Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, DAVID (Bardd Einion; 1797? - 1868), poet he is thought to have been born in 1797 at Tan-y-bryn, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, and he may have been the David, son of David and Margaret Morris of the Heniarth district who was christened in the parish church 2 July 1797. He started life as a weaver but later turned to market gardening. The old name for Tan-y-bryn was ' Y Gerddi ' and there David Morris tended his garden, selling
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer Morris died on 20 November 2020, aged 94, in Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, Pwllheli. Elizabeth, whom she'd 're-married' in 2008 after the law had changed to allow same-sex registrations, outlived her, and died in a nursing home in Aberystwyth two months shy of her hundredth birthday. Their ashes are scattered on a tiny island in the Afon Dwyfor, under a headstone that Jan used to love to show off to visitors. It
NANNEY, DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales between leases for lives and leases for years (Penrhyn 1848). He became squire of Gwynfryn by his father's death in 1805; in 1812 he inherited the Nanney lands of Bachwen and Elernion by the will of a bachelor uncle on condition that he assumed the surname Nanney. He died on 5 June 1819, without issue, bequeathing his estate to his nephew, Owen Jones of Bryn-hir, on condition that he assumed the name of
NEWELL, RICHARD (1785 - 1852), farmer and Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Allt-y-ffynnon, Aberhavesp, Montgomeryshire, 23 March 1785, son of Richard Newell, farmer, and Bridget his wife. In 1786 the family moved to Gwernfyda, Llanllugan, where Richard attended the school kept by the Rev. John Davies and David Davies. Afterwards (1786) they moved to Bryn, Llanwyddelan, where the father died in 1800. After this the son attended the school kept by his uncle, John
NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister Born 12 January 1877 at y Bryn, Cwmfelinmynach, Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, the son of Benjamin Nicholas (died 10 August 1931 aged 88) and Mary Nicholas (died 23 October 1900 aged 56). His father was a member of the Independent church at Llanboidy and his mother at the Baptist church at Ramoth, Cwmfelinmynach. It is recorded on the gravestone of his parents in Ramoth graveyard that they both came
NICHOLAS, JOHN MORGAN (1895 - 1963), musician promising oboist. His best-known composition is his classic hymn-tune 'Bryn Myrddin', written for the words 'Mawr oedd Crist yn nhragwyddoldeb' by Titus Lewis. He married Marion May Lloyd of Ton Pentre, Rhondda, on 27 April 1921, and they had two daughters, Joan, who died of polio aged 16, and Meriel. Morgan Nicholas died on 12 August 1963 and his funeral took place at Thornhill crematorium in Cardiff on
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter Independents, which eventually appeared in 1960. But in 1947 he left to become minister of the Independent church at Bryn, Llanelli, until 1952 when he moved to Horeb and Bwlch-y-groes in Ceredigion. From there he moved to Tabernacl, Porthcawl; after his retirement in 1982 he continued to live in the Porthcawl area. While there he was particularly active in support of the Welsh language, helping to found
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 1260), prince of Gwynedd eldest son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Some years a prisoner of his brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Henry III secured to him a portion of Snowdonia by the treaty of Woodstock (1247). Again deprived by Llywelyn after Bryn Derwin (1254), he spent another long period in confinement, until Llywelyn was obliged to release him after the humiliating defeat of
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist Born 3 July 1877 at Blaen-yr-yrfa, Tal-y-sarn, Nantlle Valley, Caernarfonshire, one of the eight children of Hugh Owen and his wife Mary. When Owain was young, the family moved to Bryn-y-coed in the same district. At twelve years of age the lad went to work to Gloddfa Glai quarry and to 'Cornwall' later. When he was aged fifteen he took to journalism and became a member of the editorial staff of
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet the appointment of her husband by Merioneth County Council. Gerallt's elder brother Geraint (born 1941) won the National Eisteddfod Crown in 2011 and was invested as Archdruid in 2016. Gerallt was educated in the village school referred to by Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) as 'Hen Goleg Bach y Sarnau' (the little college of Sarnau), then at Bala Grammar School for Boys (Ysgol Tŷ Tan Domen) and Bangor
OWEN, HUGH (1832 - 1897), musician Born 15 January 1832 at Botwnnog, Caernarfonshire, the son of Richard and Mary Owen. After a period spent in Botwnnog grammar school he became a tailor and settled at Tal-y-sarn in the Nantlle valley. After marriage he lived in a house called Pen-yr-yrfa and afterwards in one called Bryn-y-coed. He was precentor at the Tal-y-sarn C.M. chapel for over forty years; he started the Tal-y-sarn Glee
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor Born 1 November 1654 at Brynmeini, Aber-nant, Carmarthenshire, second son of John Owen. His mother, whose name is not known, was a niece of bishop Thomas Howell (1588 - 1646) and of the letter-writer James Howell; Bryn was her hereditament, owned by her grandfather Thomas Howell, vicar of Conwil Elvet and Aber-nant, and previously curate of Llangamarch; Anthony Wood was in error when he said that

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