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PRICE, MARGARET BERENICE (1941 - 2011), singer and would not sing anything which did not suit her voice. Her Desdemona was widely acclaimed, as was her Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. She accepted the invitation of the conductor Carlos Kleiber to record the part of Isolde in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, to great acclaim, though she would not perform the role on stage. Her voice is preserved on a number of excellent recordings
PRICE, RICHARD (1723 - 1791), philosopher ,' Dissenting minister and tutor Religion Education Richard Price's father. Son of Rees Price, Betws, he was educated at Bryn-llywarch, succeeded (1697-1739) Samuel Jones, both as pastor, at Cildeudy, Bridgend, and Betws, and as tutor, at Tyn-ton. He was maternal uncle and testamentary guardian of Ann Maddocks (formerly Thomas, the 'Maid of Cefnydfa'), and signed her marriage settlement (1725). SAMUEL PRICE
PRICE, THOMAS (MALDWYN) (1860 - 1933), musician -tunes-the best-known of the latter is 'St. Elizabeth'), and the male-voice choruses 'Croesi'r Anial' and ' Y Pysgotwr.' He had married (1889) Elizabeth (died 13 December 1933, aged 67), daughter of Richard and Jane Evans, Upper Boar, Llanfyllin, and had two sons.
PRICHARD, JOHN (1817 - 1886), architect Son of Richard Prichard, rector of Llan-gan, Glamorgan, and vicar-choral of Llandaff cathedral, and of Eleanor his wife, was born at Llan-gan 6 May 1817, and christened there by his father 10 July 1817. He trained as an architect and was appointed diocesan architect of Llandaff. He superintended the restoration of many churches throughout the diocese a notable example of his work being the
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters correspondent, with a large circle of men of letters: Gwallter Mechain (NLW MS 1808E, no. 6), William Owen Pughe, Richard Llwyd (the author of Beaumaris Bay), Twm o'r Nant, Dewi Wyn, Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (who was a kinsman of his), Robert Roberts the almanac-maker, etc. But he was not on good terms with Dafydd Ddu Eryri, and he abominated Iolo Morganwg, to whom he attributed all W. O. Pughe's literary lapses
PRICHARD, RHYS (Yr Hen Ficer; 1579? - 1644), cleric and poet Born in all probability at Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. Rice Rees, in the introduction to his edition of Canwyll y Cymry, 1841, gave it as his opinion that 'there was reason to suppose that his father was a considerable land owner in that neighbourhood, and that his name was Dafydd ap Richard ap Dafydd ap Rhys ap Dafydd,' but this must not be accepted as a fact. Anthony Wood had made the
PRICHARD, RICHARD (1811 - 1882), Wesleyan minister
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
PRITCHARD, MICHAEL (c. 1709 - 1733), poet Born c. 1709, son of Richard William Pritchard, weaver and sexton, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He left Llanllyfni at an early age and went to Llan-fechell in Anglesey, where he worked for many years as gardener in the employ of William Bulkeley, Brynddu. He was a poet of considerable ability and many of his works have been preserved. The more notable of his compositions were ' Cywydd i'r Wyddfa
teulu PRITCHETT, clerical family Hailing originally from the English side of the Middle March, and claiming descent from John de la Bere, cup-bearer to William the Conqueror - two of the men named in the present note were called ' Delabere.' But the college records of various Pritchetts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire style their fathers 'pleb.', where they are not clerics. RICHARD PRITCHETT, licensed medical practitioner
PROTHERO, CLIFFORD (1898 - 1990), organiser of the Labour Party in Wales 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, in the Lady Windsor Colliery for the sum of two shillings a day. Clifford Prothero went to work at a smaller colliery called Darran Ddu. As a family they attended Zion English Baptist Chapel where he came under the influence of two very able deacons William Watkins and Richard Woosnam. The influence of Welsh Nonconformity was acknowledged by him and was very evident
teulu PRYSE Gogerddan, Council of the Marches, and represented Cardiganshire in Parliament at various times between 1553 and 1572. His will was proved on 7 December 1584. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Perrot, of Haroldston, Pembrokeshire - see ' Cywydd i Siôn Prys o Gogerddan ' (with a reference to Elizabeth) by Owain Gwynedd in - and by her was the father of Sir RICHARD PRYSE (knighted 1603), who had been

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