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POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter was excommunicated. He now began to translate into Welsh, and to publish, the works of Glass and Sandeman - Anghyfreithlondeb Bwyta Gwaed, 1764; Llythyrau rhwng Samuel Pike a Robert Sandeman, 1765; and similar books until 1768. Before the end of the 18th century he had begun to publish a series of testy, controversial books of his own authorship and continued to do so for some years - Dychymmygion
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian translation by Humphrey Llwyd of 'Brut y Tywysogion,' which Llwyd had translated from a manuscript ending in 1270, to which he had added an appendix coming down to 1295. But Powel's Historie of Cambria, now called Wales, which he published in 1584, was much fuller than this; in the words of its title-page, it was 'corrected, augmented, and continued, out of records and best approved authors,' and its
POWEL, JOHN (bu farw 1767), weaver-poet Of Rhyd-yr-Eirin, in the parish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. According to Owen Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych, he was born in 1731. It is said that he was a sexton also. One of the closest friends of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) when the latter was curate of Llanfair Talhaiarn, he also regarded him as his bardic teacher. A number of his poems are found in Swansea MS. 1 ('Y Piser Hir'), now in N.L.W
POWEL, THOMAS (1845 - 1922), Celtic scholar was a member of its governing body, and his collection of manuscripts, with many of his rare books, is now in that library. He was a member of the Society for Utilizing the Welsh language and was on the committee appointed by that society to prepare the monograph on Welsh Orthography which was published in 1893 (and again in 1905). Tall, good-looking, and distinguished in appearance, he was an
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, , Montgomeryshire, and Anna Corbet (of Ynysmaengwyn, Merioneth), was THOMAS POWELL (1745? - 1797) who married Eleanor, eldest daughter of Edward Maurice Corbet, also of Ynysmaengwyn. Thomas Powell, who was sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1785, figures in the annals of the Welsh School, London (now continued as the Welsh Girls' School, Ashford, Middlesex); e.g., he laid the foundation stone of the Gray's Inn Road
POWELL, RICHARD (1769 - 1795), poet and schoolmaster Born in Llanegryn, Merioneth. He is probably the Richard (son of Hugh Powell, a weaver, and Jemimah Parry) whose christening [on a date which is now illegible] is recorded in the parish register. In 1793, at the Bala eisteddfod of the Gwyneddigion Society he won the medal out of eleven competitors for his 'Awdyl ar Dymhorau y Vlwyzyn.' His 'Carol Plygain Ddydd Natolic' is to be found in a volume
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon outbreak of the First World War he interrupted his studies, serving as a private in the 32nd Field Ambulance of the RAMC in Gallipoli, Macedonia and Palestine before resuming his studies in Cardiff in 1917, preferring now to become a doctor. In 1919, having won the prestigious Alfred Hughes Memorial prize medal in anatomy (designed by the celebrated sculptor William Goscombe John), he proceeded to the
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver its kind in the United Kingdom. Dilys played a key role in the development of the Centre for Disability Sport at South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, now Cardiff Metropolitan University. Again this centre was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, and was influential in the development of the Paralympic Movement. In 1998, Dilys Price established the pioneering Touch Trust charity
PRICE, JOHN (1600? - 1676), classical scholar and divine Ireland with the earl of Strafford, and became the friend of archbishop Ussher. During the Civil War he wrote some pamphlets, the titles of which are not now known, in the Royalist interest, and in consequence suffered imprisonment. After his release he returned to the Continent, and about 1652 settled at Florence, where the grand duke Ferdinand II made him his keeper of medals and afterwards gave him
PRICE, JOHN (Old Price; 1803 - 1887), cleric, naturalist, and eccentric interest in nature, and became a great friend in after years. He graduated, as third classic, from S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1826. But though he became a master at Shrewsbury and at other schools, he developed an instability and an oddity in dress and behaviour which unfitted him for a normal career. He boasted of his nickname 'Old Price.' He published a number of books (now very scarce), such as
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster proceeded D.D. from New College, 15 July 1614). From 1604 to 1614 he was principal of Hart Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford. He was instituted, 18 October 1591, to the living of Llanfair-juxta-Harlech; ten years later he became sinecure rector of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch (not Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant as stated in D.N.B.). In the meantime he was receiving prefermen's in England - from 9 September 1596
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet sub-editor on a local weekly newspaper, Yr Herald Cymraeg, in Caernarfon before becoming a reporter on the same paper in the Conwy valley, where he later joined the staff of the Faner, another weekly. In 1923 his mother was admitted to the mental hospital at Denbigh, where she would spend the rest of her life (she died 1 May 1954). By now Caradog had started to write poetry, winning prizes in local

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