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PARRY, RICHARD (Gwalchmai; 1803 - 1897), Independent minister, poet, and man of letters , where he had charge of Llan-ffestiniog and Bethania churches. Four years later he returned to Conway. His mind was now set on establishing a church at Llandudno which was rapidly developing as a sea-side resort and, with this in view, he moved there. With the support of a number of wealthy English people he succeeded in building a chapel for both English and Welsh services. He retired in 1881, died 7
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer remarkable poem ' Drudwy Branwen ', which embodies all the notable features of Williams Parry's work - a skilful versification, powerful imagination, and meaningful imagery. Towards the end of the period the poet's style underwent a change. He had long abandoned the verbal exuberance of ' Yr Haf ', but carefully observed the refined language which he held was the hallmark of poetry. Now he modified his
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Rhys”. There also he met Enid, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Picton Davies, whom he married 20 May, 1936. In 1929, on the death of Sir John Morris-Jones, Thomas Parry was appointed lecturer in his old Department at Bangor, now headed by [Sir] Ifor Williams. There, the vigorous and versatile young scholar flourished. His early publications include numerous articles on Siôn Dafydd Rhys and his
PAYNE, HENRY THOMAS (1759 - 1832), cleric and ecclesiastical historian he entitled 'Collectanea Menevensia' (SD/Ch/B27 and SD/Ch/B28, now in the National Library of Wales among the capitular records of the diocese of S. Davids). With them should be studied a third manuscript volume by him, this being in the form of a report made to the precentor and chapter on 17 June 1830. There is evidence among other manuscripts by Payne in N.L.W. that Theophilus Jones's Hist. of
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

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