Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure sons, Ifan and Ceri. He moved first to Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and then to a flat in St Fagans Castle when the Folk Museum was opened in 1948. During World War II he was seconded to the Art Department of the National Museum where he became familiar with the paintings of Welsh artists such as Hugh Hughes and was the first to draw attention to the work of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, Radnorshire, in an article
PAYNE, HENRY THOMAS (1759 - 1832), cleric and ecclesiastical historian Baptised 30 November 1759, at Llangattock, Brecknock, son of Thomas Payne, who was rector of Llangattock from 1757 to 1798, and canon residentiary of Wells. He was educated at Oxford (matriculated from Worcester College, February 1777; B.A. as from Balliol College, 1780; M.A. 1784). Ordained deacon, 18 May 1783, at Westminster, he was ordained priest at Abergwili, 19 September 1784, and licensed
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi must be said, was not an obscure adventurer from the West; rather he descended from the Pennants of Bychton and Downing in Flintshire and was a member of the same family, but of younger stock, as Thomas Pennant the traveller. It was Gifford Pennant, grandfather of John, who migrated west, bought extensive lands in Jamaica, and died in 1677. Thomas Pennant was very proud of his affiliations with the
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Born 14 June 1726 at Flintshire, the son of David Pennant and Arabella (née Mytton). His father only entered into possession of Downing in 1724, on the death of Thomas Pennant, the last survivor of a younger branch of the family, who bequeathed it to him. The original home of the Pennants was Bychton in the same parish (Whitford). The first to settle in Downing was John Pennant the great-great
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author published. These are - Anningait and Ajutt … A Greenland Tale Inscribed to Mr. Samuel Johnson, 1761; Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals, 1762; Poems with a Dramatic Entertainment, 1771; A Pastoral Elegy, 1773?; Poems, 1780 (a reprint of the 1771 work). Thomas Pennant refers to the 1780 work in his Tours in Wales, ii, whilst Richard Morris, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, knew of the
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author . Thomas a Watering on 29 May 1593. He left a widow and four young daughters, Deliverance, Comfort, Safety and Sure-Hope.
PENSON, RICHARD KYRKE (1815? - 1885), architect He was born 19 June 1815, in Overton, Flintshire, son of Thomas Penson, county surveyor of Denbighshire, and Montgomeryshire, and Frances (née Kirk). Following in his father's footsteps, he became in 1857 county surveyor of Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire. He was also an antiquary (F.S.A., and a figure in the Cambrian Archaeological Association), and a painter in water-colours. He was a great
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister Nothing is known of his beginnings. According to Wilson's lists (copy in NLW MS 373C), there was a Perkins in Carmarthen Academy under Evan Davies in 1745; but Thomas Morgan does not mention him, and the records of the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards have no mention of any grant made to him as a student; this however must not be taken as proof that he was not at the Academy; and it
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) chaplain; it was doubtless through the latter's influence that he obtained some Anglesey livings - 1601 Rhoscolyn, 1606 Trefdraeth, 1613 Llanfachraeth. He was made canon of Bangor cathedral in 1612/3. His successor to this post was appointed in December 1617, which suggests that Perri had died in the course of the year. Both Dr. John Davies and Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw regarded him as a praiseworthy
PERROT family Haroldston, died before he could grant it, whereas Edward VI valued him and dubbed him a Knight Bachelor in 1549. Although he was not yet twenty Perrot replaced the recently deceased Richard Devereux as Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire in Edward VI's first parliament in 1547. Backed by his courtier step-father Sir Thomas Jones and Lord Treasurer Paulet Perrot's Court career prospered during the reign of
PERROT family Haroldston, Three members of this house will be noticed. Sir JOHN PERROT (1530 - 1592), Elizabethan statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland Politics, Government and Political Movements, 1584-8 He was popularly believed to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Mary Berkeley, one of the royal ladies-in-waiting who married Sir Thomas Perrot of Haroldston. Henry knighted Sir Thomas on his marriage. Sir John was

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