Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary everything concerning the triple harp. When the Welsh Society of Abergavenny was established in 1833 Price's name was placed first in the list of members as a unanimous token of respect; the society did not survive long after his death. He participated in the work of the Welsh Manuscripts Society, editing the Iolo Manuscripts after the death of Taliesin Williams. Though he won the esteem and co-operation
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister . William Edwards's book, Bapto a Baptiso (1857), Jiwbili Eglwys Calfaria, Aberdar (1862), and Trem (1885-6), together with many addresses, etc. But he was better known as the co-editor of Y Gwron (1855-60), Y Gweithiwr (1859-60), and Seren Cymru (1860-76); he also served as finance secretary to Seren Gomer (1853-59), and edited Y Medelwr Ieuanc and Y Gwyliedydd. No minister in Wales took such a prominent
PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE (1906 - 1978), Conservative politician He was born at Bangor on 5 September 1906, the son of Price Ffoulkes White, a Welsh international footballer, and Charlotte Bell. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He worked as a solicitor from 1932 until 1956 and was the principal partner within Price White & Co, solicitors of Colwyn Bay. He joined the Territorial Army in 1928, and saw
PROBERT, LEWIS (1837 - 1908), Independent minister and college principal failed to agree to set up one theological college for the denomination and about the time Probert came to Bangor it had been decided to co-operate with the Baptist College in preparing students for the B.D. degree - an arrangement which had the approval of the University of Wales. In this difficult testing time the new principal proved himself to be a wise and skilful leader. In his time, too, the
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales the Fellowship, in 1981. He played a major role in the devolution debate, but his successor, Emrys Jones added greatly to his input. Prothero co-operated with David Thomas, a pioneer of the Labour movement in Gwynedd, in the printing of material in the Welsh language for use in the Welsh heartland where Labour did so well during his tenure as General Secretary of the Labour Party in Wales. Cliff
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian ; but in 1742 he left for London, becoming a member of Whitefield's Tabernacle, but also attending the Welsh Methodist society at Lambeth. In 1744-5, when Cennick was in charge of the Tabernacle, Pugh was a recognized Methodist itinerant; but soon after this, Cennick became a Moravian, and Pugh, increasingly unable to co-operate with Herbert Jenkins, was expelled (March 1746), and in his turn joined
REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary his successors) protected their lives when Britain attacked their country in 1893, and spared them from the massacre at the beginning of the 1896 Rebellion, and continued to support them afterwards, their mission flourished over a district the size of Dyfed. Bowen Rees tried to protect the Ndebele from the rapacity of the British South Africa Co. : he provided information for the Quaker John Ellis
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal come to live there after retirement from his post at the British Museum. Under Bell's supervision he completed a Ph.D. (Wales) thesis, 'A critical study of a selection of hitherto unedited papyri' (1956), work later included in The Merton Papyri, vol. ii (co-edited with H. I. Bell and J. W. B. Barns, 1959) and in Papyri from Hermopolis and other Byzantine Documents (1964). On the strength of his
REES, CALEB (1883 - 1970), inspector of schools and author task three years later of interviewing young men, many ex-service men among them, for the teaching profession. He and his wife became members of his old church in Pen-y-groes, where he was elected a deacon. His wife died 1 January and he died on 9 January 1970. He and his brother Stephen Morris Rees were co- authors of a history of Pen-y-groes Congregational Church (1959). He also wrote a series of
REES, JAMES (1803 - 1880), printer and publisher Born at Carmarthen, 1803. After spending some years in London, he moved to Caernarvon about 1831, where he was employed as foreman with William Potter and Co. After Potter retired, Rees succeeded him about the year 1840. In addition to publishing the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald, he started the Herald Cymraeg in 1854 as a penny newspaper (with James Evans as its editor) and was responsible for
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator in preparing reports on developments in Berlin and the British Zone. Demobilization produced yet another startling turn. Rees joined his friend Henry Yorke (the novelist Henry Green, 1905-1973) as co-director of Henry Pontifex Ltd, the Yorke family firm of brass founders and coppersmiths with offices in London. He flourished in the business, one that permitted him afternoon stints at MI6 on the
REES, RICHARD (1707 - 1749), Arminian Independent minister Born in 1707 on his family freehold, Gwernllwyn Uchaf, Dowlais, Glamorganshire, and educated at Carmarthen under Thomas Perrott. At the end of his course there (1732) he was ordained co- pastor with James Davies (died 1760) of the Independent church at Cwm-y-glo, Merthyr Tydfil; the congregation was a mixture of Calvinists and Arminians, Davies (the senior pastor) being a Calvinist. Concord

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