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PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
PHILLIPS, DANIEL THOMAS (1842 - 1905), Baptist minister and American consul emigrating to the United States. There he ministered to churches in Philadelphia, Port Chester, Baltimore, and Chicago. Like most Welsh immigrants he adhered to the Republican Party, and he took a very active part in the presidential campaign in 1896 on behalf of William McKinley. On this account, president McKinley nominated him consul at Cardiff, where he took up duties on 31 August 1897. He took an
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1751 - 1825), Unitarian minister Phillips of St Clears and William Thomas of Llangyndeyrn. But in 1816, when the missioner Wright visited the church, Phillips had a coadjutor, a John Evans, who may possibly have been the man named on p. 500 of David Jones's Hanes Bed. Deheubarth, but is more likely to have been the John Evans who, at that time (1816-25), had charge of the Unitarians who then used Dark Gate chapel at Carmarthen. Phillips
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Born 8 October 1889 in Rose Cottage, Tre-fin, Pembrokeshire, only child of William Bateman and Martha (née Davies) Phillips. His father was a sailor but after leaving the sea he was a baker in Porthcawl. Trefîn's mother died in 1898 after she had been a patient for 5 years in Saint David's Hospital in Carmarthen, and he was adopted by his father's sister, Mary, wife of John Martin, a sailmaker
PHILLIPS, EVAN OWEN (1826 - 1897), dean of S. Davids Born 27 April 1826, son of William Phillips of Trecŵn ('Trecoon'), Pembrokeshire, and educated at Cardigan grammar school and Corpus Christi College Cambridge (Wrangler in 1849, and subsequently Fellow of Corpus). He was warden of Llandovery College (1854-61), vicar of Llanbadarn-fawr, Aberystwyth (1861-86), and rector of Letterston, Pembrokeshire, 1886-95. He became canon of S. Davids in 1874
PHILLIPS, JAMES (1703 - 1783), cleric and antiquarian or twelve years during the minority of colonel Owen Brigstocke's father. He was thus able to make use of the excellent library collected there by Owen Brigstocke, the brother of William Brigstocke who had come into the estate of Blaen-pant on his marriage with the co-heiress. It was probably this library which stimulated him to take an interest in Welsh antiquities. He corresponded with Samuel
PHILLIPS, MORGAN (bu farw 1570), Roman Catholic priest Douai with two other celebrated exiles, Dr. Owen Lewis and Dr. William Allen, and helped the latter to establish the famous college which trained Roman Catholic priests for the English mission field. He was an ardent supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and wrote the Defence of the Honour of Mary Queen of Scotland which was published at Douai in 1571. He died 18 August 1570.
PHILLIPS, MORGAN HECTOR (1885 - 1953), headmaster and football. He was appointed (from among 45 applicants) headmaster of Ruthin School in 1930. He took a great interest in rugby which had already been introduced into the school by his predecessor, Edwin William Lovegrove, and he managed to ensure that important rugby matches were played on the school field. Mystery remains concerning his resignation from the headship in 1935, which was attributed
PHILLIPS, MORGAN WALTER (1902 - 1963), general secretary of the Labour Party Born in Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 June 1902, one of the six children of William Phillips, but he was brought up in Bargoed, Glamorganshire. He left school when he was 12 years old to become a colliery surface worker. When he was 18 years old he became a member of the Caerphilly divisional Labour Party, secretary of the party in Bargoed, 1923-25, and chairman of the Bargoed Steam Coal Lodge
PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist
PHILLIPS, WILLIAM (1822 - 1905), botanist and antiquary Born 4 May 1822 at Presteign, Radnorshire, but his family was of Shrewsbury - ancestors of his had been burgesses there from 1634. He was in school at Presteign, and later was apprenticed to his brother, a tailor in High Street, Shrewsbury, with a flourishing business in which William Phillips was eventually a partner. About 1861 he began to take an interest in botany, becoming in later years an
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy A family of Welsh poets who lived in Ardudwy, Meironnydd, in the 16th and 17th cents.. Their period ranges from c. 1543, in which year Siôn Phylip was probably born, to 1678, when probate was granted of the will of Phylip Siôn Phylip, one of his sons. The royalist poet, William Phylip, is usually accounted of the group. The two brothers, Siôn and Rhisiart, and Siôn's two sons, Gruffydd and Phylip

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1285 - 1296 of 1867 for "William Glyn"