Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist member of the Philipps family from Pembrokeshire, he took the title Milford from his ancestor, Richard Philipps of Picton Castle, who was created Baron Milford in the Irish peerage. Two of Laurence Philipps's brothers also became peers: John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids (1860-1938) and Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant (1863-1937). A third brother, Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps (1861
PHILLIPS, BENJAMIN (1750 - 1839), Unitarian Baptist minister Unitarian missioners from England who (e.g. in 1810 and 1816) visited west Wales. Late in 1827 we hear of the building of a Unitarian chapel ('Capel y Graig') at St Clears. When a General Baptist missioner came there in 1834, he found ' our patriarch ' bed-ridden. Phillips died at Carmarthen in 1839. His church faded away during the 19th century, and the chapel was sold in 1901 and later demolished.
PHILLIPS, CLIFFORD (1914 - 1984), journalist Cliff Phillips, the son of William Phillips, a steel worker, and his wife Maria Davies, Glanaman, was born 17 September 1914 in Glanaman, Carmarthenshire and educated at the local primary school and Amanford Secondary School. Encouraged by his uncle, William Anthony Davies ('Llygad Llwchwr'), Cliff Phillips turned to journalism as a career, first as the Ammanford correspondent for the Amman
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 (1826 - 1905), minister (Congl.) and lecturer
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, DANIEL THOMAS (1842 - 1905), Baptist minister and American consul Born at Tredegar, 19 December 1842, the son of Thomas Phillips, a Calvinistic Methodist minister. He was baptized into the Baptist communion at Cwm-bach, Aberdare, and, as a youth, joined the Tabernacle church, Cardiff, while working as a clerk in the town clerk's office. He was trained at Haverfordwest Baptist College, and became minister at Llantwit Major, Swansea, and Bristol, before
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister seceded (c. 1787), and founded the church of Rhyd-y-parc (Llanwinio), Phillips joined it, and began preaching. On the death of Owen Davies (1719 - 1792), Phillips was ordained pastor. By 1811 (the date of the Unitarian missioner Lyons's visit to Rhyd-y-parc), Phillips was definitely a Unitarian, but too poorly in health to be active - it would seem that the church was then served chiefly by Benjamin
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1812 - 1904), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet and editor Born 14 December 1812 at Bancyfelin, Carmarthenshire, son of the Rev. Joshua Phillips (1785 - 1868) and grandson of John Phillips (1750 - 1842) of Meidrym, who was also a well-known Methodist preacher. As a young man he went to live at Maes-teg, Glamorganshire, where he was postmaster. He began to preach in 1839 and was, in some sense, the pastor of Tabor chapel. He was ordained in the
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, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Born 20 March 1862 at Beili Glas, Pontwalby, Glynneath, Glamorganshire, his grandfather's farm, the son of David and Gwenllian (née Rees) Phillips, but he was brought up at Melincourt, Resolven, in the Neath valley. He was educated at the National School, Resolven and at private schools - Burrows School, Arnold College - in Swansea. After a period as a miner he became a compositor and proof
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Born 8 October 1889 in Rose Cottage, Tre-fin, Pembrokeshire, only child of William Bateman and Martha (née Davies) Phillips. His father was a sailor but after leaving the sea he was a baker in Porthcawl. Trefîn's mother died in 1898 after she had been a patient for 5 years in Saint David's Hospital in Carmarthen, and he was adopted by his father's sister, Mary, wife of John Martin, a sailmaker

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