Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet C. W. von Sydow from Lund. He came to emphasise the concept of 'folk' increasingly in the 1930s alongside his earlier emphasis on craft. He published Y Crefftwr yng Nghymru ('The Craftsman in Wales') (1931), Guide to the Collection illustrating Welsh Folk Crafts and Industries (1935), Welsh Society and Eisteddfod Medals and Relics (1938) and Clock and Watch Makers in Wales (1945). The high-point
PECOCK, REGINALD (c. 1390 - c. 1461), bishop December, after which he was sent, under nominal arrest, to Canterbury and Maidstone. Deprived of office after August 1458, he was sent to Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire, where he seems to have died c. 1461; the place of his burial is unknown.
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi new proprietor of Penrhyn, and would have it that these Pennants were distantly related to the ancient holders of the Llandygái lands (see Griffith family of Penrhyn), the three chamberlains and Pirs Griffith the sea-rover, through the marriage of one of them, far back, c. 1475-80, with Angharad, daughter of Gwilym ap Griffith ap Gwilym of Penrhyn; but all this does not accord very well with the
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
PETTINGALL, JOHN (1708 - 1781), antiquary among the Greeks and Romans …, 1769. He also translated A. C. F. Houtteville's Discours Historique et Critique des Principaux Auteurs qui ont écrit pour ou centre le Christianisme, with a preface and notes, 1739. He died in the autumn of 1781. See further under Francis Lewis.
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist Golden Cockerel Press and he was commissioned to illustrate Gwyn Jones' novel The Green Island in 1945, and he returned to Wales at the end of 1946 to re-establish the Caseg Press. He had met Marjory (Kusha) Miller (1921-2003), an artist and writer, in 1944, and they married in March 1947. They had 2 sons and a daughter, David (born c. 1947), Catrin (born 1950) and Michael (born 1957). They divorced in
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
PHILIPPS family Cwmgwili, Claiming descent from the same stock as Philipps family of Picton and Kilsant, the Cwmgwili family played a prominent part in Carmarthenshire affairs in the 18th and 19th cents. GRISMOND PHILIPPS (died 1740) inherited Cwmgwili from his great-uncle Gruffydd Lloyd who died in 1713 and was high sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1715. His son, GRIFFITH PHILIPPS (c. 1720 - 1781), was called to the Bar at
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, 1634, became the third husband of Anne, daughter of Sir William Wogan (others say John) of Wiston, Pembrokeshire. They had two sons: (1) JAMES PHILIPPS (c. 1624 - 1675), who was sheriff in 1649. Like his brother Hector (below), he was a zealous Parliament man in the Civil Wars, a ' Commissioner of Sequestration ' in west Wales, a member of the army committee (and a colonel), and a member of the High
PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer cannot be correct, as his father married for the second time on 1 September 1660, and Sir John was the second child of this second marriage. He entered Westminster School as King's Scholar in 1679; as the usual age for this was about 13, it appears that he was born c. 1666. He was at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1682-4, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 21 January 1683/4. His age is not mentioned in
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. have reached the National Library afterwards. With a view to making the contents of his manuscripts more generally accessible, Sir Thomas Phillipps established, c. 1822, a private printing press in Broadway Tower on the Middle Hill estate; in 1862 the library and printing press were removed to Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham. From this press issued a large number of publications, including several of
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister seceded (c. 1787), and founded the church of Rhyd-y-parc (Llanwinio), Phillips joined it, and began preaching. On the death of Owen Davies (1719 - 1792), Phillips was ordained pastor. By 1811 (the date of the Unitarian missioner Lyons's visit to Rhyd-y-parc), Phillips was definitely a Unitarian, but too poorly in health to be active - it would seem that the church was then served chiefly by Benjamin

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