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PHILLIPS, HENRY (1719 - 1789), Baptist minister
PHILLIPS, MORGAN (bu farw 1570), Roman Catholic priest Born in Monmouthshire. He matriculated at Oxford in 1533 and became so famous as a philosopher and disputant that he was called ' Morgan the Sophister.' He was elected Fellow of Oriel College, 1538, and was principal of S. Mary Hall 1546-50. He became precentor of S. Davids cathedral in 1553 but, shortly after Elizabeth's succession to the throne, fled to the Continent. In 1568 he was living at
PHILLIPS, MORGAN HECTOR (1885 - 1953), headmaster
PHILLIPS, MORGAN WALTER (1902 - 1963), general secretary of the Labour Party
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Born 5 January 1868 at Lan, in the parish of Llan-y-cefn, Pembrokeshire, the son of Levi and Phoebe Phillips. A member of the historic Baptist church of Rhydwilym, he became first of all a pupil-teacher at Whitland, but in 1886 entered Llangollen Baptist College as a candidate for the ministry. Two years later he won a scholarship at University College, Bangor. There he became a student of Henry
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy ; requests, etc. (gofyn, diolch, etc.) 24; religious or didactic (duwiol) 19; bardic controversies (ymrysonau) 10; miscellaneous (amrywiol) 5; and marriage (priodas) 1. Of the elegies, some are on brother poets (e.g. Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Morys Dwyfech); two to royalty (queen Elizabeth and prince Henry, son of James I); some to prominent churchmen: Richard Vaughan, bishop of London
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller Rhobert (Dolyddelen, 1880); Yr Ymfudwr Cymreig (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1883); A Guide to Nant Conway (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1884); Rhamant Hanesyddol: Gruffydd ab Cynan (Dolyddelen and Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1885); Gwilym Morgan (Bala, 1890); Syr Williams o Benamnen (Caernarvon, 1894); Teulu'r Gilfach (Caernarvon, 1897); and Dafydd ab Siencyn yr Herwr, a Rhys yr Arian Daear (Caernarvon, 1905). He contributed
PIERCY, BENJAMIN (1827 - 1888), civil engineer land-agent, of Montgomery. In 1851, Henry Robertson, sought his assistance to prepare plans for the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Bill, and later for a railway from Oswestry to Newtown. He commenced independent practice as engineer for the Red Valley Railway Bill for constructing a line from Shrewsbury to Minsterley. The Bill was rejected, but he succeeded in piloting, against strong opposition, a
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author Katheryn of Berain; her father was a descendant of Katheryn's second and her mother of the first marriage. Her career is described in the D.N.B. and other works, and, more recently (Oxford, 1941), by James L. Clifford in Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale), a work based on an exhaustive study of much 'Piozziana' and 'Thraliana,' including the material in the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian representatives of the Revival of Learning in Wales. Bishop William Morgan acknowledges his help in translating the Bible into Welsh, and Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd (and, for that matter, Powel's own son Daniel) says that he intended producing a Welsh dictionary. But it is as a historian that Powel is remembered. In September 1583 Sir Henry Sidney - Powel was his chaplain, asked him to prepare for press the
POWEL, MORGAN (fl. c. 1563), poet, one of the Glamorgan writers of cwndidau, a cleric of Llanhari
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, 1810, and Member of Parliament for the county, 1816-54. Like his father, he took an active part in the affairs of the Cardiganshire Agricultural Society (Reports, 1804, 1807, 1812, 1815). He married (1) 1810, Laura Edwina (died 1822), eldest daughter of James Sackville Tufton Phelp, Coston House, Leicestershire, and (2) [ 1841 ], Harriett Dell, youngest daughter of Henry Hutton, Cherry Willingham

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