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Wales glossary

Wales glossary

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Pannage

The right of pasturing pigs in a forest or payment made for this.

Papists


Paris Peace Conference, 1919

Conference held in Paris at the end of the First World War with the intention of settling Europe in the aftermath of the war. The Conference produced several treaties – most famously, the Treaty of Versailles – and established the League of Nations. David Lloyd George, as Prime Minister of Great Britain, was one of the ‘Big Four’ leaders involved (the others being Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, Woodrow Wilson, US President, and Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy.)

Parliament Act, 1911

Act of Parliament which prevented the House of Lords from being able to delay by more than two years any bill passed by the House of Commons, and by more than one month any money-bill (i.e. dealing with taxation).

Parry, Joseph

(18411903). Composer and academic from Merthyr Tydfil. Became Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1873.

Parry, W.J.

Secretary and one of the leading figures of the North Wales Quarrymen's Union which figured centrally in the dispute with the slate quarry owners from 1874 when it was founded. A Welsh–speaking Liberal Nonconformist who believed in harmony in industrial relations.

Partible inheritance

Division of land between male heirs.

Particular Baptists

Branch of the Baptist denomination.

Pastoral Farming

Farming of animals.

Patagonia

Welsh colony established in 1865 in the Chubut Valley, Patagonia, Argentina, by Michael D. Jones, a non-conformist preacher. The first contingent of settlers comprised 153 men, women and children.


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