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PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer . His sister Elizabeth's daughter married Sir Robert Walpole in 1700. From 1695 to 1737 Sir John was a leading figure in all the religious and philanthropic movements of the day - the Society for the Reformation of Manners, the S.P.C.K., the S.P.G., the East India Mission, and the Holy Club. He kept in constant touch with such religious reformers as A. H. Francke, A. W. Boehme, J. F. Osterwald, John
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner and Northern Irish governments. During the war, Philipps continued to purchase shipping companies: the R.M.S.P. (Meat Transports) Ltd. in 1914; Moss S.S. Co. and Robert MacAndrew & Co. Ltd. in 1916; Coast Lines Ltd., McGregor, Gow & Holland Ltd., Argentine Navigation Company Ltd., and John Hall Jr & Co. in 1917. Four more companies were acquired in 1919: J. and P. Hutchinson; Bullard King & Co
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. what can only be described as a voracious appetite for manuscripts and documents, emulating, as he himself says, the examples of Sir Robert Cotton and Sir Robert Harley. Details of Sir Thomas Phillipps's career and of his numerous and varied acquisitions, made on the Continent and in Britain (including Ireland) (he also collected printed books), are given in the D.N.B.; the present note must confine
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister received £4 per annum from the 'Common Fund' for itinerating during 1690-3; from 1711 till 1722 he received £6 per annum from the Presbyterian Fund, 'for Carnarvon' - probably the county. He is regarded as the founder of the Independent church at Pwllheli, and in a sense of the church at Caernarvon town as well, and he took out licences on houses in Anglesey. Robert Jones of Rhos-lan (Drych yr Amseroedd
PHILLIPS, DANIEL MYDRIM (1863 - 1944), minister (CM), teacher and author Goleuad on revival meetings in north and south Wales. In 1906 Evan Roberts, the Great Welsh Revivalist and his Work was published, a volume translated into three languages, the Welsh version Evan Roberts a'i Waith appearing in 1912. In 1908 Athroniaeth Anfarwoldeb was published, another weighty volume on the experience of the soul's immortality. Together with Dymanic Preaching (1935) most of his volumes
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian Association diploma, and was responsible for cataloguing the Welsh section (including the collection of Robert Jones, Rotherhithe,). He was elected F.L.A. in 1913 and F.S.A. (Scotland) in 1920-21. He was promoted Borough Welsh and Celtic librarian and subsequently in 1923 joint-librarian with W.J. Salter until his retirement in 1939. D. Rhys Phillips was nurtured in the literary and cultural societies of
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 returning to Cardiff as master tailor in one of the largest shops in the city. In August 1914 he opened a tailor's business in partnership with Trefor Roberts. He joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1915, becoming a bombardier. He was badly injured when one of the beams of a cellar fell on his head during an attack and he was moved from one hospital to another until his release from the army. He found
PHILLIPS, ELIZABETH (fl. 1836) Penrhyn,, hymnwriter She was the author of twenty-five hymns which were discovered by Richard Griffith (Carneddog) among the manuscripts of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion). Carneddog copied the hymns and they were published for the first time in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1906. A note on the manuscripts, in the hand of Alltud Eifion, stated that she was the mother of Dr. Thomas Hughes (1793 - 1837), a physician, of Plas-ward
PHILLIPS, JOHN (1810 - 1867), Calvinistic Methodist minister and first principal of the Normal College, Bangor was ordained at Bala. During his time at Holywell he married Eleanor, daughter of Robert Parry, Brigan, Llaneugrad, Anglesey, to which district he moved in 1843. In that year he was appointed representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society, for North Wales at the suggestion of Sir Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881). In 1847 he moved to Bangor, and became pastor of Tabernacle church there, from which
PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet Born 12 April 1810 at Bala. He was educated at Bala, where he was also apprenticed as a printer with Robert Saunderson. He later moved to Chester where for a period he supervised the printing works of John Parry (1775 - 1846), who published Y Drysorfa and Goleuad Cymru, to which Tegidon contributed many articles. About 1850 he moved to Portmadoc as secretary to the Welsh Slate Company; later he
PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI (c. 1730 - 1812), banker and jeweller Dorothy Hood, and amongst their children were Philip, whose grandson was Hugh Price Hughes, and Sarah (1757 - 1817), who married David Charles I. Their daughter, Eliza (1798 - 1876), married Robert Davies (1790 - 1841).
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal walked to the collieries and on their return home made him ask searching questions. His mother explained to him the phenomenon of the Revival and the work of the Holy Spirit in that mining community and Tommy Phillips went with his parents to a large number of open-air revival meetings and chapel services where he experienced warm fellowship and the influence of four leading revivalists Evan Roberts

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