Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN HENRY - see SCOURFIELDSir JOHN HENRY
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) and painstaking work of building an integrated railway company. Philipps showed a similar want of attention to the details of running a company when he invested in the cement industries. Henry O'Hagan, a considerable figure in the Stock Exchange, formed the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd to take over small cement works. In the autumn of 1910, O'Hagan noticed that the company's £10
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights . After he was honoured with the title of viscount in 1908, she became known as Lady St David's. She was a keen supporter of the National Eisteddfod, and used her ability and experience as an actress to take part in the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in 1909, where she played a central role as a grande dame from the period of Henry VIII in 'one of the most effective and beautiful scenes' of the
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1874 - 1951), minister (Presb.), philosopher and college principal Born 1874 at Ffwrnes, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, son of Henry and Sarah Phillips. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. He received his elementary education at Dyffryn boys' school, and went to work in a coal mine. In 1894 he won a miners' scholarship to study mining, but his tutors at the University College, Cardiff, persuaded
PHILLIPS, HENRY (1719 - 1789), Baptist minister
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 ; requests, etc. (gofyn, diolch, etc.) 24; religious or didactic (duwiol) 19; bardic controversies (ymrysonau) 10; miscellaneous (amrywiol) 5; and marriage (priodas) 1. Of the elegies, some are on brother poets (e.g. Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Morys Dwyfech); two to royalty (queen Elizabeth and prince Henry, son of James I); some to prominent churchmen: Richard Vaughan, bishop of London
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (1827 - 1888), civil engineer land-agent, of Montgomery. In 1851, Henry Robertson, sought his assistance to prepare plans for the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Bill, and later for a railway from Oswestry to Newtown. He commenced independent practice as engineer for the Red Valley Railway Bill for constructing a line from Shrewsbury to Minsterley. The Bill was rejected, but he succeeded in piloting, against strong opposition, a
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author Katheryn of Berain; her father was a descendant of Katheryn's second and her mother of the first marriage. Her career is described in the D.N.B. and other works, and, more recently (Oxford, 1941), by James L. Clifford in Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale), a work based on an exhaustive study of much 'Piozziana' and 'Thraliana,' including the material in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino
PONSONBY, SARAH (1755 - 1831), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' James Lane and sold by Parker to raise money for charity. However, the most famous image of the ladies is by James Henry Lynch. Taking Parker's image, he made a pirated copy between 1833-1845 of the two women standing outside in riding habits. This was widely circulated in the latter part of the nineteenth century and is now the defining image of the Ladies of Llangollen.
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian representatives of the Revival of Learning in Wales. Bishop William Morgan acknowledges his help in translating the Bible into Welsh, and Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd (and, for that matter, Powel's own son Daniel) says that he intended producing a Welsh dictionary. But it is as a historian that Powel is remembered. In September 1583 Sir Henry Sidney - Powel was his chaplain, asked him to prepare for press the

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