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teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, This family claims descent from Edwin ap Gronow of Tegeingl. Dafydd ap Philip ap Hywel is said to have been the first 'ap Hywel (whence Powell) connected with Llechwedd-dyrus, the first seat of the family; his wife, according to Peniarth MS 156 (see West Wales Historical Records, i), was daughter of John ap Edward of Nanteos. Their grandson, Sir THOMAS POWELL, Serjeant-at-law (1688), a Baron of
POWELL, DAVID (bu farw 1781), Franciscan friar incidentally mentioned in the article on the Vaughan family of Courtfield. The friary at Perth-hir served the Roman Catholic chapel at Abergavenny, and Powell (known in religion as ' Brother Gregory ') was praeses of that chapel at various dates between 1740 and 1767. He is found (21 July 1778) signing at Abergavenny a declaration of loyalty to the Crown (Bradney, Monmouthshire, I, ii, 194); and it was at
POWELL, Sir JOHN (1633 - 1696), lawyer and judge to King's Bench, 1687. In June 1688 he was one of the judges who acquitted the seven bishops, and was dismissed from the Bench; he was restored to the Bench in 1689. He died 7 September 1696, and was buried in Laugharne parish church. He has been confused with Sir John Powell of Gloucester (1645 - 1713; D.N.B.). His son THOMAS (1664 - 1720), of Broadway, Carmarthenshire and Coldbrook, Monmouthshire
POWELL, RAYMOND (1928 - 2001), Labour politician at this time. (In the event, Roy Hughes, the Labour MP for Newport East, obliged and went to the House of Lords.) At the time of his death Sir Ray Powell was the oldest Welsh Labour MP and firmly identified as belonging to 'Old Labour' - a member of the old school in the age of 'New Labour'. His hobbies were gardening, sport and music. He had married in 1949 Marion Grace Evans, and they had one son
POWELL, RICE (fl. 1641-1665), colonel in the Parliamentary army Pembroke. Powell joined John Poyer and Rowland Laugharne and took part with them in the defence of Pembroke and the offensive actions in the county and beyond. Laugharne appointed him governor of Cardigan castle when it was captured on 29 December 1644 and he successfully defended it in the following month against a Royalist assault directed by Sir Charles Gerard. In April 1646 he became governor of
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

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