Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar , the first to achieve such a result. He graduated in Latin (second class) a year later. At Aberystwyth he also won the main literary prizes at the college eisteddfod. These early works - written in both Welsh and English - show the influence of the neo-romantic lyricism of W. J. Gruffydd and R. Silyn Roberts' Telynegion (1900). Spurred on by his mentor and Professor of Welsh at Aberystwyth, Edward
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
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet radical tradition of 'Yr Hen Gapel' (the old Congregational chapel of Llanbryn-Mair) with its emphasis on Reason and Freedom. He claimed a family link with Samuel Roberts (1800-1885), the main upholder of that tradition. He recognised in W. J. Gruffydd (whom he came to know when he moved to Cardiff and became his neighbour in Rhiwbina) a kindred spirit sharing the same ideas on religion, literature
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
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) that there are only two branches of rhetoric - 'elocutio' and 'pronuntiatio.' Salesbury's views were somewhat different. Moreover, he rejected some of Salesbury's terms and borrowed others from the grammars of Siôn Dafydd Rhys and Gruffydd Robert. His eulogy of the art of rhetoric in the introduction to this book is highly typical of the Renaissance. He was descended from the Tudor family of
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 Cwmgwili, Claiming descent from the same stock as Philipps family of Picton and Kilsant, the Cwmgwili family played a prominent part in Carmarthenshire affairs in the 18th and 19th cents. GRISMOND PHILIPPS (died 1740) inherited Cwmgwili from his great-uncle Gruffydd Lloyd who died in 1713 and was high sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1715. His son, GRIFFITH PHILIPPS (c. 1720 - 1781), was called to the Bar at
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 A family of Welsh poets who lived in Ardudwy, Meironnydd, in the 16th and 17th cents.. Their period ranges from c. 1543, in which year Siôn Phylip was probably born, to 1678, when probate was granted of the will of Phylip Siôn Phylip, one of his sons. The royalist poet, William Phylip, is usually accounted of the group. The two brothers, Siôn and Rhisiart, and Siôn's two sons, Gruffydd and Phylip
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
PHYLIP, GRUFFYDD (d. 1666), poet - see PHYLIP

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