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PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter son of John Parry, ' the blind harpist ' (1710? - 1782). He was born on the 2 May 1743 in London, after his father's removal from Ruabon, and studied at Shipley's drawing school, the duke of Richmond's gallery, and the S. Martin's Lane academy, and eventually became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was awarded several premiums by the Society of Arts and became a member of the Incorporated
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society Born in 1719, fourth son of John Parry of Gwredog, Anglesey (of the family of Pen-dref, Rhodogeidio, near Llannerch-y-medd - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 346), and his wife, Elizabeth (Thomas), of Trefor in Llansadwrn. The Morris brothers call him 'kinsman' (câr); proof of such relationship has not been found, but it is odd how closely Parry's fortunes (in the period during which we know
PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Anwyl, Parry-Williams commenced his postgraduate career at Jesus College, Oxford in 1909, completing a BLitt thesis under John Rhys on English loan-words in Welsh by summer 1911. (He submitted a closely related MA thesis to the University of Wales at the same time.) His research was later published as the pioneering volume The English Element in Welsh (1923). At Oxford, Parry-Williams also attended
PASCOE, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1893 - 1963), industrialist from a few hundred employees. Among its subsidiaries was Aberdare Holdings (which also included Aberdare Cables, Ltd., Aberdare Engineering, Ltd., and South Wales Switchgear) which Sir John founded in 1955 and which brought up to 4,000 jobs to a depressed area of south Wales. A forthright Conservative he was chairman of the Kettering Conservative and Unionist Association, 1948-53, and a Freeman of
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
teulu PENNANT Penrhyn, Llandygâi The family fortunes were founded on the wealth of the West Indies; by the marriage of John Pennant to Bonella Hodges in 1734 there was a merger of two estates raising sugar in Jamaica, parish of Clarendon (for the most part); John Pennant reaped further blessings (again in Jamaica) from the will of his brother Samuel in 1749, a former lord mayor of London. It is not to be wondered at, therefore
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller Born 14 June 1726 at Flintshire, the son of David Pennant and Arabella (née Mytton). His father only entered into possession of Downing in 1724, on the death of Thomas Pennant, the last survivor of a younger branch of the family, who bequeathed it to him. The original home of the Pennants was Bychton in the same parish (Whitford). The first to settle in Downing was John Pennant the great-great
PENRY, JOHN (1854 - 1883), missionary under the L.M.S. son of John and Margaret Penry, and born 7 April 1854 at Tir-mawr, Llandeilo, he became a church member at Tabernacle, Llandeilo and later at Providence, Llangadog, Carmarthenshire, where, after a sojourn in England, he attended a preparatory school. He studied also at the Lancashire College, and was appointed by the L.M.S. for the central Africa mission. Ordained at Llandeilo on 11 April 1882
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author .' Penry's precise relation with 'Marprelate' has never been satisfactorily explained. At various times the press was in London, at Fawsley, and at Coventry, and besides printing more Marprelate tracts produced Penry's Supplication in 1589. Waldegrave now broke his connection with the press and John Hodgkins took his place. The press was moved to Wolston Priory, but Hodgkins was arrested and in 1589 Penry
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) chaplain; it was doubtless through the latter's influence that he obtained some Anglesey livings - 1601 Rhoscolyn, 1606 Trefdraeth, 1613 Llanfachraeth. He was made canon of Bangor cathedral in 1612/3. His successor to this post was appointed in December 1617, which suggests that Perri had died in the course of the year. Both Dr. John Davies and Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw regarded him as a praiseworthy
teulu PERROT Haroldston, Sir JOHN PERROT (1528 - 1592), statesman Politics, Government and Political Movements Sir John Perrot was born, probably, at Haroldston, in November 1528 and, according to his own statement, was educated at St. David's cathedral school. Later, at the age of 18, he entered the household of the Lord Treasurer, William Paulet, marquis of Winchester. Contrary to the oft quoted myth regarding Perrot's

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