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PARRY, JOSHUA (1719 - 1776), Nonconformist minister, and writer Born 17 June 1719 at Llan-gan, Pembrokeshire, of a family that had once been well-to-do, but the father was one of twenty-one children. Parry was educated at Haverfordwest under Evan Davies (1694? - 1770), but before Davies opened the Academy there; he was afterwards at Moorfields under John Eames. He became pastor at Midhurst (1741-2), and then at Cirencester, where he died 6 September 1776. He
PARRY, RICHARD (1710 - 1763) Newborough, poet, schoolmaster, and sexton MS 73D, NLW MS 432B, NLW MS 559B, NLW MS 1238B: Barddoniaeth, NLW MS 6882D, NLW MS 7892B, and Swansea MS. 2. According to his tombstone (which has since disappeared) he died on 5 January 1763, at the age of 53; he was buried in the churchyard of Llannerch-y-medd, south of the east end of the church.
PARRY, WILLIAM (1719 - 1775?), civil servant, secretary of the first Cymmrodorion Society Parry was Morris's personal deputy, for in 1767 Richard tells us that he and Parry could not be simultaneously absent from the office. Parry was alive (and was named executor of Richard Morris's will) in 1773, but had died before the re-issue of the Cymmrodorion Constitutions in 1777-8. As his name disappears from the official lists after 1775, it seems best to regard J. E. Griffith's ' 23 October
PARRY, WILLIAM (bu farw 1585), Roman Catholic conspirator , following Parry's condemnation in the House of Commons in 1584 of a bill against Jesuits. He was found guilty, and executed 2 March 1585. Doubts exist whether he was guilty, and still more whether he had the necessary determination and ability to have executed the plot.
PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter son of John Parry, ' the blind harpist ' (1710? - 1782). He was born on the 2 May 1743 in London, after his father's removal from Ruabon, and studied at Shipley's drawing school, the duke of Richmond's gallery, and the S. Martin's Lane academy, and eventually became a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was awarded several premiums by the Society of Arts and became a member of the Incorporated
PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author Born at Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 28 September 1842. He was active in politics throughout his life, and took a leading part in the famous 1868 election. At the national eisteddfod of 1882 he read a paper to the Cymmrodorion Society on ' Local, Provincial, and Imperial Government,' but it was not published in the Society's Transactions until 1917-8, because it was regarded at the time as being
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 to the curacy of Lanelli, Brecknock. He became rector of Llanbedr and Patricio, 31 August 1793, and vicar of Devynnock, 13 August 1799; he became prebend of Llanbedr Pains-castle otherwise Bochroyd (Boughrood) 8 June 1799, was collated to the third cursal prebend of the cathedral church of S. Davids, July 1810, was admitted a canon residentiary of S. Davids, July 1814, and installed in the
PEARCE, EVAN WILLIAM (1870 - 1957), minister (Presb.), and author Born 2 October 1870 at Llantwit Fardre, Glamorganshire, but the family moved to Pontycymer, where he began to preach in Bethel chapel in 1891. He went to Trefeca College on 14 September 1892, remaining there for four years, and was ordained in 1897. He became minister in Broughton, Glamorganshire, but retired to look after a relative in Pontarddulais in 1902. Shortly afterwards he went to Bethel
PECOCK, REGINALD (c. 1390 - c. 1461), bishop -44, bishop of S. Asaph, 1444-50, bishop of Chichester, 1450-8. [About 1455 appeared his Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy, an answer to Lollard attacks on the Church. But in later writings (see D.N.B.), he expressed views which were considered heretical.] Tried for heresy on 28 November 1457, he retracted on 3 December, his recantation being read and his books burned at S. Pauls Cross, 4
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar 2. Pennar Davies was a minister in Cardiff from 1943 to 1946 when he was appointed to the staff of Coleg Bala-Bangor, Bangor. The Davies family moved to Bangor in 1946 and then, in 1950, when Pennar Davies was appointed to Coleg Coffa, to Brecon where Meirion spent his formative years as a youth. He claimed to have had a 'un-literary upbringing' in his youth but he began writing poetry in English
PENNY, ANNE (fl. 1729-1780), author The entry in the Bangor (Caernarfonshire) parish register recording her christening under 6 January 1728/9, describes her as daughter of Bulkeley Hughes (died 1740?), cleric, and Mary his wife; the father became vicar of Bangor, 2 June 1713, and was instituted to the living of Edern on 17 January 1722/3. She married Penny, and lived in London (Bloomsbury Square), where all her works were

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