When David Morgan Phillips was born in 1847, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, David Morgan Phillips, was 42 and his mother, Mary Griffith, was 43. He lived in Cardiff St Mary, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1851 and Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom in 1861.
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Like the iron and copper mines, the coal fields in South Wales were very important to the industrial revolution. Many of those that worked in the coal mines were part of the Merthyr uprising.
The Great Reform Act of 1867 gave males the right to vote. This also helped to form the Welsh Liberal Party. It was the second of three reforms that would take place.
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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