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PRICE, JOSEPH TREGELLES (1784 - 1854), Quaker and ironmaster chief promoter of the Neath Abbey works school, which was reported on by the Educational Commissioners of 1846-7. After a most successful business and philanthropic career, he died, unmarried, on Christmas Day 1854, and was buried in the Friends' cemetery at Neath. The works were afterwards carried on for a while by his nephew, HENRY HABBERLEY PRICE (born 1825). Another nephew was Elijah Waring
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (bu farw 1713), Particular Baptist one of the more prominent disciples of John Miles. For all that, in the days of the Commonwealth, he can hardly be called a consistent or an obedient disciple; soon after he was ordained as minister of the strict Baptist cause at Abergavenny in 1653 he (and two others from the same church) were accused of sending a letter of good-will to Henry Jessey, the great pillar of the free-communion
PROBERT, LEWIS (1837 - 1908), Independent minister and college principal membership of the church. He began to preach in 1862 and went to the Rev. Henry Oliver of Pontypridd's preliminary school. In the summer of 1863 he was admitted to Brecon Independent College. He made rapid progress in his studies and long before he had finished his course Bodringallt, formerly Gelligaled, chapel had taken him to its heart. In July 1867 he was ordained there as its first minister. At that
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
PRYDDERCH, RHYS (1620? - 1699), Independent minister and schoolmaster to Llanwrtyd and from Llandovery to the borders of Radnorshire. He moved shortly after the death of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682), in 1682, to Aber-llyfni, Brecknock. He and seven others were licensed at the same quarter sessions to preach and teach in Brecknock. He had already been ordained - on 25 January 1688. Thereafter he was the chief minister in charge of the Brecknockshire churches. His
PRYS, ELIS (Y Doctor Coch, The Red Doctor; 1512? - 1594) Plas Iolyn, Second son of Robert ap Rhys ab Meredydd of Plas Iolyn, Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire. It is said that his grandfather, Rhys ab Meredydd, or Rhys Fawr, fought at Bosworth with Henry VII. His father, Robert ap Rhys, was chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry VIII gave him the lands of Dolgynwal and parts of Penllyn, where his son Cadwaladr founded the family of Price of Rhiwlas (see articles Price of
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist at Carmarthen, and from 1849 to 1851, she was educated with the family of Henry Solly, Unitarian minister at Cheltenham. During the years 1851-6 she resided with her sister at Southfields, near Wimbledon. She learned French and Italian and was a capable musician. In 1856 she returned to Wales, and there spent the next sixteen years. On 10 April 1872, at Penbryn church, Cardiganshire, she married
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, LEWIS HENRY OWAIN (1907 - 1981), soldier
teulu PULESTON Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, (1) The Puleston family derived their name from the vill or manor of Pilston or Puleston, near Newport, Salop, where they were settled in the reign of Henry III, and continued to hold land at least until 1433. Sir ROGER DE PULESTON (died 1294) is believed to have been the first to establish himself at Emral in Maelor Saesneg; he is described as ' de Embers-hall ' in 1283; and the following year
PULESTON, JOHN (c. 1583 - 1659), judge Puleston ceased to be judge in 1653, when he installed Philip Henry as minister of Worthenbury (of which he had bought the advowson) and tutor to his children, of whom the two elder, Roger (the heir) and John, had previously (1 May 1647) entered the Middle Temple. Henry, who lived at Emral till Puleston built him a house at Worthenbury, says of his patron that in renewing leases on the estate he
PULESTON, Sir JOHN HENRY (1829 - 1908), banker and Member of Parliament

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