Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights almost £100,000 by her father, Leonora had a substantial fortune to offer her new husband, who used it to establish a shipping business in partnership with his brother Owen Cosby Philipps, First Baron Kylsant (1863-1937). Following her experiences as an amateur actress in deprived areas of London when a young girl and as an occasional elocution teacher in clubs for working class women, together with a
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Erasmus sent his third son to Newton College in Newton Abbot, Devon, which suggests that he thought that Owen, who had a slight speech impediment, was less able than his brothers who attended Felstead College. At the age of seventeen, Owen Philipps was apprenticed to Dent & Co., a shipping firm in Newcastle upon Tyne; on the completion of his apprenticeship in 1886, he joined a Glasgow shipping firm
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist member of the Philipps family from Pembrokeshire, he took the title Milford from his ancestor, Richard Philipps of Picton Castle, who was created Baron Milford in the Irish peerage. Two of Laurence Philipps's brothers also became peers: John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids (1860-1938) and Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant (1863-1937). A third brother, Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps (1861
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar School, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1879 and M.A. in 1883. In 1877 he was admitted to the Middle Temple. He was twice married: (1), 1880, to Susan Elizabeth (died 1893), eldest daughter of Richard Barner Roscoe of Accrington, who bore him one son and three daughters; (2), 1897, to Marion Catherine (died 1904), daughter of Richard Owen, of Anglesey and Liverpool. On his
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister seceded (c. 1787), and founded the church of Rhyd-y-parc (Llanwinio), Phillips joined it, and began preaching. On the death of Owen Davies (1719 - 1792), Phillips was ordained pastor. By 1811 (the date of the Unitarian missioner Lyons's visit to Rhyd-y-parc), Phillips was definitely a Unitarian, but too poorly in health to be active - it would seem that the church was then served chiefly by Benjamin
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Rowland, took an interest in him and arranged for him to borrow Cymru and other Welsh periodicals. His father and stepmother tried to wean him from his interest in the Welsh language, but his Welshness was reinforced when he had the company of Owen Morgan Edwards on a train journey to Pembrokeshire. When he was 14 years old he returned to Tre-fin as an apprentice tailor to his uncle J.W. Evans, and as
PHILLIPS, EVAN OWEN (1826 - 1897), dean of S. Davids
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian or twelve years during the minority of colonel Owen Brigstocke's father. He was thus able to make use of the excellent library collected there by Owen Brigstocke, the brother of William Brigstocke who had come into the estate of Blaen-pant on his marriage with the co-heiress. It was probably this library which stimulated him to take an interest in Welsh antiquities. He corresponded with Samuel
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor was ordained at Bala. During his time at Holywell he married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Parry, Brigan, Llaneugrad, Anglesey, to which district he moved in 1843. In that year he was appointed representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society, for North Wales at the suggestion of Sir Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881). In 1847 he moved to Bangor, and became pastor of Tabernacle church there, from which
PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (1844 - 1887), historian documents. This was a remarkable production for so young a man. He also wrote Historical Notes on Newcastle Emlyn, 1867; A List of the Sheriffs of Cardiganshire, 1868; An Attempt at a Concise History of Glamorgan, 1879 and 1888; Memoirs of the Ancient Family of Owen of Orielton, 1886. At the time of his early death he had in preparation a history of Wales in the Tudor period and a history of the castles
PHILLIPS, MORGAN (d. 1570), Roman Catholic priest Douai with two other celebrated exiles, Dr. Owen Lewis and Dr. William Allen, and helped the latter to establish the famous college which trained Roman Catholic priests for the English mission field. He was an ardent supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and wrote the Defence of the Honour of Mary Queen of Scotland which was published at Douai in 1571. He died 18 August 1570.

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