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POWELL, PHILIP (1594 - 1646), O.S.B. him to Flanders where he studied, at Fr. Baker's expense, at the University of Louvain, 1614-19. He was ordained priest in 1618 and was professed a monk on 15 August 1619, having studied under Dom Leander Jones, O.S.B.. He was next made cellarer of S. Gregory's monastery, Douai, and was sent on the English mission on 7 March 1622. He lived with Dom Baker for sixteen months in Gray's Inn Lane, London
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army . He retreated to a church, probably Llangathen, and was there shot. Horton withdrew to Brecon for fresh supplies and ammunition. There he learnt that Powell had seized Swansea and Neath and had entered the Vale of Glamorgan, where the Royalists were rising to support him. To prevent an advance on Cardiff, Horton made a forced march down the Taff valley to intercept him. In the subsequent fight at St
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner Llantwit Fardre for the house-coal trade, and later sank a large pit at New Tredegar. He finally owned sixteen pits and, in 1862, when he exported over 700,000 tons of coal, he was probably the largest coal exporter in the world. He died at his home, the Gaer, near Newport, on 24 March 1863. According to the Bassaleg bishops' transcripts he was then aged 83; if this was so, Bradney is wrong. Powell was
POWELL, THOMAS (1608? - 1660), cleric Commonwealth, he lost the living and spent some time in exile. In 1651 he published a translation of a book by the Italian Virgilio Malvezzi under the title Stoa Triumphans: or Two Sober Paradoxes, I. The Praise of Banishment, II. The Dispraise of Honors, but no special significance should be attached to the title, for in February and March 1653/4 he and two fellow-clerics were seeking permission to preach
POWELL, VAVASOR (1617 - 1670), Puritan divine well as the government authorities. Powell was arrested on 23 April 1660 (Life, 129) and again on 30 July (Cal. S. P. Dom., 1660-1, 123, 135). By September 1661 he was in the Fleet Prison, London, but removed in September 1662 to Southsea castle (ibid., 1661-2, 463; Life, 132). He was not released until November 1667 (Life, 132, 134). In March 1668 he preached at Blue Anchor Alley, London (Cal. S. P
POYER, JOHN (bu farw 1649) Pembroke, mayor induce Pembroke to capitulate. It became the base for the Parliamentary offensive when opportunity offered and a retreat when difficulties arose. Poyer himself is only recorded as having been the leader in one attack when he captured Carew castle (10 March 1644). His activities involved him in serious disputes with the members of the county committee, some of whom he accused of being half-hearted in
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, Merioneth, 1730-1, and Caernarvon, where he had extensive property, 1731-2. He was an antiquary; letters written by him to Charles Lyttleton between March 1745 and 1757, and dealing with antiquarian remains and with the eisteddfod held at Bala in 1747, survive in the Stowe collection in the British Museum. Five bards composed eulogistic englynion to him at an eisteddfod held at Bala, Whitsuntide, 1738
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon Wales. Clem and Dorrie, as they were affectionately known, were a devoted couple whose home in St John's Wood was an hospitable place for a wide circle of friends and colleagues. Sir Clement died on 19 March 1973 aged 79 and was buried in the grave of his parents in the New Bethel chapel cemetery, Mynyddislwyn, now in the County Borough of Caerphilly. On 29 May 1973 a well-attended memorial service
PRICE, CHARLES (bu farw 1646) Pilleth,, soldier and politician Cabinet, 23 March 1646) before May 1645, and his family never enjoyed the Monachdy estate which he had been promised on his lending £1,000 to the king. His widow compounded for Pilleth in 1653. He was a friend and correspondent of James Howell.
PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician . After returning home he settled in his native parish where he continued to compose. In his later years, however, he lived at Builth, where he died 5 March 1898 at the age of 82; he was buried 9 March in Builth churchyard. In 1935 a memorial stone was erected over his grave.
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches out of this appointment, the privy council ruled that he should be secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches. He was placed on commissions of the peace in Monmouthshire and all the March shires, on the chantries commissions of North and South Wales, 1546, and on commissions for church plate and properties in Herefordshire, 1552-3. He was sheriff of Brecknock, 1543, and Herefordshire, 1554
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Born at Oswestry, 9 March 1830, son of the Rev. Edward Price. He attended schools first in Birmingham and then in Montgomeryshire before going to Bala College under Lewis Edwards in 1848. After being there for four years he went to the Borough Road training college, London, for the year 1852-3, and here he was an exceptionally successful student. There followed two years as a schoolmaster at

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