Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEVAN, THOMAS (Caradawc, Caradawc y Fenni; 1802 - 1882), antiquary contributions to Seren Gomer of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) and David Owen (Brutus) in their discussion on the poverty of the Welsh language and literature (1824). He married Catherine Anthony, daughter of Benjamin Anthony, Llanwenarth, 17 July 1826, and joined his father-in-law as a carrier by canal and waggon. He was appointed secretary of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society in 1833. He resigned his office
BLAYNEY, THOMAS (1785), harpist Born at Tyn-y-coed, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire, the son of Arthur and Letitia Blayney. He won the prize (a silver harp and thirty guineas) in the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) says that Blayney was the first whom he heard playing on the triple-harp; he also testifies to his renown as a harpist. He kept a public-house at Lydney North, near Walcot, the Shropshire
CARNHUANAWC - see PRICE, THOMAS
DAVIES, JOHN (Brychan; 1784? - 1864), poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement rural culture could become acclimatized among the raw industrial communities of 'the Hills.' Davies came under the influence (c. 1814) of Iolo Morganwg, and was initiated in 1818 into Iolo's 'Gorsedd': he bore a leading part in the eisteddfodic movement in Monmouthshire, and co-operated with Taliesin ap Iolo, Carnhuanawc, Cynddelw, D. Rhys Stephen, and other literati of the district at that time. But
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet for an awdl (Seren Gomer, 1832, 312), and at Mold, 1823, for an englyn. His elegy on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) in 1853, printed in Golud yr Oes, 1863, 112-3), was written in the asylum. Much of his work is scattered through the pages of Seren Gomer, Y Gwladgarwr, Yr Eurgrawn, Y Geninen, and Cymru (O.M.E.). He published a volume, Cell Callestr (Trefriw, 1815), of his own poetry and that of others
GRUFFYDD, THOMAS (1815 - 1887), one of the best known harpists of his period the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1836. He became very popular as harpist and penillion singer in Monmouthshire and Glamorgan. In 1843 Gruffydd and his teacher played at Buckingham Palace, being accompanied on their visit by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc); Gruffydd also gave a number of recitals at Marlborough House. In 1867 he was the guest of the Comte de la Villemarqué in Brittany, and was presented by
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume temperance hotels. Llys Llanover, the new Tudor-style family mansion, became a centre of Welsh culture in Gwent and beyond, attracting foreigners interested in the Celtic languages like the Bretons Alex François Rio, and Theodore de la Villemarqué, and the German Friedrich Carl Meyer, as well as Welsh collectors and scholars like Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), Maria Jane Williams, Lady Charlotte Guest, John
HALL, BENJAMIN (1802 - 1867) sister had already married baron Bunsen (later German ambassador to Great Britain) whose circle was interested in Celtic studies. In 1834 she won a prize at a Cardiff eisteddfod for an essay on the Welsh language, and at this time seems to have adopted the pseudonym Gwenynen Gwent. Under the influence of Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) she became an early member of ' Cymreigyddion y Fenni.' Although she
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer -groes county school (1925-31); (he won the chairs at the first two Urdd National Eisteddfodau at Corwen, 1929, and Caernarfon, 1930); University College of North Wales, Bangor (1931-36; BA, 1934 with honours in Welsh; diploma in education, 1935. He began researching into the life and work of Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') during the 1935-36 session for the MA degree. However, much to his disappointment
JONES, EVAN (Gwrwst ab Bleddyn Flaidd, Gwrwst; 1793 - 1855), Baptist minister and littérateur Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) and David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), and was an active member of the Cymreigyddion Society at Dolgelley. He published Gwentwyson: sef Ymdrechfa Y Beirdd; neu Awdlau Galarnadol am … Y Parch. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), 1849, and the translation of Traethawd ar Faddeuant Pechod, 1809, by Abraham Booth is attributed to him, although he was then but a youth (see under Evan
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock Llandovery), and went to live in his father's former house in Lion Street, which still stands - it was the house in which bishop George Bull had died. It would seem that the History of the County of Brecknock was conceived c. 1800. The first volume appeared in 1805, the second (dedicated to Edward Davies) in 1809. In his later years Jones was very friendly with Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc). He died 15

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