Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUGHES, PRYCE (c. 1687 - 1715), American colony planner Pryce Hughes of Llanllugan, Montgomeryshire, was the eldest of three sons and three daughters of Richard Hughes (1663-1700) of Frongoch, chief steward at Powis Castle, and Mary Pryce (1663-1700). The Llanllugan estate came to the Hughes family through this marriage. Pryce succeeded his father as agent to William Herbert, the second Marquess of Powis, while the latter was in exile as a suspected
HUGHES, WILLIAM (1798 - 1866), harpist Born in the parish of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Montgomeryshire. Considered an excellent player of the triple harp, he won the silver harp and the prize of ten guineas offered at the Caernarvon eisteddfod of 1821. He was family harpist at Powis castle for a period, possibly as the successor of Thomas Blayney. He died at Liverpool in 1866.
HUMPHREYS, HENRY (fl. 1819-1824), harpist harpist at Powis castle and it is surmised that it was there that he died.
JONES, JOHN HENRY (1909 - 1985), educationist and translator same academic brilliance continued in Bangor: winner of the Powis Prize (twice); 1st Class Honours in Latin (1930) and in Greek (1931); teaching certificate in the 1st Class and the degree of M.A., for a thesis on 'The Influence of Greece on Roman Satura' (1933). He was awarded a University of Wales Fellowship and entered University College, London, where he conducted research into the - largely
LLOYD family Leighton, Moel-y-garth, election of the Convention Parliament, and petitioned against the return, but promoted the Restoration and was created a baronet on 10 May 1661 and pricked as sheriff of his county in 1669. During the interregnum he purchased from the sequestered estates of the earl of Powis lands in and near Welshpool, his title to which was successfully challenged after the Restoration. He was succeeded in the
LLOYD, HUGH (1586 - 1667), bishop of Llandaff a Cardiganshire man. He entered Oriel College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1607, graduating B.A. in 1611, M.A. in 1614, in which year he became a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, proceeded B.D. in 1624, and D.D. in 1638. He held the livings of S. Andrews (Dinas Powis) in 1617 and of S. Nicholas, both in Glamorgan, in 1626. He was marked out for preferment in 1632 and became sinecure rector of
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, Cherbury for the surrender of Montgomery castle, which he defended, in a major victory (17 September) surprised and took lord Powis in his castle (2 October), which he placed under Sir John Price, defeated at Machynlleth (27 November) an attempt to intercept reinforcements from South Wales (27 November), and won his first footing in Radnorshire (December), but failed to capture his own castles of Ruthin
POWIS, Earls of - see HERBERT
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver after Dilys's birth they returned to Aberdare. In 1934, influenced by intercessor Rees Howells, the family moved to the Bible College in Swansea where her father took on the role of gardener at the Italianate gardens on the Derwen Fawr estate, following in the footsteps of his own father, a gardener at Powis Castle. Dilys Price was educated at the boarding school at Derwen Fawr established by Rees
PUW family, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, with the earl of Powis at Powys Castle. He was probably living there in 1659 when he published in Paris De Anglicani Cleri Retinenda in Apostolican Sedem observantia, and in 1661, when his second book, Excantationis Amuletum, appeared. In these he attacked the views expressed by Thomas White or Blackloe with regard to the governance of the Roman Catholic Church in England at the time; later, he was
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, Powis castle and his intimacy with the duke of York, later James II (Hist. MSS. Com., 14 th R., ix, 370, Ormond, n.s. iv, 459, vi, 262, Popham, 258). At home he was hotly opposed by John Arnold and Sir Trevor Williams, who had local grievances over Wentwood forest (now exploited intensively by the marquess for iron smelting) and Chepstow garrison respectively; he removed Arnold and seven other
THOMAS, DAVID WALTER (1829 - 1905), cleric college scholarship (he also held a Powis exhibition) he received priest's orders from bishop Bethell of Bangor in 1853. In that year he was curate of Deneio (Pwllheli) and Llannor, and chaplain at Tremadoc, 1854-5. On 13 August 1855, he became perpetual curate of Penmachno and, on 14 March 1860, vicar of S. Ann, Mynydd Llandygài, near Bangor. He remained there for thirty-four years. After a year as

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