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PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
teulu PENNANT Penrhyn, Llandygâi marriage adventures of Angharad in other pedigree books. Curiously enough, Richard Pennant's wife could claim a much more dependable descent from the Cochwillan (see Williams of Cochwillan) family, from Robin, brother of Gwilym ap Gruffith ap Gwilym. RICHARD PENNANT (1737? - 1808) Whatever may be said about the contacts between old and new, Richard Pennant was undoubtedly a powerful personality with
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
teulu PERROT Haroldston, birth and paternity, he was not an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. Perrot's mother, Mary Berkeley, did not serve as one of the royal ladies-in-waiting and his father, Thomas, was never knighted. He possessed great stature and physical strength, but he had an arbitrary temper and a brawling nature. With the Tudors he enjoyed great popularity; Henry VIII is thought to have offered him preferment but
teulu PERROT Haroldston, Three members of this house will be noticed. Sir JOHN PERROT (1530 - 1592), Elizabethan statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland Politics, Government and Political Movements, 1584-8 He was popularly believed to be an illegitimate son of Henry VIII and Mary Berkeley, one of the royal ladies-in-waiting who married Sir Thomas Perrot of Haroldston. Henry knighted Sir Thomas on his marriage. Sir John was
PERRY, STANLEY HOWARD HEDLEY (1911 - 1995), professor of theology an exceptional linguist, expert in a number of modern languages as well as ancient ones, and his mastery of the Welsh language was especially good. His main field of research concerned the works of the first Syrian church father, Aphrahat, but he did not publish any of the results of his research. Indeed, he published very little, only a few sermons and reviews in journals. He married Mary
PERRYN, Sir RICHARD (1723 - 1803), judge Chancery. In 1770 he was appointed deputy-chamberlain of Chester (Williams, Welsh Judges, 77); in 1776 he was raised to the Exchequer bench, and was knighted. He retired in 1799, and died 2 January 1803.
PETERSON, JOHN CHARLES (1911 - 1990), boxer service to sport. In 1986 he was elected president of the BBBC, and the Board's new headquarters in south London was named 'Jack Petersen House'. He became vice-chairman of the Sports Council for Wales, and also served as a councillor for the Plasnewydd ward in Cardiff. He married Annie Elizabeth 'Betty' Williams, the daughter of Thomas Baker Williams, a Cardiff auctioneer, on 9 October 1935. Their son
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist producing a wider range of commercial material. The Press was supplemented by a variety of commissions for illustrations for books such as Alun Lewis' In the Green Tree (1949), Cledwyn Hughes' A Wanderer in North Wales (1949) and Gwyn Williams' Against Women (1953) and In Defence of Women (1960). He also experimented with book publishing, and published Susanna and the Elders, (1948), and Sauna (1949). His
PHILIPPS, Sir GRISMOND PICTON (1898 - 1967), soldier and public figure , of his own county in particular and of Wales in general. He was knighted in 1953. He married Lady Marjorie Joan Mary Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 2nd daughter of the 7th Earl FitzWilliam in 1925, from whom he was divorced in 1949. He died 8 May 1967, leaving one son.
PHILIPPS, Sir IVOR (1861 - 1940), soldier, politician and businessman Ivor Philipps was born at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, on 9 September 1861, the second son of Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are noticed separately: Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st
PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN (1666? - 1737) Picton Castle,, religious, educational, and social reformer that year, he was returned Member of Parliament for Pembroke borough; he held the seat till 1702. He re-entered Parliament and was Member for Haverfordwest till 1722. His father died 18 January 1696/7, and on 12 December 1697, Sir John, as 4th baronet, married Mary, daughter and heiress of Anthony Smith, a rich East India merchant. She died 18 November 1722, leaving three sons and three daughters

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1081 - 1092 of 1770 for "Mary Williams"