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PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Mary Saunders.
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy John Wynn of Gwydir and his eldest son John Wynn, Simwnt Thelwall of Plas y Ward, the Vaughans of Corsygedol, Sir William Maurice of Clenennau, etc. He wrote one cywydd priodas. The occasion was the marriage of Sir Roger Mostyn to Mary, daughter of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. Of the love poems, the best known is the cywydd to the sea-gull. Siôn Phylip wrote his share of poems of a religious or didactic
PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH (1872 - 1960), worker for women's causes and author
POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter He was a wealthy gentleman, one of the Popkins of Ynysdawe and Forest; he lived at Plas Tal-y-garn c. 1801 [having married Mary, daughter of James Prichard of Collennau near Tonyrefail, who had at one time lived at Tal-y-garn-fawr ], but resided at Forest, Llansamlet, in the latter years of his life. The date of his joining the Methodists is not known but he came into prominence in 1759 as an
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, Member of Parliament for Cardigan borough, 1725-7 and 1729-30, and for Cardigan county, 1721, 1742-7. His wife was Mary, grand-daughter of Sir John Frederick, lord mayor of London (1662). Thomas Powell gave £50 towards restoring Cardigan church in 1748. He died 16 November 1752, his estate devolving upon his only surviving brother Rev. WILLIAM POWELL, D.C.L. (1705 - 1780) (John Powell, the other
POWELL, WILLIAM (Gwilym Pennant; 1830 - 1902), poet his many successes were silver medals at the national eisteddfod, Llandudno, 1864, the Swansea eisteddfod, 1863, and at the Llangefni eisteddfod. He was fifth for the chair at the Merthyr eisteddfod, 1888. He married (1), Mary Theodore, Llanfair Caereinion, by whom he had five children, and (2), 1895, a Miss Jones of Westminster. He died 16 July 1902, and was buried in London.
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher ). From his mother, Mary Cowper-Johnson, he derived the more literary blood of the poets John Donne and William Cowper. Born 8 October 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father's first parish, but in 1879 the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset, then, in 1885, to Montacute vicarage, Somerset. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1894 drifted into the post of
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, PRICE (died 1554) of Rhiwlas, is described as the third son of Sir Robert ap Rhys. He married Jane, daughter of Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert of Gwydir. To him came much land which belonged formerly to the abbey of Strata Marcella (Ystrad Marchell), near Welshpool. Cadwaladr held lands in the commote of Penllyn in the time of Philip and Mary. The bard and herald Gruffudd Hiraethog sent him a cywydd (c
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister Born 17 April 1820, son of John and Mary Price of Maesycwper, near Ysgethrog, Llanhamlach, Brecknock. He began to earn his living at an early age by assisting a local farmer. Afterwards he became a page boy in the family of Clifton of Tŷ Mawr, Llanfrynach. The Clifton daughters taught him to read English. He saved £21 to pay for his own apprenticeship to Thomas Watkins, The Struet, Brecon
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary Born 2 October 1787 at Pencaerelin in Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Brecknock, the younger son of Rice Price, vicar of Llanwrthyl in that county from 1789 to his death in 1810, and of Mary Bowen of Pencaerelin, the daughter of a vicar. In his home he heard not only the songs and traditions of the peasantry but also the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym and occasionally the strains of the harp. He attended
PRICE, WILLIAM (1800 - 1893), eccentric Born 4 March 1800 at Ty'nycoedcae, in the parish of Rudry, Monmouthshire, third son of the Rev. William Price and his wife, Mary. He attended school at Machen, and later became was apprenticed to Evan Edwards, Caerphilly, and became a student at Bart's and at London Hospital, qualifying as a L.S.A. (September 1821) and M.R.C.S. (October 1821). He practised at Nantgarw, Treforest, and Pontypridd

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