Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 married (3), Maxwell Fraser, 24 October 1951. He died 30 August 1962.
PHILLIPS, HENRY (1719 - 1789), Baptist minister 1752-3 he was assistant-minister of the ' Old Meeting ' at Wrexham and also at Nantwich. From 1753 till 1756 he ministered (without pastoral charge) to churches in southern England. In 1758 he was ordained pastor at Waterford, removing thence in 1763 to Back-lane, Dublin. He was in Wales in 1765 (at Pen-y-garn), then for a short time at Exeter; but in February 1766 he was inducted at Salisbury, where
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor lectures between 1850 and 1852, which were published; they are: (1) Dadl Bangor … ar Anghydffurfiaeth neu Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneulltuaeth (Caernarfon, James Rees, 1852); (2) Y Ddarlith ar Babyddiaeth, Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneulltuaeth (Liverpool, J. Lloyd, 1850); (3) Popery Better than Dissent! What!!! And Who says it!!! (Caernarfon, James Rees, 1850). Phillips died 9 October 1867 at Bryntêg, Anglesey, and was
PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (1844 - 1887), historian June 1881, he became the first stipendiary magistrate for West Ham, but he died six years later, on 3 June 1887, at South Hampstead, after a long illness. His main interests were historical, and his chief work is his Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches, 1874, in two volumes, the first of which gives a narrative account, while the second is a most valuable collection of original
PHILLIPS, MORGAN HECTOR (1885 - 1953), headmaster to ill-health. He moved to London where he held an educational appointment and later became director of a number of private companies. He married Jessie Whayman, daughter of A.E.P. Rae and they had a son. He made his home at Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, but died at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, 3 March 1953.
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Garth Primary School. In 1903 the family moved from Garth to Cornydd, near Coity where they lived for 3 years before moving back to Maesteg. Then Tommy attended the Davies Oakwood Colliery School in Ewenny Road, Maesteg. While living in Cornydd he was exposed to the 1904-5 Religious Revival under the direction of his devout mother. The experience of listening to the miners singing Welsh hymns as they
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
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller , and was buried, 3 August, in Bryn-y-bedd cemetery, of which he had been the chief promoter. The funeral was restricted to persons named by him, who were enjoined to say on leaving the graveside, ' Well, old Ellis is gone.' As author of historical romances and sketches of rural characters he takes his place in the history of the Welsh novel. The following are his principal publications - Nanws ach
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (1827 - 1888), civil engineer , and he laid out one of the best cricket grounds in the country at Marchwiel. He died in London 24 March 1888, and was buried in the Kensal Green cemetery. By his wife Sarah, daughter of Thomas Davies of Montgomery, whom he married in 1855, he had three sons and six daughters.
PODE, Sir EDWARD JULIAN (1902 - 1968), accountant and industrialist Company of Wales, being chairman from 1962 to 1967. Under his guidance it grew to be the biggest steel company in Europe, with the output of steel increasing from half a million to 3 m. tonnes per year. He was a member of the executive committee and later president (1962-64) of the British Iron and Steel Federation and became vice-president of the Iron and Steel Institute. He took a keen interest in
POWEL, ANTHONY (c. 1560 - 1618/19), gentleman and genealogist ) is ' Llyfr Du Pantylliwydd ' (N.L.W. Llanover MS. E 3), which contains genealogies and the material usually found in the books by heraldic genealogists; this manuscript is in all probability, in his hand. Iolo Morganwg, however, attributed to him all manner of things - a 'brut' (or chronicle), a history of eisteddfodau, triads, a history of the bards of Glamorgan, etc. Iolo maintained also that

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