HUW LLIFON (fl. c. 1570-1607), poet and sexton

of Llanefydd, Denbighshire. Some of his work remains in manuscripts and this includes religious englynion, a cywydd to the Holly Tree at Meifod, another begging a gown for the poet from David Holland of Kinmel, and an elegy upon the death in 1607/8 of Ffowc ap Rhobert of Meiriadog, Denbighshire. It is evident that he lived to a fairly great age; references to this are found in the last two of these poems, and also in two englynion addressed to him by Lewis Lloyd. No details of his life are known.

Author

• Ray Looker

Sources

• Cardiff Manuscript 23 (413)
• NLW Archives: NLW MS 644B (33b), NLW MS 836D (39), NLW MS 1578B (459, 463, 466)
• H. Blackwell, NLW MSS 9251-9277A: A Dictionary of Welsh Biography
• Cymru yn hanesyddol, parthedegol, a bywgraphyddol (1875)
• 'Gweirydd ap Rhys,' Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 1300–1650 (1885)

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733228

Published date: 1959

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