Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian Crematorium, Liverpool. T. Jones Pierce had been a pupil of William Garmon Jones at Liverpool but he was greatly influenced by John Edward Lloyd whose colleague he was at Bangor. In turn he himself inspired generations of young Welsh historians and was acknowledged to be one of the most creative Welsh historians of his day. He was a pioneer in the study of the problems associated with the decay of tribalism
PIERCE, THOMAS MORDAF (1867? - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (1827 - 1888), civil engineer , and he laid out one of the best cricket grounds in the country at Marchwiel. He died in London 24 March 1888, and was buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. By his wife Sarah, daughter of Thomas Davies of Montgomery, whom he married in 1855, he had three sons and six daughters.
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
POET JONES - see JONES, JOHN
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, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian , ii, 340. He went up 'at 16' to an unascertained college at Oxford, but on the foundation of Jesus College (1571) migrated thither, and is believed (Hardy, Jesus College, 41) to have been the first to graduate (3 March 1572/3) from that college - he proceeded D.D. in 1583. Even before graduating he was (1570) vicar of Ruabon (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, iii, 286) and (1571) of
POWEL, JOHN (d. 1767), weaver-poet ., these being ten cywyddau and one awdl. They include a poem on Christ's passion, one complaining of the contemporary neglect of old poetry, an elegy to a greyhound, poems addressed to Siôn ap Rhisiart of Bryniog, Ieuan Owain of Dyffryn Aur, Rhobert Burchinshaw, two to Ieuan Brydydd Hir, and one to Dafydd Jones, Trefriw, requesting a copy of Y Cydymaith Diddan. This last cywydd and the letter, written
POWEL, THOMAS (1845 - 1922), Celtic scholar mediaeval Welsh texts - in particular, Ystorya de Carolo Magno (1883). In 1888 he edited, on behalf of the Society of Cymmrodorion, Thomas Stephens's version of The Gododin of Aneurin Gwawdrydd, In 1896 he published a facsimile reproduction of bishop Morgan's Psalmau Dafydd, 1588, with copious notes. In 1890 he married Gwenny Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Jones of Neath and Penarth, by whom he
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, the Exchequer, and 'Judge of the King's Bench in Kg. James the Second's time' (Peniarth MS 156), married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of David Lloyd (Gwyn) of Aberbrwynen, and was the father of WILLIAM POWELL. The latter married Avarina, daughter of Cornelius le Brun by his wife, Ann, daughter and co-heiress of John Jones of Nanteos. William Powell's eldest son THOMAS POWELL (died 1752) was
POWELL, ANNIE (1906 - 1986), teacher, local politician and Communist mayor of Rhondda Annie Powell was born on 8 September 1906 in Ystrad, Rhondda, Glamorgan, the eldest of four daughters of Tom and Sarah Thomas, both teachers. The family was Welsh-speaking and life centred around the Welsh Independent chapel and later Methodist Central Hall, Tonypandy. Annie was educated at Pentre Grammar School and Glamorgan Training College, and followed her parents into teaching. In her early
POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister Born at Maes y Cletwr, Brychgoed, Brecknock. Nothing is known of his upbringing or of his early education. He was examined, on behalf of the Congregational Board, 29 March 1697, with a view to his being sent for a course of study; he was recommended for the Saffron Walden Academy under Thomas Payne, but his name does not appear in the extant lists of students. The interest shown in him by the

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