Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister Born 17 April 1820, son of John and Mary Price of Maesycwper, near Ysgethrog, Llanhamlach, Brecknock. He began to earn his living at an early age by assisting a local farmer. Afterwards he became a page boy in the family of Clifton of Tŷ Mawr, Llanfrynach. The Clifton daughters taught him to read English. He saved £21 to pay for his own apprenticeship to Thomas Watkins, The Struet, Brecon
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary various schools in the village and a school at Llanafan vicarage, two miles away. From 1800, when the family removed to Builth, he was for five years at a 'classical school' conducted by the curate of that parish. He early showed his deep love for all that is beautiful and his aptitude for skilled work. In 1805 he entered Brecon grammar school and lodged in the town. Whilst there he was a constant
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant He was probably a member of the Price family of Eglwysegl and Llanfyllin. It is said that the Prices, who resided in a black-and-white house at Llanfyllin, built in 1599, and called ' The Hall,' were Roman Catholics. Thomas Price is included as one of seven popish recusants in Llanfyllin in the population 'notitia' of S. Asaph (1681?). He is said to have been frequently presented at the Great
PRICE, WATKIN WILLIAM (1873 - 1967), schoolmaster, researcher Born 4 September 1873 at 261 Cardiff Road, Aberaman, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, son of Watkin and Sarah Price, a Welsh -speaking family from Breconshire. The father was a collier; apparently the family had moved to Aberdare by 1866. ' W.W. ' was educated at Blaen-gwawr elementary school until 1886 when he went to work in the office of Tarian y Gweithiwr in Aberdare. Then he became a pupil-teacher
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet strike. Caradog was only five months old when his father was killed in an accident at the quarry on 6 April 1905. The loss of the family breadwinner inevitably meant that Caradog and his brothers grew up in poverty, and their mother's subsequent mental illness cast a further shadow over their lives. These circumstances forced Caradog to leave Bethesda County School in 1922 and find work. He worked as a
PRICHARD, JOHN (1796 - 1875), Baptist minister and tutor Born 25 March 1796, son of John and Jane Prichard of Tan-y-graig, Llaneilian, Amlwch. The family moved to Llandudno where he worked in a mine until he had saved sufficient money to go to Toxteth Park school, Liverpool. He returned to Llandudno where, for some time, he kept a school. In 1816 he became a Baptist, and in 1819 began to preach. He went to Abergavenny College in 1821, and in 1823 was
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters , 3765-7, 5338) - a few diaries, some accounts, medical prescriptions, notes on the family history, copies of letters and of poetry, etc. He was a collector - Bangor has several letters written by Lewis and William Morris which had somehow come into Prichard's hands (and Cardiff MS. 81 contains notes on Lewis Morris by him), and he possessed letters by Goronwy Owen. He was himself a diligent
PRICHARD, ROWLAND HUW (1812 - 1887), musician Born 14 January 1812 at Y Graienyn, near Bala, a member of the family of Rolant Huw, poet. He laboured throughout his life in the cause of music and congregational singing. In 1844 he published Cyfaill y Cantorion, which contained about forty hymn-tunes, most of them composed by himself, and including the well-known 'Hyfrydol,' which he wrote when he was 20. He also published Y Fasged Gerddorol
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist William Prichard and his family were exiles from Glasfryn Fawr and went to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey, but the people of Anglesey persecuted the new tenant of that celebrated place inhumanly. When the landlord was induced to drive him out of the neighbourhood he went to Bodlew, Llanddaniel, where again he suffered persecution because of his religious views. However, when William Bulkeley of Brynddu
PRITCHETT family, clerical family
PROGER family claiming to be a branch of the Herbert family - in Blome's List of Gentry (1673) the surname ' Herbert ' is attached to several of the persons named in this article. Its original seat was Wern-ddu in Llandeilo-bertholau, Monmouth, but a younger branch is associated with Gwern-vale (in the 14th century, ' tir Gronw Foel'), Crick-howell, Brecknock. The pedigree is given by Theophilus Jones, G. T
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales Cliff Prothero was born 23 September 1898 at 7 Robert Street, Ynysybwl to a Welsh-speaking family, his father William Prothero was a native of Glasbury, Radnorshire and his mother, Alice, came from Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley. Educated at the Tre-Robert Boys' School, Ynysybwl, he left school at 13 years of age to work in the colliery. His father and his brother, William Prothero Jnr, worked

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