Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, WILLIAM (Gwilym Pennant; 1830 - 1902), poet his many successes were silver medals at the national eisteddfod, Llandudno, 1864, the Swansea eisteddfod, 1863, and at the Llangefni eisteddfod. He was fifth for the chair at the Merthyr eisteddfod, 1888. He married (1), Mary Theodore, Llanfair Caereinion, by whom he had five children, and (2), 1895, a Miss Jones of Westminster. He died 16 July 1902, and was buried in London.
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal family moved a mile or so away to nearby village of Gwaencaegurwen and settled at 6 Colbren Square. His mother died in 1957 at the age of 48. Eifion was brought up and started preaching at the Tabernacl, Cwmgors, under the ministry of the Reverends T. M. Roderick, Emrys Jones and Irfon Samuel. He was educated at Pontardawe Grammar School, and was specially influenced by Eic Davies, one of the teachers
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher The only one of the eleven children of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys to lay special claim to his father's Welsh ancestry. As he narrates in Autobiography (1934), his father would announce his descent from 'Roderic Mawr, King of all Wales'. His father's ancestry can be traced back some six centuries to Powyses of Montgomery, and to, more recently, the first Sir Thomas Powys of Lilford (died 1719
PRICE family Rhiwlas, men from 'Y Berfeddwlad' and led it to Bosworth Field (1485) to join men from South Wales under Sir Rhys ap Thomas. By reason of his prowess at Bosworth, he received many favours at the hand of the new king (Henry VII). (Alabaster effigies of 'Rhys Fawr' and his wife, Lowry, are in Ysbyty Ifan church). His son: Sir ROBERT AP RHYS (died c.1534) The 'sir' in this case denotes an ecclesiastic - became
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon to meetings of the Council, and to degree ceremonies and other events as often as he could and took an active interest in the affairs of the School. Indeed the provost of the time, Alan Trevor Jones, noted in his diary not long after Price Thomas had started his presidency that he 'is very interested, almost too interested in everything'. The fact was that, despite periods of indifferent health
PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver Dilys Price was born in Bournemouth on 3 June 1932, the only child of Thomas John Evans (1899-1973), born in Treherbert, and Elizabeth M Evans (née Gould, 1906-1963), from Aberaman, near Aberdare. Her father served in the Royal Air Force during the Great War, before going into service in Bournemouth following a religious conversion by missionaries. There, in 1929, he married Elizabeth Gould. Soon
PRICE, EDWARD (1797 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 1 April 1797 at Carreg-y-big, Llangwm, Denbighshire. A blacksmith (who shod many cattle for drovers at Llangwm), he was a good representative of the popular culture of his region, had often seen Twm o'r Nant acting in interludes, and could still, in much later years, repeat long stretches of interludes. But listening to Thomas Charles's sermons turned his thoughts to religion, and in 1826 he
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician Born in 1816 at Pen-lan, a mountain cottage in Pant-y-dwr, S. Harmon, Radnorshire, son of John Price; both his parents died when he was young. He began to take an interest in music at an early age. He had become acquainted with Hafrenydd (Thomas Williams, 1807 - 1894), in whose Ceinion Cerddoriaeth, 1852, six of Price's hymn-tunes, including the very well known ' St. Garmon,' appeared; in 1855
PRICE, ISAAC (1735? - 1805), Congregational minister Born at Gellicrugion, near Llanwrtyd, Brecknock, c. 1735. He was brought up in a religious home where itinerant preachers stayed and received what education was available in the neighbourhood. He showed an early inclination for the pulpit and went to Joseph Simmons's school at Neath. He began to preach at Troedrhiwdalar as assistant to the aged and ailing preacher Thomas Morgan. He was ordained
PRICE, JOHN (1600? - 1676), classical scholar and divine Born in London, c. 1600, of Welsh parentage. He was educated at Westminster, whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1617, but, being a Roman Catholic, he did not matriculate, and left the University without a degree. He accompanied Thomas Howard, one of the sons of the earl of Arundel, to Italy, where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Laws. After returning to England he went to
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches county thrice, 1567, 1576, 1596, and for Brecknock twice, 1588, 1595). One of the daughters, Johan (born 14 November 1542) took as her second husband, Thomas Jones ('Twm Siôn Cati,' c. 1530 - 1609). Sir John Price took an intelligent interest in Welsh history and literature; he was one of the first collectors of manuscripts of Welsh interest; he left his Welsh books to Thomas Vaughan of Glamorgan; his

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