Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer ', ' Mae hiraeth yn y môr ', ' Cysur Henaint ', ' Gadael Tir ', and those which deal directly with the war, like ' Y Cantîn Gwlyb ' and ' Y Ddrafft '. But he retained his love of cynghanedd, as can be seen in the memorial englynion to friends and acquaintances, and especially to those who fell in battle, like the famous sequence to Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans). The years between the wars were very
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy by drowning at Pwllheli, 13 February 1620, when crossing to Mochres on the way back from a bardic tour of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. He left a widow and six children. His death was mourned by Edmund Prys, Richard Cynwal, Ieuan Llwyd, Gruffydd Hafren, Rowland Fychan, and by his own son, Gruffydd Phylip. He was buried close by his home in the parish church of Llandanwg. RHISIART PHYLIP (died 1641
PIERCE, THOMAS MORDAF (1867? - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born 23 December 1867 (?), in the parish of Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire. He began to preach in 1886, went to Clynnog school in 1887, and to Bala College in 1888. He ministered at Llanfairfechan (1891), Llanidloes (1895), and Dolgelley (1910). He was twice married. He died 13 May 1919 at Dolgelley. Mordaf Pierce published (Llanidloes, 1908; 2nd ed., 1909) a biography of Humphrey Gwalchmai
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian translation by Humphrey Llwyd of 'Brut y Tywysogion,' which Llwyd had translated from a manuscript ending in 1270, to which he had added an appendix coming down to 1295. But Powel's Historie of Cambria, now called Wales, which he published in 1584, was much fuller than this; in the words of its title-page, it was 'corrected, augmented, and continued, out of records and best approved authors,' and its
PRICE family Rhiwlas, one of the chaplains at the court of Henry VII, continuing to serve in that capacity under Henry VIII. After the dissolution of the monasteries he acquired much land (Dôl Gynwal) in Ysbyty Ifan. According to letters from him to Henry VIII he also held much land in the parish of Llanfor. Sir Robert's wife was Mared (Margaret), daughter of Rhys (Rhydderch ?) Llwyd, Gydros, Llanfor; their numerous
PRICE, DAVID (fl. 1700-1742), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Nothing is known about his early life but it is thought that he was educated at Roger Griffith's Academy at Abergavenny. He was ordained minister of Maesyronnen church, Radnorshire, c. 1700. He lived at Llwyn-llwyd, in the parish of Llaneigon, Brecknock, where he kept a grammar school - Hugh Evans of Bristol and Howel Harris of Trevecka were among his pupils. In 1735 Carmarthen Academy was
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 of Historiae Britannicae Defensio. He also wrote in Latin a description of Cambria, which Humphrey Llwyd translated, and which David Powel included in his Historie of Cambria, 1584. A manuscript treatise on the restitution of the coinage, 1553, is also attributed to him.
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters correspondent, with a large circle of men of letters: Gwallter Mechain (NLW MS 1808E, no. 6), William Owen Pughe, Richard Llwyd (the author of Beaumaris Bay), Twm o'r Nant, Dewi Wyn, Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (who was a kinsman of his), Robert Roberts the almanac-maker, etc. But he was not on good terms with Dafydd Ddu Eryri, and he abominated Iolo Morganwg, to whom he attributed all W. O. Pughe's literary lapses
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet ), MORGAN PRYS (below), and EDMUND PRYS (below). It used to be believed that Edmund Prys, the archdeacon, lived at Gerddi Bluog, near Llan-bedr, Meironnydd, rather than at Tyddyn-du, near Gellilydan. It can now, however, be proved that it was Morgan Prys, Edmund's son by his second wife, who went to live at Gerddi Bluog after his marriage to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert ap Edward Humphrey of Llanfair. J

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