Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar father's side he claimed connection with the Salusbury and Bagot family of Bachymbyd, while on his mother's side he was related to the Bruce and Knight families of Glamorgan and Devon. During and after his term at Oxford his interest in Welsh studies was awakened through the influence and friendship of John Rhys, J. Loth, Whitley Stokes, and other scholars. He began to learn Welsh in 1880 and mastered
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author D. M. Phillips was born in 1863 at Pant-y-gwin, Llan-y-crwys, between Mynydd Cellan and Afon Twrch, Carmarthenshire, the son of Rees and Elizabeth Phillips. The family moved to Ystradfellte where he worked as a smith in Pontsyll smithy, near Brecon. He began to preach and was educated in Trecynon, Aberdare, by the Unitarian Rhys Jenkin Jones and at the University College of South Wales and
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Association diploma, and was responsible for cataloguing the Welsh section (including the collection of Robert Jones, Rotherhithe,). He was elected F.L.A. in 1913 and F.S.A. (Scotland) in 1920-21. He was promoted Borough Welsh and Celtic librarian and subsequently in 1923 joint-librarian with W.J. Salter until his retirement in 1939. D. Rhys Phillips was nurtured in the literary and cultural societies of
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire . Among his pupils were J. Rhys Kilsby Jones, and the two first missionaries who went to Madagascar - David Jones and Thomas Bevan. Sermons by Phillips were published in 1803, 1808, 1811. Besides these he published a Catechism, 1812; Natur Cyfamod Eglwys, 1815; Sypiau Grawnwin …, 1818; Ychydig o Hymnau Efengylaidd, 1821 (2nd ed., 1842); and - his more important work - a short commentary (in Welsh) on
PHYLIP BRYDYDD (fl. 1222), court poet His extant works are an awdl and intercessionary englynion addressed to Rhys Gryg, a chain of englynion and an elegiac awdl to Rhys Ieuanc ap Gruffudd (son of the 'lord' Rhys) (died 1222), and two other interesting poems in which he claims priority over poets of lower degree. One of these last-mentioned was sung in the court of Rhys Ieuanc in Llanbadarn-fawr. Gwilym Ddu associates Phylip with
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller Rhobert (Dolyddelen, 1880); Yr Ymfudwr Cymreig (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1883); A Guide to Nant Conway (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1884); Rhamant Hanesyddol: Gruffydd ab Cynan (Dolyddelen and Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1885); Gwilym Morgan (Bala, 1890); Syr Williams o Benamnen (Caernarvon, 1894); Teulu'r Gilfach (Caernarvon, 1897); and Dafydd ab Siencyn yr Herwr, a Rhys yr Arian Daear (Caernarvon, 1905). He contributed
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher lecturing at several girls' schools at Hove, Sussex. His first publication, 1896, was Odes and Other Poems. In the same year he married Margaret Alice Lyon; they had one son; both wife and son predeceased him. In 1899, after a preliminary lecture on Sir John Rhys he was appointed peripatetic lecturer for Oxford University Extension and began his life of wandering, first in England and to pioneer courses
PRICE family Rhiwlas, The older pedigrees trace the ancestry of this family to Marchweithian. RHYS AP MEREDYDD ('Rhys Fawr') (fl. 1485) A fairly early ancestor who achieved some prominence. He lived somewhere at the foot of the south-western slopes of Mynydd Hiraethog, Denbighshire; it is thought that the old mansion of Foelas was his home. He was influential, rich, and a strong military leader. He raised a band of
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver a designated studio for that purpose. Her work was ground-breaking at the time, and, as a result, she came to the attention of the Cardiff Teacher Training College, where she was offered the position of Senior Lecturer in Physical Education and Movement in 1960. That same year (1960) she married Thomas Roland Price (1925-1990) and they had one son, Rhys Daniel Price (b. 1967), before the marriage
PRICE, HUGH (1495? - 1574), founder and first benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford Born at Brecon, son of Rhys ap Rhys. He was educated at Oxford and took the degree of doctor of canon law in 1526. Price was appointed first prebendary of Rochester in 1541, and he held the prebend until his death. In 1571 he became treasurer of S. Davids cathedral. Towards the end of his life he decided to devote his money and estate to the establishing of a new college in Oxford, and he
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 Little is known of his early years. He was the son of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llywelyn ap Rhys Llwyd ab Adam, of Brecknock, and his wife Gwenllian, daughter of Howel Madoc. He was, therefore, of the same family as the Welsh poet Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys Llwyd, and in the midst of the bustle of his comparatively short life he maintained a close contact with the Welsh bardic tradition. It is
PRICE, RHYS (1807 - 1869), Congregational minister

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