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PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer Born 6 March 1884 at Madog View, Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire, son of Robert and Jane Parry (his father was a half-brother of Henry Parry-Williams). He received his education at Tal-y-sarn elementary school, Caernarfon county school, 1896-98, and the new Pen-y-groes county school for one year. He spent three years, 1899-1902, as a pupil-teacher. He entered the University College of Wales
PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 connections with Wales. At the beginning of World War II E. Morgan Humphreys tried to persuade her to reprint Sioned, and the B.B.C. tried to adapt some of her work for the Welsh Children's Hour. As late as 1949 she was still looking for a publisher for Sioned, but circumstances were difficult and by then she was old and infirm. She died in an old people's home in Croydon on 12 February 1953, and her friend
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1560), courtier was the son of Harry Vaughan and grandson of Sir Thomas Vaughan, who had been knighted but subsequently beheaded by Richard III and was himself an illegitimate son of Sir Robert Vaughan of Tretower (ancestor of Henry Vaughan, ' Silurist'), and a grandson, through Sir Dafydd Gam, of Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, slain at Agincourt (1415). His mother was Gwenllian, daughter of William ap Grono
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet and reviews, he continued to adjudicate at the National Eisteddfod (as he had done throughout his career), and he was called upon to act as a leading consultant to several significant projects. He co-edited Llyfryddiaeth Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, 1976, with Merfyn Morgan. Until his death he was the Chairman of the Literature Committee of the New Welsh Bible that was published in 1988. And for many years
PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter Society of Artists. After some time spent painting near Ruabon, through the generosity of his patron, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, he went to Italy in 1770 and stayed there until 1775. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1776 and exhibited twenty-two pictures, mainly small full-length portraits, at the academy's exhibitions between 1776 and 1788. Parry's wife, a daughter of Henry Keene, the
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar T. H. Parry-Williams was born on 21 September 1887 to Henry Parry-Williams (1858-1925) and Ann, née Morris (1859-1926), at Rhyd-ddu, Arfon. Christened 'Tom' (not 'Thomas'), he was the second of six children, the siblings being Blodwen, Willie, Oscar, Wynne and Eurwen. Literary tendencies can be seen on both maternal and paternal sides of the family. The brother of Ann, R. R. Morris, was a
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher Schools he played rugby at scrum half but was switched to the back row in his final school year. In April 1955 he played for the Welsh Secondary Schools in Toulon against France (lost 14-9), and in Cardiff against England (drew 8-8). Pask was brought to the attention of Abertillery RFC by Haydn Morgan who had played on the opposite side when the Parachute Regiment met the South Wales Borderers in a
PAYNE, HENRY THOMAS (1759 - 1832), cleric and ecclesiastical historian
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
PENRY, JOHN (1563 - 1593), Puritan author fled to Scotland. The archbishop's officers searched the house of the Godleys in Northampton. In 1590 Penry produced A Briefe Discovery in answer to the attacks of Richard Bancroft on the Scots Church. He re-entered England in September 1592, and allied himself with the London Separatist followers of Henry Barrow. The vicar of Stepney betrayed his whereabouts and he was arrested 22 March 1592/3 at
PERKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1745-1776), Independent minister Nothing is known of his beginnings. According to Wilson's lists (copy in NLW MS 373C), there was a Perkins in Carmarthen Academy under Evan Davies in 1745; but Thomas Morgan does not mention him, and the records of the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards have no mention of any grant made to him as a student; this however must not be taken as proof that he was not at the Academy; and it

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