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PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller , booksellers, London. The twenty-two volumes of the Outlines are now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Two years before his death, Pennant completed a volume on his native parish and that of Holywell where some of the family lived (Whiteford and Holywell, 1796). During his lifetime Pennant received many honours and marks of distinction, foreign as well as British. The one he most appreciated was
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author .' Penry's precise relation with 'Marprelate' has never been satisfactorily explained. At various times the press was in London, at Fawsley, and at Coventry, and besides printing more Marprelate tracts produced Penry's Supplication in 1589. Waldegrave now broke his connection with the press and John Hodgkins took his place. The press was moved to Wolston Priory, but Hodgkins was arrested and in 1589 Penry
teulu PERROT Haroldston, 1560-1 he served as mayor of Haverfordwest, and as commissioner for concealed lands, and in 1562 he was appointed vice-admiral of the coast in South Wales. In the following year, he was returned to Parliament as member for Pembrokeshire. He now rapidly became the most powerful personality in the county, but his numerous lawsuits and intense love of litigation as a means of embarrassing his enemies
teulu PERROT Haroldston, Pembrokeshire. He now rapidly became the most powerful personality in the county, but his numerous lawsuits and intense love of litigation as a means of embarrassing his enemies made him very unpopular among his powerful neighbours. In 1570 he became mayor of Haverfordwest, after a period during which the mayor and corporation had been bitterly anti- Perrot. He was the first president of Munster from 1571 to
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer Heavyweight title. 1934 was a very successful year for him; he won all of his seven fights, securing the Heavyweight Championship of Britain and the Commonwealth in his second match against Len Harvey, again the first Welshman to win that title. By now he had won thirty-two fights and lost only one. Petersen fought only twice in 1935, and he lost on both occasions to the powerful German boxer Walter Neusel
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman of Philipps as a man with political connections who had retired from the Indian Army a major but was now a major general. Unfortunately, the unjust slurs which army gossip laid on Philipps became attached to the conduct of the Welsh troops under his command. The battle of Mametz Wood lasted from 7-12 July and the division suffered very heavy casualties, while forcing, in hard and difficult
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights ). The Federation prepared the ground through its support to the suffrage movement, as eminent figures in the Liberal Party had done in the past for other causes, causes which by now were central to the Party's policies. Giving a specific Welsh spin to her argument, Philipps placed the progressive faction's views within the context of the history of Wales and the Welsh people's dogged resistance to
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner with South America where he controlled considerable railway interests. Owen Philipps was now in control of a considerable fleet of merchant ships, which led W. J. Pirrie of Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipyard, to propose that he would supply Philipps with ships built at cost, provided his shipyard obtained all the repair work and future contracts. From this time, there was a warm friendship, on a
PHILIPPS, WOGAN (2nd Baron Milford), (1902 - 1993), politician and artist son had joined the Communist Party and that he was both divorced and re-married, Sir Laurence, now Lord Milford, cancelled his son's allowance, for the last time and announced that he was to be disinherited. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Philipps's health prevented him from joining the armed forces; he was turned down by the Home Guard but for reasons of politics rather than health. He
PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar settling down in Corris, Merioneth, about 1903, and there, for the rest of his life, he lived alone with his books and his cats. He had a good library and a collection of Welsh manuscripts which are now in the National Library of Wales. He devoted his life to Celtic studies and published learned articles and notes on Welsh history, topography, place-names, personal names, and mythology. The fruits of his
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. ; for details see J. Gwenogfryn Evans, Repts. on MSS. in the Welsh Language, Cardiff, and the annual reports of that period of the Cardiff Public Libraries Committee. One of the most famous early Welsh manuscripts, viz., the ' Book of Aneirin ' (now in Cardiff), had found its way to the Phillipps collection, via Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) and others (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, xi, 109-12
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver anniversary of the conquest of Trinidad. However, in Fullarton's absence, and with the support of most of the French and Spanish planters on the island (who would offer substantial financial support during his later trials), Picton resumed power, now as a de facto dictator, until relieved of all posts and sailing for Britain in June 1803. In London, Picton faced several trials for misuse of power. The

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