Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRITCHETT family, clerical family Hailing originally from the English side of the Middle March, and claiming descent from John de la Bere, cup-bearer to William the Conqueror - two of the men named in the present note were called ' Delabere.' But the college records of various Pritchetts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire style their fathers 'pleb.', where they are not clerics. RICHARD PRITCHETT, licensed medical practitioner
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, in the Lady Windsor Colliery for the sum of two shillings a day. Clifford Prothero went to work at a smaller colliery called Darran Ddu. As a family they attended Zion English Baptist Chapel where he came under the influence of two very able deacons William Watkins and Richard Woosnam. The influence of Welsh Nonconformity was acknowledged by him and was very evident
PRYSE family Gogerddan, Council of the Marches, and represented Cardiganshire in Parliament at various times between 1553 and 1572. His will was proved on 7 December 1584. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot, of Haroldston, Pembrokeshire - see ' Cywydd i Siôn Prys o Gogerddan ' (with a reference to Elizabeth) by Owain Gwynedd in - and by her was the father of Sir RICHARD PRYSE (knighted 1603), who had been
PRYSE, JOHN (1826 - 1883), printer and publisher weekly newspaper, the second to be published in Montgomeryshire. Pryse was twice married, his first wife, being the widow of Richard Mills, the musician. He died 19 October 1883.
PUGH family Mathafarn, magistrate between 1553 and 1566. His wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Montgomery. Their son, ROWLAND PUGH, served as a magistrate, and in 1572, and in 1588-9, represented the borough of Montgomery in Parliament. In 1576 he was commissioner of taxes for the county. His grandson, also ROWLAND PUGH, was a barrister and was entered a member of the Inner Temple in 1598. He held the office
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, . At the height of the rising the hated sheriff was seized and hanged by the Anglesey Welshmen during a sudden raid on the borough of Caernarvon. In all probability Master Richard de Puleston, who was sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1284-95 (he was appointed on the same day as Sir Roger), was of the same family, although the pedigrees do not help to establish his exact identity. ROBERT PULESTON, son of
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge was the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Puleston (born at Allington, Denbighshire, 1548), who was the fourth son of Sir Roger Puleston of Emral (died 1587). He was born at Kingsworthy, Hants, where his father (who also held the sinecure rectories of Llaneugrad, Anglesey, 1592-6, and Hope, Flintshire, from 1597) had been rector since 1596, on resigning the rectory of Astbury, Cheshire, which he had
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, Five of its members will be noticed: ROBERT PUW (died c. 1629), Roman Catholic recusant Religion Second son of Huw ap Reinallt ab Ieuan of Penrhyn Creuddyn, Caernarfonshire. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Bulkeley. His grandson, Gwilym Puw (below), states that he was educated at Oxford. He entered the Middle Temple, 30 November 1567 (Register of Admissions to the Middle Temple, I, 32
RANDALL, HENRY JOHN (1877 - 1964), lawyer and historian Born 13 December 1877, at Bridgend, Glamorganshire, son of William Richard Randall, a solicitor of that town, and his wife, Hannah (née Johnston). He was educated at Bradfield and was LL.B. (Lond.). He followed his father's profession and was admitted a solicitor in 1900, retiring from practice in 1962. He was secretary of the Bridgend District Law Society 1911-21; its president in 1928 and again
RAVENSCROFT family Ravenscroft, . Phillips, Civil War in Wales, i, 180, ii, 99). In May 1648 he was a member of the parliamentary committee which supervised Flintshire; but after 1660 was pardoned. He was succeeded by his son EDWARD RAVENSCROFT, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Lloyd of Esclus, and died in 1678. Their son was the last male of the line, THOMAS RAVENSCROFT 'of Broadlane ' (1670 - 1698), sheriff in 1692, Member of
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician is possible that Robert and his elder brother Richard received their early education from the chantry priests of St Mary's Church, Tenby. Such a religious schooling may have been the beginning of Recorde's lifelong devotion to the church, albeit not to the Catholic faith of his childhood. In 1525, aged thirteen, Recorde entered Oxford University and on 16 February 1530 he was admitted Bachelor of
REES, BOWEN (1857 - 1929), missionary Born 16 March 1857, at Ivy Bush Inn, Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire, youngest of the six children of Jacob Rees, stone mason, and his wife Margaret, daughter of the publican Richard Bowen. The family moved to Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, and he began working in a smithy when he was nine years old. He set his heart on being a missionary after hearing an address by Thomas Morgan Thomas, ' Thomas of

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