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author A friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Born 16 January 1741 at Bodfel, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, only child of John Salusbury, Bachygraig, Flintshire, and Hester Maria (died 1773), daughter of Sir Thomas Cotton, bart., of Combermere and Lleweni. Her inordinate pride in her Welsh ancestry can be understood if it be remembered that on the paternal and the maternal sides she was a descendant of
POOLE, EDWIN (1851 - 1895), journalist, printer, and local historian Brecknock (1885), The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire (1886), and John Penry (1893). He also brought out a short-lived but very useful antiquarian journal, Old Brecknock Chips (1886-8). He died 15 April 1895.
POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter Dynol yn nghylch Ffydd, 1797; Llythyr oddi wrth John Popkin at y Parch. David Jones … yngylch Natur Crefydd, 1801. In 1812 he published a book attacking the bishop of S. Davids, Traethawd yn nghylch Natur 'Ty Dduw' neu 'Eglwys Crist,' and another similar one in 1813. [In 1816 he published Caniadau Cristionogol, a collection of his hymns.] Later on, two English books appeared: Further Remarks on the
POWEL, CHARLES (1712 - 1796), antiquarian the last in the male line of descent of the Powels of Castlemadoc, Brecknock, and ultimately descending from William Powel, a Welsh poet who flourished c. 1580-1620. He was an antiquarian of more than usual merit, and corresponded with many of the leading antiquarians of his day. His researches into the antiquities of South Wales attracted the notice of John Strange who referred to some of
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian representatives of the Revival of Learning in Wales. Bishop William Morgan acknowledges his help in translating the Bible into Welsh, and Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd (and, for that matter, Powel's own son Daniel) says that he intended producing a Welsh dictionary. But it is as a historian that Powel is remembered. In September 1583 Sir Henry Sidney - Powel was his chaplain, asked him to prepare for press the
POWEL, JOHN (d. 1767), weaver-poet
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, This family claims descent from Edwin ap Gronow of Tegeingl. Dafydd ap Philip ap Hywel is said to have been the first 'ap Hywel (whence Powell) connected with Llechwedd-dyrus, the first seat of the family; his wife, according to Peniarth MS 156 (see West Wales Historical Records, i), was daughter of John ap Edward of Nanteos. Their grandson, Sir THOMAS POWELL, Serjeant-at-law (1688), a Baron of

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