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teulu PAGET (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen ) from 1790 to 1794, and BERKELEY THOMAS PAGET (1780 - 1842) from 1807 to 1818; while FREDERICK PAGET (1807 - 1866), the eldest son of Berkeley Paget, and GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK PAGET (1818 - 1880), the marquess's third son, were members for Beaumaris, 1832-47 and 1847-57 respectively.
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist
PALMER, HENRY (1679 - 1742), Independent minister affect the district, Palmer again gave proof of his good will; Howel Harris stayed under his roof on the night of 10 March 1740; and Palmer was one of the signatories of a letter (Trevecka Letter 231) inviting Harris to return to the neighbourhood. Palmer died 12 December 1742. One of his sons, GEORGE PALMER (died 1750), became a minister at Swansea; another, JOHN PALMER, was for many a long year an
PARCELL, GEORGE HENRY (1895 - 1967), musician
PARR-DAVIES, HARRY (1914 - 1955), pianist and composer story, Her Excellency, and Deaf Miss Phoebe. He composed music for Gracie Fields ' film, This Week of Grace (1933), and songs for other performers such as George Formby. He died at home in Knightsbridge, London, 14 October 1955, and was buried in Oystermout h cemetery near Swansea.
PARRY, BLANCHE (1507/8 - 1590), Chief Gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's most honourable Privy Chamber and Keeper of Her Majesty's jewels (commissioning the first map of Llangorse Lake in 1584) and in Yorkshire. Her estate at death was worth about £½ million to £1 million in modern values (substantial for an unmarried lady but a fraction of, for example, the Earl of Leicester's). Her name recurs very frequently in official records, and there are references to her in contemporary literature. In 1575 George Gascoigne wrote of her: For long and
PARRY, GEORGE (1613? - 1678), cleric, and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms Born c. 1613, the son of James Rhys Parry. Some details concerning the connection of the family with Herefordshire and Brecknock are given in the article on the translator's father, and, more fully, in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 276-301, and iii, 13-6-many of the details being taken from the prefaces to George Parry's version of the Psalms (in NLW MS 641C). George, the son
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms He was a member of some branch of the old-established family of Parry of Poston, Herefordshire (cf. Parry, Blanche), and Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig, Brecknock - for pedigree, see Theophilus Jones, Brecknock [iv, 2-3, 155], and Llyfr Baglan. James Parry may be the James ap Rhys Parry mentioned in Llyfr Baglan, 37; at the time that his son George Parry went to Oxford (17 January 1633/4) the father
PARRY, OWEN HENRY (1912 - 1956), jazz musician sextet which he formed were heard for the first time. Miff Ferrie heard of him and it was from that association that the group ' Jackdauz ' was formed. He held concerts in the Locarno, London, and shared platforms with musicians like Michael Flome, Louis Levy and Charles Shadwell. He joined the blind pianist, George Shearing, and the drummer, Ben Edwards, to form a trio which became very popular. It
PAYNE, FFRANSIS GEORGE - gweler PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE
PAYNE, FRANCIS GEORGE (1900 - 1992), scholar and literary figure Born 21 November 1900 in Kington, Herefordshire, to Francis George Holton Payne (1865-1909) and Hannah Elizabeth Payne (née Lewis) (1867-1937). His father was a Welsh-speaking native of Cardiff who owned a draper's shop in Kington and who died when Ffransis Payne was nine years old. From the local elementary school he went to Lady Hawkins' School, Kington, where his imagination was aroused by 'a
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author members of the Calvinistic Methodist Historical Soc. He wrote for the Western Mail and published Beulah, Margam, 1838-1938, a historical hsketc (1938), and a biography, The Rt. Hon. George Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor of London, 1884-5 (1938).

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