Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, The Bodvel s, who trace their descent from Collwyn ap Tangno, first come into public notice with JOHN WYN ap HUGH of Bodvel (died 1576), who bore the royal standard for Warwick (later Northumberland) against the Norfolk rebels (1549), and was rewarded with the grant of Bardsey Island, which he was alleged in 1569 to be using as the headquarters of a highly-organized nest of pirates. His son HUGH
BODVEL, CHARLES (1582 - 1647) - see BODVEL
BODVEL, HUGH (d. 1611), M.P. - see BODFEL
BODVEL, JOHN (1617 - 1663), Royalist colonel - see BODVEL
GWYNNE, ROBERT (JOHNS) (fl. 1568-1591), Roman Catholic missioner and writer He probably came of the Bodvel family and may have been a son of John Wyn ap Hugh (since he subscribes one of his writings ' Robert Johns gwyn '). He entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1568. About three years later he was persuaded by his neighbour Robert Owen of Plas Du, Caernarfonshire, to absent himself from Anglican worship and to flee overseas. He entered Douai
HUGHES, OWEN (d. 1708), attorney him by revivifying the claims of that ancient borough, and before the sleepy citizens of Beaumaris had awakened to the fact, he was M.P. for the borough and enjoyed the honour for three years (1698-1700). He amassed a large sum-total of lands and an inordinate sum of money, so that his last will gave new life to decadent estates and put them on their feet. Bodfan by Llandwrog went to Lloyd Bodvel
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn younger branches settled at Carngiwch and Llannerch-fawr. One of them, THOMAS MADRYN, was in the age of Elizabeth, together with other squires of Llŷn, in serious trouble on account of the unscrupulous schemes of the earl of Leicester; his son, ROBERT MADRYN, married into the house of Bodvel (first wife) and that of Cefn Amwlch (second). His grandson was THOMAS MADRYN, the greatest of the family
OWEN, JAMES (1654 - 1706), Dissenting divine and tutor ) induced him to preach in North Wales; he stayed awhile at Bodvel and on 23 April 1676 was accused of conventicle-holding at Llangybi in Eifionydd. He escaped from Llŷn to the house of Hugh Owen (1639 - 1700), Bronclydwr, Meironnydd, and became Owen's assistant - he preached Hugh Owen's funeral sermon in 1700. But in November 1676 he became chaplain to a Mrs. Baker, of Swinney, near Oswestry, at the same
ROBARTES, CHARLES BODVEL (1600 - 1697) - see BODVEL
SALUSBURY family Rug, Bachymbyd, , daughter of John ap Madog of Bodvel, Llŷn. He was succeeded by his son JOHN SALUSBURY, who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth in 1553 and sheriff of the same county in 1559 and 1578. John added to the estate by buying the lordship of Glyndyfrdwy from William, lord Graye de Wilton, and John Banester, who had received it from the Crown in 1552. He married Elisabeth, daughter of his kinsman Sir John
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician Wiliems was reputed to be a papist, and was arraigned as a recusant before a bishop's court at Bangor in 1606 and before the archbishop's court in 1607. He adds that lady Bodvel affirmed that Thomas Wiliems, having some knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot, persuaded her father, Sir John Wynn, not to attend that assembly of Parliament. Throughout his life, Thomas Wiliems was an ardent student of Welsh
WILLIAMS, HUGH (1722? - 1779), cleric and author Born in Llanengan, Llŷn peninsula, in 1721 or 1722 (he was christened 18 January 1721/2), the son of William Williams (or ' Jones ') and Catherine his wife - William Morris suggests (Morris Letters, i, 308) that he was connected with the Bodvel family, but Foster enters 'pleb.' against his father's name. According to a letter which he wrote to Richard Morris in 1764, he was educated at Friars

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