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PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician . During the 1930s he was one of the first contributors to the BBC's music programmes for schools, and served as organist and choirmaster of Pembroke Terrace chapel. In 1943 he was appointed Director of Music at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in succession to E. T. Davies, and he was appointed to a Chair of Music at Bangor in 1963. During his time at Bangor he did much to develop the
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet on for five years as a pupil-teacher. He then attended Holt Academy under James Oliver Jones. He spent the last four months of 1876 as a temporary teacher at Loveston school, near Narberth, Pembrokeshire. In 1877 he entered Bangor Normal College, and on completing the course in 1879 he was appointed schoolmaster at Rhyd-ddu, where he remained until his retirement in 1923. Parry-Williams's poetry
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar appointed university lecturer in Welsh. Despite Eifion Wyn's eloquent condemnation of its amorality and sordidness, 'Y Ddinas' won Parry-Williams the Crown at the Bangor National Eisteddfod in 1915 and is today considered the first properly Modernist poem in Welsh. Parry-Williams won the Chair at the same Eisteddfod (for a 'chromatic' awdl on the subject of Snowdonia); this made him the first poet to win
teulu PENNANT Penrhyn, Llandygâi great achievements to his credit; he completely reorganized the working arrangements at the quarry of Cae-braich-y-cafn; took a lease from bishop Warren upon the Pen-y-bryn foreshore and built the quay; developed the trade in writing-slates, rearing sawmills at Coed-y-parc and Nant Gwreiddiog; was foremost in the movement to build a new road from Bangor to Capel Curig; all this besides keeping a very
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar 2. Pennar Davies was a minister in Cardiff from 1943 to 1946 when he was appointed to the staff of Coleg Bala-Bangor, Bangor. The Davies family moved to Bangor in 1946 and then, in 1950, when Pennar Davies was appointed to Coleg Coffa, to Brecon where Meirion spent his formative years as a youth. He claimed to have had a 'un-literary upbringing' in his youth but he began writing poetry in English
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author The entry in the Bangor (Caernarfonshire) parish register recording her christening under 6 January 1728/9, describes her as daughter of Bulkeley Hughes (died 1740?), cleric, and Mary his wife; the father became vicar of Bangor, 2 June 1713, and was instituted to the living of Edern on 17 January 1722/3. She married Penny, and lived in London (Bloomsbury Square), where all her works were
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) chaplain; it was doubtless through the latter's influence that he obtained some Anglesey livings - 1601 Rhoscolyn, 1606 Trefdraeth, 1613 Llanfachraeth. He was made canon of Bangor cathedral in 1612/3. His successor to this post was appointed in December 1617, which suggests that Perri had died in the course of the year. Both Dr. John Davies and Thomas Wiliems of Trefriw regarded him as a praiseworthy
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology there was very brief as the extreme heat affected his eyesight badly and after a year he was forced to return to Britain. He was appointed to a lectureship at a teachers' training college in Edinburgh, and then in 1963 he was appointed lecturer in Religious Education at the Normal College, Bangor, and Warden of the George Hostel. On his retirement he returned to live in his old home in Newport. He was
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist by their art, taking any kind of artistic work that came their way. They held their first joint exhibition in Bangor in 1936 and another a year later. He started teaching an adult evening art class at Bangor in 1936, and created wood engravings and linocuts to sell as greeting cards. They bought a hand press in 1937 and founded the Caseg Press, hand printing and colouring greetings cards
teulu PHILIPPS Picton, 1572, he was the leader of a political faction in Pembrokeshire in opposition to the party of Sir John Perrot. He died 14 March 1573 and his brother, MORGAN PHILIPPS (died c. 1585), succeeded to his estates in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. After the dissolution of his marriage to the wife of William Scourfield, Morgan Philipps married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fletcher, registrar of Bangor
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor was ordained at Bala. During his time at Holywell he married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Parry, Brigan, Llaneugrad, Anglesey, to which district he moved in 1843. In that year he was appointed representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society, for North Wales at the suggestion of Sir Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881). In 1847 he moved to Bangor, and became pastor of Tabernacle church there, from which
PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist Born at Talgarth, Brecknockshire, 15 October 1854, son of Thomas Phillips, registrar. He was educated at the Normal College, Bangor (he was later tutor there) and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1884 with first class in science; he subsequently gained a D.Sc. degree of London University for research work on seaweed. He returned to Bangor in 1884 as a lecturer in biology at

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