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PRICHARD, JOHN (1796 - 1875), Baptist minister and tutor Born 25 March 1796, son of John and Jane Prichard of Tan-y-graig, Llaneilian, Amlwch. The family moved to Llandudno where he worked in a mine until he had saved sufficient money to go to Toxteth Park school, Liverpool. He returned to Llandudno where, for some time, he kept a school. In 1816 he became a Baptist, and in 1819 began to preach. He went to Abergavenny College in 1821, and in 1823 was
PRICHARD, JOHN WILLIAM (1749 - 1829), man of letters on the death of his first wife he removed to Plas-y-brain in Llanbedr-goch, the house which is most commonly associated with his name. A little before the end of his life, he moved again, to Chwaen-wen-uchaf in Llantrisant. He died 5 March 1829, and was buried at Llangwyllog. Prichard was a most versatile man - farmer, land-surveyor, almanac-maker, country physician, country lawyer, writer of prose
PRICHARD, RICHARD (1811 - 1882), Wesleyan minister Born at Bangor 31 March 1811. He joined the Wesleyan society in 1823, began to preach in 1827, and was soon in demand as a preacher. He became a circuit assistant at Machynlleth (1829-31) and Llandysul (1831-2), was accepted as a candidate for the ministry in 1830, and began to tour in 1832. He was a minister in the following circuits: Cardiff (1832-3), Dolgelley (1834-5, 1845-7), Caernarvon
PRICHARD, WILLIAM (1702 - 1773), early North Wales Nonconformist , Llanfechell, came to realize that he was being ejected from his farms merely because he was a Nonconformist he offered him the tenancy of Clwchdernog. Prichard went there in November 1749 and lived there, happy in all his work, until he died 9 March 1773. Prichard, more than any one else, was the pioneer of Dissent in Anglesey and was a tower of strength to it as long as he lived. There is a memorial to him
teulu PRITCHETT, clerical family Hailing originally from the English side of the Middle March, and claiming descent from John de la Bere, cup-bearer to William the Conqueror - two of the men named in the present note were called ' Delabere.' But the college records of various Pritchetts in Herefordshire and Worcestershire style their fathers 'pleb.', where they are not clerics. RICHARD PRITCHETT, licensed medical practitioner
PRYCE, JOHN (1828 - 1903), dean of Bangor , Anglesey, from 1872 till his death on 3 March 1895. The youngest, SHADRACH PRYCE (1833 - 1914), also graduated (1858) from Queens '; he was vicar of Ysbyty Ifan (1864-7), where he published Arweiniad i Eglwys y Plwyf (1867), a translation of a work by bishop Harvey Goodwin; from 1867 till 1894 he was H.M. inspector of Schools in the diocese of S. Davids; from 1893 till 1899, vicar of Llanfihangel
PRYCE, THOMAS MALDWYN (1949 - 1977), racing driver 1976 in Japan, the championship decider and a famously wet race, Pryce was running a strong second before another mechanical failure brought his season to an end. The 1977 season began with two races in South America, where Pryce's Shadow failed to finish, although he had been running in second place in Brazil. The next race was to be held at Kyalami, South Africa, on 5 March. The first practice
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet Born in 1544 but there is no certainty as to the place of his birth although it was possibly Y Gydros, in the parish of Llanfor, Meironnydd. He received his early education at S. Asaph cathedral school, from which he went in 1565 to S. John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon 23 March 1567 at Conington church, Kent. He graduated B.A. in 1568 and was ordained priest at Ely the same year
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters defending her sex against the attacks made on it in the series 'Ffoledd Ffasiwn.' She married Owen Prichard (Cybi Velyn) of Holyhead, 2 January 1863. She wrote a number of lyrics, the best known being 'O na byddai'n haf o hyd' and 'Neges y Blodeuyn.' She died 29 March 1909. A collection of her poems was published in 'Cyfres y Fil' (O.M.E.).
PUGH, EDWARD CYNOLWYN (1883 - 1962), minister (Presb.), author and musician published under the title Ei ffanffer ei hun (1959) (transl. by Nansi Pugh, His own fanfare (1999)). He died in Cardiff, 22 March 1962.
PUGH, ELLIS (1656 - 1718), Quaker other Welsh people started on the long voyage to Pennsylvania. They reached Barbadoes in March 1687 and arrived in Pennsylvania in the summer of the same year. Pugh settled with his family near Gwynedd township in Philadelphia county (now Montgomery county), as a farmer; he also continued to minister to the many Welsh people who were there. In 1706 he returned to Wales, but he was back in Pennsylvania
PUGH, FRANCIS (1720 - 1811), early Welsh Methodist and Moravian ; but in 1742 he left for London, becoming a member of Whitefield's Tabernacle, but also attending the Welsh Methodist society at Lambeth. In 1744-5, when Cennick was in charge of the Tabernacle, Pugh was a recognized Methodist itinerant; but soon after this, Cennick became a Moravian, and Pugh, increasingly unable to co-operate with Herbert Jenkins, was expelled (March 1746), and in his turn joined

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