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His second marriage gave him a growing interest in Welsh history and genealogy. He began to study closely the ancestors of his wife, a descendant of
Marchudd ap Cynan, lord of Uwch Dulas and said that he had come to "think the race of Cadwallon more glorious than the breed of Gimcrack," as he wrote
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Helston, after a petition, but vacated his seat at the end of the first session of Parliament in June 1781. In 1782, Philip married his second wife Diana Meyrick, widow of Ridgeway Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan, Anglesey (died 1805), who was a daughter of
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The Royal Tribes of Wales. To which is Added an
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and were returned on petition on 15 March 1775. Elizabeth died in
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180:relatively late in life. He was the author of
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