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teulu PROGER families. In 1530 the mansion and half the lands were bought by Meredydd ap Meredydd ap Morgan; this Morgan was a son of Dafydd Gam. The Meredydds ran out in an heiress, Elizabeth, who (according to Theophilus Jones and Bradney) married LEWIS PROGER, second son of the William Proger named under A. Lewis was succeeded by his son EDWARD, whose son WROTH PROGER sold Gwern-vale (1668) to the Sir Henry Proger
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet of Morgan ap Lewis of Pengwern, his first wife's cousin - both being descended from Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Einion, constable of Harlech castle, and, therefore, being of the lineage of Osbwrn Wyddel. His children by his first wife were JOHN PRYS, ROBERT PRYS (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert ap Edward of Maesyneuadd), and JANE PRYS. His children by his second wife were FFOULK PRYS (below
teulu PRYSE Gogerddan, This family traces its descent from Gwaeth-foed, lord of Ceredigion, etc. The first member to be associated with the northern part of the county of Cardigan, i.e., with Gogerddan, was probably RHYS AP DAVID LLOYD (Burke, Peerage, Baronetage …, 1936 ed.), to whom poems were written by various bards, e.g., Siôn Ceri, Huw Arwystli, Mathew Brwmffild, and Lewis Môn (Cwrtmawr MS. 12B). The bard Lewis
teulu PUGH Mathafarn, The first prominent member of the family was Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, the poet who fl. c. 1480 and who was the author of a number of vaticinatory poems about Henry Tudor (Henry VII). He apparently possessed an extensive estate on both sides of the river Dyfi above Machynlleth. The line was continued by EVAN AP DAVID LLOYD and by HUGH AB EVAN, whose son, JOHN AP HUGH, served as a county
PUGH, PHILIP (1679 - 1760), Independent minister Born in 1679 at Hendre, Blaenpennal, Cardiganshire. His father was also Philip Pugh, while his mother, Ann, was a daughter of Dafydd Jones of Coedmor and a step-sister, on her mother's side, of Peregrine Musgrave, the Haverfordwest Quaker. Pugh was educated at Brynllywarch Academy and later, after the death of Samuel Jones in 1697, at Abergavenny. In 1709 he was ordained joint minister with David
PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN (1759 - 1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet -English dictionary. The work grew to an enormous extent. The first part appeared in 1793; in 1803 the whole work was published in two large volumes, which included a Welsh grammar also. It was Owen Pughe who assisted Owain Myfyr to edit Barddoniaeth Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1789; in 1792 he published the poetry of Llywarch Hen, with an English translation. He edited the English magazine, The Cambrian Register
teulu PUW, prominent Roman Catholic family Penrhyn Creuddyn, India. Robert Puw, Gwilym Puw, and Siôn Puw were the most celebrated of the sons. The other three lived in exile; Gruffydd went to Ireland, Herbert died in France, and Ifan in Spain. ROBERT PUW (alias ROBERT PHYLIP) (1609 - 1679), author, priest, and Roman Catholic martyr Literature and Writing Religion Second son of Phylip Puw (above) and Gaynor Gwyn, of Penrhyn Creuddyn, Caernarfonshire, and brother
PUW, SION (1620 - 1645), Papist - gweler PUW
RAFF ap ROBERT (fl. 1550) Cilgwyn, Bachymbyd, 'a free holder of Dyffryn Clwyd' and a non-professional poet (Jes. Coll. MS. 18) (R.W.M. II, 88). His pedigree is given in Peniarth MS 134 (142-3). As he composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled (c. 1526), and as another of his cywyddau is dated 1582 in one manuscript, it would appear that he lived to an advanced age; this is borne out in the elegy upon him by Siôn Tudur (Llanstephan MS 166 (89)). His work includes satirical englynion to Gruffudd
RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1512 - 1558), mathematician and physician Robert Recorde was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, the second of two sons of Thomas Recorde of Tenby and Ros Johns, daughter of Thomas ap John ap Sion, of Machynlleth. This was a second marriage for Thomas, the first to Joan Ysteven of Tenby being of short duration and childless. Thomas Recorde inherited a mercantile business founded in the town by the boys' paternal grandfather Roger Recorde. It
REES, EBENEZER (1848 - 1908), printer and publisher daughter of Dafydd and Rachel James (she died on 18 September 1916). Labour trade unionism was growing in the valleys of Glamorgan at this time and Ebenezer Rees was prominent in this movement in the upper Swansea valley. He was dismissed and persecuted because of his convictions and he fled to Carbondale, Pennsylvania in 1869. He returned to Wales in 1872 and kept a bookshop for a time until in 1877 he
REES, JOHN THOMAS (1857 - 1949), musician Dafydd ap Gwilym) in association with S.M. Powell at Tregaron; and 'Hillsides of Wales' for violin and piano. He also edited a collection of hymn-tunes by David Lewis, Llanrhystud, Perorydd yr Ysgol Sul (a collection of children's hymn-tunes and anthems), and was joint-editor of Llyfr hymnau a thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd (1897) and Emynau a thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleyaidd (1927

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