Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 establish the research station, with £1,000 annually for the next ten years towards its maintainance. Also, in 1944, he made provision for the payment of £800 annually for ten years to create The Milford Chair of Animal Health to conduct research which was closely allied to the work at the Plant Breeding Station. In recognition of his generosity the first laboratory to be built at the new centre at
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Born on 25 March 1863 at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, the third son of the Reverend 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 also noticed separately: Sir Ivor Philipps and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. Sir
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist Born at Manor House, High Street, Brentwood, Essex, on 25 February 1902, the eldest child of Laurence Richard Philipps (1874-1962) and Ethel Georgina Speke (1879-1971). Laurence Philipps was a man of considerable wealth, with interests in shipping and insurance; he was granted a baronetcy in 1919 and made a baron in 1939, with the title of Baron Milford, of Llanstephan in the County of Radnor. A
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. Welsh interest - genealogies and visitations, lists of sheriffs and magistrates, charters, rolls, etc. Examples are Barddoniaeth gan hen awdwyr or Ancient Welsh poetry; A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Llannerch Library, taken June 21st 1787; a Manuscripts at Porkington, the seat of William Ormsby Gore Esq. near Oswestry, co. Salop, and Will of Sir Richard Philipps, Bart., Baron Milford. It has been
PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' revenue. If the manuscript evidence about his activities is somewhat scanty, authoritative tradition is picturesquely rich; Cromwell requesting him to preach before him and his officers during the siege of Pembroke in 1648, and to pray on board every ship that sailed to Ireland out of Milford in 1649. He is said to have taken all Pembrokeshire to be his parish, and to have preached before the judges on
PHILLIPS, PHILIP ESMONDE (1888 - 1960), Rear Admiral , Milford Haven and later as Senior British Naval Officer, Trinidad. He retired finally in 1945 and was appointed C.B. He was Deputy Lieutenant for Breconshire. He lived at Woodberry Cottage, Itchester, Sussex, and died 27 February 1960 at Chichester hospital.
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI (c. 1730 - 1812), banker and jeweller Born probably at Frankfort-on-Main, Germany. With his brother, MOSES, he came to London (he had property in Lambeth) and settled at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. There they were befriended by a Phillips, whose surname they adopted, and were baptized (Moses on 23 June 1755) at S. Mary's church, Haverfordwest. Samuel was one of the founders of the Haverfordwest Bank and the Milford Bank. He married
REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff Born 13 December 1883 son of John Rees, Priory Hill and later of Hakin, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, a dock worker. He was educated in the local board school before gaining a scholarship to the local intermediate school on 24 January 1898; he entered the University College at Cardiff in 1901, where he graduated with Class 1 in History in 1904. In 1908 he gained Class I in the school of Modern
RHYS ap THOMAS Sir (1449 - 1525), chief Welsh supporter of Henry VII military force in his support, but after the accession of Richard III he got into touch with Henry Tudor who was then an exile in Brittany. There is little doubt that he promised to assist him and that, when Henry landed at Milford Haven, he used his great influence in his favour, though the story that he salved his conscience by allowing Henry to cross over his body while he crouched under Mullock
RICHARDS, JOHN (Isalaw; 1843 - 1901), musician Born 13 July 1843 at Hirael, Bangor, in a house called the King's head (a memorial tablet was placed on his house in 1931), the son of Richard and Mary Richards, the father was from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, the mother from Llangwnadl, Caernarfonshire. After some time at the Garth British school, Bangor, he attended the Shoreland Road school, Birmingham, for two years; it was at Birmingham
TUDOR, JASPER (c. 1431 - 1495), earl of Pembroke Welsh bards, who supported the cause of Lancaster against York. On the outbreak of hostilities (having taken great pains to secure his rear in the south-west), he besieged and took Denbigh in 1460, then left for France to seek aid and, returning, probably landed at Milford Haven and reached Herefordshire in time to take part in the battle of Mortimer's Cross (February 1461). He escaped from the field
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, , resolved to impeach him in April 1643. Carbery does not appear to have taken any active steps until the summer of 1643 when he summoned representatives of Pembrokeshire to a conference at Carmarthen, with a view to suppressing those who had Parliamentary sympathy there, and to the security of Milford Haven, where troops, withdrawn from Ireland, might land. He entered the county in August. Tenby submitted

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