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PHILLIPS, MORGAN (bu farw 1570), Roman Catholic priest Douai with two other celebrated exiles, Dr. Owen Lewis and Dr. William Allen, and helped the latter to establish the famous college which trained Roman Catholic priests for the English mission field. He was an ardent supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and wrote the Defence of the Honour of Mary Queen of Scotland which was published at Douai in 1571. He died 18 August 1570.
PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' Assize. Under the 1662 Act of Uniformity he had to leave Llangwm and Freystrop; the Clarendon Code bore heavily upon him, though tradition again comes in with stories of kindness and protection shown him by the Owen family of Orielton and the Perrot family of Haroldston. Another tradition reports that great pressure was brought upon him to conform with the Church of England and that public debates were
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy , poems in free metre 3; III, englynion. Of the elegies the best known are those on the death of Siôn Phylip, and of Richard Hughes of Cefn Llanfair, Llŷn. Not so well-known, but interesting because of its subject, is the elegy on John Williams, archbishop of York. Gruffydd also wrote elegies on the death of his patrons, William Vaughan of Corsygedol, and Owen Ellis, Ystumllyn. More than half of the
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller guardians and rural district council, and represented his district for many years on the Arfon Liberal Association, being a staunch supporter of William Rathbone and William Jones. W. J. Roberts (Gwilym Cowlyd) appointed him recorder of ' Arwest Glan Geirionnydd.' About 1891 he married Gwen, daughter of Owen Jones, Hafodfraith, Penmachno. He died at his home, Willoughby House, Dolwyddelan, 31 July 1912
PIERCE, THOMAS MORDAF (1867? - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author , Calvinistic Methodist minister, and a study of the life and work of William Owen Pughe (Caernarvon, 1914). In addition he collected material relating to the general life (including religious life) of Llanidloes and Dolgelley, the lives of members of the Mills (Llanidloes) family, etc. - for examples see NLW MS 6173D, NLW MS 6175C, NLW MS 6176D, NLW MS 6177D, 6178C, 6179B, NLW MS 6183C, NLW MS 6184D, NLW MS
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author . cit.) - members of the aristocracy, writers, dramatists, antiquaries, historians actors, etc. Among her Welsh friends were Thomas Pennant, the ' Ladies of Llangollen,' Lewis Bagot, bishop of St Asaph, Margaret Owen of Penrhos, and Mrs. Siddons. She spent much of her later years at Bath. She died at Clifton 2 May 1821, and was buried at Tremeirchion, Flintshire, on 16 May.
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, , 358; Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). Dr. Powell figures prominently in the 'Morris Letters' - for page references see 'Index of Persons' by Hugh Owen (1942) - owing to the dispute with Lewis Morris over Cardiganshire mines and mining; for details see D. Lleufer Thomas, ' Lewis Morris in Cardiganshire,' in Cymm., xv. His son, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Athelstan Owen, Rhiwsaeson
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal especially the welcome given, in strict verse, by the late Reverend W. Berllanydd Owen to the new minister and his wife. Eifion Powell moved from North Wales to Drefach, Llanelli, in 1963, and in 1967 to the London Association of Churches to become minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at Harrow. He moved to become minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at the Tabernacl, Barry in 1972, and from
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher , then, in 1951, to Blaenau Ffestiniog, where he died, 17 June 1963 aged ninety-one. The Wessex novels carry Welsh characters and subjects, but in Wales he wrote the novels Morwyn (1937), Owen Glendower (1940) and his 'masterpiece' Porius (1951) set in a Wales of 499 A.D. His other notable works of this prolific period include books on his masters Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948) and experimental
POYER, JOHN (bu farw 1649) Pembroke, mayor A leading merchant of Pembroke town. He was active in local affairs and in command of the trained band. On 17 February 1642 he wrote to Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, Member of Parliament for Pembroke borough, to draw his attention to the undefended state of Pembrokeshire in view of the insurrection in Ireland, whence refugees were arriving daily in the county. Later in the year, on the outbreak of
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Llanfyllin, after which he went in 1855 to open the British School at Bala. His ability brought him to the notice of Sir Hugh Owen and he was invited to assist the Rev. John Phillips in the new training college at Bangor; here, he started work when the college was opened in 1858. In 1863, when Phillips was appointed principal of the college, he became deputy principal, an appointment which he continued to

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