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PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Reverend Sidney Evans, one of the leading revivalists of the 1904-5 Revival. T. B. Phillips was the college Principal from 1950 to 1961. He remained in Khasia-Jaintia Synod for the following eight years preparing to transfer the missionary organisation - medical, educational and religious - set up by the Welsh Presbyterians to local church leaders and their General Assembly. Many of these men had been
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy generally believed that Rhisiart Phylip wrote nothing in free metres, Dafydd Evans of Llanrwst had in one of his manuscripts 'dau Bennill ar y Mesur Gwel yr Adeilad' which he says are by Rhisiart Phylip. Rhisiart wrote numerous englynion also. GRUFFYDD PHYLIP (died 1666) The poems of Gruffydd Phylip are as follows: I (a) elegies 26, (b) eulogies 25, (c) requests 4, (d) marriage 6, (e) miscellaneous 2; II
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver 'trimmed down' Spanish law amounted to a 'a brand of justice that was seldom tempered by mercy', according to Chris Evans, his brutal governance resulting in the execution of thirty-five people during his time as governor (some of them for raping free women of colour). It was the enslaved inhabitants of the island, among them those on his own plantations, who felt 'the full force' of a new 'slave code
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller as weight keeper at Cwt-y-bugail quarry, under Evan Evans, an enthusiastic local littérateur. Encouraged by his master Ellis began to contribute articles to Baner ac Amserau Cymru. He became the paper's correspondent for the Llanrwst district for fifty years. He took a prominent part in newspaper controversies on education and land and social reform, and wrote extensively on local history and
PIERCE, WILLIAM (1853 - 1928), Congregational minister and historian Born of Welsh parents at Liverpool, 21 April 1853. He was called to the Congregational ministry under the influence of E. Herber Evans, Caernarvon. From 1875-9 he was student at Brecon College. He ministered at Bideford, Devon (1879-82); Leytonstone (1882-7); Soho Hill, Birmingham (1887-9); New Court, Tollington Park (1889-96); West Hampstead (1896-1904); Doddridge, Northampton (1905-10
POWEL, JOHN (bu farw 1767), weaver-poet Of Rhyd-yr-Eirin, in the parish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. According to Owen Williams, Awduron Sir Ddinbych, he was born in 1731. It is said that he was a sexton also. One of the closest friends of Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) when the latter was curate of Llanfair Talhaiarn, he also regarded him as his bardic teacher. A number of his poems are found in Swansea MS. 1 ('Y Piser Hir'), now in N.L.W
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, made by George Eyre Evans). He died without issue and was succeeded by his father's cousin WILLIAM BEAUCLERK POWELL (1834 - 1911) son of Richard Owen Powell (died 1859). W. B. Powell married Anna Maria, daughter of David Lewis, Bronavon, and had issue, EDWARD ATHELSTAN LEWIS POWELL (1870 - 1930), who married Margaret Louisa Joan, elder daughter of Sir Pryse Pryse, Bart., of Gogerddan. Their son and
POWELL, RAYMOND (1928 - 2001), Labour politician at this time. (In the event, Roy Hughes, the Labour MP for Newport East, obliged and went to the House of Lords.) At the time of his death Sir Ray Powell was the oldest Welsh Labour MP and firmly identified as belonging to 'Old Labour' - a member of the old school in the age of 'New Labour'. His hobbies were gardening, sport and music. He had married in 1949 Marion Grace Evans, and they had one son
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine became the wife of John Evans (1628 - 1700). Powell had no children. His published works were: 1, The Scriptures Concord (London, 1646); 2, God the Father Glorified (London, 1649); 3, Christ and Moses Excellency (London, 1650); 4, Saving Faith (London, 1651); 5, Christ Exalted, 1651 (printed with no. 4); 6, Three Hymnes [sic] (London, 1650); 7, Common-Prayer-Book No Divine Service (London, 1660); 8
PRICE, DAVID (fl. 1700-1742), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Nothing is known about his early life but it is thought that he was educated at Roger Griffith's Academy at Abergavenny. He was ordained minister of Maesyronnen church, Radnorshire, c. 1700. He lived at Llwyn-llwyd, in the parish of Llaneigon, Brecknock, where he kept a grammar school - Hugh Evans of Bristol and Howel Harris of Trevecka were among his pupils. In 1735 Carmarthen Academy was
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver Dilys Price was born in Bournemouth on 3 June 1932, the only child of Thomas John Evans (1899-1973), born in Treherbert, and Elizabeth M Evans (née Gould, 1906-1963), from Aberaman, near Aberdare. Her father served in the Royal Air Force during the Great War, before going into service in Bournemouth following a religious conversion by missionaries. There, in 1929, he married Elizabeth Gould. Soon
PRICE, PETER (1864 - 1940), Independent minister , where he graduated with honours in philosophy in 1901. He received the degree of M.A. in 1939. He took up his ministry again in 1901. He married Letitia Williams, Tŷ Gwyn, Llanrwst in January 1902. He moved to Bethania, Dowlais in the summer of 1904, a church with over 600 members, where the musician Harry Evans was the organist. The Revival of 1904 was exciting the country by this time. The

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