Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS family Cwmgwili, Picton for the political control of the borough of Carmarthen. With the support of the town mob, Griffith Philipps succeeded in 1749 in overturning the Tory common council of the borough and between 1749 and 1763 the government of the town fell into complete chaos. In 1764, with the co-operation of George Rice and lord Verney, a new charter was obtained for the borough which consolidated the position
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) shipping company, Philipps & Co., at Glasgow in 1888, John Philipps provided financial assistance. From this small company, Owen Philipps built the Royal Mail Group, one of the largest shipping companies in the country. Without the investment funds provided by John Philipps, it is unlikely that Owen Philipps would have been able to establish himself as a significant figure in the shipping business so
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Erasmus sent his third son to Newton College in Newton Abbot, Devon, which suggests that he thought that Owen, who had a slight speech impediment, was less able than his brothers who attended Felstead College. At the age of seventeen, Owen Philipps was apprenticed to Dent & Co., a shipping firm in Newcastle upon Tyne; on the completion of his apprenticeship in 1886, he joined a Glasgow shipping firm
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. Welsh interest - genealogies and visitations, lists of sheriffs and magistrates, charters, rolls, etc. Examples are Barddoniaeth gan hen awdwyr or Ancient Welsh poetry; A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Llannerch Library, taken June 21st 1787; a Manuscripts at Porkington, the seat of William Ormsby Gore Esq. near Oswestry, co. Salop, and Will of Sir Richard Philipps, Bart., Baron Milford. It has been
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian or twelve years during the minority of colonel Owen Brigstocke's father. He was thus able to make use of the excellent library collected there by Owen Brigstocke, the brother of William Brigstocke who had come into the estate of Blaen-pant on his marriage with the co-heiress. It was probably this library which stimulated him to take an interest in Welsh antiquities. He corresponded with Samuel
PODE, Sir EDWARD JULIAN (1902 - 1968), accountant and industrialist became secretary of the new company in 1930 and in 1938 took over the commercial managership as well. In 1943 he was promoted assistant managing director of Guest, Keen, Baldwins Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Two years later he became managing director. Though personally opposed to the nationalisation of the steel industry, he was persuaded in 1947 to assume the directorship of the newly-formed Steel
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, HOWELL (1819 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister in the U.S.A., and author Twrch (John Edwards) as co-editor, he published, 1871, Llyfr Hymnau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd; he also published, 1873, Cofiant … William Rowlands, D.D., Utica, Efrog Newydd. He died 23 March 1875. A biography of him, by Thomas Levi, was published in New York.
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner married three times. In 1864 Sir George Elliot formed the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. with a capital of £500,000 to take over Powell's steam colliery undertakings in the Aberdare and Rhymney valleys and the house-coal level called White Rose at New Tredegar.
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, DAVID (fl. 1700-1742), Independent minister, and schoolmaster transferred to Llwynllwyd and Vavasor Griffiths, minister of the Independent church at Maes-gwyn, was appointed its principal. It is probable that the grammar school and the Academy were amalgamated and that the two teachers co-operated in carrying on the work. David Price died in August 1742.
PRICE, RICHARD (1723 - 1791), philosopher (1676 - 1756), Dissenting minister Religion Richard Price's uncle, younger brother of Rees Price, educated at Bryn-llywarch and Attercliffe, became the colleague and faithful friend of Isaac Watts, as assistant (1703-13), and co-pastor (1713-48), and then succeeded him. He assisted in his nephew's education, befriended Welsh churches and ministers, and published sermons.

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