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teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy by drowning at Pwllheli, 13 February 1620, when crossing to Mochres on the way back from a bardic tour of Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. He left a widow and six children. His death was mourned by Edmund Prys, Richard Cynwal, Ieuan Llwyd, Gruffydd Hafren, Rowland Fychan, and by his own son, Gruffydd Phylip. He was buried close by his home in the parish church of Llandanwg. RHISIART PHYLIP (died 1641
PIERCE, JOHN (1889 - 1955), author, minister (Presb.) and schoolteacher Born in Llandegfan, Anglesey, 10 August 1889. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school; University College, Bangor, where he graduated B.A. in 1915; and Bala College. He was ordained in 1918 and called to the pastorate of Adwy'r Clawdd, but departed in 1921 when he was appointed Welsh master at Llangefni grammar school. He died 19 January 1955. He was author of several children's adventure
POWELL, JONATHAN (1764 - 1823), Independent minister he decided to leave. In 1798 he went to Anglesey to take charge of the churches of Rhos-y-meirch and Capel Mawr. At that time there were very few ministers in the island and he had a hand in founding a number of new Independent chapels, twenty-eight of which were registered as places of worship in the course of his ministry. He was a gifted and able man, a diligent student who was regarded as one
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, to his brother, ROGER PRICE (1653/4? - 1719); high sheriff of Merioneth, 1709-10, high sheriff of Caernarvon, 1710-11. He died 17 October 1719. His wife was Martha, daughter of Robert, viscount Bulkeley, of Baron Hill, Anglesey. By her he was the father of WILLIAM PRICE II (1690 - 1774), antiquary History and Culture He matriculated, as from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1707. He was high sheriff of
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician his tune ' Natalia ' appeared in G. Harris's Haleliwiah Drachefn; see R. D. Griffith, Hanes Canu Cynulleidfaol Cymru, 157, 162. When his brother died, Price sold the cottage and emigrated to Australia. He had intended returning to this country on the Royal Charter but, fortunately for himself, failed to catch it - the ship, it will be remembered, was wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, 20 October 1859
PRICE, JOHN (1735 - 1813), Bodley's librarian, Oxford made many benefactions. He resided at S. Giles; died 12 August 1813, and was buried at Wilcote on 20 August. He wrote A Short Account of Holyhead in the Isle of Anglesey, 1783. This was No. 10 of Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. He also contributed an article to Archaeologia, vol. 8, entitled ' An Account of a bronze image of Roman workmanship.' Many of his letters were published in Nichols
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters Born in 1749 (apparently, judging from one of his letters, at the end of June), at Bodlew, Llanddaniel, Anglesey. He was the fifth child (the first of the second marriage) of William Prichard (1702 - 1773). Some have it that he had little schooling, others that he went to school at Liverpool - considering his excellent penmanship and the range of his general knowledge, the latter seems more
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist William Prichard and his family were exiles from Glasfryn Fawr and went to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey, but the people of Anglesey persecuted the new tenant of that celebrated place inhumanly. When the landlord was induced to drive him out of the neighbourhood he went to Bodlew, Llanddaniel, where again he suffered persecution because of his religious views. However, when William Bulkeley of Brynddu
PRITCHARD, MICHAEL (c. 1709 - 1733), poet Born c. 1709, son of Richard William Pritchard, weaver and sexton, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He left Llanllyfni at an early age and went to Llan-fechell in Anglesey, where he worked for many years as gardener in the employ of William Bulkeley, Brynddu. He was a poet of considerable ability and many of his works have been preserved. The more notable of his compositions were ' Cywydd i'r Wyddfa
PRITCHARD, ROBERT (fl. 1730-1738), poet and master mariner Blodeu-gerdd Cymry contains a long religious poem by ' Robert Pritchard of Pentraeth, Anglesey, 1738.' He was probably the 'Robert Prichard Poet,' master of the small vessel, Blessing, which carried slates from Abercegin, near Bangor, from 1730 to 1733, as recorded in the Penrhyn estate papers.
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
PRYCE, JOHN (1828 - 1903), dean of Bangor , Anglesey, from 1872 till his death on 3 March 1895. The youngest, SHADRACH PRYCE (1833 - 1914), also graduated (1858) from Queens '; he was vicar of Ysbyty Ifan (1864-7), where he published Arweiniad i Eglwys y Plwyf (1867), a translation of a work by bishop Harvey Goodwin; from 1867 till 1894 he was H.M. inspector of Schools in the diocese of S. Davids; from 1893 till 1899, vicar of Llanfihangel

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