Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PONSONBY, SARAH (1755 - 1831), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' as Butler was now very blind it was possible to sketch her full face without being seen. The picture was not completed until three years later after both women had died. Parker visited Plas Newydd and sketched the library with all the items on the table exactly as it had been and then transposed her sketches of their faces onto imagined bodies. The completed picture was then engraved by Richard
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
PREECE, Sir WILLIAM HENRY (1834 - 1913), electrical engineer Born at Bryn Helen, Caernarfon, 15 February 1834, eldest son of Richard Matthias Preece, who went to Caernarfon (1815), as a schoolmaster; he then went to work with Lloyd's Bank, and subsequently on the Stock Exchange; his mother Jane was from Caernarvon. His grandfather was headmaster of Cowbridge school. All his professional life was connected with telegraphic engineering and the development of
PRICE family Rhiwlas, . William Price II, who died 4 July 1774, was married twice - (1) to Mary, daughter of Price Devereux, 9th viscount Hereford, and (2) to Elizabeth, daughter of Richard, viscount Bulkeley, of Baron Hill. WILLIAM PRICE III, eldest son by the first marriage (there was no issue of the second marriage), died without issue in 1751, and in the lifetime of his father, and the estate went to his brother RICHARD
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 manuscripts of divinity to Hereford cathedral, and his manuscripts of histories and humanities to his son, RICHARD. Some manuscripts which once belonged to him are in the National Library of Wales, the British Museum, and other libraries; and in Balliol College library there is a manuscript in his autograph containing transcripts of Welsh poetry, including eulogies addressed to him by Lewys Morgannwg

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