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PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 borrowed books from him, and he helped her to learn French and German. When John Roberts died in 1903, Winnie went for a short time to her uncle Owen Parry, CM minister at Cemaes, Anglesey. By the beginning of 1908 her father had returned for a time to Thornton Heath, Croydon, and it seems that Winnie went to live with him. She edited Cymru'r Plant from Croydon between 1908 and the middle of 1912 when
PARRY, THOMAS (Llanerchydd; c. 1809 - 1874), poet son of Richard and Margaret Parry of Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, and a brother to Richard Parry (Gwalchmai). He was a saddler by trade, and played a prominent part in the social and cultural life of Llannerch-y-medd. He was also deacon and secretary of the Congregational chapel in the village for many years. But it is as a poet that he is chiefly remembered. After winning his first prize at
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society Born in 1719, fourth son of John Parry of Gwredog, Anglesey (of the family of Pen-dref, Rhodogeidio, near Llannerch-y-medd - see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 346), and his wife, Elizabeth (Thomas), of Trefor in Llansadwrn. The Morris brothers call him 'kinsman' (câr); proof of such relationship has not been found, but it is odd how closely Parry's fortunes (in the period during which we know
PAULINUS (fl. late 5th century), saint , combine to suggest that this Paulinus is the Welsh saint of that name. But there is no positive evidence to make the identification certain. The 'Paulinus' mentioned on a pillar-stone found in the parish of Llantrisant, Anglesey, may also be this saint (Nash-Williams, 63). The church of Llan-gors, Brecknock, is dedicated to Paulinus. In the old parish of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire, Capel Peulin and
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller : the Morris brothers of Anglesey (Richard, William, and Lewis), Hugh Davies, the author of Welsh Botanology, John Lloyd (1733 - 1793), rector of Caerwys, who accompanied him on all his Welsh travels ('To his great skill in the language and antiquities of our country I am myself much indebted'), Moses Griffith, a native of Bryncroes, Llyn, his faithful servant and self-taught draughtsman who travelled
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author published. These are - Anningait and Ajutt … A Greenland Tale Inscribed to Mr. Samuel Johnson, 1761; Select Poems from Mr. Gesner's Pastorals, 1762; Poems with a Dramatic Entertainment, 1771; A Pastoral Elegy, 1773?; Poems, 1780 (a reprint of the 1771 work). Thomas Pennant refers to the 1780 work in his Tours in Wales, ii, whilst Richard Morris, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, knew of the
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
PERYF ap CEDIFOR WYDDEL (fl. 1170), poet He was one of eight brothers at least, seven of whom were foster-brothers of Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd. When Hywel was slain at Pentraeth, Anglesey (1170), in battle against his half-brothers, Dafydd and Rhodri, the sons of Christina, the seven stood by him. Some of them were also slain, and three only of them escaped injury. Ithel, the other brother, had already been killed at Rhuddlan, at an
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights opening article of the March 1896 edition of Young Wales, guest-edited by Leonora and her sister-in-law Elsbeth Philipps. The heroism of Boadicea and the brave priestesses of Anglesey as portrayed by Tacitus were invoked to promote the cause, placing them as models for scores of other women who had shown comparable determination in addressing inequalities both historical and contemporary in fields such
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar School, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1879 and M.A. in 1883. In 1877 he was admitted to the Middle Temple. He was twice married: (1), 1880, to Susan Elizabeth (died 1893), eldest daughter of Richard Barner Roscoe of Accrington, who bore him one son and three daughters; (2), 1897, to Marion Catherine (died 1904), daughter of Richard Owen, of Anglesey and Liverpool. On his
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister received £4 per annum from the 'Common Fund' for itinerating during 1690-3; from 1711 till 1722 he received £6 per annum from the Presbyterian Fund, 'for Carnarvon' - probably the county. He is regarded as the founder of the Independent church at Pwllheli, and in a sense of the church at Caernarvon town as well, and he took out licences on houses in Anglesey. Robert Jones of Rhos-lan (Drych yr Amseroedd
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor was ordained at Bala. During his time at Holywell he married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Parry, Brigan, Llaneugrad, Anglesey, to which district he moved in 1843. In that year he was appointed representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society, for North Wales at the suggestion of Sir Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881). In 1847 he moved to Bangor, and became pastor of Tabernacle church there, from which

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