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PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1806 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and Welsh secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society , and took a prominent part in the founding (in 1864) of the C.M. General Assembly, becoming, in 1865, its second moderator. He died at Hereford 28 October 1870. There is a biography in English, of which there is a Welsh version (London, 1871). His eldest son was THOMAS LLOYD PHILLIPS (1832 - 1900), minister and schoolmaster Religion Education He was apprenticed to Thomas Gee, and in 1856 published
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PIERCE, THOMAS JONES (1905 - 1964), historian Crematorium, Liverpool. T. Jones Pierce had been a pupil of William Garmon Jones at Liverpool but he was greatly influenced by John Edward Lloyd whose colleague he was at Bangor. In turn he himself inspired generations of young Welsh historians and was acknowledged to be one of the most creative Welsh historians of his day. He was a pioneer in the study of the problems associated with the decay of tribalism
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian J. E. Lloyd and Victor Scholderer ('Powel's Historie (1584),' N.L.W. Jnl., 1943, 15-8) have shown that these were quite irrelevant, being blocks borrowed from the 1577 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles. Powel's Historie is of the greatest importance in the history of Welsh historiography. Either in its original form (reprinted in 1811) or (more commonly) in the adaptation by William Wynne - and
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, the Exchequer, and 'Judge of the King's Bench in Kg. James the Second's time' (Peniarth MS 156), married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of David Lloyd (Gwyn) of Aberbrwynen, and was the father of WILLIAM POWELL. The latter married Avarina, daughter of Cornelius le Brun by his wife, Ann, daughter and co-heiress of John Jones of Nanteos. William Powell's eldest son THOMAS POWELL (died 1752) was
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner married three times. In 1864 Sir George Elliot formed the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. with a capital of £500,000 to take over Powell's steam colliery undertakings in the Aberdare and Rhymney valleys and the house-coal level called White Rose at New Tredegar.
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal 'The Theology of D. Miall Edwards.' He had been working on the life and contribution of D. Miall Edwards as his chapter in Athrawon ac Annibynwyr, edited by Pennar Davies, shows. He published, with George Brewer, the two volumes Cristnogaeth a Chrefydd in 1968 and a chapter, 'Yr Annibynwyr Yfory' in Iorwerth Jones, ed., Yr Annibynwyr Cymreig ddoe, heddiw ac yfory (1989). Eifion won several awards in
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, Merioneth, 1585-6, and high sheriff, 1592-3. Ieuan Tew Brydydd was ' family bard ' at Rhiwlas in his time. Cadwaladr Wynn, i.e. Cadwaladr Price, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Ieuan Lloyd, Bodidris-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire; their eldest son was JOHN PRICE I (died 1613), high sheriff of Merioneth, 1608-9; he married Ann, daughter and heiress of John Lloyd, of Vaynol, S. Asaph, registrar of the diocese of
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon for his contribution to the surgery of tuberculosis and of lung tumours. In 1947 he was the first surgeon to perform a bronchial sleeve resection to remove a bronchial carcinoid tumour. Price Thomas's reputation was such that patients came from all over the world to consult him and when, in 1951, it was decided that King George VI required surgical treatment for a diseased lung it was Clement Price
PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur (1828-40) (as co-pastor first with John Jones and from 1833 onwards with George Thomas, afterwards of the Pontypool Academy); Dudley (1840-2) (again as co-pastor, with William Rogers, a native of Blaenau Gwent); and, finally, Tredegar (1842-4). He retired in 1844 to become a superintendent for Wales of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in this post performed his most important life's work. He was a
PRICE, CHARLES (bu farw 1646) Pilleth,, soldier and politician home, however, he helped to put the royal commission of array into force in Radnorshire, and was the first Welsh member to be 'disabled' from sitting (4 October 1642). He was captured and imprisoned at Gloucester (November 1642) and Coventry (January 1643), but subsequently released and attended the Oxford Parliament (22 January 1644). He was killed (apparently in a duel - see Lord George Digby's
PRICE, JOHN ARTHUR (1861 - 1942), barrister and journalist the staff of the Church Times. At Oxford he became acquainted with several other young Welshmen, including the historian John Edward Lloyd and became a convinced Welsh nationalist until the end of his life. A devout churchman, he pleaded for disestablishment because he believed that it would be better for the church itself. He gave an account of his conversion to Welsh nationalism and his

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