Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
PERROT, THOMAS - see PERROTT, THOMAS
PERROT, THOMAS (1553 - 1594), politician - see PERROT
PERROTT, THOMAS (d. 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor Hanes y Bed., 185) asserts that Perrot's ' Arminianism ' led many of his students to forsake Calvinism. In fact, however, there is no real evidence that he went beyond Baxterianism; and it is no more logical to ascribe the Arminianism of Jenkin Jones or Samuel Thomas to Perrot's direct teaching than it would be to blame that uncompromising Calvinist Vavasor Griffiths for the Arianism of his pupils
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology Elizabeth Jones, Blaenplwyf, near Aberystwyth, but her death on 22 March 1953 at a young age weighed heavily upon him the rest of his days. He himself died 30 November 1995, in Newport and his ashes were interred in his wife's grave in Aberystwyth town cemetery.
PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Born at Flint in 1723 (christened 16 August), son of Benjamin Perryn, a tradesman there. From Ruthin school (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 132) he went up to Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1740/1, but did not graduate. He had in 1740 entered Lincoln's Inn, but migrated to the Inner Temple in 1746, and was called to the Bar in 1747. He acquired great repute as a pleader in
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet of one of the seven foster-brothers. There is every reason for accepting the opinion expressed by Thomas Price (Hanes Cymru, 584-7) and by Thomas Stephens (Literature of the Kymry, 39-41) that these very fine englynion were also composed by Peryf.
PETER, JOHN (Ioan Pedr; 1833 - 1877), Independent minister and college tutor, and Welsh scholar Born at Bala 10 April 1833, son of Peter Jones, millwright, and his wife Ellen. He was a pupil at the Bala free school (today the grammar school), then in 1847 began working as a millwright. His tramps across country stimulated his interest in geology and antiquities; he was also interested in poetry, and in 1849 he and his friends, among whom was Thomas Charles Edwards, founded 'Cymdeithas
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer Jack Petersen was born at 52, Monthermer Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff on 2 September 1911, one of the three children of John Thomas Peterson (1889-1945) and his wife Melinda Laura Rossiter. He was baptized John Charles Peterson, but adopted the spelling Petersen for his professional career. His father came to Cardiff from Cork and his grandfather was originally from Norway. Petersen's father was a
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist Golden Cockerel Press and he was commissioned to illustrate Gwyn Jones' novel The Green Island in 1945, and he returned to Wales at the end of 1946 to re-establish the Caseg Press. He had met Marjory (Kusha) Miller (1921-2003), an artist and writer, in 1944, and they married in March 1947. They had 2 sons and a daughter, David (born c. 1947), Catrin (born 1950) and Michael (born 1957). They divorced in

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