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PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain William (Bill) Pugh was born 28 July 1892 in Westbury, Shropshire, son of John Pugh (a master wheelwright, later coal merchant and well-known lay preacher) and his second wife, Harriet. He went to Westbury village school, and won a scholarship to Welshpool County School, Montgomeryshire. In 1910 he gained entry to University College of Wales (UCW), Aberystwyth, where he graduated BA (Geography
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur a close friend of Eben Fardd. In Eben's Cyff Beuno there are many notes by Pughe. He published an entertaining biography of the bard: Eben Fardd: ei nodion a'i hynodion. He also translated Meddygon Myddfai, the Physicians of Myddfai, edited by John Williams, Ab Ithel, and published by the Welsh MSS. Society, 1864. He married Catherine Samuel, daughter of Samuel Samuel, Caernarfon, 21 February 1839
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet Born in Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Meironnydd, 7 August 1759, the son of John Owen of Rhiwywerfa near Abergynolwyn and his wife Anne Owen. The family moved shortly afterwards to the farmhouse of Egryn in Ardudwy. He claimed that in his youth he had heard Ardudwy singers in his home and had seen companies playing interludes, but what influenced him most was the reading of Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru
teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, (died 1469), whose father, JOHN PULESTON (will proved 17 April 1444), had married Angharad, daughter of Griffith Hanmer and grand-daughter of Tudur ap Gronwy of Anglesey, was a staunch Lancastrian and held Denbigh castle as deputy-constable to his kinsman, Jasper, earl of Pembroke during the campaign of 1460-1. Under the Tudor's, four members of the family played a leading part in the county
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge ), of his uncle George Puleston, brother and heir to Sir Roger (1566 - 1618). His wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Woolrych, of Dudmaston, Salop, and an earnest Presbyterian, was installed there with her infant children by the beginning of the Civil War, when they were forced to leave owing to the occupation and garrisoning of the house for the king (c. September 1642) by Sir John Hanmer; it was
PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament Born 2 June 1829 at Plas Newydd, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, eldest son of John Puleston, a descendant of the Puleston family of Emral. He was educated at Ruthin grammar school and King's College, London. He spent some time in the U.S.A., where, between 1856 and 1860, he came into prominence as the editor of two newspapers, and later as a reputable banker and as an honorary colonel under president
PURNELL, THOMAS (1834 - 1889), author , and others as members. He came to know Mazzini, to whom he introduced Swinburne and others. He published: Literature and its Professors, 1867; Dramatists of the Present Day, 1871; Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb, 1871; To London and elsewhere, 1881; The Lady Drusilla: a Psychological Romance, 1886; Dust and Diamonds: Essays, 1888; and edited Historian Quatuor Regum Angliae (by John Herd
PYRKE, JOHN (1755 - 1834), japanners He came from London (where he sold japan-ware, principally tea-urns) to Usk in 1799, and in 1814 became owner of the japannery of Thomas Hughes (1740 - 1828). Pyrke popularized the chocolate-brown lacquer for which Usk japan became noted; and also used papier-maché as a base. His decoration was artistic, but the quality of his lacquer deteriorated. Pyrke (a burgher of Usk in 1815, and portreeve
QUARRELL, THOMAS (bu farw 1709), Puritan preacher, free-communion Baptist laws by preaching in secret conventicles at Eglwysilan, Llanedern, Marshfield, and Bedwas. In 1670 he (and two others) received a letter from Vavasor Powell a little before his death enclosing a small gift of money. In 1672, on 25 July, he received a licence to preach in the house of John Maurice at Shirenewton; in 1675 Henry Maurice assigns an important place to Quarrell amongst the Dissenters of
RANDALL, HENRY JOHN (1877 - 1964), lawyer and historian
RANDLES, EDWARD (1763 - 1820), blind harpist and organist Born 1763 at Wrexham, the son of Edward Randles, butcher. He was taught the harp by John Parry, Ruabon. In 1788 he was appointed organist of Wrexham parish church. George Thomson, Edinburgh, in the introduction to his Alawon Cymreig, refers to him as a very proficient harpist. He and his daughter, Elizabeth Randles, played before George III and queen Charlotte. He died 23 August 1820 at Wrexham.

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