Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian Pegge, the English antiquarian, who referred to him on questions of Welsh antiquity. Phillips discussed matters raised by Pegge with Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) and Edward Richard of Ystradmeurig. Richard, in turn, showed both Pegge's and Phillips's letters to Lewis Morris. The latter, however, did not have a high opinion of Phillips, and once dubbed him 'a half-antiquary' ('darn o antiquary
PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' held between him and prominent Anglican dignitaries; for all that, bishop Lucy, in a letter to archbishop Sheldon, accused him of celebrating clandestine marriages without the sanction of the parish clergyman. In 1672 he received a licence under the temporary Indulgence of Charles II to preach at his own house in Haverfordwest, and at the house of Richard Meyler in the same town; and there is some
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
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver Thomas Picton was born on 24 August 1758 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, the seventh of the twelve children of Thomas Picton (1723-1790), a landowner who traced his ancestry back to the Norman knight William de Pyketon, and his wife Cecil (1728-1806), daughter of the Reverend Edward Powell and a half-sister to Richard Turberville (TURBERVILLE family of Coity, Glamorganshire). Growing up at
POWEL, RICHARD - see POWELL, RICHARD
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, made by George Eyre Evans). He died without issue and was succeeded by his father's cousin WILLIAM BEAUCLERK POWELL (1834 - 1911) son of Richard Owen Powell (died 1859). W. B. Powell married Anna Maria, daughter of David Lewis, Bronavon, and had issue, EDWARD ATHELSTAN LEWIS POWELL (1870 - 1930), who married Margaret Louisa Joan, elder daughter of Sir Pryse Pryse, Bart., of Gogerddan. Their son and
POWELL, JONATHAN (1764 - 1823), Independent minister of the leading men of his denomination in North Wales. He translated a number of English books into Welsh and was a hymn-writer of some distinction. In 1796 he published a small book of hymns of his own writing, Llawenydd yn Nglyn Wylofain, and in 1805 another, Y Credinwyr yn Angau, adapted from the work of Thomas Watson. He wrote an elegy upon Richard Tibbot, 1798. In 1821 he retired because of
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army A native of south Pembrokeshire. He served as an officer in the army sent to Ireland to suppress the insurrection of 1641. On the outbreak of the Civil War in August 1642, he returned to Pembrokeshire. From a reference to the arrears of pay due to him for the Irish service it appears that he was the son of Lewis Powell and that his sister Lucy was the wife of Richard Cuney of Welston, near
POWELL, RICHARD (1769 - 1795), poet and schoolmaster Born in Llanegryn, Merioneth. He is probably the Richard (son of Hugh Powell, a weaver, and Jemimah Parry) whose christening [on a date which is now illegible] is recorded in the parish register. In 1793, at the Bala eisteddfod of the Gwyneddigion Society he won the medal out of eleven competitors for his 'Awdyl ar Dymhorau y Vlwyzyn.' His 'Carol Plygain Ddydd Natolic' is to be found in a volume
POWELL, THOMAS, chartist Born at Newtown, the son of Richard Powell (the father died, an old man, in 1835). His mother is said to have been related to the Blayney family of Gregynog. (His date of birth has not been ascertained.) He was apprenticed to an ironmonger in Shrewsbury and later had employment in London. In 1832 he purchased an ironmongery business in Welshpool. It is probable that Powell had come into contact
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine Born in 1617, at Cnwclas ('Knucklas'), parish of Heyop, Radnorshire, the son of Richard Powell and his wife, Penelope, daughter of William Vavasor of Newtown (Grazebrook and Rylands, Visitation of Shropshire, ii, 324, 407, 468-9; C. B. Northcliffe, Visitation of Yorkshire, 329-31). He spent some time at Clun as schoolmaster (Examen, 16), if not as curate (Life, 124) with his great-uncle Erasmus
POYER, JOHN (d. 1649) Pembroke, mayor the Civil War, he organized the defence of Pembroke town and castle, forcibly retaining the office of mayor and becoming governor of the castle. He was joined by Rowland Laugharne and Rice Powell, and together with them vigorously maintained the Parliamentary cause. When the Royalist commander in west Wales, Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, entered Pembrokeshire in August 1643, he failed to

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