Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian According to T. M. Rees (Not. W.), he was born at Blaenau-y-pant, in the parish of Llandygwydd, Carmarthenshire (sic for Cardiganshire). O. Jones (Cymru) and Y Brython (1861, 162) state only that he was 'of Blaen-pant,' which does not necessarily imply that he was born there. Foster (Alumni Oxonienses) mentions a James Phillips who was the son of John Phillips of Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister seceded (c. 1787), and founded the church of Rhyd-y-parc (Llanwinio), Phillips joined it, and began preaching. On the death of Owen Davies (1719 - 1792), Phillips was ordained pastor. By 1811 (the date of the Unitarian missioner Lyons's visit to Rhyd-y-parc), Phillips was definitely a Unitarian, but too poorly in health to be active - it would seem that the church was then served chiefly by Benjamin
PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH (1872 - 1960), worker for women's causes and author Born in 1872 in the registration district of Hereford, a twin daughter and one of the large family of John Picton Warlow, later (1891) John Picton Turbervill of Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire, and Eleanor (née Temple) his second wife. Soon after leaving the Royal School, Bath, she had her first experience of social service when she endeavoured to improve the conditions of the navvies working on
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Padarn; 1786 - 1857), poet preserved: and that all should not fall into oblivion', there was no need to include his contribution to the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819, which had already appeared in Awen Dyfed (1822). In his ode for this meeting, 'on the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton', he commemorated Picton's career in the West Indies, including his promotion to 'Famed governor.../ In Trinidad
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor . The D.N.B. can hardly be right in saying that he was also under the tuition of the Quaker James Picton, for Picton left Tenby when James was only four, and spent the subsequent years mostly in prison. James Owen himself told Calamy that he was under the tuition of Samuel Jones (1628 - 1697) at Brynllywarch in 1672-3; he came afterwards under Stephen Hughes at Swansea. Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist member of the Philipps family from Pembrokeshire, he took the title Milford from his ancestor, Richard Philipps of Picton Castle, who was created Baron Milford in the Irish peerage. Two of Laurence Philipps's brothers also became peers: John Wynford Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids (1860-1938) and Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant (1863-1937). A third brother, Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps (1861
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born in 1810, at Pontrhydfendigaid, Cardiganshire, eldest son of David and Mary Phillips, Ty-mawr. His parents were in humble circumstances and he spent his early years with his maternal grandmother, Jane Jones, a cousin of John Williams, Lledrod (1747 - 1831). He received his early education at home and in the Sunday School. When about 14 he was deeply moved by a religious revival in the
OWEN family Orielton, Cynddelw, said to have been steward to Owain Gwynedd; Elizabeth Wirriot was the daughter and sole heiress of George Wirriot and his wife Jane, daughter of John Philipps of Picton castle. (The Wirriot family had been settled in Pembrokeshire since the 12th century; Giraldus Gambrensis mentions a Stephen of that name. A David Wirriot of the barony of Pembroke was one of the twelve jurors for the subsidy of
BLEDRI ap CYDIFOR (fl. 1116-30), chieftain , and Picton. Bledri is an unusual name, and it is natural to identify the Carmarthen magnate with the ' Bledhericus ' of Gerald of Wales, whom he describes as a famous romancer, not long dead. Norman French, it is certain, was a familiar tongue to one who acted as interpreter between the two races. It is a further step, not accepted on all hands, to find in the same man the ' Breri ' who is treated
DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet , justice of South Wales, when the latter's sun set in 1447. There is evidence (Panton MS. 40 (83)) that he served in Ireland under Richard, duke of York, father of Edward IV, and it was to him, perhaps, that Hywel Dafydd addressed a cywydd which is full of references to that service. Owain's wife was Catherine, daughter of John Wogan of Picton, Pembrokeshire, and their son, Harry Dwnn, and a nephew of
PHILLIPS, CLIFFORD (1914 - 1984), journalist Cliff Phillips, the son of William Phillips, a steel worker, and his wife Maria Davies, Glanaman, was born 17 September 1914 in Glanaman, Carmarthenshire and educated at the local primary school and Amanford Secondary School. Encouraged by his uncle, William Anthony Davies ('Llygad Llwchwr'), Cliff Phillips turned to journalism as a career, first as the Ammanford correspondent for the Amman

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