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PRICE, DAVID (Dewi Dinorwig; 1804 - 1874), Congregational minister and writer
PRICE, DAVID (1762 - 1835), Orientalist Born in 1762 at Merthyr Cynog near Brecon, shortly before the preferment of his father (of the same name) to be vicar of Llanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth. After his father's death in 1775, David Price received a free education at the hands of David Griffith (1726 - 1816). master of Christ College School, Brecon, and his father's erstwhile rector. After one term (1779-80) at Jesus College, Cambridge
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver contribution to education and to people with disabilities in Wales. She was made an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2011, of the University of Wales Trinity St David in 2018 and of Cardiff University in 2019. In 1986 she attempted skydiving for the very first time, and henceforth it became her life's obsession as well as a means to fundraise for her charity. She completed over 1,300
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches of Historiae Britannicae Defensio. He also wrote in Latin a description of Cambria, which Humphrey Llwyd translated, and which David Powel included in his Historie of Cambria, 1584. A manuscript treatise on the restitution of the coinage, 1553, is also attributed to him.
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist the staff of the Church Times. At Oxford he became acquainted with several other young Welshmen, including the historian John Edward Lloyd and became a convinced Welsh nationalist until the end of his life. A devout churchman, he pleaded for disestablishment because he believed that it would be better for the church itself. He gave an account of his conversion to Welsh nationalism and his
PRICE, THOMAS (MALDWYN) (1860 - 1933), musician the 'Maldwyn' was added to his name in later years; born at Talerddig in Llanbryn-mair parish, Montgomeryshire, 19 March 1860, son of Thomas Price, a blacksmith employed at the time on the building of the railway, under David Davies (1818 - 1890); the mother's name was Jane (Howell). Thomas Price, sen., had a rich bass voice and was a well-known choir-conductor; and his daughter, Jenny, won a
PRICE, THOMAS (1852 - 1909), Australian politician Born at Brymbo, Denbighshire, 19 January 1852, son of John and Jane Price. As a boy, he went to Liverpool, where he was for many years a stone-mason. He married (1881) Anne Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Lloyd, a timber-merchant; they had seven children. In 1883 ill-health drove him to Adelaide, South Australia, where in 1891 he became secretary of his trade union. In 1893 he became a labour
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister daughter of Thomas David of Abernant-y-groes, Cwm-bach, by whom he had a son, who died in infancy, and a daughter. His wife died 1 September 1849.
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (bu farw 1704), antiquary and popish recusant Monmouth tradition. According to Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), he wrote in defence of the British history in answer to bishop William Lloyd, 8 December 1681, and also in answer to a work by Sir George Mackenzie. In the Brogyntyn collection there is a letter of 13 March 1681 by him in which he discusses books of travel. On 15 March 1685, when interrupted in London on a proposed journey to Italy by invitation
PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE (1906 - 1978), Conservative politician active service throughout the Second World War, serving at Dunkirk and later on with a coast defence battery, and then in France, the Middle East, Sicily, Italy, and East Africa. He was a member of the Caernarfonshire County Council, 1939-41, and also a member of the Bangor City Council. He was the Conservative MP for Lloyd George's old seat of the Caernarfon Boroughs from 1945 until 1950, capturing
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters probable. He married twice: (1) in 1775, Catherine, daughter of David Roberts of Llan-dyfrydog - she died in 1779, leaving a daughter; (2) in 1785, Gwen, daughter of William Owen of Crafnant near Harlech (afterwards of Fronolau, Penmorfa) - she died in 1797, leaving five children. Though his father had been an Independent, Prichard was a zealous Methodist. He farmed Boteiniol in Llantrisant parish, but
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

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1417 - 1428 of 1927 for "david lloyd george"