Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, CHARLES (d. 1646) Pilleth,, soldier and politician inherited his father's military bent, and in 1619 acted as second to Sir Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth when the latter challenged lord Herbert of Cherbury to a duel, which was stopped by James I. Next year he represented the borough in Parliament, where he took a strong line over monopolies, parliamentary privilege, and the maintenance of the Protestant ascendancy, and he was re-elected in 1624. In 1625 he
PRICE, CHRISTOPHER (d. 1697), apothecary, preacher, free-communion Baptist He lived at Abergavenny in the High Street, one of the chief officials of the corporation, and, according to Sir Joseph Bradney, of the family of the Prices of Llanffoist. He supported John Tombes in the great Baptism debate at Abergavenny, 1653; after the Restoration he is reported as preaching in 'conventicles,' 1668-9, and in 1672 he secured a licence to preach in his own house under the
PRICE, ISAAC (1735? - 1805), Congregational minister Born at Gellicrugion, near Llanwrtyd, Brecknock, c. 1735. He was brought up in a religious home where itinerant preachers stayed and received what education was available in the neighbourhood. He showed an early inclination for the pulpit and went to Joseph Simmons's school at Neath. He began to preach at Troedrhiwdalar as assistant to the aged and ailing preacher Thomas Morgan. He was ordained
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches visitor, arrangements for the dissolution, testimonies and confessions of bishop John Fisher, Sir Thomas More, and leaders of the rebellions in East Anglia and the North of England, divorce proceedings of queen Anne Boleyn, and arrangements for the marriage of queen Jane Seymour. In spite of its imposing title, his office brought him little direct profit, but it enabled him to secure grants from the
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Llanfyllin, after which he went in 1855 to open the British School at Bala. His ability brought him to the notice of Sir Hugh Owen and he was invited to assist the Rev. John Phillips in the new training college at Bangor; here, he started work when the college was opened in 1858. In 1863, when Phillips was appointed principal of the college, he became deputy principal, an appointment which he continued to
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist connections with Welsh religious and political life in a series of reminiscences which he contributed to Y Genedl Gymreig in 1925. His articles on T.E. Ellis and Sir Ellis Griffith in The Welsh Outlook are amongst the best that were written about them. In 1941, he was appointed chancellor of the bishopric of Bangor. He married 6 September 1904, Emily Ann, daughter of Maurice Foster of Egryn Abbey in Ardudwy
PRICE, JOSEPH TREGELLES (1784 - 1854), Quaker and ironmaster ore working at Aberpergwm, and in copper smelting in the locality. On 6 December 1817 Joseph Tregelles Price advertised the iron-works for sale, but on 31 March 1818, obtaining a new lease, he, with his brother, H. H. Price, and others, signed a contract to take over the works, paying therefor £1,000. Joseph became managing director of the new company in 1818. For a long period of years the firm had
PRICE, THOMAS (MALDWYN) (1860 - 1933), musician reputation as a contralto. T. M. Price studied music at University College, Aberystwyth, under Joseph Parry, and afterwards at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He became (c. 1885) organist and choir-master in S. Mary's church, Welshpool, and remained there for the rest of his life; he died 9 July 1933, and was buried in S. Mary's churchyard. He composed much sacred music (chants, anthems, and hymn
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 the seat by the slim margin of just 336 votes, from the sitting Liberal MP Professor D. R. Seaborne-Davies who had held it in the by-election the previous May. In the general election of July 1945 Price-White stood as an avid supporter of Sir Winston Churchill in his campaign to bring to a successful outcome the war against Japan. The constituency subsequently disappeared in the redistribution of
PROGER family . Clark, and Sir Joseph Bradney - they disagree in places, but as Theophilus Jones depended on H. T. Payne, who had a large collection of family documents and deeds, it seems safer to follow him where differences arise. A. THE WERN -DDU BRANCH. We begin here with WILLIAM PROGER, sixth of his line, who was alive in 1483. His sons were JOHN PROGER and Lewis Proger (for whom see B below); and John Proger's
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales War and in 1939 he was employed as a Social Officer dealing with evacuees from English cities who were being sent to west Wales. By this time he had been elected as a councillor on the Neath Urban District Council as well as acting as unpaid agent to the Labour Member of Parliament for Neath, Sir William Jenkins. In 1942 he applied for the post of a Labour Party agent for the Eastern District of

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