Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen was he who was largely responsible for consolidating the social and political status of the family in Anglesey, and notably so at Caernarvon, where, by securing the constableship of the castle and the mayoralty in 1785, he was successful in undermining the long-established monopoly of the Glyn family of Glynllifon in the borough. It was he, too, who together with Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737
PANTON, PAUL (1727 - 1797), barrister-at-law and antiquary Ednywain Bendew, and Margaret Griffith was a great-grand-daughter of John Jones (c. 1578 - 1658) of Gellilyfdy. Paul Panton was educated at Westminster School (from 1739 to 1740), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 25 June 1744). He matriculated in 1746, and had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 21 December 1744. Called to the Bar, 14 November 1749, he practised for some time. He married, 1 March 1756, Jane
PARCELL, GEORGE HENRY (1895 - 1967), musician hymn tunes, many of them such as ' David', 'Wig', 'Yr Allt' winning prizes in eisteddfodau, and one short anthem, 'Duw sy'n noddfa a nerth'; all were simple and well-crafted without being ambitious. They were fashioned for church congregations whose vocal resources were known to the composer. He named one of his best tunes 'Irene' after his wife and his hymn tune 'Marchog Iesu', on words by Williams
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn family descent - a great Churchman and benefactor of the church of Llanbedrog. It was his grandson, the third LOVE PARRY (1720 - 1778), who brought Madryn to the family, and moved there to live, by his marriage with Sidney, great-granddaughter of Jane, sister of Owen Hughes, the rich Beaumaris attorney who had bought Madryn from William Madryn, the last of the old family (see article Madryn). Their son
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) work over to him - Powel describes 'the right worshipfull Mistres Blanch Parry,' as 'a singular well willer and furtherer of the weale publike' of Wales. Powel printed the tractate in full in his Historie - on this matter, see G. J. Williams, Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 197-9.
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy). All are given in full, transcribed into modern Welsh and translated into English on www.blancheparry.com. One of Guto'r Glyn's poems, 'Harri Ddu o Euas', gives the pedigree of this wide-branching family (Ifor Williams & J.Ll. Williams, eds, Gwaith Guto'r Glyn, 200-4 and 216-20); it refers to Harri Ddu ap Gruffudd, Blanche's great-grandfather, steward of Usk, Caerleon and
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet September 1870. Shortly before his death, he married Kate Williams, of Bradford, Pennsylvania. He served as poetry editor of the Welsh newspaper, Baner America, from its inception in 1868 to his death.
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator Benjamin Cherry, and Williams on Executors (1930). He was elevated to the Chair in English Law at the University of London in 1930. Although David Hughes Parry was engaged in legal authorship during the early part of his career (his monograph, The Law of Succession, was published in 1937) it was in the direction of university governance and administration that his future path was to lie. As head of the
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon Edgar Parry was born on 1 May 1919 in the Post Office, Salem, Betws Garmon, Caernarfonshire, the second child of Gruffydd Henry Parry, a farmer of Hafod y Rhug, Llanrug, and his wife Helena Parry (née Williams). He had an elder sister Mary (Vaughan Jones) who became a Biology teacher and headmistress. The family subsequently moved to Plas Glanrafon, Waunfawr where Edgar was brought up. Edgar
PARRY, JOHN (1775 - 1846), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and editor Born 7 May 1775, son of Owen and Jane Parry of Groeslon-grugan, Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire. He received a better education than most boys of his time. He was for a time at Madam Bevan's school at Bryn'rodyn, at John Roberts's (1753 - 1834) school at Llanllyfni, and at Evan Richardson's school at Caernarvon. In 1793 he went to Brynsiencyn, Anglesey, where he kept a day school for the children and
PARRY, JOHN (The Blind Harpist; 1710? - 1782), harpist and publisher of music harpist at Wynnstay, Denbighshire, the home of the Williams Wynn family. His greatest service to Wales was rendered by his three publications: (a) Antient British Music, 1742 (in the preparation of this work he was assisted by Evan Williams (born 1706); (b) A Collection of Welsh, English, and Scotch Airs, 1761; and (c) British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs, 1781. He died in 1782 - in
PARRY, JOHN (1789 - 1868), stonemason and musician John Parry was born on 10 February 1789 in Newmarket in Flintshire, the son of Bernard Parry, farmer and singing master, and his wife Elizabeth (née Saunders). In the 1841 census John Parry and his wife Mary Williams Parry (1784-1849) were said to be living with their two youngest sons, William and Caleb, at Ochr-y-gop, to the northeast of the village. He was a stonemason by trade, employing

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