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  • PUGH, HUGH (1803 - 1868), schoolmaster and Independent minister Born May 1803 at Towyn, Meironnydd. His father had enlisted in the army, in which he served during the Peninsular War. The son was educated by John Jones of Pen-y-parc, a celebrated schoolmaster, until he was 13 years of age, when he went to London as clerk in a solicitor's office. There, he embraced every opportunity of improving his knowledge but was compelled, owing to ill health, to return to
  • PUGH, JOHN (Ieuan Awst; 1783 - 1839), lawyer and poet Born August 1783 in Melinfraenen, Llangelynnin, Meironnydd, the fifth child of David and Catherine Pugh. He only received nine months' schooling, but, despite this lack of education, he gained a local reputation for scholarship in his later years. He moved to Dolgelley when he was 13 years old and became a clerk in a solicitor's office. He was later apprenticed to Thomas Williams, a printer at
  • PUGH, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier , Wiltshire in 1941 and they had 2 daughters. In 1978 the family moved to Wonastow House, Wonastow, Monmouthshire. Lewis Pugh died, aged 73, 10 March 1981. The funeral was in St Thomas, Overmonnow, Monmouth 16 March followed by cremation.
  • PUGH, PHILIP (1679 - 1760), Independent minister Born in 1679 at Hendre, Blaenpennal, Cardiganshire. His father was also Philip Pugh, while his mother, Ann, was a daughter of Dafydd Jones of Coedmor and a step-sister, on her mother's side, of Peregrine Musgrave, the Haverfordwest Quaker. Pugh was educated at Brynllywarch Academy and later, after the death of Samuel Jones in 1697, at Abergavenny. In 1709 he was ordained joint minister with David
  • PUGH, ROBERT (1749 - 1825), cleric named frequently in the letters of Thomas Charles of Bala; he tried to persuade Charles not to leave the Church. As one of the executors of the will of his brother John he was able to comply with the applications of Thomas Charles for support for his Sunday schools and the British and Foreign Bible Society. He died 16 February 1825.
  • PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain , 1914). He attended an ancillary course in geology under Professor O. T. Jones, and helped with the completion of a detailed geological map of the district of Aberystwyth and part of the Dyfi estuary. He then served in the Great War with the Royal Welch Fusiliers, being attached to the General Staff of the 2nd and 4th Army Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in France, and General
  • PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator the translator of Meddygon Myddfai ('The Physicians of Myddfai'). He was a friend of the teacher and poet Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd). Eliza's other brother, David William Pughe (1821-1862), was a poet and antiquarian as well as being an accomplished surgeon. According to a biographical note in her pictorial bilingual English/Welsh dictionary, Eliza Pughe lived from 1831 to 1850 (sic) in Coch y Big
  • PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet of gentlemen. He contributed to English periodicals such as The Gentleman's Magazine and The Monthly Magazine, and was paid by Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) and by some publishers for performing various tasks. He was also an amateur artist (see Mysevin MS. 30 in N.L.W.). It was a meagre existence, undoubtedly, particularly about the years 1804-6 after the residential school had been closed. During this
  • teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, since 1611. The male line of Emral terminated in 1732 with the death of THOMAS PULESTON, who left the estate by will to JOHN PULESTON of Pickhill, a descendant of a younger son of the Roger Puleston who lived temp. Henry VI. His son died without leaving a male heir, and Emral came to his daughter's husband, Richard Parry Price of Bryn-y-pys, who adopted the surname Puleston and was created a baronet
  • PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament was interested in every Welsh national movement. He had acted as vice-president of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, treasurer of the National Eisteddfod Association, 1880-1907, and first chairman of the committee of the London Welsh club. He died 19 October 1908. His sister, Mary Ann Puleston (Mair Clwyd) was the mother of John Puleston Jones.
  • PURNELL, THOMAS (1834 - 1889), author
  • teulu PUW, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, with the earl of Powis at Powys Castle. He was probably living there in 1659 when he published in Paris De Anglicani Cleri Retinenda in Apostolican Sedem observantia, and in 1661, when his second book, Excantationis Amuletum, appeared. In these he attacked the views expressed by Thomas White or Blackloe with regard to the governance of the Roman Catholic Church in England at the time; later, he was