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PHILLIPS, PEREGRINE (1623 - 1691), Puritan preacher; Independent 'apostle of Pembrokeshire' ground for believing that he was deceived by the declarations of James II in his Indulgence of 1687. In a report that was sent up to London, some time in 1690, about the state and condition of several noncon- formist ministers in Wales, Phillips is described as living on a small farm at Dredgman Hill near Haverfordwest, and as receiving £8 a year from his people if the times were favourable, less if
PHILLIPS, REGINALD WILLIAM (1854 - 1926), botanist the University College; in 1888 he was promoted professor in that subject, but in 1894 he was appointed to the chair of botany, which he retained until retirement in 1923. He was an able administrator and took a prominent part in educational movements in the University College of North Wales. He died 2 December 1926.
PHILLIPS, THOMAS (1868 - 1936), Baptist minister Congress at Philadelphia in 1911. He became principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff, in 1928, and remained there until his death on 21 April 1936. In 1916 he was made president of the Baptist Union, and in 1928, the McMaster University (Toronto) bestowed on him the degree of doctor of divinity. He married (1) 1892, Martha John of Whitland (died 1932), by whom he had seven children, and (2) 1934, Anne
teulu PHYLIP, poets Ardudwy generally believed that Rhisiart Phylip wrote nothing in free metres, Dafydd Evans of Llanrwst had in one of his manuscripts 'dau Bennill ar y Mesur Gwel yr Adeilad' which he says are by Rhisiart Phylip. Rhisiart wrote numerous englynion also. GRUFFYDD PHYLIP (died 1666) The poems of Gruffydd Phylip are as follows: I (a) elegies 26, (b) eulogies 25, (c) requests 4, (d) marriage 6, (e) miscellaneous 2; II
PHYLIP BRYDYDD (fl. 1222), court poet Ceredigion, and ranks him among the exponents of the tradition of the highest grade of court poets (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b, 8-9). Phylip Brydydd refers to himself as Rhys Gryg's chaired poet, and as one who was his comrade 'a hundred times,' even when his enemies arose against him 'in every hill' - probably an allusion to the vicissitudes which overtook that prince in 1213. This poet's
PICTON, CESAR (c. 1755 - 1836), coal merchant Cesar Picton was born c. 1755 in West Africa, possibly Senegal, and was brought to Britain in 1761 at the age of around six. The earliest reference to him is a note made on 8 November 1761 in the journal of Sir John Philipps of Picton (Philipps Family), sixth baronet (1701-1764), who represented Pembrokeshire in Parliament with the residence Norbiton Place in Kingston upon Thames: 'Went to
PICTON, Sir THOMAS (1758 - 1815), soldier, colonial governor and enslaver stele which survived into the twenty-first century. On 8 June 1859, Picton's remains were transferred to St Paul's Cathedral, the only Welshman to be (re)buried there. Patriotic poems celebrated him at the outbreak of the Boer and the Great War, and his statue was one of twelve 'national heroes' sponsored by Lord Rhondda and erected in the newly-built Cardiff City Hall by 1916. He featured as a heroic
PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH (1741 - 1821), author . cit.) - members of the aristocracy, writers, dramatists, antiquaries, historians actors, etc. Among her Welsh friends were Thomas Pennant, the ' Ladies of Llangollen,' Lewis Bagot, bishop of St Asaph, Margaret Owen of Penrhos, and Mrs. Siddons. She spent much of her later years at Bath. She died at Clifton 2 May 1821, and was buried at Tremeirchion, Flintshire, on 16 May.
PONSONBY, SARAH (1755 - 1831), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' Delamere. Butler died on 2 June 1829, and Ponsonby two years later on 9 December 1831. They were interred under the triangular monument in St Collen's Church, Llangollen next to their faithful friend Carryl. The Ladies were adamant about not having their portraits done but in 1828 Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton) made two sketches of their faces from under the library table. Ponsonby was in profile but
POOLE, EDWIN (1851 - 1895), journalist, printer, and local historian Brecknock (1885), The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire (1886), and John Penry (1893). He also brought out a short-lived but very useful antiquarian journal, Old Brecknock Chips (1886-8). He died 15 April 1895.
POWEL, DAVID (c.1540 - 1598), cleric and historian Llanfyllin (op. cit., ii, 234); he exchanged Llanfyllin for Meifod in 1579 (op. cit., ii, 502 - he would seem to have resigned this in 1597); he received two successive prebends in St Asaph (op. cit., i, 350, 347); and in 1588/9 was given the sinecure rectory of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. In February 1587/8 he is named as one of the only three 'preachers' in his diocese. Powel was one of the most important
POWEL, JOHN (bu farw 1767), weaver-poet own hand in Panton MS. 2. See also under David Jones,, 1732 - 1782?.

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