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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
teulu PERROT Haroldston, English officials of his council, a victim of his own unbridled tongue and temper, irritated beyond measure by the enmity of Adam Loftus, archbishop of Dublin, and others, he begged to be recalled. He returned to England in 1588, bitter and disillusioned, suffering from gallstone and kidney trouble, but able, nevertheless, to boast to his successor, Sir William Fitzwilliam, that he had left Ireland in a
PERROTT, THOMAS (bu farw 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor Born it is believed, at Llan-y-bri, Carmarthenshire; he had a brother, John, who was successor-elect to him as schoolmaster at Trelawnyd (T. A. Glenn, Newmarket Notes, ii, 20), and a nephew who went to Carmarthen Academy. David Peter says that Perrot was taught by William Evans (died 1718) at Carmarthen - this would seem (as Perrot's name does not appear in the Academy lists) to refer to Evans's
PETER, DAVID (1765 - 1837), Congregational minister and academy principal preach at Penrhiwgaled. He became an assistant tutor at Swansea Academy under William Howell in 1789, received a call from Lammas Street (Carmarthen) church, 9 December 1791, and was ordained there 8 June 1792; among those who signed the call were Sarah Lewis, who afterwards became his wife, and John Ross, the well-known Carmarthen printer and publisher. He was senior tutor of the Presbyterian Academy
PHILIP ap RHYS (fl. 1530), Tudor organist and composer . 6v only the initials 'P.R.' are given. He was at S. Paul's cathedral during the time when the Tudor school of organists reached its highest peak, and he must have known John Redford, William Whitbroke, and other musicians connected with the establishment. Although his extant compositions are not many, Philip ap Rhys holds a unique place among his fellow- organists, for he is the author of an organ
teulu PHILIPPS Picton, the French war of 1513 he was captain of a retinue of a hundred men and in that year he was knighted. On 16 October 1516 he became sheriff of Pembrokeshire and bailiff in eyre in the lordship of Haverfordwest. He was a patron of the bard Lewis Glyn Cothi. He died before 8 December 1520 when his son, JOHN PHILIPPS, server of the chamber, succeeded him in the offices of steward of Llanstephan and
teulu PHILIPPS Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, 1634, became the third husband of Anne, daughter of Sir William Wogan (others say John) of Wiston, Pembrokeshire. They had two sons: (1) JAMES PHILIPPS (1594 - 1675), who matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1610, and was sheriff in 1649. Like his brother Hector (below), he was a zealous Parliament man in the Civil Wars, a ' Commissioner of Sequestration ' in west Wales, a member of the army
PHILIPPS, JENKIN THOMAS (bu farw 1755), tutor and author George II, including William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, for whose use he wrote some Latin grammars and readers. In addition to many Latin dissertations on theological and ecclesiastical subjects, he published several English works on various topics, such as the laws and constitution of Denmark, and biographies of royal personages. He left in his will £60 a year towards the maintenance of a free
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner that he intended to resign as trustee of the 5% stock. By now the government was alarmed both at the situation and by its failure to obtain a clear picture of the Group's liabilities because of Kylsant's cavalier way of treating the Group as a whole in discussion of profit, loss and liability. Sir William McLintock, a leading accountant, was appointed by the government on 19 December 1929 to carry
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist -election. He worked with the Gloucestershire branch of the National Union of Farmworkers and he contested, as a Communist candidate, the Cirencester and Tewkesbury constituency in 1950 but received only 473 votes. After Cristina Philipps died in 1953, he married, in the following year, Tamara Rust, the widow of William Rust, editor of The Daily Worker. His father died on 7 December 1962; in his will, he
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. Welsh interest - genealogies and visitations, lists of sheriffs and magistrates, charters, rolls, etc. Examples are Barddoniaeth gan hen awdwyr or Ancient Welsh poetry; A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Llannerch Library, taken June 21st 1787; a Manuscripts at Porkington, the seat of William Ormsby Gore Esq. near Oswestry, co. Salop, and Will of Sir Richard Philipps, Bart., Baron Milford. It has been
PHILLIPS, CLIFFORD (1914 - 1984), journalist Cliff Phillips, the son of William Phillips, a steel worker, and his wife Maria Davies, Glanaman, was born 17 September 1914 in Glanaman, Carmarthenshire and educated at the local primary school and Amanford Secondary School. Encouraged by his uncle, William Anthony Davies ('Llygad Llwchwr'), Cliff Phillips turned to journalism as a career, first as the Ammanford correspondent for the Amman

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