Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN (1840 - 1926), baronet, Court physician, principal founder of the National Library of Wales ) to the National Library of Wales which had begun its career on the first day of that month in its temporary home, the Old Assembly Rooms, Aberystwyth. Sir John also transferred the Llanstephan manuscripts (formerly the Shirburn Castle manuscripts) and the bulk of his valuable collection of books, etc. It was, therefore but natural that he should have been named (in 1907) as the first (Charter
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales public libraries in England and Wales. In 1908 he was appointed first librarian of the National Library of Wales, which was to be opened at Aberystwyth the first day of January 1909. Ballinger made a name for himself both as librarian and bibliographer. Although he was not a Welsh -speaking Welshman, he must be credited with the formation of a good Welsh library in Cardiff. He was fortunate to have the
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth graduating in 1923 he held a post in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, until 1925. He was head of the Welsh department in the Cardiff Free Library between 1926 and 1932 before returning to Aberystwyth as Librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a post he held between October 1932 and February 1942, when he left to join the fire service in Swansea, and from June 1945 to October
ELLIS, RICHARD (1865 - 1928), librarian and bibliographer , Merionethshire. The first of these two is not dated, but the second was published in 1904. Towards the end of 1907 Ellis took charge of the Welsh library at Aberystwyth College, and within a year was elected principal assistant to Sir John Ballinger, the first librarian of the National Library of Wales. He did not, however, remain long in his new post but returned to Oxford to try to finish his research. He
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library manuscripts ever assembled by an individual. It remained at Hengwrt until 1859, when it passed by the will of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan to W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth. The purchase of the reversion of the Hengwrt-Peniarth library to Aberystwyth by Sir John Williams in 1905 was one of the deciding factors for establishing the National Library of Wales there. Robert Vaughan also collected books, but they
DAVIES, JOHN GLYN (1870 - 1953), scholar, songwriter and poet (1892-95), with Henry Tate and Sons (1895-96) and then with the Mines Corporation of New Zealand (1896-98). After returning home (via the U.S.A.) he was persuaded by Thomas Edward Ellis and others to bring together a Welsh library at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, which could later form the nucleus of a National Library of Wales. He commenced the task at Aberystwyth in 1899, but after
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician opportunity of bringing Welsh matters to the fore in Parliament. His long and persistent advocacy of the claims of Wales for a share in the museum grants voted annually by Parliament to every country in the British Isles except Wales, resulted in the securing of public grants for the establishment and maintenance of a national museum and a national library for Wales; he became the charter vice-president of
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet could become a head of an institution. For in 1953 he accepted an invitation to become Librarian of the National Library in Aberystwyth. The most important event of his reign there was Queen Elizabeth's opening of the new Book Stack in 1956. Compared to later periods, the Librarianship at that time was not too onerous. Thomas Parry notes than he had enough time there 'to read the publications of Welsh
DAVIES, JOHN (1860 - 1939), Welsh bibliographer and genealogist but had been unable to arrange and publish before his death in 1913. In 1927 he issued a reprint (fifty copies, printed at Aberystwyth by John Jones) of Myfyrdod ar Einioes ac Angeu (Caerfyrddin, 1798), the translation by David Davis, Castell Hywel, of Gray's Elegy. A number of his manuscripts are preserved in the National Library. They include an authorindex to Cymru (O.M.E.) (NLW MS 6042D); an
POWELL family Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, Quod Libet (Aberystwyth, 1860); Poems, by Miölnir Nanteos (Aberystwyth, 1860); Poems, by Miôlnir Nanteos, Second Series (Aberystwyth, 1861); and, with Eirikr Magnusson, he translated Icelandic Legends Collected by Jon Arnasson (1st series, 1864; 2nd series, 1866). There are numerous letters to him from A. C. Swinburne in the National Library of Wales (together with a volume containing transcripts
HANSON, CARL AUGUST (1872 - 1961), first head of the bindery at the National Library of Wales children. In 1911, the recently opened National Library of Wales urgently required an experienced craftsman to repair and rebind (where necessary) many of the rare manuscripts and books in the Peniarth and Llanstephan libraries which Sir John Williams had donated as foundation collections. From three strongly recommended applicants Carl Hanson was unanimously appointed. The leaves of many of the
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters eisteddfod. Commerce House became a place of call at Aberystwyth for poets, writers, and musicians from all parts of Wales, and there is in the National Library a collection of their letters to Ivon. One of his closest friends for half a century was Daniel Silvan Evans, and while the latter held the chair of Welsh at the College, the two friends met every Monday evening. One of the fruits of these meetings

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