Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
PRICE, MARGARET BERENICE (1941 - 2011), singer and would not sing anything which did not suit her voice. Her Desdemona was widely acclaimed, as was her Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. She accepted the invitation of the conductor Carlos Kleiber to record the part of Isolde in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, to great acclaim, though she would not perform the role on stage. Her voice is preserved on a number of excellent recordings
PRICE, RICHARD (1723 - 1791), philosopher ,' Dissenting minister and tutor Religion Education Richard Price's father. Son of Rees Price, Betws, he was educated at Bryn-llywarch, succeeded (1697-1739) Samuel Jones, both as pastor, at Cildeudy, Bridgend, and Betws, and as tutor, at Tyn-ton. He was maternal uncle and testamentary guardian of Ann Maddocks (formerly Thomas, the 'Maid of Cefnydfa'), and signed her marriage settlement (1725). SAMUEL PRICE
PRICE, THOMAS (MALDWYN) (1860 - 1933), musician -tunes-the best-known of the latter is 'St. Elizabeth'), and the male-voice choruses 'Croesi'r Anial' and ' Y Pysgotwr.' He had married (1889) Elizabeth (died 13 December 1933, aged 67), daughter of Richard and Jane Evans, Upper Boar, Llanfyllin, and had two sons.
PRICHARD, JOHN (1817 - 1886), architect Son of Richard Prichard, rector of Llan-gan, Glamorgan, and vicar-choral of Llandaff cathedral, and of Eleanor his wife, was born at Llan-gan 6 May 1817, and christened there by his father 10 July 1817. He trained as an architect and was appointed diocesan architect of Llandaff. He superintended the restoration of many churches throughout the diocese a notable example of his work being the
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters correspondent, with a large circle of men of letters: Gwallter Mechain (NLW MS 1808E, no. 6), William Owen Pughe, Richard Llwyd (the author of Beaumaris Bay), Twm o'r Nant, Dewi Wyn, Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (who was a kinsman of his), Robert Roberts the almanac-maker, etc. But he was not on good terms with Dafydd Ddu Eryri, and he abominated Iolo Morganwg, to whom he attributed all W. O. Pughe's literary lapses
PRICHARD, RHYS (Yr Hen Ficer; 1579? - 1644), cleric and poet Born in all probability at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. Rice Rees, in the introduction to his edition of Canwyll y Cymry, 1841, gave it as his opinion that 'there was reason to suppose that his father was a considerable land owner in that neighbourhood, and that his name was Dafydd ap Richard ap Dafydd ap Rhys ap Dafydd,' but this must not be accepted as a fact. Anthony Wood had made the
PRICHARD, RICHARD (1811 - 1882), Wesleyan minister

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