Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ap GUTUN (fl. c. 1480), poet A number of his poems remain in MSS., including an elegy composed to his son Gruffudd, 'begging' poems requesting a dog, some goats, and spectacles, a satire or lampoon addressed to the dean of Bangor (who had instructed Huw Lewis, Y Chwaen, to imprison the poet, rather than allow him to make a 'begging' journey or cymortha in Bodeon and Aberdaron), and another satire to dean Richard Kyffin, Rhys
LLYWELYN DDU ab Y PASTARD (fl. 14th century), poet no details concerning him are available, but two awdlau, composed by him, are found in the ' Red Book of Hergest ' and some other MSS.
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet Owain's retinue which is attributed to Cynddelw in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Llywelyn Fardd composed several religious poems, his best being his 'Ode to Cadfan,' which is a panegyric to the church of Towyn and a splendid description of its religious life during the abbacy of Morfrân, who was alive in 1147. In a short poem in Llsgr. Hendregadredd and The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales to Llywelyn
LLYWELYN GOCH ap MEURIG HEN (fl. c. 1360-1390), poet Lloyd) of Pennal, Merioneth, has become famous. A number of other cywyddau are also attributed to him. Some of his poetry is contained in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Iolo Goch composed an elegy on his death.
LLYWELYN, TOMAS (fl. c. 1580-1610), bard and gentleman of Rhigos in northern Glamorgan. According to one pedigree book he was a descendant of the line of Einion ap Collwyn. Many cywyddau by him survive in manuscripts; he also, like most Glamorgan bards of that period, composed the type of religious songs called cwndidau. The two poems by him which are of the greatest interest to us today are one containing a 'debate' between the church and the tavern
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) been discovered; that the 'Maid' was in love with the poet ' Wil Hopcyn ' - that he composed the verses ' Watching the White Wheat ' to her - and that she died of a broken heart. This story has been fully discussed by G. J. Williams, in Y Llenor, 1927 and 1928; see also his Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 251-9.
MADOG BENFRAS (fl. c. 1320-1360), poet names them in connection with the last of three Renaissance eisteddfodau held, he claims, during the reign of king Edward III, and Madog is said to have won a chair and birchen wreath there for a love poem; however, no other testimony is found concerning these eisteddfodau. Madog was a close friend of Dafydd ap Gwilym; both poets composed elegies to each other, and it is uncertain which of the two
MALO (fl. 6th century), saint The original MS. executed probably early in the 9th century, of the 'Life' of S. Malo, is lost. The version which is probably closest to the original is that printed first by Joannes a Bosco in his Floraciensis vetus bibliotheca, 1605, 485-515, and later more correctly by Lot. The version published by Mabillon, and the 'Life' composed by Sigebert de Gembloux in the 11th century, and printed by
MAREDUDD ap RHOSER (fl. c. 1530), poet , chancellor and treasurer of Llandaff. Dafydd Benwyn, in his elegy to the poet, refers to the poems he composed to the chancellor.
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher Teilo (1962), This World's Joie (1974), Lux Aeterna (1982) and World's Fire (1989). He composed one full-length opera, The Servants, to a libretto by the writer Iris Murdoch. His anthem 'Let the people praise thee, O Lord' was commissioned for the wedding of the Prince of Wales in 1981. During the 1970s he created a series of works for orchestra which he called 'landscapes of the mind': Laudi (1973
MICHAELIONES, THOMAS (1880 - 1960), priest and owner of a gold mine (1917-20), Holyhead (1920-24) and Llanwnog (1924-29), before becoming rector of St. Beuno, Pistyll, Caernarfonshire, with Llithfaen and Carn-guwch churches (1929-60). In 1924 he published three booklets of English verse and the following year he composed verses to the ' Union Jack ' for a competition. They were selected for publication by Empire Music Publishers, London and set to music by Arthur
MILES, JOHN (1621 - 1683), Particular Baptist leader and American settler Dispensation, nor the Lord's imminent coming beloved of the Fifth Monarchists, nor the inner light of the Quakers (Quakerism he looked upon as an 'infection of the times,' against which he composed the Antidote of 1656). He was admittedly one of the Welsh Puritan leaders, was named as one of the 'approvers' in the Propagation Act of 1650, signed several certificates for ministerial appointments under the

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