Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition with Herbert Howells and piano with Kathleen McQuitty. She married Elwyn Edwards on 3 September 1947 and lived in Oxford while he was studying at Mansfield and she continued to teach in local schools. They returned to Wales when he accepted the pastorate of Castle Square Presbyterian Church in Caernarfon. From 1973 onwards Dilys
JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician
PRICE, DILYS MARGARET (1932 - 2020), educationalist and skydiver Dilys Price was born in Bournemouth on 3 June 1932, the only child of Thomas John Evans (1899-1973), born in Treherbert, and Elizabeth M Evans (née Gould, 1906-1963), from Aberaman, near Aberdare. Her father served in the Royal Air Force during the Great War, before going into service in Bournemouth following a religious conversion by missionaries. There, in 1929, he married Elizabeth Gould. Soon
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English , daughter of John and Catherine Edwards, Eirianfa, Dolgellau, 28 December 1910, and they had four children: Elwyn, Mari, Nest, Brian. He died 16 July 1968. He shone as one of the most versatile of the poets and writers of Wales. He was a playwright, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, lecturer, and a lyrical poet in both Welsh and English; he was also a musician and an excellent artist. He won some of the
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne was born at Glyndyl, Menai Avenue, Upper Bangor on 19 February 1895, the youngest daughter of the five surviving children of John Glynne Jones (1849-1947), solicitor, and his wife Dilys Lloyd Glynne Jones (née Davies, 1857-1932). Her father's family home was Tyddyn Isaf (Cymryd) in the parish of Y Gyffin near Conwy. Her mother was one of the London Welsh, daughter of the
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian Alun Davies was born in the manse of the Welsh Independents in the main street of Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 30 October 1916, one of four children of Rev. Ben Davies (1878-1958), minister of the Welsh Independents, and his wife Sarah (née Bowen). The eldest child was Nan (Arianwen), the second Elwyn Davies, Secretary of the University of Wales, the third was Alun, and the fourth the broadcaster
ROBERTS, JOHN IORWERTH (1902 - 1970), schoolmaster and secretary of Llangollen International Eisteddfod history. He held classes on the topic for the Workers' Educational Association, and his lecture on the 1858 Llangollen eisteddfod to the Denbighshire History Society was published in the Society's journal in 1959. He married (1) Dilys Alwen Jones (died 11 July 1965) in Rehoboth chapel, Llangollen, in August 1934 and they had one daughter; and married (2) Dilys Jones of Llangollen in King Street
DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister , near Carmarthen who were in the lineage of Samuel Bowen, Macclesfield (1799 - 1877. They had one daughter, Arianwen, and three sons, Elwyn, Alun and Hywel. He began his ministry in the churches of Siloh, Pontardulais, and Hen Gapel, Llanelli. In 1907 he went to Hermon, Plas-marl, Swansea and remained there until 1914. He served in Seion, Llandysul from 1914 to 1924. He moved to Capel Newydd
WATKINS, TUDOR ELWYN (Baron Watkins of Glantawe), (1903 - 1983), Labour politician
OWEN, LEONARD (1890 - 1965), administrator in India, treasurer of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Wales taxation records are at the University College of Bangor and the National Library of Wales. He also translated very many articles from Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940 for inclusion in The Dictionary of Welsh biography down to 1940. He married in Bombay, India, in 1923, Dilys daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan, under BRYAN, ROBERT) and they had one son and one daughter. He died 4 November 1965 at
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic pride to him that a number of his poems were set to music, e.g. 'Pan Oeddwn Fachgen' ['When I was a Boy'] (1971) by William Mathias, and 'Gwyn Fyd y Griafolen' ['Blessed is the Rowan'] (2001) by Dilys Elwyn Edwards after his death. One of the creative high points of the post-war period is the trilogy of poems 'Ym Merlin - Awst 1945' ['In Berlin - August 1945']. From a historical point of view, the
LLOYD, JOHN MORGAN (1880 - 1960), musician 'Dilys' and 'Alwen hoff', the madrigal 'Wele gawell baban glân', and part-song (SSA) 'Llyn y Fan', which are excellent examples of his style. His 'Arthur yn cyfodi' was performed during the Three Valleys Festival, 1936 and his 'Te Deum' for choir and orchestra was performed under his baton at Cardiff national eisteddfod, 1938. He excelled as a teacher, and several leading composers, Grace Williams and

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