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Prys
Prys is a surname or a given name. Notable people with this name include: Surname * Cedric Prys-Roberts, British anaesthetist * Edmund Prys (1542–1623), Welsh clergyman and poet * Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies (1923–2017), Welsh politician * Owen Prys (1857–1934), Welsh Calvinist minister * Prys Morgan (born 1937), Welsh historian Given name * Tomos Prys Tomos Prys (c.1564–1634) was a Welsh soldier, sailor and poet. He was the eldest son of Ellis Price MP, of Plas Iolyn, Pentrefoelas, Denbighshire. Life He followed a seafaring life for many years, joining expeditions under both Sir Walter Ral ... (c.1564–1634), Welsh soldier See also * Rhys#The patronymic form {{given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Prys
Edmund (Edmwnd) Prys (1542/3 Р1623) was a Welsh clergyman and poet, best known for Welsh metrical translations of the Psalms in his ''Salmau C̢n''. Life Prys was born in Llanrwst, Denbighshire 1542 or 1543, son of Si̫n ap Rhys ap Gruffudd ap Rhys and Si̢n, daughter of Owain ap Llywelyn ab Ieuan. He was a kinsman of the scholar and bible translator William Salesbury who may have been an early influence. On 16 March 1565 he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of William Morgan, the bible translator. He graduated B.A. in 1568, in M.A. 1571, and was a Fellow in 1570. On 14 March 1573 he became rector of Festiniog, with its chapelry of Maentwrog. He became Rector of Ludlow in March 1576 and on 5 November 1576 archdeacon of Merioneth. On 16 April 1580 there was added to the livings he already held the rectory of with its chapelry of Llanddwywe, and on 8 October 1602 he was made a canon cursal (a subsidiary canon) of St Asaph Cathedral. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies
Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies (8 December 1923 – 28 March 2017) was a Welsh Labour politician. He was a pioneer of the use of the Welsh language for official purposes, and in 1982 became the first member of the House of Lords to take the oath of allegiance in Welsh. Biography Gwilym Prys Davies was born in the village of Llanegryn, in Meirionnydd, Wales. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, on North Atlantic Convoys. After the war was over, he went to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth to study law. This is where he met Llinos Evans, to whom he would be married for over fifty years until her death in 2010. By 1956 he had qualified as a solicitor and was working at a legal practice in Pontypridd, pioneering the use of the Welsh language in the courts. His political career started with Plaid Cymru, before he moved to Labour after the Welsh Socialist Republican Movement, of which he was a founder and strong supporter, failed to influence par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Prys
Owen Prys (25 September 1857 – 12 December 1934) was a Calvinistic Methodist minister and first Principal of the United Theological College in Aberystwyth in Wales (1906–27) and Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Wales in 1910.Owen Prys on the The Welsh scholar Sir Ifor Williams described him as one of the most powerful preachers of the 20th-century. Biography Born in 1857 the son of Absalom and Ann Prys of the Factory, |
Tomos Prys
Tomos Prys (c.1564–1634) was a Welsh soldier, sailor and poet. He was the eldest son of Ellis Price MP, of Plas Iolyn, Pentrefoelas, Denbighshire. Life He followed a seafaring life for many years, joining expeditions under both Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake. In one of his poems he states that he, Captain William Myddelton and Captain Thomas Koet were the first who 'drank' (smoked) tobacco in the streets of London. He fought in the campaign in the Netherlands between 1585 and 1587 under Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, and was also with the earl at Tilbury in the army that protected London from the Spanish Armada in 1588. He was also occupied as a buccaneer; at the end of the 16th century he bought a ship and went buccaneering on the Spanish sea routes from the Llŷn coast, having built a residence out of the ruins of the old monastery on Bardsey Island. On his death, Prys was buried at Ysbyty Ifan on 23 August 1634. Works Many details survive about Tomos's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prys Morgan
Prys Morgan FRHistS FSA FLSW (born 1937) is a Welsh historian. Biography Prys Morgan was born in Cardiff in 1937, the son of academic T. J. Morgan. His parents first met at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1926. Like his late brother, Rhodri Morgan, Prys Morgan was educated at Whitchurch Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford. From 1964 he taught history at Swansea University, where his father had been a professor. He is now an Emeritus Professor of the university. Following his retirement from academic life, he became President of the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Swansea, President of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Accessed 21 August 2015 and is joint director of the |
Cedric Prys-Roberts
Cedric Prys-Roberts is emeritus professor of anaesthesia at the University of Bristol. He was president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) is the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom. It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaestheti ... from 1994 to 1997. References Presidents of the Royal College of Anaesthetists British anaesthetists Academics of the University of Bristol Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
