Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS family Cwmgwili, Lincoln's Inn, 1741, unsuccessfully contested Carmarthen in 1741 and sat for the borough 1751-61 and 1768-74. He was closely associated in politics with George Rice of Newton, following the Whig leaders to the death of George II in 1760, and thereafter attaching himself to the leading politicians of the day. About 1738 he began a long struggle with the Tory and possibly Jacobite Sir John Philipps of
PHILIPPS family Picton, ) interested himself in Welsh literature (see Peniarth MS 155). He died on the Thursday after the feast of S. Meugan 1551 (see Peniarth MS 176 (397); W. Wales Hist. Records, vii, 161-4) and was succeeded by his young son WILLIAM PHILIPPS whose wife was Janet Perrot, sister of Sir John Perrot. His daughters married Alban Stepney and George Owen of Henllys. Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire in 1559 and
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, ed., 172; W. Wales Hist. Records, i, 14-5. Sir Thomas Philipps had as third (or fourth) son, OWEN PHILIPPS, whose son was EINION PHILIPPS, sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1588. Einion's son (by his second wife Elizabeth Birt) was GEORGE PHILIPPS, sheriff in 1606, who in 1616 acquired Cardigan priory, thenceforth the chief seat of the family. He married Anne Lewis. Their son, HECTOR PHILIPPS, sheriff in
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman George obtained the promotion to the 38th Welsh Division, which was part of Lloyd George's ambitious plan for a Welsh 'army'. Before he saw active service, Philipps was summoned to assist Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Military) to the Ministry on 18 June 1915 and, following Lloyd George's abrupt dismissal of Sir Percy Girouard, Director General of
PHILIPPS, JENKIN THOMAS (d. 1755), tutor and author George II, including William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, for whose use he wrote some Latin grammars and readers. In addition to many Latin dissertations on theological and ecclesiastical subjects, he published several English works on various topics, such as the laws and constitution of Denmark, and biographies of royal personages. He left in his will £60 a year towards the maintenance of a free
PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer and Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield, who was maintained by him for a while at Oxford. He was elected a member of the S.P.C.K. a month after it was founded, and remained its most influential member till his death. He made Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire the chief centres of the Society's work in Wales, founded twenty-two schools in the former county and several in the latter, and was chiefly
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) owning an unnatural amount of self-assurance and a glib tongue. In the event, Philipps resigned the Mid Lanarkshire seat, possibly on the grounds that a Scottish seat was inconvenient after his brother's shipping firm moved to London. Although a Scottish member, Philipps was an active participant in Welsh Liberal politics and he became close to a number of Welsh Liberal members, including Lloyd George
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner the shipping owned by the Royal Mail Group was requisitioned during the First World War and over one hundred ships lost as a result of enemy action. Philipps was appointed Grand Cross of the Order of Michael and George in appreciation of his wartime services. In his haste to rebuild his fleet, he ordered replacements to be delivered in 1919-20, at a time when costs in the shipyard were high, as a
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar Born 20 December 1856 at 21, Chester Square, London, son of John George Phillimore (died 1865) of Shiplake House, near Henley-on-Thames, queen's councillor, an authority on canon law, like other members of his family, and Member of Parliament for Leominster (1852-7), and his wife, Rosalind Margaret, daughter of lord justice Knight-Bruce. He was educated at Windersham House, Amesbury, Westminster
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, , Lincolnshire. He died 10 April 1854. His heir (by his first wife) was [WILLIAM] THOMAS ROWLAND POWELL (1815 - 1878) Born 3 August 1815, and educated at Westminster. He married, 1839, Rosa Edwyna, daughter of William George Cherry, Buckland, Herefordshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire, 1859-65. He died 13 May 1878, and was succeeded by his son GEORGE ERNEST JOHN POWELL (1842 - 1882), poet and
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.
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal 'The Theology of D. Miall Edwards.' He had been working on the life and contribution of D. Miall Edwards as his chapter in Athrawon ac Annibynwyr, edited by Pennar Davies, shows. He published, with George Brewer, the two volumes Cristnogaeth a Chrefydd in 1968 and a chapter, 'Yr Annibynwyr Yfory' in Iorwerth Jones, ed., Yr Annibynwyr Cymreig ddoe, heddiw ac yfory (1989). Eifion won several awards in

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