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  • teulu PHILIPPS Tregybi, Porth-Einion, Cardigan priory, ed., 172; W. Wales Hist. Records, i, 14-5. Sir Thomas Philipps had as third (or fourth) son, OWEN PHILIPPS, whose son was EINION PHILIPPS, sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1588. Einion's son (by his second wife Elizabeth Birt) was GEORGE PHILIPPS, sheriff in 1606, who in 1616 acquired Cardigan priory, thenceforth the chief seat of the family. He married Anne Lewis. Their son, HECTOR PHILIPPS, sheriff in
  • PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman George obtained the promotion to the 38th Welsh Division, which was part of Lloyd George's ambitious plan for a Welsh 'army'. Before he saw active service, Philipps was summoned to assist Lloyd George at the Ministry of Munitions. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Military) to the Ministry on 18 June 1915 and, following Lloyd George's abrupt dismissal of Sir Percy Girouard, Director General of
  • PHILIPPS, JENKIN THOMAS (bu farw 1755), tutor and author George II, including William Augustus, duke of Cumberland, for whose use he wrote some Latin grammars and readers. In addition to many Latin dissertations on theological and ecclesiastical subjects, he published several English works on various topics, such as the laws and constitution of Denmark, and biographies of royal personages. He left in his will £60 a year towards the maintenance of a free
  • PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer and Charles Wesley, and George Whitefield, who was maintained by him for a while at Oxford. He was elected a member of the S.P.C.K. a month after it was founded, and remained its most influential member till his death. He made Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire the chief centres of the Society's work in Wales, founded twenty-two schools in the former county and several in the latter, and was chiefly
  • PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) owning an unnatural amount of self-assurance and a glib tongue. In the event, Philipps resigned the Mid Lanarkshire seat, possibly on the grounds that a Scottish seat was inconvenient after his brother's shipping firm moved to London. Although a Scottish member, Philipps was an active participant in Welsh Liberal politics and he became close to a number of Welsh Liberal members, including Lloyd George
  • PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner the shipping owned by the Royal Mail Group was requisitioned during the First World War and over one hundred ships lost as a result of enemy action. Philipps was appointed Grand Cross of the Order of Michael and George in appreciation of his wartime services. In his haste to rebuild his fleet, he ordered replacements to be delivered in 1919-20, at a time when costs in the shipyard were high, as a
  • PHILLIMORE, EGERTON GRENVILLE BAGOT (1856 - 1937), scholar Born 20 December 1856 at 21, Chester Square, London, son of John George Phillimore (died 1865) of Shiplake House, near Henley-on-Thames, queen's councillor, an authority on canon law, like other members of his family, and Member of Parliament for Leominster (1852-7), and his wife, Rosalind Margaret, daughter of lord justice Knight-Bruce. He was educated at Windersham House, Amesbury, Westminster
  • PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor lectures between 1850 and 1852, which were published; they are: (1) Dadl Bangor … ar Anghydffurfiaeth neu Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneulltuaeth (Caernarfon, James Rees, 1852); (2) Y Ddarlith ar Babyddiaeth, Eglwys Loegr ac Ymneulltuaeth (Liverpool, J. Lloyd, 1850); (3) Popery Better than Dissent! What!!! And Who says it!!! (Caernarfon, James Rees, 1850). Phillips died 9 October 1867 at Bryntêg, Anglesey, and was
  • 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
  • PHILLIPS, THOMAS LLOYD (1832 - 1900), minister - gweler PHILLIPS, THOMAS
  • 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