Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS family Picton, 1572, he was the leader of a political faction in Pembrokeshire in opposition to the party of Sir John Perrot. He died 14 March 1573 and his brother, MORGAN PHILIPPS (died c. 1585), succeeded to his estates in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. After the dissolution of his marriage to the wife of William Scourfield, Morgan Philipps married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fletcher, registrar of Bangor
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor was ordained at Bala. During his time at Holywell he married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Parry, Brigan, Llaneugrad, Anglesey, to which district he moved in 1843. In that year he was appointed representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society, for North Wales at the suggestion of Sir Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881). In 1847 he moved to Bangor, and became pastor of Tabernacle church there, from which
PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist Born at Talgarth, Brecknockshire, 15 October 1854, son of Thomas Phillips, registrar. He was educated at the Normal College, Bangor (he was later tutor there) and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1884 with first class in science; he subsequently gained a D.Sc. degree of London University for research work on seaweed. He returned to Bangor in 1884 as a lecturer in biology at
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Born 5 January 1868 at Lan, in the parish of Llan-y-cefn, Pembrokeshire, the son of Levi and Phoebe Phillips. A member of the historic Baptist church of Rhydwilym, he became first of all a pupil-teacher at Whitland, but in 1886 entered Llangollen Baptist College as a candidate for the ministry. Two years later he won a scholarship at University College, Bangor. There he became a student of Henry
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy , Nicholas Robinson, bishop of Bangor, Dr. Gwynn (a member of the Gwydir family), and Dr. William Griffith; there is also one on the death of Katheryn of Berain. The remainder are to members of well-known Welsh county families. Siôn Phylip well knew how to eulogise his patrons, among whom were Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd, Theodore Price, principal of Hart Hall, Oxford, Sir John Salusbury of Lleweni, Sir
PIERCE, JOHN (1889 - 1955), author, minister (Presb.) and schoolteacher Born in Llandegfan, Anglesey, 10 August 1889. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school; University College, Bangor, where he graduated B.A. in 1915; and Bala College. He was ordained in 1918 and called to the pastorate of Adwy'r Clawdd, but departed in 1921 when he was appointed Welsh master at Llangefni grammar school. He died 19 January 1955. He was author of several children's adventure
PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the department of History, University College of North Wales, Bangor, with additional duties in the dept. of extra-mural studies in 1930. In 1945 he was invited to take up the post of Special Lecturer in Medieval Welsh History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, an appointment made jointly by the college and the National Library of Wales. He was
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal . He went to the University College, Swansea, where he gained his B.A. with honours in Welsh in 1955. Whilst he was there, Hugh Bevan, the literary critic and college lecturer, influenced him greatly. At the end of his three years in Swansea, he moved to Bangor to the Bala-Bangor Theological College. At his last year, and my first, he was the student president. Like the rest of us, he came under the
PRICE family Rhiwlas, St Asaph. This John Price was succeeded by his eldest son, JOHN PRICE II (died 1629) (ROBERT PRICE, vicar of Towyn, chancellor of Bangor, etc., was a brother to John Price II). The wife of John Price II was Elinor, daughter of Sir William Jones, Castellmarch, Caernarfonshire, and the eldest son of the marriage was WILLIAM PRICE (1619 - 1691), Royalist colonel and Member of Parliament Military
PRICE, EDWARD (1797 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister unofficial pastor, but in 1848 was officially ordained. He resigned the charge in 1854 to become pastor of Adfa Calvinistic Methodist church at Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire. In 1876 he removed to Oswestry, thence to live with his son, John Price (1830 - 1896), at Bangor, and afterwards to Hengaer-uchaf, Llawr-y-betws in the old parish of Llanfor, where he died 30 January 1887; he was twice married.
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Llanfyllin, after which he went in 1855 to open the British School at Bala. His ability brought him to the notice of Sir Hugh Owen and he was invited to assist the Rev. John Phillips in the new training college at Bangor; here, he started work when the college was opened in 1858. In 1863, when Phillips was appointed principal of the college, he became deputy principal, an appointment which he continued to
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist connections with Welsh religious and political life in a series of reminiscences which he contributed to Y Genedl Gymreig in 1925. His articles on T.E. Ellis and Sir Ellis Griffith in The Welsh Outlook are amongst the best that were written about them. In 1941, he was appointed chancellor of the bishopric of Bangor. He married 6 September 1904, Emily Ann, daughter of Maurice Foster of Egryn Abbey in Ardudwy

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