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PHILLIPS, JAMES (1847 - 1907), historian of Pembrokeshire , Little Haven, Pembrokeshire, which he served till his death on 20 November 1907 at his residence in Haverfordwest. A Liberal in politics, he interested himself in local education, serving as chairman of the Haverfordwest School Board, and from 1903 of the Haverfordwest Managers. He was also a governor of the grammar school and vice-chairman of Tasker's high school, and a member of the county education
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal energetically for the extension of Garth Library and for the establishment of a new library to serve the community of Cwmdu. Phillips gained the admiration of the local MP Vernon Hartshorn, a miner's leader, who encouraged him to involve himself in the activities of the Labour Party, telling some of his officers in the Ogmore constituency: 'We have a leader of men here.' At the age of eighteen in 1916 T. B
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller guardians and rural district council, and represented his district for many years on the Arfon Liberal Association, being a staunch supporter of William Rathbone and William Jones. W. J. Roberts (Gwilym Cowlyd) appointed him recorder of ' Arwest Glan Geirionnydd.' About 1891 he married Gwen, daughter of Owen Jones, Hafodfraith, Penmachno. He died at his home, Willoughby House, Dolwyddelan, 31 July 1912
POWELL, ANNIE (1906 - 1986), teacher, local politician and Communist mayor of Rhondda Communism in the Rhondda, and in the 1945 election, Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), Communist candidate for Rhondda East, came within 1,000 votes of the Labour MP W. H. Mainwaring. Yet only five years later in 1950, the Communist vote collapsed and Pollitt lost by over 20,000 votes as a result of the health, social and industrial legislation of the post-war Labour Government. Communism remained strong in the
POWELL, RAYMOND (1928 - 2001), Labour politician political agent to Walter Padley MP, 1967-79, undertaking the position without remuneration from 1969. He was a senior administrative officer with the Welsh Water Authority, 1969-79 and he also lectured at the National Council of Labour Colleges. Powell served as a member of the executive committee of the Labour Party Wales, 1970-80 and again 1983-90, acting as its chairman in 1977. He was also a Labour
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor platform of the Liberal party at a time when the relations between the Liberal and Tory parties were very strained. He stoutly maintained his views in many fierce debates and against all opposition. But the stormy period of his public life came to an end when he accepted greater responsibilities in the college and was appointed principal, chiefly because of his long service and all that he had done for
PRICE, THOMAS (1852 - 1909), Australian politician member of the South Australia House of Assembly; in 1900, secretary of his party, and in 1901 its leader. He became prime minister of South Australia in the Liberal and Labour coalition government of 1905; he died in office, 31 May 1909. He was a genial and popular man, and an effective public orator.
PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE (1906 - 1978), Conservative politician the seat by the slim margin of just 336 votes, from the sitting Liberal MP Professor D. R. Seaborne-Davies who had held it in the by-election the previous May. In the general election of July 1945 Price-White stood as an avid supporter of Sir Winston Churchill in his campaign to bring to a successful outcome the war against Japan. The constituency subsequently disappeared in the redistribution of
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet society. The cultural Welsh events she organized in the Albert Hall attracted hundreds of ex-patriots, while her soirées at the Prichard family home in St John's Wood were very popular. Practical and determined by nature (and a staunch Liberal while Caradog was a Conservative), she was a stabilising influence in his life, helping him through his battle against alcoholism and bouts of depression
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (bu farw 1713), Particular Baptist Baptists, a letter to be sent in its turn to the free-communionist church at Hexham - all this accounts for a sharp order from the general assembly at Aberavon (beginning of 1654) that the Baptists of north Monmouth were not in any way to consort or commune with Baptists of a lesser but more liberal breed. Nor is there proof that W. Prichard ever received pay from the Puritan powers - as was the case
PROBERT, ARTHUR REGINALD (1909 - 1975), Labour politician . Following the death of the sitting Labour MP D. Emlyn Thomas, Probert was elected MP for the Aberdare constituency in a by-election in October 1954 and held the seat until his retirement in February 1974. In the 1954 by-election he was opposed by Michael Roberts for the Conservatives and Gwynfor Evans, president of Plaid Cymru since 1945. He was secretary to the Welsh PLP, 1956-59, an opposition whip
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales , and by 1957 most of the Welsh heartland had Labour MPs. Labour won Caernarfon in 1945, Merionethshire in 1950; Conwy in 1950, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire in 1951 and Carmarthenshire in 1957. He was the agent for the by-election in Carmarthenshire in 1957 which was won by Megan Lloyd George, who had left the Liberal Party for Labour after her defeat in 1951 in Anglesey. But the most notable victory

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