Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABEL, SIÔN (fl. 18th century), Montgomeryshire ballad-writer Humphrey Jones of Castle Caereinion (born 1719), which contains, together with other matter, a number of songs by poets of the Meifod and Caereinion districts. The song already mentioned bears the title ' A Christmas Carol, 1783, o waith fy hen feistr,' and it is followed by the note: 'Yr hen Siôn Abel a'i canodd' ('by old Siôn Abel'). It may be presumed that Siôn Abel, the master, did not dwell far from
ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess age, and a cywydd to reconcile Grigor y Moch and Davydd Llwyd Lwdwn.
BOHUN, HUMPHREY (c.1250 - 1298) - see CLARE
BROMLEY, HUMPHREY (1796), Unitarian preacher He was probably the first Unitarian preacher in North Wales. He was the son of Humphrey (a gardener) and Jane Bromley, of Tre-brys, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbighshire, and was born 17 May 1796. Like his father, he was a gardener, but besides this he kept a school in a loft near Pont Maes Mochnant, having 'at least 50 pupils.' Originally an Anglican, he became a Unitarian preacher, supported
BRWMFFILD, MATTHEW (fl. 1520-60), poet According to Cwrtmawr MS 12B (629), he was a native of Maelor. In his to 'Saint Tydecho and the two parishes of Mowthwy,' having equally praised Llan-ym-Mawddwy and Mallwyd, he asserts that he yearns more for the latter than the former. He wrote poems in praise of Rhisiart ap Rhys ap Dafydd Llwyd of Gogerddan 'about 1520'; of Rhys ap Howel of Porthamyl, Anglesey, 'within the month of November
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet Aberconwy, which the Red Book gives as the work of Riserdyn. Iolo Morganwg states that Casnodyn was a native of Kilvey, and it would appear that Hywel Ystorym, who was the poet's contemporary, refers to the same fact in a satiric poem: ' Pryf waeth waeth ei faeth o fythau Cilfai ' - R.B. Poetry, 1342. Casnodyn sang to Gwenllian, wife of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd, who was a prisoner in 1322, and to Ieuan Llwyd ap
CLARE family and his neighbour Humphrey Bohun VII (c. 1250-98), lord of Brecknock (on the Bohuns, see D.N.B. and William Rees, ' The Mediaeval Lordship of Brecon ' in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1915-16), because Gilbert had built a castle on their common boundary - on Brecknock land, so Bohun maintained; the castle was Morlais near Merthyr Tydfil (confused by some with Morgraig
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp Wales to be buried at Whitchurch, near Denbigh. Clough had hoped to do several things for the benefit of his native land, one of his projects being to make the river Clwyd navigable for small ships as far as Rhuddlan. He knew the famous Dutch scholar and geographer, Abraham Ortelius, and it was he who caused Ortelius to become acquainted with Humphrey Llwyd of Denbigh. It is surmised that he was only
CRYTHOR LLWYD MARCHEDD (fl. 16th century), musician
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet . Davids (Cwrtmawr MS 222D (28)), and Dafydd Llwyd of Dolobran (Aberdare MS. 1 (578)). He also wrote poetry on topical themes, e.g. a cywydd written in judgment on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and in praise of king James I (Peniarth MS 112: Llyfr cywyddau Siôn ap William ap Siôn (189)), and an englyn giving advice to William Cyffin on his departure for Ireland with the earl of Essex in 1599 (Jes. Coll. MS
DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION (fl. 1440-1468), soldier and commander of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses His fame rests on his defence of Harlech castle for the Lancastrians (1460-8) during the Wars of the Roses. His father, Ieuan ab Einion of Cryniarth and Hendwr in Edeirnion, Meironnydd, was a descendant of Llywelyn ap Cynwrig of Cors-y-Gedol; his mother, Angharad, was daughter and heiress of Dafydd ap Giwn Llwyd of Hendwr; his wife was Margaret, daughter of John Puleston of Emral, Flintshire
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family Of Lloyd of Dolobran, near Meifod, Montgomeryshire; son of Dafydd Llwyd ab Ieuan (on whom see the article Lloyd of Dolobran) and his wife Eva; husband to Alice, daughter of Dafydd Llwyd of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr. A number of his poems, in the strict metres, remain in manuscripts. They include some to Gilbert Humphrey of Cefn Digoll, Montgomeryshire (1596), Hywel and Siôn Fychan of [Llanfair

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