Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, ROBERT (Robyn Ddu Eryri; 1804 - 1892), poet too harshly judged. His verse, although he wrote a great deal, is of little account. The most interesting thing he wrote is the autobiography which serves as an introduction to the collection of his poems Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri, published by Hugh Humphreys, Caernarvon, in 1857. This is rambling, but it is a picture of the man. Bangor MSS. 636, 752-5, 978, 1286, 1549, 3839, 4870
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society anything about him) coincide with those of Richard Morris. He was with Richard in the navy office in 1747-53, moved to the ordnance office, 1753-5, and thence to the Mint where he was ' Comptroller's Deputy and Clerk.' But in 1757, still retaining his post at the Mint, he returned to the navy office as ' Under Clerk for Foreign Accounts ' - this was in Richard Morris's department, and it is clear that
PASCOE, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1893 - 1963), industrialist the City of London; he held membership of the National Council of Aims of Industry, and of the Regional Advisory Council for the Organisation of Further Education in the East Midlands, and was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers, and the Fishmongers' Company. He was knighted in 1957 and died 5 February 1963.
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher forces fixture in Cyprus during Pask's National Service. He made his Abertillery debut against Bridgend in December 1956. In January 1959 Pask was a member of the Abertillery and Ebbw Vale combined side that defeated the visiting Australian tourists by 6 points to 5 at Abertillery Park. Returning to college in April 1959 as captain he inspired Loughborough to an unexpected victory in the Middlesex
PAYNE, ELVIRA GWENLLIAN ('Gwen'; née Hinds) (1917 - 2007), politician and community activist founder secretary of the Guide Dogs for the Blind, as a founder member of Buttrills Community Centre, as president of the Arthritis Care Committee, the Good Street Neighbours Organisation, Roundel House Day Centre, Tenovus Cancer Research and Barry Island Community Centre. Much of this was also after surviving cervical cancer in 1966 and her husband's death in 1978. Elvira Gwenllian Payne died on 5
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author members of the Calvinistic Methodist Historical Soc. He wrote for the Western Mail and published Beulah, Margam, 1838-1938, a historical hsketc (1938), and a biography, The Rt. Hon. George Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor of London, 1884-5 (1938).
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author , which was presented to Parliament in the session lasting from 15 February to 23 March 1587 by Edward Dunn Lee and Job Throckmorton. Penry was arrested in consequence of Whitgift's opposition to the book and he appeared before the Court of High Commission, but was later released. On 5 September 1588 he married Eleanor Godley of Northampton. In the beginning of 1588 Penry became interested in Robert
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister may be pointed out that his two immediate predecessors in his first pastorate (Denbigh, 1767-9) were Carmarthen students. From 1770 till 1776 he was pastor of Pantycreuddyn (Cardiganshire) and Pencader (Carmarthenshire) churches; the Congregational Fund on 4 November 1776 is found grating an ' extraordinary supply, £5, to William Perkins, Pencader, Carmarthenshire. ' He was an able, eloquent, and
PERROTT, THOMAS (d. 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor uncertain, but he signed a document there in 1712 (Glenn, loc. cit.), and had left when John Evans's statistics were compiled c. 1714-5 - at the time of his appointment to Carmarthen, he was at Bromborough. On 2 February 1718/9, the records of the Presbyterian Fund Board speak of allowing him £10 a year if he moved to Carmarthen; according to W. D. Jeremy he went there in 1719, but according to McLachlan
PETER, DAVID (1765 - 1837), Congregational minister and academy principal Born 5 August 1765 at Aberystwyth. He was educated at Troed-y-rhiw and Castellhywel schools, Cardiganshire. Under the influence of Benjamin Evans, Tre-wen, he leaned towards Congregationalism. He became a member at Penrhiwgaled, was at Carmarthen Academy (at Rhyd-y-gors) in 1783, and kept school in S. Ismael's, Pembrokeshire - in 1783. He decided to join the Congregational ministry and began to
PHILIPPS family Picton, Pembrokeshire in 1691. In politics Sir Erasmus followed in his father's footsteps and was Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire in 1654-5, and January-April 1659. He was sheriff for Pembrokeshire in 1656, and was appointed a militia commissioner for South Wales 14 March 1654. He died 18 January 1697 and was succeeded by Sir John Philipps. The 5th baronet, the latter's son, was Sir ERASMUS PHILIPPS, economic
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

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