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OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture death, though his pastorate was rather stormy. He, too, wrote a good deal - e.g. he co-operated with Alaw Ddu (W. T. Rees) in a biography of Ieuan Gwyllt, 1880. But he also inherited his father's interest in scientific farming, having indeed worked much on his father's farm - 'at bottom,' it was said of him, 'he was a farmer.' He went to Canada to seek openings for Welsh emigrants. From 1892 till 1896
OWEN, OWEN (1850 - 1920), first chief inspector of the Central Welsh Board for Intermediate Education in Wales Oswestry High School, which became well known, and by its excellent record attracted pupils from all parts of Wales, many of whom became leaders in the public life of Wales. In Oswestry Owen became a justice of the peace, a keen politician, and a leader in the fight for Disestablishment. From 1890 to 1893 he was co-secretary of the joint conferences, which framed the various county schemes under the
OWEN, ROBERT (1771 - 1858), Utopian Socialist London he moved to Manchester where he made rapid progress in cotton-spinning. His business brought him to Scotland where he bought the New Lanark cotton mills for himself and his partners. There he initiated a great experiment in community building on which his fame rests. His work there entitles him to be called the pioneer in factory reform, the father of distributive co-operation, and the founder
PADLEY, WALTER ERNEST (1916 - 1984), Labour politician He was born at Chipping Norton on 24 July 1916, the son of Ernest Padley, a grocery clerk and his wife Mildred. He received his education at Chipping Norton Grammar School and as the holder of a TUC scholarship, at Ruskin College, Oxford. He began his career as a clerk with the Co-operative Wholesale Society and in 1933 joined the Distributive Workers Union. He had joined the ILP in 1932 and
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator lectureship in law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. With the guidance and encouragement of Sir William Beveridge, the director, and Sir Edward Jenks, the head of the law department, his career flourished. His principal interests were the laws of property and inheritance, and his publications included Wolstenholme and Cherry's Conveyancing Statutes (1927), which he co-wrote with Sir
PARRY, GEORGE (1613? - 1678), cleric, and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms of James Rhys Parry, was almost certainly the same as ' George Parry, son of James Parry of Michael Church (Michael-church Escle), co. Hereford, pleb., S. John's College, matric. 17 January, 1633-4, aged 21; B.A. 4 February 1633-4; perhaps M.A. Hart Hall 23 June 1635, and vicar of Dingestow, co. Monmouth, 1640, perhaps canon of Llandaff 1663 ' (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). George Parry himself (in
PARRY, OWEN HENRY (1912 - 1956), jazz musician You ' and the most popular, perhaps, ' Champagne ' became household names amongst his followers. He appeared in five short films and was described by some critics as ' Britain's jazz king '. According to one of his contemporaries, he was the first from Wales and England to record a voice in instrumental style with the co-operation of his own band. The crowds flocked to listen to him in centres such
PARRY, ROBERT (fl. 1540?-1612?), author and diarist .; for the significance of these poems see Carleton Brown, The Poems of Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester (Brynmawr, U.S.A., 1913, and London, 1914). The writer of the account of Parry in D.N.B. suggests that he may be the 'R.P.' who co-operated with Margaret Tyler in translating from the Spanish original (by D. Ortunez de Calahorra, P. la Sierra, and M. Martinez), the Mirrour of Princely Deeds and
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet compiled and published an index of the works of [Sir] Ifor Williams, his Head of Department. In the same year, jointly with E. Curig Davies, he published a volume of general knowledge for children, Gwybod, llyfr y bachgen a'r eneth. He produced the tenth in a series of Pamphlets for Welsh Pacifists (Tystiolaeth y Tadau, 1942), he wrote a booklet on Eisteddfod y Cymry (1943), and co-edited with Cynan a
PEARSON, ARTHUR (1897 - 1980), Labour politician Arthur Pearson was born at Pontypridd on 31 January 1897, the son of William Pearson. He received his education at local elementary and central schools. At just twelve years of age he began working as an errand boy. He worked as a chainworker at the Pontypridd Chainworks of Brown, Lennox and Co. for twenty-five years from 1913 until 1938. He was elected treasurer of the local branch of the
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Professor Herbert John Fleure). Fleure's influence was soon to be seen in the volume Gyda'r Wawr: Braslun o Hanes Cymru'r Oesoedd Canol (1923) (ed. H. J. Fleure) which looked at medieval Wales from a human geography viewpoint. He was responsible for writing the text and his three co-authors prepared the maps and illustrations: he never had much to say for the use of maps, one of the distinctive tools of
teulu PHILIPPS Picton, Sometime before 17 October 1491 Sir THOMAS PHILIPPS of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire, married Joan Dwnn, daughter and heiress of Harry Dwnn (son of Owen Dwnn of Muddlescomb in Kidwelly and Katherine Wogan, second daughter of John Wogan and widow of Sir Henry Wogan) and Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Wogan of Wiston. The Kilsant (Cilsant) family claimed descent from Cadifor Fawr of

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