Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, THOMAS (1852 - 1909), Australian politician Born at Brymbo, Denbighshire, 19 January 1852, son of John and Jane Price. As a boy, he went to Liverpool, where he was for many years a stone-mason. He married (1881) Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Lloyd, a timber-merchant; they had seven children. In 1883 ill-health drove him to Adelaide, South Australia, where in 1891 he became secretary of his trade union. In 1893 he became a labour
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant Monmouth tradition. According to Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), he wrote in defence of the British history in answer to bishop William Lloyd, 8 December 1681, and also in answer to a work by Sir George Mackenzie. In the Brogyntyn collection there is a letter of 13 March 1681 by him in which he discusses books of travel. On 15 March 1685, when interrupted in London on a proposed journey to Italy by invitation
PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE (1906 - 1978), Conservative politician active service throughout the Second World War, serving at Dunkirk and later on with a coast defence battery, and then in France, the Middle East, Sicily, Italy, and East Africa. He was a member of the Caernarfonshire County Council, 1939-41, and also a member of the Bangor City Council. He was the Conservative MP for Lloyd George's old seat of the Caernarfon Boroughs from 1945 until 1950, capturing
PROSSER, DAVID LEWIS (1868 - 1950), archbishop Trinity church at Aberystwyth. He had his priest's orders from John Lloyd, suffragan Bishop of Swansea, 21 December 1893. In 1896, he became curate of Christ Church, Swansea, where he remained until 1909, when he became vicar of Pembroke Dock. He was appointed Archdeacon of St. David's in 1920 and was consecrated Bishop of St. David's in succession to John Owen 2 February 1927. In 1944, he was elected
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales , and by 1957 most of the Welsh heartland had Labour MPs. Labour won Caernarfon in 1945, Merionethshire in 1950; Conwy in 1950, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire in 1951 and Carmarthenshire in 1957. He was the agent for the by-election in Carmarthenshire in 1957 which was won by Megan Lloyd George, who had left the Liberal Party for Labour after her defeat in 1951 in Anglesey. But the most notable victory
PROTHERO, THOMAS (1780 - 1853), solicitor, colliery proprietor, and influential citizen antagonist, John Frost. His residence was, at first, ' The Friars ' and, later, ' Malpas Court,' which long remained in the possession of his family. He was high sheriff of the county in 1846. He died suddenly in London 24 April 1853, age 73. He had been twice married. Two of his grandsons, Sir GEORGE WALTER PROTHERO (1848 - 1922), historian, and ROWLAND EDMUND PROTHERO, baron Ernle (1851 - 1937
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet through the marriage of his eldest daughter, Lowry, who was his heiress, with Robert Evans of Tan-y-bwlch. By 1632, too, his widow, Elizabeth (daughter of Peter Meyrick of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern) had married Griffith Lloyd. An Edmund Price got the living of Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, 5 February 1637, and was transferred in June 1639 to the living of Llanfechell, Anglesey (by this time he is entered in
PRYSE family Gogerddan, This family traces its descent from Gwaeth-foed, lord of Ceredigion, etc. The first member to be associated with the northern part of the county of Cardigan, i.e., with Gogerddan, was probably RHYS AP DAVID LLOYD (Burke, Peerage, Baronetage …, 1936 ed.), to whom poems were written by various bards, e.g., Siôn Ceri, Huw Arwystli, Mathew Brwmffild, and Lewis Môn (Cwrtmawr MS. 12B). The bard Lewis
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, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker London in 1782 and 1801. A translation into English was also published in 1727. This also was printed at Philadelphia, but by S. Keimer for W. Davies, bookbinder. The English translation was entitled A Salutation to the Britains … Translated from the British Language by Rowland Ellis, Revis'd and corrected by David Lloyd. (There were London editions in 1732, 1739, and 1793).
PUGH, HUGH (1779 - 1809), Independent minister Born 22 November 1779 at Ty-nant Bach, Brithdir, near Dolgelley. He was brought up in better circumstances than usual. His father had no religious beliefs but his mother was a member at Rhyd-y-main and possibly went as far as Llanuwchllyn for communion. The family moved to Perthi Llwydion, and he was educated at Dolgelley and High Ercall, Salop. At the age of 16 he was admitted by Dr. George
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

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