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PICTON, CESAR (c. 1755 - 1836), coal merchant .' Records show that Sir John bought 'a velvet turbet for black boy' shortly after Cesar's arrival. Dressing African servants in exotic attire was a fashionable custom of the time. In June 1762 Cesar travelled to Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire with the entire Philipps family, Sir John, Lady Elizabeth and their four children, Richard, Katherine, Joyce and Mary, along with the servants from Norbiton Place. In
PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH (1872 - 1960), worker for women's causes and author
PONSONBY, SARAH (1755 - 1831), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' join Ponsonby with the intention to ride to Waterford and get a boat to England. However, they missed the boat and had to shelter in a barn for the night. The families caught up with them the following day and they were returned home. They made a second attempt to escape, with Butler hiding for a time in Ponsonby's wardrobe and food being brought to her by Ponsonby's servant, Mary Carryl. They were
POPKIN, JOHN (fl. 1759-1824), Methodist and Sandemanian exhorter He was a wealthy gentleman, one of the Popkins of Ynysdawe and Forest; he lived at Plas Tal-y-garn c. 1801 [having married Mary, daughter of James Prichard of Collennau near Tonyrefail, who had at one time lived at Tal-y-garn-fawr ], but resided at Forest, Llansamlet, in the latter years of his life. The date of his joining the Methodists is not known but he came into prominence in 1759 as an
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, Member of Parliament for Cardigan borough, 1725-7 and 1729-30, and for Cardigan county, 1721, 1742-7. His wife was Mary, grand-daughter of Sir John Frederick, lord mayor of London (1662). Thomas Powell gave £50 towards restoring Cardigan church in 1748. He died 16 November 1752, his estate devolving upon his only surviving brother Rev. WILLIAM POWELL, D.C.L. (1705 - 1780) (John Powell, the other
POWELL, WILLIAM (Gwilym Pennant; 1830 - 1902), poet his many successes were silver medals at the national eisteddfod, Llandudno, 1864, the Swansea eisteddfod, 1863, and at the Llangefni eisteddfod. He was fifth for the chair at the Merthyr eisteddfod, 1888. He married (1), Mary Theodore, Llanfair Caereinion, by whom he had five children, and (2), 1895, a Miss Jones of Westminster. He died 16 July 1902, and was buried in London.
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher ). From his mother, Mary Cowper-Johnson, he derived the more literary blood of the poets John Donne and William Cowper. Born 8 October 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father's first parish, but in 1879 the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset, then, in 1885, to Montacute vicarage, Somerset. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and in 1894 drifted into the post of
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, PRICE (died 1554) of Rhiwlas, is described as the third son of Sir Robert ap Rhys. He married Jane, daughter of Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert of Gwydir. To him came much land which belonged formerly to the abbey of Strata Marcella (Ystrad Marchell), near Welshpool. Cadwaladr held lands in the commote of Penllyn in the time of Philip and Mary. The bard and herald Gruffudd Hiraethog sent him a cywydd (c
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary Born 2 October 1787 at Pencaerelin in Llanfihangel Bryn Pabuan, Brecknock, the younger son of Rice Price, vicar of Llanwrthyl in that county from 1789 to his death in 1810, and of Mary Bowen of Pencaerelin, the daughter of a vicar. In his home he heard not only the songs and traditions of the peasantry but also the cywyddau of Dafydd ap Gwilym and occasionally the strains of the harp. He attended
PRICE, THOMAS (1820 - 1888), Baptist minister Born 17 April 1820, son of John and Mary Price of Maesycwper, near Ysgethrog, Llanhamlach, Brecknock. He began to earn his living at an early age by assisting a local farmer. Afterwards he became a page boy in the family of Clifton of Tŷ Mawr, Llanfrynach. The Clifton daughters taught him to read English. He saved £21 to pay for his own apprenticeship to Thomas Watkins, The Struet, Brecon
PRICE, WILLIAM (1800 - 1893), eccentric Born 4 March 1800 at Ty'nycoedcae, in the parish of Rudry, Monmouthshire, third son of the Rev. William Price and his wife, Mary. He attended school at Machen, and later became was apprenticed to Evan Edwards, Caerphilly, and became a student at Bart's and at London Hospital, qualifying as a L.S.A. (September 1821) and M.R.C.S. (October 1821). He practised at Nantgarw, Treforest, and Pontypridd
PRITCHARD, EVAN (Ieuan Lleyn; 1769 - 1832), poet His name sometimes occurs as Evan Richards, and his bardic name as Ieuan ap Rhisiart, Ifan Lleyn, and Bardd Bryncroes. He was the son of Richard Thomas, a stonemason, and Mary Charles, daughter of Siarl Marc, Tŷ-mawr, Bryncroes, one of the early Methodist preachers in Llŷn. Mary Charles was well known as a writer of verse. On his parents emigrating to America about 1795, Pritchard made his home

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