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PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister . William Edwards's book, Bapto a Baptiso (1857), Jiwbili Eglwys Calfaria, Aberdar (1862), and Trem (1885-6), together with many addresses, etc. But he was better known as the co-editor of Y Gwron (1855-60), Y Gweithiwr (1859-60), and Seren Cymru (1860-76); he also served as finance secretary to Seren Gomer (1853-59), and edited Y Medelwr Ieuanc and Y Gwyliedydd. No minister in Wales took such a prominent
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (bu farw 1704), antiquary and popish recusant Sessions for recusancy, and is credited with the collection of a large number of manuscripts which he sent to the Vatican. Lord Castlemaine found refuge at The Hall in Llanfyllin after the Revolution of 1688. As an antiquary, Price belonged to the same circle as William Maurice of Cefn-y-braich, Robert Davies of Llannerch, and William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph. He was a champion of the Geoffrey of
PRICE, WATKIN WILLIAM (1873 - 1967), schoolmaster, researcher
PRICE, WILLIAM (1597 - 1646), cleric
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
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters Born in 1749 (apparently, judging from one of his letters, at the end of June), at Bodlew, Llanddaniel, Anglesey. He was the fifth child (the first of the second marriage) of William Prichard (1702 - 1773). Some have it that he had little schooling, others that he went to school at Liverpool - considering his excellent penmanship and the range of his general knowledge, the latter seems more
PRICHARD, THOMAS (1764 - 1843), author a native of Monmouthshire, born in 1764, he lived for a considerable period of his life at Ross, Herefordshire, where, too, he died. He was an elder in the Society of Friends, and in 1813 he published Remarks suggested by the perusal of a Portraiture of Primitive Quakerism by William Penn. He is said to have been ' eminent in goodness and in greatness,' and to have been more conversant with the
PRICHARD, THOMAS JEFFERY LLEWELYN (bu farw 1875?), travelling actor and author is best remembered today is The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti, which was first published at Aberystwyth in 1828 ('Printed for the Author by John Cox '). This book ran into several editions - the second edition (Cowbridge) has a preface written by the author at Builth, September 1839, with references to William Owen Pughe, David Owen (Brutus), and W. J. Rees, Cascob; the third
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist William Prichard and his family were exiles from Glasfryn Fawr and went to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey, but the people of Anglesey persecuted the new tenant of that celebrated place inhumanly. When the landlord was induced to drive him out of the neighbourhood he went to Bodlew, Llanddaniel, where again he suffered persecution because of his religious views. However, when William Bulkeley of Brynddu
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (bu farw 1713), Particular Baptist (according to Henry Maurice's report in 1675) this new departure caused some uneasiness, if not schism, in the church. Through the loss of the Llandaff consistory records little is known of the fortunes of Prichard as a Nonconformist in the days of the Restoration, but there is plenty of evidence about the visit of William Jones of Rhydwilym (died c. 1700) to eastern Wales, in 1666 or 1667, to be baptized
PRISIART, JOHN WILLIAM - gweler PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM
PRITCHARD, MICHAEL (c. 1709 - 1733), poet Born c. 1709, son of Richard William Pritchard, weaver and sexton, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He left Llanllyfni at an early age and went to Llan-fechell in Anglesey, where he worked for many years as gardener in the employ of William Bulkeley, Brynddu. He was a poet of considerable ability and many of his works have been preserved. The more notable of his compositions were ' Cywydd i'r Wyddfa

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