Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. Born 2 July 1792 at 32 Cannon Street, Manchester, son of Thomas Phillipps, member of a family long settled at Broadway, Worcestershire, and Hanna Walton. Educated at Rugby and University College, Oxford (B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820), Thomas Phillipps succeeded, in 1818, to the whole of his father's property, which included the Middle Hill estate, Worcestershire. A collector from boyhood he developed
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister a Carmarthenshire man, associated by tradition with the Philipps family of Picton. His sister Dorothy married Timothy Quarrell of Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, of a family prominent in the history of Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire Independency (see Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru, i, 260, and Jenkins, Hanes … Hen Gapel Llanuwchllyn, 70-2); her daughter married John Kenrick of Wynne Hall
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
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1874 - 1951), minister (Presb.), philosopher and college principal Born 1874 at Ffwrnes, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, son of Henry and Sarah Phillips. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. He received his elementary education at Dyffryn boys' school, and went to work in a coal mine. In 1894 he won a miners' scholarship to study mining, but his tutors at the University College, Cardiff, persuaded
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 and formerly a sailor. English was the main language of the home and English was the language of the day-school, but thanks to the Sunday school he retained his Welsh. He tried to run away to sea when he realised that the family intended apprenticing him to a tailor. When his father re-married the family moved to Cardiff and the 11-yr. old boy entered Sloper Road school. The Welsh master, Sir John
PHILLIPS, JOHN ROLAND (1844 - 1887), historian Born at Kilgerran, Pembrokeshire, in June 1844, (There is no baptismal entry in the parish register). He was the son of David Phillips. In writing of Katherine Philipps, the ' Matchless Orinda ', he said that her husband, James Phillips of the Priory, Cardigan, was ' a member of the same branch of the family of Phillips of Cilsant as the writer.' He entered a solicitor's office at Cardigan, and
PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' Assize. Under the 1662 Act of Uniformity he had to leave Llangwm and Freystrop; the Clarendon Code bore heavily upon him, though tradition again comes in with stories of kindness and protection shown him by the Owen family of Orielton and the Perrot family of Haroldston. Another tradition reports that great pressure was brought upon him to conform with the Church of England and that public debates were
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire Born 29 March 1772 at Sgythlyn, Llanfihangel Iorath, Carmarthenshire. He hailed from a deeply religious family. He was educated, from the time he was 7 years old, at various schools, including David Davis's school at Castellhywel. He was received into church membership at Pencader when he was between 14 and 15 years of age. He began to preach at Pencader in 1792 and was invited to serve Ebenezer
PHILLIPS, Sir THOMAS (1801 - 1867), barrister and author Born in 1801 at Ynys-garth, Clydach, in the parish of Llanelly, Brecknock, the son of Thomas [who died at Llanellen, 6 January 1845, aged 80] and Anne Phillips. In his youth the family moved to Trosnant, near Pontypool. He was articled to Thomas Protheroe, an attorney of Newport, and became his partner. The two men took an active part in local politics in the period of the Reform Act, and, in
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM (1822 - 1905), botanist and antiquary Born 4 May 1822 at Presteign, Radnorshire, but his family was of Shrewsbury - ancestors of his had been burgesses there from 1634. He was in school at Presteign, and later was apprenticed to his brother, a tailor in High Street, Shrewsbury, with a flourishing business in which William Phillips was eventually a partner. About 1861 he began to take an interest in botany, becoming in later years an
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

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