Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic staunch when her husband wavered under persecution, and eventually his father, who was reconciled by Morgan Clynnog, nephew of Morys Clynnog. Next year he was instrumental in bringing about the reconstitution of the English congregation of Benedictines. Dom Sigebert Buckley, last survivor of the pre-Reformation English Benedictines (who has been claimed as a native of Beaumaris), had got into touch with
BONAPARTE, Prince LOUIS-LUCIEN (1813 - 1891) mutation; see particularly his Initial Mutations in the Living Celtic, Basque, Sardinian, and Italian Dialects, 1885. He possessed the only surviving copy (as far as is known) of the book Athravaeth Gristnogavl, by Morys Clynnog, and Wales is indebted to him not only for drawing attention to its existence but also for transcribing it for the Cymmrodorion and for giving them permission to publish it in
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) in trials for copper in Anglesey, and by his association with Morys Clynnog who wrote to Burghley from Rome a letter in Welsh (May 1567), warning him of the queen's impending excommunication. Burghley's elder son THOMAS CECIL (1542 - 1623), earl of Exeter, was equally anxious to establish his Welsh descent and deplored the change in spelling that obscured it; but his second son ROBERT CECIL (1563
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest entered the English College, Rome, at the age of 21. After the disturbance, which resulted in the removal from the rectorship of the English College of his uncle, Dr. Morys Clynnog, he was the first Welsh student to take the mission oath, 23 April, 1579. He was ordained priest and returned to his native land in 1582. A letter of May or June 1587 refers to him in connection with other Welsh
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian to the see of Bangor but, before he was consecrated, queen Mary died and he went into voluntary exile rather than conform with the new dispensation under Elizabeth. In 1561 he, bishop Goldwell, and Gruffydd Robert, archdeacon of Anglesey, arrived in Rome. Goldwell was appointed warden of the English Hospital in that city, Gruffydd Robert became chaplain in 1564, and Morys Clynnog ' Camerarius ' in
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Kynaston and Morys Wyn of Moelyrch is most improbable, for each of the persons addressed seems to have belonged to a later period.
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph other preferments, including that of chancellor of Bangor cathedral, to which he was appointed in 1546; but he can with greater confidence be identified with the archdeacon of St Asaph of 1558-61. On the death of bishop William Glyn of Bangor in 1558, Davies was made custodian of the 'spiritualia' of the diocese by cardinal Pole, archbishop of Canterbury. Glyn's successor-designate, Morys Clynnog
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic North Wales (London, 1813), and a similar work, in two volumes, on South Wales, 1815 (Vol. I, Vol. II), which owed much to Iolo Morganwg; he also edited the works of the poets Huw Morys, 1823, and Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1837 - the latter in collaboration with John Jones (Tegid, 1792 - 1852); and further published in 1827 an edition of the metrical translation of the Psalms into Welsh made by William
DEIO LLIWIEL (LLYWEL?) (fl. beginning of 16th century?), poet Two of his poems have been preserved, viz. ' Cywydd mawl i Rys ap Morys ' in Llanstephan MS 226, and ' Cywydd i'r Cybydd a'r Ocrwr ' in Llanstephan MS 133, Llanstephan MS 134, Llanstephan MS 135, Havod MS. 20, B.M. Add. MS. 14886, and NLW MS 970E, NLW MS 6511B, NLW MSS 13064D, NLW MS 13079B.
EDWARD MAELOR (fl. c. 1580-1620), poet No details about him are known, but a number of his poems, cywyddau and englynion, remain in manuscript. They include poems in praise of North Wales gentry, including Humphrey Hughes of Gwerclys, and John Eyton and his wife, a marriage poem addressed to Andrew Meredydd of Glan Tanad, and an elegy on the poet Siôn Tudur. His englynion include some written in bardic controversy (ymryson) with Morys
ELIS ap SION ap MORYS (fl. 15th century), bard

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