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  • PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Association diploma, and was responsible for cataloguing the Welsh section (including the collection of Robert Jones, Rotherhithe,). He was elected F.L.A. in 1913 and F.S.A. (Scotland) in 1920-21. He was promoted Borough Welsh and Celtic librarian and subsequently in 1923 joint-librarian with W.J. Salter until his retirement in 1939. D. Rhys Phillips was nurtured in the literary and cultural societies of
  • PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 published Trysor o gân, poems for children in four volumes (1930-36), Caniadau Trefîn (1950) and Edmund Jones, 'The Old Prophet ' (1959). He married three times: (1), Hannah Clement, a nurse of Tredegar, in 1915. She died 24 April 1943. They had one daughter. He married (2), Violet Annie Burnell, schoolteacher, 13 April 1946. The marriage was dissolved unopposed at Trefîn's petition November 1950. He
  • PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (fl. 1836) Penrhyn,, hymnwriter She was the author of twenty-five hymns which were discovered by Richard Griffith (Carneddog) among the manuscripts of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion). Carneddog copied the hymns and they were published for the first time in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1906. A note on the manuscripts, in the hand of Alltud Eifion, stated that she was the mother of Dr. Thomas Hughes (1793 - 1837), a physician, of Plas-ward
  • PHILLIPS, EVAN (1829 - 1912), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 22 October 1829 in a cottage called Milestone in the Capel y Drindod neighbourhood; his mother was a second cousin of Christmas Evans 's. When he was a little over 20 years of age he began to preach at Capel y Drindod chapel. He then spent two years at Atpar school, Newcastle Emlyn, and in 1853 was admitted to Trevecka College. Early in October 1859 he married Anne Jones of Cwrcoed, near
  • PHILLIPS, HENRY (1719 - 1789), Baptist minister Born at Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire, in 1719. At 18 he was converted by Howel Harris, went to Llanddowror to Griffith Jones, and was afterwards master of several of his circulating schools; he was a communicant of Howel Davies 's. Joining the Baptists at Pen-y-garn, Monmouth, he was baptized (1750) by Miles Harry, and underwent training for the ministry at Trosnant, and then (1751) at Bristol. In
  • 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, 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
  • PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet became the chief agent of the Company, a position he retained for twenty years. As a printer he helped Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), to establish his printing press at Tremadoc in 1854. He wrote much to Y Drysorfa, Y Gwyliedydd, Y Geiniogwerth, Seren Gomer, Y Methodist, and Y Traethodydd (1849-54). He was sub-editor of Y Gwyliedydd, and was editor of the poetry in Goleuad Cymru, 1822-38. He did
  • PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist Born at Talgarth, Brecknockshire, 15 October 1854, son of Thomas Phillips, registrar. He was educated at the Normal College, Bangor (he was later tutor there) and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1884 with first class in science; he subsequently gained a D.Sc. degree of London University for research work on seaweed. He returned to Bangor in 1884 as a lecturer in biology at
  • PHILLIPS, Sir THOMAS (1801 - 1867), barrister and author Born in 1801 at Ynys-garth, Clydach, in the parish of Llanelly, Brecknock, the son of Thomas [who died at Llanellen, 6 January 1845, aged 80] and Anne Phillips. In his youth the family moved to Trosnant, near Pontypool. He was articled to Thomas Protheroe, an attorney of Newport, and became his partner. The two men took an active part in local politics in the period of the Reform Act, and, in
  • PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1772 - 1842), Congregational minister, and master of Neuadd-lwyd school, Cardiganshire . Among his pupils were J. Rhys Kilsby Jones, and the two first missionaries who went to Madagascar - David Jones and Thomas Bevan. Sermons by Phillips were published in 1803, 1808, 1811. Besides these he published a Catechism, 1812; Natur Cyfamod Eglwys, 1815; Sypiau Grawnwin …, 1818; Ychydig o Hymnau Efengylaidd, 1821 (2nd ed., 1842); and - his more important work - a short commentary (in Welsh) on
  • PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1806 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and Welsh secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society , and took a prominent part in the founding (in 1864) of the C.M. General Assembly, becoming, in 1865, its second moderator. He died at Hereford 28 October 1870. There is a biography in English, of which there is a Welsh version (London, 1871). His eldest son was THOMAS LLOYD PHILLIPS (1832 - 1900), minister and schoolmaster Religion Education He was apprenticed to Thomas Gee, and in 1856 published