Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium representatives in the League of Nations - the first woman in Britain to fulfil this role. But Winifred Coombe Tennant became a keen nationalist and prominent in Gorsedd y Beirdd. Under the bardic name ' Mam o Nedd ' she became Mistress of the Robes, and in her will left the Gorsedd a sum of money, and to the National Library papers concerning the Gorsedd. She was chairman of the Arts and Crafts Section in the
DAVIES, DANIEL JOHN (1885 - 1970), Independent minister and poet competition four times at the national eisteddfod. R. Williams Parry said of his poem Ffynnon Fair that he knew of no one who could write so easily and so effortlessly within the restrictions of cynghanedd. He was second to Gwenallt in the chair competition the year before winning in 1932 for his ode ' Mam ' at the Aberavon National Eisteddfod in a competition of high quality. He adjudicated frequently at
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric , reading from the popular children's catechism, Rhodd Mam, and asking him 'Who is Jesus Christ?', to which he answered, 'Jesus Christ is my Saviour'. A deep peace fell on him. From this point onwards Richard Davies undertook a thorough study of the Bible and rediscovered the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. He became minister of Richmond Road Congregational Church, Cardiff in 1939 and he took up preaching
EVANS, DAVID (fl. 1750), poet of Coed-bychan, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. He was one of the descendants of Humphrey Davies of Llanbryn-mair. Some of his verse appeared in the almanacs published by Evan Davies (Philomath, fl. 1720-50). There is one of his poems in NLW MS 14402B: 'Chwech o Benhillion a ddanfonwyd mewn llythyr o Flanders yn amser y Frenhines Anne, at fy Mam, ac mi welais gyffhelyb i'r peth ar ôl hynnu
HUGHES, JOHN (1850 - 1932), Calvinistic Methodist minister, author, and poet Ddeffroad, 1899; Ysgol Jacob, 1899; and The Christian Consciousness ('Davies Lecture,' 1902). He published some books of original verse: Songs in the Night, 1885; Tristiora, 1896; and Dan y Gwlith, 1911, which includes his hymns. He also published an occasional elegy such as Fy Mam (undated), Marwolaeth y Saint, 1905, a commentary or two, and various articles to Y Drysorfa and the Traethodydd.
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister work, Mam yr Iesu, a Darnau Eraill. He was secretary of the Union of Welsh Independents 1897-9, and chairman 1923-4; he was also for three years a member of the Merioneth county council.
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer was then known as Temperance Town. Knowing virtually nobody in the city, he lived with his parents in the Roath area and then in Cathays, and accompanied them to the Welsh Congregationalist Chapel in Minny Street, Cathays; while he later wrote that 'the only reason I came to chapel at that time was to please Mam', in the chapel he gradually befriended a number of young people, many of whom were
JONES, ROBERT (1745 - 1829), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and author went to live at Tŷ Bwlcyn, near Dinas, Llŷn. The history of four of the children is known: DANIEL became a Liverpool draper and Methodist preacher; Mary married Richard Jones of Tŷ Bwlcyn and became the mother of Magdalen Jones of Waun Fawr, who wrote Rhodd Nain; Hannah married Richard Owen of Meillionen, Ceidio, and their descendants are to be found in Llŷn and the U.S.A.; SAMUEL went to Liverpool
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591)
MAM CYMRU - see KATHERYN of BERAIN
MAM O NEDD - see COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET
MORRIS, WILLIAM (fl. 1829-1873?), assistant to the Education Commissioners of 1846-7 Calvinistic Methodist Sunday schools at Merthyr Tydfil and Dowlais; for example, he completely leaves Capel Hermon, with a Sunday school of over 600, unmentioned. He did go to his own school of Cae-pant-tywyll, but we should never have known that it was Calvinistic Methodist unless he had let out that the Rhodd Mam was used in it. His contacts with such a zealous churchman as Lingen, however, did not in the

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