Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARR-DAVIES, HARRY (1914 - 1955), pianist and composer Born at Briton Ferry, Neath, Glamorganshire, 24 May 1914, son of D.J. and Rosina Davies (née Parr). He was educated at Dunraven school, Treherbert and Neath intermediate school. His musical talent became evident when he was a child, and he is said to have composed 30 songs and two operettas before he was 13 years old. Seymour Perrott, the Neath borough organist, provided his musical education
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels . Blanche died, unmarried, on Thursday 12 February 1589/90, aged 82 years, respected by all which was a rare achievement at the Tudor Court. Before November 1578 she had commissioned her monument, with effigies, in Bacton Church; the inscription which she composed states 'with a maiden queen a maid did end my life', prime evidence that both she and the queen were virgins. This monument is nationally
PARRY, JOHN (1770 - 1820), poet were six children of the marriage. Parry lived in or near Llanelian for the whole of his life, and for a period he and his wife kept an inn in the village. He died 25 June 1820, and was buried three days later in Llanelian churchyard. He composed a number of poems, mainly of a religious nature, and was noted for his gift of repartee. A selection of his works is to be found in Robert Humphreys, Y
PARRY, JOHN (Bardd Alaw; 1776 - 1851), musician professional harpist. He was also a good pianist, and when he was twenty began to appear as a vocalist (baritone). He was also an artist of some repute. Afterwards he turned to light and entertaining songs. A duet composed by him called 'Flow gently, Deva' became very popular in Wales. In 1840 he composed a light opera called 'Wanted, a Governess'; he was also busy producing numerous songs. He had left the
PARRY, JOSEPH (1841 - 1903), musician composer of songs, choruses, anthems, hymns, and some instrumental works. He composed several operas, of which 'Blodwen' (1880) had some 500 performances by 1896. Among his other larger works were the oratorios, 'Emmanuel' (1880), 'Saul' (1892), and the cantata 'Nebuchadnezzar' (1884). He lectured and wrote much to periodicals. His romantic career, unflagging industry, fluent talent, and professional
PARRY, MORRIS (fl. 1661-1683), cleric and bard 3057D, Wynnstay MS. 6, NLW MS 11993A, and B.M. Add. MSS. 14891, 14892, 14975, and 14994. An elegy composed on his death by Siôn Dafydd of Penllyn is found in NLW MS 3027E. He appears to have been the possessor of a manuscript copy of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir's work, 'The history of the Gwydir family,' about 1674. He was buried at Llanelian, 26 September 1683.
PARRY, RICHARD (1710 - 1763) Newborough, poet, schoolmaster, and sexton His published work includes ' Araith Wgan ar Gân ' (Brython, 1863), and also a number of other poems (one of them at least a translation from English) which were published in the 18th century; a list of these is given by Myrddin Fardd in Y Traethodydd, 1886. A carol composed by him is found in NLW MS 1666B (209b); it is also probable that he is the Richard Parry whose poems are found in Bodewryd
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar lectures on other subjects, including psychology, a discipline pioneered by the university, the influence of which can be traced in his subsequent poems and essays. Easter 1912 was spent travelling in Switzerland and it was here, in part, that he composed the awdl ('Y Mynydd') and the pryddest ('Gerallt Gymro') that won him both Chair and Crown at the Wrexham National Eisteddfod that year, gaining him
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet earlier date, while fighting for Owain Gwynedd, and a series of englynion lamenting his death had been composed by Cynddelw (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 174a). On p. 346 of The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales we find a series of elegiac englynion by Peryf to Hywel, and in the Hendreg. MS. 126a, and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 281b, there is an anonymous series, which are clearly the work
PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet much to promote the study of Welsh literature and music at Portmadoc, and was a prominent public speaker. He wrote a good deal of poetry in free metre, and some of his poems, also his translation of Wordsworth's ' We Are Seven,' became popular. He also composed hymns for special occasions; some of these are included in the Welsh Congregational Hymn Book and the Methodist Hymn Book. He wrote many
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy analysis of his poems: elegies, 32; eulogies, 33; requests and thanks, 13; love, 5; bardic controversies, 11; 'Nannau,' 7; miscellaneous, 7. The thirty-two elegies are mostly to members of North Wales families, but there is one to Dafydd Llwyd ab Ifan of Aber Maed (Abermâd), Cardiganshire. A little-known cywydd bemoans the death of Katheryn of Berain, and one elegy was composed when queen Elizabeth died
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver composed by John Howell, William Edwards, Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), and David Saunders. In 1828, a monument to Picton was erected at Carmarthen by public subscription; in 1836, one of the first Welsh biographical dictionaries claimed that his 'meritorious life was distinguished for his zeal in the service of his country'; in 1846 the by then unsafe original Carmarthen monument was replaced by a

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