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POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner Born 6 January 1779 (says Bradney) at Monmouth, son of John Powell. He began as a timber merchant at Newport, but afterwards extended his activities to the coal trade. His first venture in coal-mining was the purchase of a small colliery between Llanhilleth and Aberbeeg. In 1829 he sank two shafts at Gelligaer, proving a vein of coal nearly six feet thick. In 1833 Powell applied to Sir Charles
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher The only one of the eleven children of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys to lay special claim to his father's Welsh ancestry. As he narrates in Autobiography (1934), his father would announce his descent from 'Roderic Mawr, King of all Wales'. His father's ancestry can be traced back some six centuries to Powyses of Montgomery, and to, more recently, the first Sir Thomas Powys of Lilford (died 1719
POYER, JOHN (bu farw 1649) Pembroke, mayor A leading merchant of Pembroke town. He was active in local affairs and in command of the trained band. On 17 February 1642 he wrote to Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, Member of Parliament for Pembroke borough, to draw his attention to the undefended state of Pembrokeshire in view of the insurrection in Ireland, whence refugees were arriving daily in the county. Later in the year, on the outbreak of
PREECE, Sir WILLIAM HENRY (1834 - 1913), electrical engineer
teulu PRICE Rhiwlas, men from 'Y Berfeddwlad' and led it to Bosworth Field (1485) to join men from South Wales under Sir Rhys ap Thomas. By reason of his prowess at Bosworth, he received many favours at the hand of the new king (Henry VII). (Alabaster effigies of 'Rhys Fawr' and his wife, Lowry, are in Ysbyty Ifan church). His son: Sir ROBERT AP RHYS (died c.1534) The 'sir' in this case denotes an ecclesiastic - became
PRICE THOMAS, CLEMENT (1893 - 1973), pioneering surgeon Wales. Clem and Dorrie, as they were affectionately known, were a devoted couple whose home in St John's Wood was an hospitable place for a wide circle of friends and colleagues. Sir Clement died on 19 March 1973 aged 79 and was buried in the grave of his parents in the New Bethel chapel cemetery, Mynyddislwyn, now in the County Borough of Caerphilly. On 29 May 1973 a well-attended memorial service
PRICE, BENJAMIN (Cymro Bach; 1792 - 1854), Baptist minister and littérateur Born at Govilon, Llanwenarth, 1792, son of Joseph Price (died 1834), minister of Blaenau Gwent, and Hannah his wife. His family moved to Blaenavon and it was there that he was baptized in 1817 and started to preach, September 1820. He was admitted to the Baptist Academy at Abergavenny in 1822 and subsequently held the pastorates of Kensington, Brecon, 24 November 1825-1828; Newtown and Caer-sws
PRICE, CHARLES (bu farw 1646) Pilleth,, soldier and politician inherited his father's military bent, and in 1619 acted as second to Sir Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth when the latter challenged lord Herbert of Cherbury to a duel, which was stopped by James I. Next year he represented the borough in Parliament, where he took a strong line over monopolies, parliamentary privilege, and the maintenance of the Protestant ascendancy, and he was re-elected in 1624. In 1625 he
PRICE, CHRISTOPHER (bu farw 1697), apothecary, preacher, free-communion Baptist He lived at Abergavenny in the High Street, one of the chief officials of the corporation, and, according to Sir Joseph Bradney, of the family of the Prices of Llanffoist. He supported John Tombes in the great Baptism debate at Abergavenny, 1653; after the Restoration he is reported as preaching in 'conventicles,' 1668-9, and in 1672 he secured a licence to preach in his own house under the
PRICE, ISAAC (1735? - 1805), Congregational minister Born at Gellicrugion, near Llanwrtyd, Brecknock, c. 1735. He was brought up in a religious home where itinerant preachers stayed and received what education was available in the neighbourhood. He showed an early inclination for the pulpit and went to Joseph Simmons's school at Neath. He began to preach at Troedrhiwdalar as assistant to the aged and ailing preacher Thomas Morgan. He was ordained
PRICE, JOHN (1830 - 1906), principal of the Normal College, Bangor Llanfyllin, after which he went in 1855 to open the British School at Bala. His ability brought him to the notice of Sir Hugh Owen and he was invited to assist the Rev. John Phillips in the new training college at Bangor; here, he started work when the college was opened in 1858. In 1863, when Phillips was appointed principal of the college, he became deputy principal, an appointment which he continued to
PRICE, Sir JOHN (1502? - 1555), notary public, the king's principal registrar in causes ecclesiastical, and secretary of the Council in Wales and the Marches visitor, arrangements for the dissolution, testimonies and confessions of bishop John Fisher, Sir Thomas More, and leaders of the rebellions in East Anglia and the North of England, divorce proceedings of queen Anne Boleyn, and arrangements for the marriage of queen Jane Seymour. In spite of its imposing title, his office brought him little direct profit, but it enabled him to secure grants from the

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