Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, THOMAS, chartist Welshpool policeman, who had been badly injured, and assisted him to return home. Powell was arrested at Welshpool on Sunday evening, 5 May, by the police-officer of Newtown, and taken to Montgomery goal. There he remained until 29 June, for strong efforts were made to resist his bail, which was fixed at £300 on his own security with two sureties of £150. His bondsmen were Dr. Edward Johnes of Garthmyl
PRICE family Rhiwlas, gun to Humphrey Thomas of Bodelwyddan. His son was CADWALADR WYNN, Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements He was called 'Cadwaladr fab Siôn ap Cadwaladr' by the poet Edward Urien and 'Cadwaladr Prys' by two other poets - Siôn ap William Griffith and Ieuan Tew Brydydd. W. W. E. Wynne (Breese, Kalendars) says that he adopted the surname Price. He was Member of Parliament for
PRICE, EDWARD (1797 - 1887), Calvinistic Methodist minister
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born at Oswestry, 9 March 1830, son of the Rev. Edward Price. He attended schools first in Birmingham and then in Montgomeryshire before going to Bala College under Lewis Edwards in 1848. After being there for four years he went to the Borough Road training college, London, for the year 1852-3, and here he was an exceptionally successful student. There followed two years as a schoolmaster at
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches ; Member of Parliament for Hereford, 1553, and Ludlow, 1554. On Shrove Tuesday, 1546-7, following the coronation of Edward VI, he was knighted. In 1551 he was made a member of the Council in Wales and the Marches. He died at Hereford 15 October 1555. He is believed to have been twice married, for in his will, 1555, he names a married daughter, Elizabeth. There is a record of his marriage to Johan
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist the staff of the Church Times. At Oxford he became acquainted with several other young Welshmen, including the historian John Edward Lloyd and became a convinced Welsh nationalist until the end of his life. A devout churchman, he pleaded for disestablishment because he believed that it would be better for the church itself. He gave an account of his conversion to Welsh nationalism and his
PRICE, JOSEPH TREGELLES (1784 - 1854), Quaker and ironmaster , biographer of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), while ISAAC REDWOOD, his brother-in-law, assisted Iolo in his old age [see under Tregelles ].
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and
PRICE, THOMAS (1852 - 1909), Australian politician Born at Brymbo, Denbighshire, 19 January 1852, son of John and Jane Price. As a boy, he went to Liverpool, where he was for many years a stone-mason. He married (1881) Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Lloyd, a timber-merchant; they had seven children. In 1883 ill-health drove him to Adelaide, South Australia, where in 1891 he became secretary of his trade union. In 1893 he became a labour
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant of lord Castlemaine, he addressed a letter to Edward Lhuyd calling him 'cousin.' NLW MS 1559B contains a tract by him entitled 'The Correct Annales of Brittaine,' 1688, and miscellaneous notes and pedigrees in his autograph. Another tract on the princes of Powys in Llanstephan MS 172 is in his hand. Two letters relating to him were printed in British Remains, by Nicholas Owen; the first is
PRITCHARD, EDWARD (1839 - 1900) Selly Oak, civil engineer

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