Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister received £4 per annum from the 'Common Fund' for itinerating during 1690-3; from 1711 till 1722 he received £6 per annum from the Presbyterian Fund, 'for Carnarvon' - probably the county. He is regarded as the founder of the Independent church at Pwllheli, and in a sense of the church at Caernarvon town as well, and he took out licences on houses in Anglesey. Robert Jones of Rhos-lan (Drych yr Amseroedd
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author Goleuad on revival meetings in north and south Wales. In 1906 Evan Roberts, the Great Welsh Revivalist and his Work was published, a volume translated into three languages, the Welsh version Evan Roberts a'i Waith appearing in 1912. In 1908 Athroniaeth Anfarwoldeb was published, another weighty volume on the experience of the soul's immortality. Together with Dymanic Preaching (1935) most of his volumes
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Association diploma, and was responsible for cataloguing the Welsh section (including the collection of Robert Jones, Rotherhithe,). He was elected F.L.A. in 1913 and F.S.A. (Scotland) in 1920-21. He was promoted Borough Welsh and Celtic librarian and subsequently in 1923 joint-librarian with W.J. Salter until his retirement in 1939. D. Rhys Phillips was nurtured in the literary and cultural societies of
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 returning to Cardiff as master tailor in one of the largest shops in the city. In August 1914 he opened a tailor's business in partnership with Trefor Roberts. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1915, becoming a bombardier. He was badly injured when one of the beams of a cellar fell on his head during an attack and he was moved from one hospital to another until his release from the army. He found
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (fl. 1836) Penrhyn,, hymnwriter She was the author of twenty-five hymns which were discovered by Richard Griffith (Carneddog) among the manuscripts of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion). Carneddog copied the hymns and they were published for the first time in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1906. A note on the manuscripts, in the hand of Alltud Eifion, stated that she was the mother of Dr. Thomas Hughes (1793 - 1837), a physician, of Plas-ward
PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet Born 12 April 1810 at Bala. He was educated at Bala, where he was also apprenticed as a printer with Robert Saunderson. He later moved to Chester where for a period he supervised the printing works of John Parry (1775 - 1846), who published Y Drysorfa and Goleuad Cymru, to which Tegidon contributed many articles. About 1850 he moved to Portmadoc as secretary to the Welsh Slate Company; later he
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, SAMUEL LEVI (c. 1730 - 1812), banker and jeweller Dorothy Hood, and amongst their children were Philip, whose grandson was Hugh Price Hughes, and Sarah (1757 - 1817), who married David Charles I. Their daughter, Eliza (1798 - 1876), married Robert Davies (1790 - 1841).
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal walked to the collieries and on their return home made him ask searching questions. His mother explained to him the phenomenon of the Revival and the work of the Holy Spirit in that mining community and Tommy Phillips went with his parents to a large number of open-air revival meetings and chapel services where he experienced warm fellowship and the influence of four leading revivalists Evan Roberts
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, ROBERT (1609 - 1679), author - see PUW
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver commander in a video game about the Napoleonic Wars in 2010, by which time Robert Havard's meticulous biography of him had provided a sound foundation for shorter assessments by twenty-first century scholars. Yet it was not until the Black Lives Matter movement that his public monuments were reinterpreted between 2020 and 2023, the statue in Cardiff City Hall being boxed in prior to removal. Following the

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