Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral Robert in defence of his patent during the debate in the Commons on the Monopoly Bill in 1624 it would appear that he endeavoured to establish factories in various places - London, the Isle of Purbeck, Milford Haven, and the Trent Valley. John Brand (Hist. of Newcastle) says - ' We may venture to fix the beginning of the glass-works upon the Tyne about 1619, where they were established by Sir Robert
MILFORD, 1st Baron - see PHILIPPS, LAURENCE RICHARD
MILFORD, 2nd Baron - see PHILIPPS, WOGAN
MORGAN family Tredegar Park, John is the subject of a cywydd moliant by the bard Gwilym Tew written c. 1460, in which mention is made of Sir John's journey to Jerusalem, where he was created a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. Sir John, who was a strong supporter of the Lancastrian cause, brought military assistance to Henry VII soon after he landed at Milford. He was one of the receivers of petitions in the first Parliament of
NORRIS, CHARLES (1779 - 1858), artist Born 24 August 1779, second son of John Norris, a wealthy London merchant, by his wife Catherine (Lynch), the divorced wife of Henry Knight of Tythegston, Glamorganshire. Though not a Welshman by birth, Norris lived and worked in Wales for nearly sixty years. He settled in 1800 at Milford, but removed in 1810 to Tenby, where he died 16 October 1858. The great majority of his pictures are
OWEN family Orielton, Haverfordwest after the Royalist defeat at Pill (on Milford Haven) in February 1644. Later he is said to have resorted to the king at Oxford and to have abandoned Pembrokeshire for Anglesey. In 1648 he is alleged to have countenanced the resistance of Poyer and Laugharne at Pembroke; but he appears to have made his peace with the victorious party and, as has been mentioned, he served as sheriff under the
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist Pembroke and Cardigan, deputy-lieutenant, and justice of the peace over a number of years, he was active in the affairs of the militia and strove to persuade the authorities to fortify Milford Haven in face of the persistent fears of a Spanish invasion. He was one of the commissioners appointed by the crown to survey Sir John Perrott's property on the latter's attainder in 1592. He died 26 August 1613
PERROT family Haroldston, Spanish attack. In April 1588 Perrot and his fellow deputy lieutenant George Owen of Henllys, reported to the Privy Council on measures to be taken to defend Milford Haven against a Spanish landing. The defeat of the Spanish Armada did not lessen the pressure on local officials to secure the coasts of south Wales and it is evident from letters written by Perrot to the Privy Council and to the judges at
PERROT family Haroldston, wreckers along the Welsh coasts. He also advocated the fortifying of Milford Haven. He was a member of the Virginia Company, to which he subscribed the sum of £37 10s. He died 4 February 1636, and was buried in S. Mary's church, Haverfordwest. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Ashfield of Chesham, Bucks, but had no issue. ROBERT PERROT (died 1550), organist of Magdalen College, Oxford Music Religion
PHILIPPS family Picton, 7th baronet, was created lord Milford in the Irish peerage on 22 July 1776. He entered Pembroke College, Oxford, on 3 February 1761. He married Elizabeth, daughter of James Philipps of Pentypark in 1764. In politics a Tory, he was Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire 1765-70, 1786-1812, Plymton 1774-9, and Haverfordwest 1784-6. He was appointed custos rotulorum for Haverfordwest in 1764 and lord
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman Baron Milford. Ivor Philipps entered Felstead College at the same time as his eldest brother, John, but he left two years before him and joined the Wiltshire militia as a second lieutenant in April 1881. Two years later, on 12 May 1883, he obtained a commission as a lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment, which was based, at that time, in India. He joined the Indian Army in 1884 and transferred to the
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

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