Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author Son of Meredith Penry of Cefn-brith, Llangamarch, Brecknock. He matriculated from Peterhouse, Cambridge, 11 June 1580, and graduated B.A. 21 March 1584. He was at S. Alban's Hall, Oxford, from 28 May 1586 and proceeded M.A. at Oxford 11 July 1586. His concern about the lack of preaching ministers in Wales is expressed in his first book, A Treatise containing the Aeqvity of an Humble Svpplication
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
PERROT family Haroldston, Williams, his secretary in Ireland, and Adam Loftus had taken care they should reach the right quarter, namely Perrot's successor as lord deputy Sir William Fitzwilliam. They became the subject of investigation by the Privy Council and, in March 1591, Perrot was removed to the Tower. He was tried for treason in April 1592 and was sentenced to death. He died in the Tower in November 1592, before sentence
PERROT family Haroldston, state of profound peace. In 1589 he was made a member of the Privy Council but it was not long before rumours of treasonable activity were current about him. These had been instigated in the first instance by Philip Williams, his secretary in Ireland, and Adam Loftus had taken care they should reach the right quarter. They became the subject of investigation by the Privy Council and, in March 1591
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology Elizabeth Jones, Blaenplwyf, near Aberystwyth, but her death on 22 March 1953 at a young age weighed heavily upon him the rest of his days. He himself died 30 November 1995, in Newport and his ashes were interred in his wife's grave in Aberystwyth town cemetery.
PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Born at Flint in 1723 (christened 16 August), son of Benjamin Perryn, a tradesman there. From Ruthin school (Thomas, A History of the Diocese of St. Asaph, ii, 132) he went up to Queen's College, Oxford, in March 1740/1, but did not graduate. He had in 1740 entered Lincoln's Inn, but migrated to the Inner Temple in 1746, and was called to the Bar in 1747. He acquired great repute as a pleader in
PETTINGALL, JOHN (1708 - 1781), antiquary Born 1708, son of Francis Pettingall, vicar of Newport, Monmouthshire. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 15 March 1725, and graduated B.A. in 1728. He graduated M.A. at Cambridge 1740, and later D.D. He was for some years a preacher at Duke Street chapel, Westminster, and was appointed 3 June 1757, a prebendary of S. Paul's, London, and on 28 July 1758, prebendary of Lincoln. He was
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist Golden Cockerel Press and he was commissioned to illustrate Gwyn Jones' novel The Green Island in 1945, and he returned to Wales at the end of 1946 to re-establish the Caseg Press. He had met Marjory (Kusha) Miller (1921-2003), an artist and writer, in 1944, and they married in March 1947. They had 2 sons and a daughter, David (born c. 1947), Catrin (born 1950) and Michael (born 1957). They divorced in
PHILIPPS family Picton, 1572, he was the leader of a political faction in Pembrokeshire in opposition to the party of Sir John Perrot. He died 14 March 1573 and his brother, MORGAN PHILIPPS (died c. 1585), succeeded to his estates in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. After the dissolution of his marriage to the wife of William Scourfield, Morgan Philipps married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fletcher, registrar of Bangor
PHILIPPS family Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, Jane. (2) HECTOR PHILIPPS (died 1693), who entered the Middle Temple in 1654. His political views were identical with his brother's; he became sheriff in 1688, and was Member of Parliament for Cardigan borough in 1679 (twice), 1685, 1689, and 1690; he died in March 1693. He was twice married; his first wife was a daughter of the Parliamentary commander Skippon (see in D.N.B.). He inherited his
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) three grievous blows in the months from March 1915 to July 1916: his wife died on 31 March 1915 at a London nursing home after an operation and she was buried at Roch Church; his elder son, Collwyn Erasmus Arnold Philipps, was killed in France on 13 May 1915; his surviving son, Roland Erasmus Philipps, was also killed in France on 7 July 1916. Lord St. Davids re-married at St. Margaret's Church
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights opening article of the March 1896 edition of Young Wales, guest-edited by Leonora and her sister-in-law Elsbeth Philipps. The heroism of Boadicea and the brave priestesses of Anglesey as portrayed by Tacitus were invoked to promote the cause, placing them as models for scores of other women who had shown comparable determination in addressing inequalities both historical and contemporary in fields such

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