Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRITCHARD, MICHAEL (c. 1709 - 1733), poet Born c. 1709, son of Richard William Pritchard, weaver and sexton, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He left Llanllyfni at an early age and went to Llan-fechell in Anglesey, where he worked for many years as gardener in the employ of William Bulkeley, Brynddu. He was a poet of considerable ability and many of his works have been preserved. The more notable of his compositions were ' Cywydd i'r Wyddfa
PROGER family for the king in 1644 (J. R. Phillips, Civil War in Wales, ii, 217); he was at Court in 1673. He should not be confused with the Charles Proger named under B below. His great-grandson WILLIAM PROGER, who sold Wern-ddu and died c. 1780, brings this line to a close - he left only a daughter, who became a nun. B. THE GWERN -VALE BRANCH, more interesting. Gwern-vale was occupied by several successive
PRYDDERCH, RHYS (1620? - 1699), Independent minister and schoolmaster Born at Ystradwallter, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. It is known that he had children in 1650 and it may be surmized that he was born c.1620. Ystradwallter was the homestead of his ancestors, and it was there that he began his well-known school, which was kept up for forty years. It is not known where he was educated. On 4 December 1662 he was fined in the archdeacon's court at Carmarthen for
PRYS, JOHN PRICHARD (fl. c. 1704-1721) Eglwys-ael, Llangadwaladr, poet
PRYSE family Gogerddan, of 'Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch,' 'The White Book of Roderick,' now Peniarth MS 4 and Peniarth MS 5 in N.L.W. (The present whereabouts of 'Llyfr Gwyrdd Gogerddan,' 'The Green Book of Gogerddan' are not known). The pedigree of the family up to the year 1588 is given by Lewis Dwnn (Visitations, i, 44-5), based, probably, on tables compiled by Thomas Jones (c. 1530 - 1609), Fountain Gate, Tregaron; see also
PUGH family Mathafarn, The first prominent member of the family was Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, the poet who fl. c. 1480 and who was the author of a number of vaticinatory poems about Henry Tudor (Henry VII). He apparently possessed an extensive estate on both sides of the river Dyfi above Machynlleth. The line was continued by EVAN AP DAVID LLOYD and by HUGH AB EVAN, whose son, JOHN AP HUGH, served as a county
PUGH, EDWARD (c. 1761 - 1813), miniature and landscape painter
PUGH, EDWARD CYNOLWYN (1883 - 1962), minister (Presb.), author and musician emigrated to U.S.A. to take charge of the Welsh church in Chicago, and later the Welsh church in New York. He retired c. 1956 and returned to Wales. In 1917 he married Jennet Jenkins of the Vale of Neath, and they had three daughters. Cynolwyn Pugh was talented and contributed to periodicals in Wales and America. He won the prose medal at Ebbw Vale national eisteddfod (1958) for an autobiography which was
PUGH, WILLIAM (1783 - 1842) Bryn-llywarch, Radical landlord and entrepreneur more direct access to South Wales via Newtown and Builth. As a magistrate he was popular and helped to prevent the outbreak of serious food riots in the hard winter of 1830. He organized local support for the Reform Bill, but declined to stand for Parliament and failed to break the fifty years' monopoly of the county seat by C. W. Williams Wynn, in whose eyes Pugh was one of the ' new race of
PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain university development there. He served several other institutions, including being president of Section C (Geology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1948-49). Despite these commitments, he continued his mapping of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary in north Wales. However, he is best known for his detailed field observations, in partnership with O. T. Jones (at that time Professor
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, indulged in corrupt practices at the time of the election. Roger Puleston married Susannah, daughter of Sir George Bromley, chief justice of Chester; he was knighted 28 August 1617, and died 17 December 1618. John Puleston (c. 1583 - 1659), judge of the Common Pleas (son of Richard Puleston of Worthy Abbots, Hants (Reg. of Admissions to the Middle Temple, i, 86)), who inherited the Emral estate on the
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge ), of his uncle George Puleston, brother and heir to Sir Roger (1566 - 1618). His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Woolrych, of Dudmaston, Salop, and an earnest Presbyterian, was installed there with her infant children by the beginning of the Civil War, when they were forced to leave owing to the occupation and garrisoning of the house for the king (c. September 1642) by Sir John Hanmer; it was

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