Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
PERROT family Haroldston, , and the uneventfulness of the expedition, to discredit him at Court. He was able, nevertheless, to clear himself completely. A little later, in 1580, Thomas Wyrriott, a former yeoman of the guard and the younger brother of George a justice of the peace, preferred a bill of slanderous charges against him, which he exhibited before the Privy Council. The latter deemed them to be slanderous libels and
PERROT family Haroldston, Founder of the Northleigh branch of the Perrot family, was the second son of George Perrot of Haroldston, Pembrokeshire, by Isabel Langdale, of Langdale Hall, Yorks. He was born in that county and there is no evidence that he ever visited Wales. He achieved some eminence as a musician and in 1534 became archdeacon of Buckinghamshire and receiver of rents for Christ Church, Oxford. He died in April 1550.
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology there was very brief as the extreme heat affected his eyesight badly and after a year he was forced to return to Britain. He was appointed to a lectureship at a teachers' training college in Edinburgh, and then in 1963 he was appointed lecturer in Religious Education at the Normal College, Bangor, and Warden of the George Hostel. On his retirement he returned to live in his old home in Newport. He was
PETTINGALL, JOHN (1708 - 1781), antiquary elected F.S.A. in 1752 and read three papers before the society. He published A Dissertation on the Origin of the Equestrian Figure of George and of the Garter, 1753; The Latin Inscription on the Copper Table discovered in the year 1732, near Heraclea …, 1760; A Dissertation upon the Tascia or Legend of the British Coins of Cunobelin and Others, 1763; and An Enquiry into the use and Practice of Juries
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist 1984. Petts was employed as a designer to develop the Lloyd George Museum at Llanystumdwy in 1947, and installed his printing equipment in the museum, where he designed and printed catalogues and greeting cards for the museum, and Kusha wove bags to be sold in the shop. Jonah Jones, an army colleague helped him re-establish Caseg Press, purchasing new equipment, developing colour printing, and
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 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 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

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