Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters on the death of his first wife he removed to Plas-y-brain in Llanbedr-goch, the house which is most commonly associated with his name. A little before the end of his life, he moved again, to Chwaen-wen-uchaf in Llantrisant. He died 5 March 1829, and was buried at Llangwyllog. Prichard was a most versatile man - farmer, land-surveyor, almanac-maker, country physician, country lawyer, writer of prose
PRICHARD, RICHARD (1811 - 1882), Wesleyan minister Born at Bangor 31 March 1811. He joined the Wesleyan society in 1823, began to preach in 1827, and was soon in demand as a preacher. He became a circuit assistant at Machynlleth (1829-31) and Llandysul (1831-2), was accepted as a candidate for the ministry in 1830, and began to tour in 1832. He was a minister in the following circuits: Cardiff (1832-3), Dolgelley (1834-5, 1845-7), Caernarvon
PRITCHETT family, clerical family living of Carew, which he held till his death. He did not reside; but we are told that he removed the fine rood-screen; on the other hand, he gave (or left) money for augmenting the vicar's stipend (Spurrell, Hist. of Carew). On 25 July 1752 he was appointed perpetual curate of the parish of S. Davids (W. Wales Hist. Records, iii, 279). He died at S. Davids in 1801 (Gents. Mag., 1801, ii, 1214-5
PROGER family residence), forester of Bushey Park, keeper of the royal palace at York, etc. Still, he was not of good repute, for it is fairly clear that his chief duty was to minister to the king's pleasures. The duke of Buckingham satirized him in verse; one serious man told Pepys that Proger was ' one of those who led the king astray '; Andrew Marvell has a dig at him in lines 173-5 of his ' Last Instruction to a
PROTHEROE, DANIEL (1866 - 1934), musician Born 5 November 1866 at Ystradgynlais, Brecknock, the son of Daniel and Eleanor Protheroe. His first instructors in music were Philip Thomas, J. T. Rees, and D. M. Lewis. A good vocalist, he won prizes when he was quite young at national eisteddfodau held in Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil, 1880-1. When he was only 16 he conducted the Ystradgynlais choir which won the prize at the Llandeilo eisteddfod
PRYCE, THOMAS (1833 - 1904), antiquary Born 5 September 1833, son of David Pryce of Tre-derwen Hall, Llandrinio, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Liverpool College. After leaving school he went out to Java, where in 1863 he married the daughter of Jacobus G. T. and Aldouse van Motman of Dramaga. He remained in Java for twenty-eight years and afterwards proceeded to the Hague. There he stayed another four or five years before he
PRYCE, THOMAS MALDWYN (1949 - 1977), racing driver 1976 in Japan, the championship decider and a famously wet race, Pryce was running a strong second before another mechanical failure brought his season to an end. The 1977 season began with two races in South America, where Pryce's Shadow failed to finish, although he had been running in second place in Brazil. The next race was to be held at Kyalami, South Africa, on 5 March. The first practice
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet (died 11 January 1624/5), the poet. He was not a cleric and is, therefore, not the Ffoulk Price, B.A., who received the living of Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, 21 July 1670. Like his father before him he lived at Tyddyn-du, and it is as Ffowc Price of Tyddyndu that Gruffydd Phylip refers to him in the elegy which he wrote for him. He, too, had written an elegy for Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, and a flyting
PRYSE family Gogerddan, of 'Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch,' 'The White Book of Roderick,' now Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5 in N.L.W. (The present whereabouts of 'Llyfr Gwyrdd Gogerddan,' 'The Green Book of Gogerddan' are not known). The pedigree of the family up to the year 1588 is given by Lewis Dwnn (Visitations, i, 44-5), based, probably, on tables compiled by Thomas Jones (c. 1530 - 1609), Fountain Gate, Tregaron; see also
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters Born 4 July 1807 in a cottage called Beudy Clegyrog, Llan-badrig, Anglesey. He only had four days' schooling, two when he was 5 years of age and two more fifteen years later. His mother died when he was 4 years of age, and in the spring of 1818 his father died also. As the children were in dire poverty the Llandrygarn vestry (for by now they were in that parish) found employment for the three
PUGH, DAVID (1739 - 1816), cleric particular). There was at Newport a chapel erected 'by the voluntary contributions of divers well disposed persons' (1799) - mainly the Bowen family of Llwyn-gwair. Pugh refused to allow the supporters of the movement towards separation to use his pulpit and, as a result, the chapel of Eglwys Fair (S. Mary) was lost to the Methodists. Pugh was buried at Newport, 5 December 1816. He was acquainted with
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian ; but in 1742 he left for London, becoming a member of Whitefield's Tabernacle, but also attending the Welsh Methodist society at Lambeth. In 1744-5, when Cennick was in charge of the Tabernacle, Pugh was a recognized Methodist itinerant; but soon after this, Cennick became a Moravian, and Pugh, increasingly unable to co-operate with Herbert Jenkins, was expelled (March 1746), and in his turn joined

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