Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Anwyl, Parry-Williams commenced his postgraduate career at Jesus College, Oxford in 1909, completing a BLitt thesis under John Rhys on English loan-words in Welsh by summer 1911. (He submitted a closely related MA thesis to the University of Wales at the same time.) His research was later published as the pioneering volume The English Element in Welsh (1923). At Oxford, Parry-Williams also attended
PASCOE, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1893 - 1963), industrialist from a few hundred employees. Among its subsidiaries was Aberdare Holdings (which also included Aberdare Cables, Ltd., Aberdare Engineering, Ltd., and South Wales Switchgear) which Sir John founded in 1955 and which brought up to 4,000 jobs to a depressed area of south Wales. A forthright Conservative he was chairman of the Kettering Conservative and Unionist Association, 1948-53, and a Freeman of
PAYNE, ELVIRA GWENLLIAN ('Gwen'; née Hinds) (1917 - 2007), politician and community activist Elvira Gwenllian Payne was born on 28 March 1917 in Morgan Street, Barry, the eldest of two children of Leonard Hinds (1887-1942), a merchant seaman from Barbados, and his wife Gwenllian (née Lloyd) from Barry. Her younger brother was John Darwin Hinds (1922-1981). Her father served as a merchant ship fireman during World War One, and later became a coalminer. She worked as a carer in London, in
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure sons, Ifan and Ceri. He moved first to Rhiwbina, Cardiff, and then to a flat in St Fagans Castle when the Folk Museum was opened in 1948. During World War II he was seconded to the Art Department of the National Museum where he became familiar with the paintings of Welsh artists such as Hugh Hughes and was the first to draw attention to the work of Thomas Jones, Pencerrig, Radnorshire, in an article
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi The family fortunes were founded on the wealth of the West Indies; by the marriage of John Pennant to Bonella Hodges in 1734 there was a merger of two estates raising sugar in Jamaica, parish of Clarendon (for the most part); John Pennant reaped further blessings (again in Jamaica) from the will of his brother Samuel in 1749, a former lord mayor of London. It is not to be wondered at, therefore
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Born 14 June 1726 at Flintshire, the son of David Pennant and Arabella (née Mytton). His father only entered into possession of Downing in 1724, on the death of Thomas Pennant, the last survivor of a younger branch of the family, who bequeathed it to him. The original home of the Pennants was Bychton in the same parish (Whitford). The first to settle in Downing was John Pennant the great-great
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author The entry in the Bangor (Caernarfonshire) parish register recording her christening under 6 January 1728/9, describes her as daughter of Bulkeley Hughes (died 1740?), cleric, and Mary his wife; the father became vicar of Bangor, 2 June 1713, and was instituted to the living of Edern on 17 January 1722/3. She married Penny, and lived in London (Bloomsbury Square), where all her works were
PENRY, DAVID (1660? - 1721?) apparently a member of the ancient family of Plas Llanedy, situated at the north end of the parish of Llanedy, Carmarthenshire. Intended for the Anglican ministry, he was converted under the preaching of Stephen Hughes at a conventicle, was trained by him, and eventually ordained in 1688. He was given the oversight of the Dissenters in the parishes of Llanedy, Llan-nonn, Llangennech, and the
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author .' Penry's precise relation with 'Marprelate' has never been satisfactorily explained. At various times the press was in London, at Fawsley, and at Coventry, and besides printing more Marprelate tracts produced Penry's Supplication in 1589. Waldegrave now broke his connection with the press and John Hodgkins took his place. The press was moved to Wolston Priory, but Hodgkins was arrested and in 1589 Penry
PENRY, JOHN (1854 - 1883), missionary under the L.M.S. son of John and Margaret Penry, and born 7 April 1854 at Tir-mawr, Llandeilo, he became a church member at Tabernacle, Llandeilo and later at Providence, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, where, after a sojourn in England, he attended a preparatory school. He studied also at the Lancashire College, and was appointed by the L.M.S. for the central Africa mission. Ordained at Llandeilo on 11 April 1882

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