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OWEN, ROBERT (1820 - 1902), cleric and author pronounced Anglo-Catholic and in 1851 published An Apology for the High Church Movement on Liberal Principles. A volume of verse by him, The Pilgrimage to Rome, appeared in 1863; and he published various other books - on the saints, the canon law, and other matters; one only of these works concerns Wales - The Kymry, their Origin, History, and International Relations, 1891. He supported the
PADLEY, WALTER ERNEST (1916 - 1984), Labour politician believed to have been the youngest president ever to be elected to this position at the age of 31. He was once a close colleague of James Maxton in the leadership of the ILP. Padley was the Labour MP for Ogmore, from 1950 to 1979 when he retired. It was regarded as one of the safest Labour seats in the country, and Padley raised his majority to more than 26,000 votes. He was elected a member of the
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian the opening chapter of his ' Holt,' published in Archæologia Cambrensis that year. While eschewing public life, he held strong convictions (of a liberal cast) in both religion and politics. It was primarily with a view to checking what he called ' the scandalous invasion of the rights of the poor ' in the common lands (on which he also wrote to the local press) that he gave evidence before the royal
teulu PARRY Madryn, Llŷn into great prominence in 1868 when, as a Liberal, he captured the Caernarvonshire seat from the sitting member, the son of the 1st lord Penrhyn; in 1874 he lost the seat to him; in 1882 he was elected Member of Parliament for the boroughs, and again in 1885, but lost in July 1886. Already in that year he had suffered another disappointment, by being passed over by Gladstone in appointing a lord
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) the stained-glass window commemorating Miles ap Harri removed from Bacton to Atcham, and at the same time put up there a window to Blanche Parry. Blanche left liberal legacies and charitable bequests - her will was privately printed (1845) by Sir Thomas Phillipps. It is known that her religious opinions were conservative - indeed, she is thought to have been a Roman Catholic. Blanche Parry touches
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels important as it is the first depiction of Queen Elizabeth as Gloriana. However, Blanche died almost certainly at Westminster and was buried in Saint Margaret's Church adjacent to Westminster Abbey where her tomb effigy can be seen. Blanche left liberal legacies and charitable bequests (her Final Will was first privately printed, 1845, by Sir Thomas Phillipps); £28 is still paid annually to the
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet up with the mores and the customs of the liberal youth of that period, he was a fair, upright principal to staff and students. He was a successful university administrator, almost universally respected. But there was something of an uproar because of his independent stand on the question of the University. The Commission that met between 1961 and 1964 to consider the University of Wales's
PEARSON, ARTHUR (1897 - 1980), Labour politician 1937-38 and he also served as a member of the Glamorgan County Council, 1928-45. In 1933-34 he was chairman of the Pontypridd Education Committee, and he became a JP in 1939. He was elected the Labour MP for the Pontypridd constituency in a by-election in 1938 in succession to D. L. Davies, and continued to represent the constituency until he resolved to retire from parliament in June 1970. His
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman Pembrokeshire Yeomanry in April 1908. A few days after his appointment at the War Office, he was promoted to Brigadier General commanding the 115th Brigade. Early in 1915, Philipps was raised to the rank of Major General and placed in command of the 38th Welsh Division. Since 1906, Philipps had been one of the two Liberal Members of Parliament for Southampton and it is likely that the influence of David Lloyd
PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) rates to the sons of clergymen. As the eldest son, John was allowed to enter Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1882 with a third class honours degree in modern history. While reading for the bar at the Middle Temple, he stood in 1886 as a Gladstonian Liberal for the Devizes constituency in Wiltshire but lost heavily to the Conservative member. He was called to the Bar in 1886. On 14
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights later visit to the United States, Leonora Philipps was persuaded of the need to fight for equality for women. She joined the Women's Liberal Federation, founded between 1886 and 1888, where she became part of a network of women prominent in the cause for women's suffrage, as testified by her correspondence with Millicent Fawcett (1847-1929), Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle (1845-1921), and
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner important figure in the shipping world and he had made the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company profitable. His achievements were rewarded with a knighthood in 1909. While in Scotland, Philipps had been active in politics as secretary of the Glasgow Central Liberal Association. He was anxious to enter the House of Commons and stood unsuccessfully for the Montgomery District of Boroughs in 1895 and for

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