Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist Hafina Clwyd was born on 1st July 1936 in Gwyddelwern, Meirionethshire, the eldest of four children of Alun Jones (1907-1980), a farmer, and his wife Morfydd (née Jones, 1910-1971). She was brought up on Cefnmaenllwyd farm, and attended primary school at Gwyddelwern and Bala Girls' Grammar School. The family moved to Rhydonnen near Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, in 1953, and Hafina went to Brynhyfryd
DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer to take that degree in the University of Wales (the first was the composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen). Following a period of study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the age of 24 she was appointed Director of Music Studies at the Normal College, Bangor, a post she retained until 1930; by 1932 she had become a lecturer at St Mary's College, another teacher training college in Bangor. On 9 July
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Dwr. Rhys was executed at Chester in 1412. The greater part of their lands were forfeited to the Crown and came into the possession of the Griffiths of Penrhyn, also descended from Ednyfed Fychan through Tudur ab Ednyfed. A remnant of the Tudor lands at Penmynydd remained in the possession of the descendants of Goronwy ap Tudur (died 1382) through his daughter Morfydd and her husband, Gwilym ap
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, Anglesey and Caernarvonshire began with the eldest and second sons of Griffith ap Gwilym. GWILYM AP GRIFFITH (died 1431) The eldest son of Griffith and Generys. He married (c. 1390) his kinswoman, Morfydd, daughter of Goronwy ap Tudur (ob. 1382) of Penmynydd (see under Ednyfed Fychan). Gwilym thereby gained a further share in 'Gafael Goronwy ab Ednyfed' (Penrhyn) as well as lands in Anglesey. In 1389
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar of the court poets of the princes of medieval Wales is a worthy memorial to his inspiring leadership. He retired in 1993 and was appointed Honorary Senior Fellow that year. A festschrift, Beirdd a Thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a'r Alban (eds Morfydd E. Owen and Brynley F. Roberts), was published in 1996. The subject of his PhD dissertation was a challenging one. It
JONES, ALFRED ERNEST (1879 - 1958), psychoanalyst and Sigmund Freud's official biographer before being elected a Fellow of his old college in London. Late in his life, he received many honours including the F.R.C.P. (1942), the D.Sc. (Wales) honoris causa, (1954), but long before that he had been elected an honorary member of several foreign psychoanalytical Societies. In February 1917, he married (1) Morfydd Llwyn Owen, and after her death in September 1918, he married (2) Katherine Jökl
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator , becoming allegedly the first woman to work in the House of Commons. She came into contact with Ruth, Herbert Lewis's wife, also a folk-song collector, and with the composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen. In June 1916 she married Herbert Jones of Plas Blaenau near Llangernyw, who was serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; he was wounded at Ypres later that year. During the winter of 1916-17 Dora herself spent time
JONES, ELIZABETH JANE LOUIS (1889 - 1952), scholar three years, mostly in London and Oxford libraries. During her time in London she and her close friend Morfydd Llwyn Owen were assisted by Sir John Herbert Lewis and his wife, Ruth. In 1912 she won a prize and medal at Wrexham national eisteddfod for the principal essay on the history of the Eisteddfod. The following year she gained her M.A. degree for a thesis on this topic. She was appointed a
OWEN, HUW PARRI (1926 - 1996), philosopher and theologian Born in Cardiff, 30 December 1926. The composer, Morfydd Llwyn Owen was his half-sister. He was educated at Cardiff High School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated in Litterae Humaniores and Theology. He was ordained by the Calvinistic Methodist church on his appointment as Professor of New Testament at The United Theological College, Aberystwyth, in 1949. In 1953 he moved to the
OWEN, MORFYDD LLWYN (1891 - 1918), composer, singer, and pianist Academy of Music, 1912-7 (holder of Goring Thomas scholarship for composition, 1913-7, and awarded many of the academy's principal prizes and medals). She married in February 1917 the psychiatrist Alfred Ernest Jones. Her early death on 7 September 1918, at the age of 26, was a serious loss to Welsh music. Morfydd Owen was a versatile and sensitive musician and an unusually gifted composer. Her
THOMAS, DAVID VAUGHAN (1873 - 1934), musician , Morfydd Lewis, Pontardulais, by whom he had three sons. One of their sons was the broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. The family lived for many years in Swansea. He made an unsuccessful application for the post of Music Director of the University of Wales in 1919. In 1927 he was appointed overseas examiner to Trinity College of Music, London, and travelled extensively in the Commonwealth and British

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