Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARD ap HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 15th century), writer of cywyddau Very little of his work is extant. In v there are two copies of his cywydd 'to ask Sir Richard for a cloak.' It can be deduced from this that it is addressed to Richard Redman, bishop of St Asaph from 1471 to 1496. In NLW MS 3047C two englynion are attributed to Edward ap Hywel, but Peniarth MS 99 attributes one of them to Siôn Tudur.
EDWARD ap ROGER (fl. 16th century), collector of manuscripts and poet According to notes in Peniarth MS 128 and Peniarth MS 139i Peniarth MS 139ii Peniarth MS 139iii he died in 1587. The date of his birth is not known, but in englynion, which he composed in 1587 on his sick bed, lines occur which may imply that he was then approaching 60 (see NLW MS 235D, f. 211). In Peniarth MS 128 his mother's name is given as Gwennhwyvar verch Ed. ap M'd, and his wife's name as
EDWARDS family Cilhendre, Plas Yolyn, This Border family claimed descent from Iddon ap Rhys Sais of Cilhendre, who married a daughter of Sir John Done, also an ancestor of the Myddeltons and of John Jones (1597? - 1660) the regicide. The surname was adopted early in the 16th century, but the family did not become prominent till the 17th century, when THOMAS EDWARDS (1592 - 1667), of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn, an intimate friend of the
EDWARDS family Stansty, This family boasted continuous occupation of the same area from 1317, when David ap Meilir is said to have bought the manor of Stansty, to 1783, when his direct line died out. The surname was first stabilized by JOHN EDWARDS (1573 - 1635), son of David ab Edward; his executorship of the will under which his neighbour Sir William Meredith established a 'lectureship' at Wrexham suggests Puritan
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician mines and slate quarries of north Wales where he set up branches of the T.G.W.U. and the Labour Party. He was elected a member of Penmaen-mawr Rural District Council which he served as chairman. In the general election of 1929 he acted as agent to Thomas ap Rhys who opposed D. Lloyd George as Labour candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs. While Edwards was unemployed in 1932 he was appointed a full
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian an essay that transformed understanding of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and his relations with Edward I. At the same time, essays on parliament, taxation and baronial grievances in an age of war were natural developments from his work on Edward I's reign, and made him the pre-eminent historian of the Commons in parliament in its most formative period. His interest in these two fields of study would
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor , and his work remains today in many churches and cemeteries in Wales, in Westminster Abbey, in Merthyr town hall, and elsewhere. He executed busts of members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families, and of such well-known Welsh people as Taliesin ap Iolo, Thomas Stephens, G. T. Clark, William Williams (M.P. for Coventry), and Edith Wynne. In 1859 the widow of George Virtue, proprietor
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters , and had a brilliant career, winning the three chief university prizes in history and a first class in honours (1887). Two important influences upon him in his early Oxford days should be noted. The first was the aestheticism of Ruskin (with whom he afterwards corresponded) and of William Morris. The second was the 'Dafydd ap Gwilym Society,' on which see T. Rowland Hughes ('Cymdeithas Dafydd ap
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer accounts of some of the princes. For this service he was awarded £1,000 by the firm. He died in London, 4 July 1858, and was buried in Highgate cemetery. All his life he was interested in the Welsh language and in music. He contributed many articles to such periodicals as Y Gwyliedydd, Seren Gomer, and Cymro Llundain under the pseudonyms T. ap Edwart ap Eurgain, Zabulonun, and Caerfallwch. Y Gwyliedydd
EDWART ap RAFF (fl. 1578-1606), poet Son of Raff ap Robert. In a cywydd composed in 1602 when he had grown old he refers to the battle of S. Quentin, 1557, as though he had been actually present. It is stated in NLW MS 5282B that he was a blind poet, but there is no reference to this elsewhere. His poems are mainly in praise of the landowning families of the Vale of Clwyd; they also include elegies on Siôn Tudur, 1602, and Simwnt
EDWIN (d. 1073), prince of Tegeingl pedigrees as great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda; his mother was Ethelfleda, daughter of Edwin, king of Mercia. He married Iwerydd, sister of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and by her had three sons, Owain, Uchdryd, and Hywel. Many North Wales families (particularly in Flintshire and Denbighshire) claimed descent from Edwin, among them those of Mostyn of Mostyn and Mostyn of Talacre. David Powel of Ruabon also claimed
EINION ap ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1163) - see ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD

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