Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRI, HARRI (Harri Bach o Graig-y-gath; 1709? - 1800), strolling poet the smaller eisteddfodau and some of his englynion are to be found in the almanacs, but very little of his work was printed. His muse was slow and laboured, and he could not compete with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) in flyting. He was an unsophisticated little man who believed that, because he had been born the year Huw Morys died, Morys's mantle had descended upon him. It is clear from his
PARRY, EDWARD (1723 - 1786), Methodist exhorter, poet and hymn-writer Born in 1723 at Llys Bychan, Llansannan, Denbighshire. He was a carpenter by trade, contemporary with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) and one of Twm's most gifted actors. He was twice married and lived first at Cefn Byr and then at Tan-y-fron In 1747 he gave up acting in the interludes and welcomed the revivalists to his house. In 1749 he began to exhort but, when the split occurred between Howel
PRICE, EDWARD (1797 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 1 April 1797 at Carreg-y-big, Llangwm, Denbighshire. A blacksmith (who shod many cattle for drovers at Llangwm), he was a good representative of the popular culture of his region, had often seen Twm o'r Nant acting in interludes, and could still, in much later years, repeat long stretches of interludes. But listening to Thomas Charles's sermons turned his thoughts to religion, and in 1826 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 county thrice, 1567, 1576, 1596, and for Brecknock twice, 1588, 1595). One of the daughters, Johan (born 14 November 1542) took as her second husband, Thomas Jones ('Twm Siôn Cati,' c. 1530 - 1609). Sir John Price took an intelligent interest in Welsh history and literature; he was one of the first collectors of manuscripts of Welsh interest; he left his Welsh books to Thomas Vaughan of Glamorgan; his
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters correspondent, with a large circle of men of letters: Gwallter Mechain (NLW MS 1808E, no. 6), William Owen Pughe, Richard Llwyd (the author of Beaumaris Bay), Twm o'r Nant, Dewi Wyn, Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (who was a kinsman of his), Robert Roberts the almanac-maker, etc. But he was not on good terms with Dafydd Ddu Eryri, and he abominated Iolo Morganwg, to whom he attributed all W. O. Pughe's literary lapses
PRICHARD, THOMAS JEFFERY LLEWELYN (d. 1875?), travelling actor and author is best remembered today is The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti, which was first published at Aberystwyth in 1828 ('Printed for the Author by John Cox '). This book ran into several editions - the second edition (Cowbridge) has a preface written by the author at Builth, September 1839, with references to William Owen Pughe, David Owen (Brutus), and W. J. Rees, Cascob; the third
PUGH, EDWARD (c. 1761 - 1813), miniature and landscape painter Said to have been born at Ruthin. He exhibited twenty-three pictures, mainly miniature portraits, and including one of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1808, and during this period was working in London, except for a period in 1800 when his address is given as Chester. Another of his pictures was exhibited posthumously in 1821. He joined an artists' volunteer
REES, THOMAS (Twm Carnábwth; 1806? - 1876), pugilist
ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes composer of interludes he was as well-known and prolific as Twm o'r Nant. His early plays are amusing and are full of traditional ribaldry but the impact of religion caused him to overload his later interludes with tedious moral dissertations. Yet in spite of his love of using the stage as a pulpit, he was opposed to Methodism. His works betray lack of poetic invention, and a dual personality. The
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author Twm o'r Nant in Denbigh. In 1910, she went to the University College of North Wales, in Bangor, where she was one of a very small number of female students at that time; she was acutely aware of her privilege and of the financial sacrifice her education meant for her parents. She studied Welsh under the charismatic John Morris-Jones and the scholar, Ifor Williams, though again, as in the County
SAMWELL, DAVID (1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet cultural organisations. He was one of the earliest members (1774) of the Gwyneddigion Society founded in 1770, became its secretary in 1788, and its president in 1797. He supported the 'Gorsedd' held in the capital for London Welshmen and the eisteddfodau promoted in Wales by the society; at the latter, his blind partisan support of the claims of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), whom he idolised, appeared
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet weaving, 14 July 1787, and began to keep a school at Llanddeiniolen. He originally went there to see Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) and his company acting in an interlude but, while there, he was invited to try his hand at keeping school and, from that time on, followed this occupation at various places - Llanddeiniolen, Betws Garmon, Llanystumdwy, Pentraeth, Waun-fawr, Llan-rug, Llanberis, and Dolydd

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