Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Anwyl, Parry-Williams commenced his postgraduate career at Jesus College, Oxford in 1909, completing a BLitt thesis under John Rhys on English loan-words in Welsh by summer 1911. (He submitted a closely related MA thesis to the University of Wales at the same time.) His research was later published as the pioneering volume The English Element in Welsh (1923). At Oxford, Parry-Williams also attended
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
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Wales, are among his best literary works. The first volume of his Tours in Wales was published in 1778, the second in 1781 (the first part under the title A Journey in Snowdonia). An edition in three volumes, edited by Sir John Rhys, was published in 1883. Pennant's account of his journey on the Continent did not see the light of day till 1948. The manuscript owned by the N.L.W. was published by
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
PETER of LEE ('de Leia') (d. 1198), bishop of S. Davids , that the bishop was forced to remain away from S. Davids as he quarrelled both with the Welsh and the chapter of the cathedral and that he failed to uphold the metropolitan claims of S. Davids. It is also stated that the ' lord ' Rhys, shortly before he died, was excommunicated by the bishop and that he could be buried at S. Davids only after his dead body had received absolution. There is every
PETER, JOHN (Ioan Pedr; 1833 - 1877), Independent minister and college tutor, and Welsh scholar his scientific study of Welsh philology. He was a disciple of Edward Lhuyd's, and a fellow-worker with such men as Thomas Stephens and Daniel Silvan Evans and John Rhys in this country, and Gaidoz and Schuchardt (both of whom visited him at Bala) abroad. When Y Cymmrodor was founded, Peter was one of its editors, and some of his work appeared in it and in the Revue Celtique. His manuscripts are
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
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar father's side he claimed connection with the Salusbury and Bagot family of Bachymbyd, while on his mother's side he was related to the Bruce and Knight families of Glamorgan and Devon. During and after his term at Oxford his interest in Welsh studies was awakened through the influence and friendship of John Rhys, J. Loth, Whitley Stokes, and other scholars. He began to learn Welsh in 1880 and mastered
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author D. M. Phillips was born in 1863 at Pant-y-gwin, Llan-y-crwys, between Mynydd Cellan and Afon Twrch, Carmarthenshire, the son of Rees and Elizabeth Phillips. The family moved to Ystradfellte where he worked as a smith in Pontsyll smithy, near Brecon. He began to preach and was educated in Trecynon, Aberdare, by the Unitarian Rhys Jenkin Jones and at the University College of South Wales and

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