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PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 , Hilda Alice Moore, arranged to have her buried in Croydon. Sioned was undoubtedly her masterpiece and it won high praise from time to time (see E.M. Humphreys, Yr Herald Cymraeg, 9 March 1953). It is said that R. Williams Parry thought highly of it and referred to it in his W.E.A. lectures (but see also Kate Roberts, Baner, 29 April 1953).
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1560), courtier revealed, Parry owned to a wish that the princess could have drawn support from lands in Wales; but he escaped punishment and continued to attend her under Mary. On her accession, Elizabeth knighted him (as ' Thomas Parry of Wales') and made him Comptroller of her household and one of her privy council of eight (20 November 1558), and later Master of the Wards (26 April 1559), and he seems to have been
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet He was born on 4 August 1904, the eldest of the three sons of Richard Edwin Parry, quarryman and smallholder, and his wife Jane (née Williams) at Brynawel, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. Richard Parry's father had married three times: a son from the first marriage was Robert Williams Parry's father; a son from the second marriage was T. H. Parry-Williams's father. So Thomas Parry was a younger cousin
PARRY, WILLIAM (1754 - 1819), Independent minister and tutor, and author ) to have the legal disabilities of Dissenters removed. In 1799, he was appointed tutor in what had been Coward's Academy, on the occasion of its removal to Wymondley, Hertfordshire. In 1808, he engaged in controversy against the ideas of Edward Williams (1750 - 1813) of Rotherham. He died 9 January 1819. The D.N.B. has an article on him (with a list of his works), on which the present notice has
PARRY, WILLIAM (1743 - 1791), portrait-painter Society of Artists. After some time spent painting near Ruabon, through the generosity of his patron, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, he went to Italy in 1770 and stayed there until 1775. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1776 and exhibited twenty-two pictures, mainly small full-length portraits, at the academy's exhibitions between 1776 and 1788. Parry's wife, a daughter of Henry Keene, the
PARRY, WILLIAM JOHN (1842 - 1927), Labour leader, and author -out, 1900-01 - Statement and Appeal, 1901; The Cry of the People, 1906; and edited, with W. J. Williams, the Welsh translation of the evidence on slate quarries and quarrymen submitted to the royal commission on labour (1893). He wrote much to Yr Herald Cymraeg, Y Genedl Gymreig, the Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald, and the North Wales Observer, on labour problems, leaseholds, Crown lands, Home Rule
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author became a teacher at Carmarthen Girls' Grammar School and then a lecturer at Barry Training College. In August 1942 she married her Professor at Aberystwyth, T. H. Parry-Williams. There were no children of the marriage. Amy showed musical promise at an early age, and along with her brother Madoc and sister Mary would compete regularly at eisteddfodau in Carmarthenshire and at regional and national level
PARRY-WILLIAMS, DAVID EWART (1900 - 1996), musician Born Glynneath, Glamorgan, 25 June 1900, the son of the village schoolmaster, Tom Williams, and his wife Mary Ann who ran the local Post Office. He received instruction in music from his uncle, who was the organist at Bethania chapel in Glynneath, and played the cello in a small orchestra at Bethania. When his uncle moved to London to be organist of Charing Cross Welsh chapel, the nephew visited
PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
PARRY-WILLIAMS, T. H. - gweler PARRY-WILLIAMS, THOMAS HERBERT
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar T. H. Parry-Williams was born on 21 September 1887 to Henry Parry-Williams (1858-1925) and Ann, née Morris (1859-1926), at Rhyd-ddu, Arfon. Christened 'Tom' (not 'Thomas'), he was the second of six children, the siblings being Blodwen, Willie, Oscar, Wynne and Eurwen. Literary tendencies can be seen on both maternal and paternal sides of the family. The brother of Ann, R. R. Morris, was a
PAULINUS (fl. late 5th century), saint , combine to suggest that this Paulinus is the Welsh saint of that name. But there is no positive evidence to make the identification certain. The 'Paulinus' mentioned on a pillar-stone found in the parish of Llantrisant, Anglesey, may also be this saint (Nash-Williams, 63). The church of Llan-gors, Brecknock, is dedicated to Paulinus. In the old parish of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire, Capel Peulin and

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