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PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet through the marriage of his eldest daughter, Lowry, who was his heiress, with Robert Evans of Tan-y-bwlch. By 1632, too, his widow, Elizabeth (daughter of Peter Meyrick of Ucheldre, Gwyddelwern) had married Griffith Lloyd. An Edmund Price got the living of Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire, 5 February 1637, and was transferred in June 1639 to the living of Llanfechell, Anglesey (by this time he is entered in
PRYS, ELIS (Y Doctor Coch, The Red Doctor; 1512? - 1594) Plas Iolyn, times Member of Parliament for Merioneth; he was sheriff of Merioneth seven times; sheriff of Denbighshire four times; sheriff of Anglesey twice; and once of Caernarvonshire. He was custos rotulorum of Merioneth for the greater part of Elizabeth's reign. He was also a member of the Council of the Marches, and in 1561 he was made chancellor of Bangor and rector of Llaniestyn; in February 1565 he was
PRYS, JOHN PRICHARD (fl. c. 1704-1721) Eglwys-ael, Llangadwaladr, poet
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters Born 4 July 1807 in a cottage called Beudy Clegyrog, Llan-badrig, Anglesey. He only had four days' schooling, two when he was 5 years of age and two more fifteen years later. His mother died when he was 4 years of age, and in the spring of 1818 his father died also. As the children were in dire poverty the Llandrygarn vestry (for by now they were in that parish) found employment for the three
PUGHE, ELIZABETH ('Eliza') (1826 - 1847), deaf illustrator Eliza Pughe was born in 1826 at Chwaen Wen, Tref Alaw, Anglesey, the youngest of three children of David Roberts Pughe and his wife Elizabeth. Chwaen Wen was the home of her maternal grandparents. The family moved to Coch-y-Bug, Pontllyfni near Clynnog around 1828. Eliza's eldest brother was John Pughe (1814-1874), a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and known in Welsh literary circles as
PUGHE, JOHN (Ioan ab Hu Feddyg; 1814 - 1874), physician and littérateur Born 8 September 1814 at Ysgubor Fawr, Chwaen-wen, Anglesey, the eldest son of David Roberts Pughe and Elizabeth his wife. He qualified as a doctor after training at S. Thomas's Hospital, London, where he received the degree of F.R.C.S. He first practised at Barmouth but later moved to Aberdovey where he spent most of his life. In his early days he lived at Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire, and was
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet and other members of the Society of Gwyneddigion and was received as member in 1783. In 1784 he was the secretary of the society; he was president in 1789, 1804, and 1820. It may be that in 1784 he was a member of the Society of Cymmrodorion - at any rate, he used to be invited to the meetings. At this time he began to read the manuscripts of the Morrises of Anglesey and resolved to compile a Welsh
teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, ' foresta domini Rogeri de Pyvylston ' occurs as a boundary in a deed of sale of lands in Gwillington (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1888, 32, 293). On 20 March 1293/4 he was appointed by Edward I the first sheriff of Anglesey (Cal. Welsh Rolls, 283), and as such was responsible for levying the odious tax of a fifteenth on moveables which precipitated the revolt led by Madog ap Llywelyn in the autumn of 1294
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge was the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Puleston (born at Allington, Denbighshire, 1548), who was the fourth son of Sir Roger Puleston of Emral (died 1587). He was born at Kingsworthy, Hants, where his father (who also held the sinecure rectories of Llaneugrad, Anglesey, 1592-6, and Hope, Flintshire, from 1597) had been rector since 1596, on resigning the rectory of Astbury, Cheshire, which he had
REES, HENRY (1798 - 1869), most famous minister among the Calvinistic Methodists in his day died at Benarth, near Conway, 18 February 1869, and was buried at Llantysilio, Anglesey.
REES, JOSIAH (1744 - 1804), Unitarian minister (Llangyfelach parish - today Pontardawe); he lived at Gelli-gron, and kept school there till c. 1785. He was deeply interested in Welsh history and literature, and in March 1770 began publishing a fortnightly magazine, Trysorfa Gwybodaeth, better known under the title Yr Eurgrawn, which was suggested by Richard Morris of Anglesey (see Add. M.L., p. 767). Only fifteen numbers appeared - still, this was the
REES, THOMAS WYNFORD (Dagger; 1898 - 1959), major-general Born in 1898 at Holyhead, Anglesey, but spent his early years in Barry, Glamorganshire where his father, T.M. Rees, was pastor of Bethel (Meth.). He married 1926 Rosalie, eldest daughter of Sir Charles Innes and had one son (Peter Rees, M.P. (C), Dover), and one daughter. Acknowledged as one of Wales ' finest soldier s during and between the two world wars, and a distinguished campaigner in Far

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