Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, LEWIS (1572 - 1629?), anti-Romanist propagandist Born 1572 in Merionethshire. There is no certainty about his family connexions and it is doubtful whether he was the eldest son of Gruffydd Owen of Tal-y-bont, Llanegryn, 4th son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen of Llwyn, Dolgelley. He was admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, 14 December 1590, but left without graduating and went on a tour of the Continent. He is said to have been admitted to membership of
OWEN, Baron LEWIS (d. 1555), judge Son of Owen ap Hywel ap Llywelyn, of Llwyn, Dolgelley. Under Henry VIII he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of North Wales and baron (i.e. judge) of the exchequer at Caernarvon; he was sheriff of Merioneth in 1545-6 and 1554-5, and Member of Parliament for the shire in 1547, 1553, and 1554; he lived at Cwrt Plas-yn-dre, Dolgelley. As sheriff, he undertook to extirpate the ' Red Bandits of Mawddwy
OWEN, ROBERT (d. 1685), Quaker grandson of Robert Owen of Dolserau, Dolgelley, who was an attorney in the Court of the Marches at Ludlow and a son of ' baron ' Lewis Owen. In the Civil War he sided with Parliament. He sat on the North Wales Composition Committee in August 1649, was a militia commissioner for Merioneth from May 1651, was appointed for his county (October 1653) by Barebone's Parliament on the only county
PAGET, 9th Baron - see PAGET
PENNANT family Penrhyn, Llandygâi -Pennant in 1841), who was raised to the British peerage in 1866 as lord Penrhyn. Previous to that he had sat in the Commons for Caernarvonshire for twenty-five years. He died 31 March 1886. It was his son, the 2nd baron (born 30 September 1836 - 1907) who lost the famous election of 1868 to Sir Love Jones Parry, but who won it back in 1874. Though one of the most generous landlords in the country, he
PENRHYS, Baron DAVIES of - see DAVIES, GWILYM ELFED
PERROT family Haroldston, , daughter of Hugh Prust of Thorney in Devon and widow of Sir Lewis Pollard of Oakford, Devon, by whom he had a son William (died 1587) and two daughters, Lettice, who married (1) Rowland Laugharne of St. Bride's, (2) Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove and St. Bride's (the latter in right of his wife), and (3) Arthur Chichester, baron Chichester of Belfast and later lord-deputy of Ireland, and Ann, who married
PERROT family Haroldston, , Sir Thomas Perrot, who married Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, earl of Essex, and (2) Jane, daughter of Sir Lewis Pollard, by whom he had a son William (died 1597) and two daughters, Lettice, who married (1) Roland Lacharn of S. Bride's, (2) Walter Vaughan of S. Bride's, and (3) Arthur Chichester, baron Chichester of Belfast and later lord-deputy of Ireland, and Ann, who married John Philips
PHILIPPS family Picton, -lieutenant in 1770; custos rotulorum and lord-lieutenant of Pembrokeshire in 1786. He died 28 November 1823 without issue and the estate devolved on his cousin RICHARD BULKELEY PHILLIPPS GRANT (1801 - 1857) who assumed the surname Philipps and was created baron Milford of Picton castle in 1847. He died without issue and his estates devolved upon his half-brother the Rev. JAMES HENRY ALEXANDER PHILIPPS
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman Ivor Philipps was born at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, on 9 September 1861, the second son of Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are noticed separately: Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) Born on 30 May 1860, at the Vicarage, Warminster, Wiltshire, John Philipps was the eldest son of Sir James Erasmus Philipps, 12th Baronet, vicar of Warminster, and Mary Margaret Best. Sir James inherited the baronetcy as a descendant of Hugh Philipps, the second son of Sir John Philipps, the first baronet, but Sir Richard Philipps, Baron Milford, the seventh baronet, who died in 1823, had devised
PHILIPPS, LAURENCE RICHARD (1st. BARON MILFORD, 1st baronet), (1874 - 1962), philanthropist, industrialist, sportsman, and a member of one of the most prominent old gentry families of Pembrokeshire a member of Lloyd's, director of several well-known companies such as Schweppes, Ltd. and Ilford, Ltd. and he was one-time chairman of Northern Securities Trust, Ltd. He was created a baronet in 1919 and a baron in 1939, the third of the family to be raised to the peerage within one generation, being a brother to John Wynford Philipps (1860 - 1938), 1st Viscount St. Davids and of Owen Cosby

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