Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher theme, 'The attitude of Welsh Independents to working class movements, 1815-1870', a dissertation which won him his M.A. degree in 1931 and won for him the University of Wales The Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Prize. He would, so it was said, have easily graduated in divinity were it not for the fact that he accepted the call he received from the Independent Church at Siloa, Aberdare, where he was
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (d. 1560), courtier was the son of Harry Vaughan and grandson of Sir Thomas Vaughan, who had been knighted but subsequently beheaded by Richard III and was himself an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Vaughan of Tretower (ancestor of Henry Vaughan, ' Silurist'), and a grandson, through Sir Dafydd Gam, of Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, slain at Agincourt (1415). His mother was Gwenllian, daughter of William ap Grono
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Lectures at UCNW. But this prolific young scholar during these years had also began to work on another, vast subject, editing the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym. The only book of Dafydd's poems then available was a selection, what Parry called Ifor Williams's 'handy little edition' of 1921. He began the work in 1929. He also began to study topics germane to Dafydd's poems, studies that produced the remarkable
PARRY, WILLIAM (d. 1585), Roman Catholic conspirator was probably the son of Harry ap David, of Northop, Flintshire. To escape his creditors, he entered Burghley's service as a spy on Roman Catholics, and crossed to the Continent in 1571, 1579, and 1582. He himself became Roman Catholic in sympathy, and was convinced of the need for Elizabeth's assassination. His part in a proposed conspiracy against her life was betrayed by a fellow- conspirator
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar lectures by Joseph Wright and Henry Sweet, scholars whose emphasis on spoken language and dialectology later came to influence Parry-Williams's literary style. At meetings of Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym, the Oxford Welsh Society, he began to air his opinions on Welsh literary and cultural issues of the day, venturing into print on the pages of Y Brython in a series of provocative articles published under
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure miraculous little teacher' who took her pupils on field trips. As a fourteen-year old chorister in St Mary's Church, Kington, he suddenly realised that the alabaster tombs of Tomos ap Rhoser of Hergest (died 1469) and his wife at which he had so often gazed across the chancel were actually described in a fifteenth-century cywydd by Lewis Glyn Cothi that he had read in translation in a history of Kington
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi new proprietor of Penrhyn, and would have it that these Pennants were distantly related to the ancient holders of the Llandygái lands (see Griffith family of Penrhyn), the three chamberlains and Pirs Griffith the sea-rover, through the marriage of one of them, far back, c. 1475-80, with Angharad, daughter of Gwilym ap Griffith ap Gwilym of Penrhyn; but all this does not accord very well with the
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet
PHILIP ap RHYS (fl. 1530), Tudor organist and composer . 6v only the initials 'P.R.' are given. He was at S. Paul's cathedral during the time when the Tudor school of organists reached its highest peak, and he must have known John Redford, William Whitbroke, and other musicians connected with the establishment. Although his extant compositions are not many, Philip ap Rhys holds a unique place among his fellow- organists, for he is the author of an organ
PHILIPPS family Picton, Blaen Cych and Sir Aaron ap Rhys, crusader. Sir Thomas Philipps was the son of Phillip Philipps, son of Meredith Philipps of Cilsant. He was esquire to the body of Henry VII and was appointed one of the stewards and receiver of the lordships of Llanstephan and Oysterlowe on 16 May 1509. On 7 September 1509 he was appointed coroner and escheator of Pembrokeshire and the lordship of Haverfordwest. In
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy ) 'Marwnad William Phylip Hendre fechan.' WILLIAM PHYLIP (1579/80? - 1669/70) The son of Phylip ap Siôn ap Thomas ap Robert of Hendre Fechan, in the parish of Llanddwywe, Meironnydd, who died 25 February 1625/6, and was buried at Llanddwywe. William's mother, Catrin, died in 1651, and was also buried at Llanddwywe. His wife, Ann, died in 1653, and his daughter Elizabeth, about the same time. Wife and
PHYLIP BRYDYDD (fl. 1222), court poet His extant works are an awdl and intercessionary englynion addressed to Rhys Gryg, a chain of englynion and an elegiac awdl to Rhys Ieuanc ap Gruffudd (son of the 'lord' Rhys) (died 1222), and two other interesting poems in which he claims priority over poets of lower degree. One of these last-mentioned was sung in the court of Rhys Ieuanc in Llanbadarn-fawr. Gwilym Ddu associates Phylip with

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