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PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) He was of gentle birth. It is believed that he was the ' Henry Parry ' who became a member of Balliol College, Oxford, at the age of 18, 20 March 1578/9; B.A. Gloucester Hall, 1579/80; M.A. 1582/3; B.D. Jesus College, 1597. Humphrey Humphreys testified - on the authority of his son-in-law - that he had travelled considerably and had married before he came to Anglesey as Sir Richard Bulkeley's
teulu PERROT Haroldston, birth and paternity, he was not an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. Perrot's mother, Mary Berkeley, did not serve as one of the royal ladies-in-waiting and his father, Thomas, was never knighted. He possessed great stature and physical strength, but he had an arbitrary temper and a brawling nature. With the Tudors he enjoyed great popularity; Henry VIII is thought to have offered him preferment but
teulu PERROT Haroldston, Three members of this house will be noticed. Sir JOHN PERROT (1530 - 1592), Elizabethan statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland Politics, Government and Political Movements, 1584-8 He was popularly believed to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Mary Berkeley, one of the royal ladies-in-waiting who married Sir Thomas Perrot of Haroldston. Henry knighted Sir Thomas on his marriage. Sir John was
PERROTT, THOMAS (bu farw 1733), Presbyterian minister, and academy tutor preliminary school rather than to the Academy proper. But it is perfectly certain that Perrot was at Abergavenny under Roger Griffith, and afterwards at Shrewsbury under James Owen. He was ordained minister at Knutsford, 6 August 1706, by Matthew Henry. He was afterwards at Trelawnyd ('Newmarket,' Flintshire), as minister and as master of the school set up by John Wynne (1650 - 1714); the dates are
PHILIP ap RHYS (fl. 1530), Tudor organist and composer composers mentioned by Thomas Morley (A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, ed. Harman [ 1952 ] p. 321); Robert Jones, John Guinneth, Robert Davies, and Morgan Grig. On f. 28 of the above-mentioned manuscript Rhys is described as being ' off Saint Poulles, in London.' His name is variously spelt, as ' Phelyppe Apprys ' (f. 28v), ' Phelype Aprys ' (f. 34), Phyllype Apryce (f. 41v), while on f
teulu PHILIPPS Picton, Sometime before 17 October 1491 Sir THOMAS PHILIPPS of Kilsant, Carmarthenshire, married Joan Dwnn, daughter and heiress of Harry Dwnn (son of Owen Dwnn of Muddlescomb in Kidwelly and Katherine Wogan, second daughter of John Wogan and widow of Sir Henry Wogan) and Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Wogan of Wiston. The Kilsant (Cilsant) family claimed descent from Cadifor Fawr of
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PHILIPPS, JOHN WYNFORD (1st Viscount St. Davids, 13th Baronet, of Picton Castle), (1860 - 1938) and painstaking work of building an integrated railway company. Philipps showed a similar want of attention to the details of running a company when he invested in the cement industries. Henry O'Hagan, a considerable figure in the Stock Exchange, formed the Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd to take over small cement works. In the autumn of 1910, O'Hagan noticed that the company's £10
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights . After he was honoured with the title of viscount in 1908, she became known as Lady St David's. She was a keen supporter of the National Eisteddfod, and used her ability and experience as an actress to take part in the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in 1909, where she played a central role as a grande dame from the period of Henry VIII in 'one of the most effective and beautiful scenes' of the
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
PHILLIPS, DAVID (1874 - 1951), minister (Presb.), philosopher and college principal Born 1874 at Ffwrnes, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, son of Henry and Sarah Phillips. His father died when he was young, and his mother moved with the family to Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire. He received his elementary education at Dyffryn boys' school, and went to work in a coal mine. In 1894 he won a miners' scholarship to study mining, but his tutors at the University College, Cardiff, persuaded
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 Rowland, took an interest in him and arranged for him to borrow Cymru and other Welsh periodicals. His father and stepmother tried to wean him from his interest in the Welsh language, but his Welshness was reinforced when he had the company of Owen Morgan Edwards on a train journey to Pembrokeshire. When he was 14 years old he returned to Tre-fin as an apprentice tailor to his uncle J.W. Evans, and as

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