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PRICHARD, JOHN (1796 - 1875), Baptist minister and tutor ordained at Llangollen, where he remained for the rest of his life, John Jones (Mathetes) and Hugh Jones being successively joint ministers with him. Before his retirement from the ministry in 1866 he had been responsible for starting a number of new churches in the district. In 1862 the Baptist College was established at Llangollen and John Prichard was invited to be its principal and divinity tutor
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters . He also corresponded with Thomas Charles of Bala, and with Robert Jones of Rhos-lan - the lengthy note on William Prichard in Drych yr Amseroedd is based on the son's information. Many of his letters were printed in Y Traethodydd in 1883 and 1884 (see also Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, ix and x). Cywyddau to Prichard, by Dewi Wyn and Robert ap Gwilym Ddu will be found in the printed
PRICHARD, ROWLAND HUW (1812 - 1887), musician , sef crynodeb o egwyddorion Cerddoriaeth. Hymn-tunes and anthems by him appeared in Haleliwia, 1849; Haleliwia Drachefn, 1855; Llyfr Emynau a Thonau (Stephen and Jones); and other collections. He moved to Holywell in 1880 to serve as an official under the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company. He died 25 January 1887, and was buried in St. Peter's church, Holywell.
PRICHARD, THOMAS JEFFERY LLEWELYN (bu farw 1875?), travelling actor and author Born in the parish of Trallong, Brecknock. He was married at Abergavenny, 14 January 1826, to Naomi Jones of Builth (Seren Gomer, 1826, 122). He is known to have taken part in plays given at Brecon in (e.g., 1841) and at Aberystwyth; it is also said that for some time he was employed by lady Llanover (when she was lady Hall) to catalogue the library in her Monmouthshire home. The work by which he
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (bu farw 1713), Particular Baptist (according to Henry Maurice's report in 1675) this new departure caused some uneasiness, if not schism, in the church. Through the loss of the Llandaff consistory records little is known of the fortunes of Prichard as a Nonconformist in the days of the Restoration, but there is plenty of evidence about the visit of William Jones of Rhydwilym (died c. 1700) to eastern Wales, in 1666 or 1667, to be baptized
teulu PRITCHETT, clerical family Medicine He came from Richard's Castle (on the boundary between Salop and Herefordshire) to Narberth, in the later 17th century, as a licensed medical practitioner, and practised there 'for many years'; he married Sarah, daughter of Charles Evans of Pen-y-wenallt and sister of the historian Theophilus Evans (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., ii, 247). Two of his sons call for
teulu PROGER claiming to be a branch of the Herbert family - in Blome's List of Gentry (1673) the surname ' Herbert ' is attached to several of the persons named in this article. Its original seat was Wern-ddu in Llandeilo-bertholau, Monmouth, but a younger branch is associated with Gwern-vale (in the 14th century, ' tir Gronw Foel'), Crick-howell, Brecknock. The pedigree is given by Theophilus Jones, G. T
PROSSER, DAVID LEWIS (1868 - 1950), archbishop Born 10 June 1868, son of David Prosser of Tŷ Gwyn, Llangynnor, Carmarthenshire and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Llandovery College and Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated with a third-class honours degree in history; he took his B.A. in 1891 and his M.A. in 1895. He was ordained deacon, 18 December 1892, by Bishop Basil Jones of St. David's and licensed to the curacy of Holy
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales , Ness Edwards, James Griffith and other coalfield had leaders studied. In 1936 he was chosen by the South Wales Federation of Miners to visit the Soviet Union coalfield as a member of an important four-man delegation. The three others were Will Arthur, Jim Grant and Tom Andrews from Treharris. They were away for 6 weeks and Tom Andrews, on more than one occasion, spoke briefly in Welsh to the Russian
teulu PRYCE Newtown Hall, Vaughan, was a well-known eccentric, who married three times, his last lady, the widow of Roger Jones of Buckland, Brecknock, having to insist on the removal of the embalmed corpses of her two predecessors from his bedroom before her marriage. Sir John had already, after the death of his second wife, written to the curate of Newtown, then on his deathbed, to ask him to deliver messages of affection to
PRYCE-JONES, Sir PRYCE (1834 - 1920), pioneer of mail order business Born Pryce Jones, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 16 October 1834, second son of William Jones, solicitor, and Mary Ann Goodwin, whose father was a cousin of Robert Owen, the social reformer. After being apprenticed at the age of 12 to a Newtown draper, he established his own business in 1859, in which year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris. He began his mail order business by sending patterns to the
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet . E. Griffith and other writers are in error when they say that Margaret (Williams) was the heiress of Gerddi Bluog and the wife of Morgan Prys; there are in the N.L.W. two sheets of paper (in the Gerddi Bluog and Crafnant collection; see Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes a Chofnodion Sir Feirionnydd, i, 39-40), dated 20 August 1602, dealing with the marriage of Morgan Prys and Elizabeth. Other papers in

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