Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster (Ioan Cunllo) for an ode to the memory of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), his work being highly praised by Eben Fardd. He was known colloquially as Dafydd Moses but about 1860 he added the surname Evans after researching his family history, and this was the surname used by the 5 or 6 youngest of his 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters. Moses died 1 September 1893. His daughter Mary was the step
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, (of Pengwern and Mostyn) the husband of Angharad, was, according to the bard Guto'r Glyn, (see Phillipps MS. 2160 in the Cardiff Public Library; see also NLW MS 3027E, i.e., NLW MS 3027E), a bard and a harpist; on the maternal side he was second-cousin to Edmund, earl of Richmond, and Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. In 1415 he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitzalan, earl of Arundel and
MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME (1894 - 1964), civil servant Born 17 December 1894, the second son of Rev. Thomas Towy Evans, minister (B.) at Blaenau Gwent, Abertillery, Monmouthshire, and Mary (née James) his wife. He was educated at Cwmtillery elementary school, Abertillery county school, Llandovery College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with first class honours in mathematics. He served as a lieutenant with the South Wales Borderers in
NENNIUS (fl. c. A.D. 800), monk and antiquary study of the Arthurian Legend and early Celtic literature and learning in general. An English translation was published by A. W. Wade-Evans (1938); also text and translation by John Morris, Historia Brittonum and the Welsh Annals (1980). Important discussions by David N. Dumville are found in his Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages (1990) and contrast P. J. C. Field in Studia
NEPEAN, MARY EDITH (1876 - 1960), novelist . In 1932 she accused Caradoc Evans of libelling her in his novel Wasps (1933), and the book had to be altered before publication. She also took part in public life, being Commandant of a section of the Red Cross in Kent, and travelled in the Near East and the Balkans, taking a particular interest in the life of the gypsies of Transylvania. Her first novel, Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1917), showed
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party the ministry in 1918 and established himself as a dentist in Pontardawe. His wife, and later he himself, had been trained as dentists by a good friend, David Ernest Evans (1870-1956) of Mountain Ash who also trained their son, Islwyn ap Nicholas. The family moved to Aberystwyth in 1921 and he, his wife and son set up a dental practice in the town. He joined the Communist Party when it was formed in
NICHOLAS, WILLIAM RHYS (1914 - 1996), minister and hymnwriter prizewinning hymn text 'Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw', written for the Rhys Thomas James Eisteddfod at Lampeter in 1967, and sung to the tune 'Pantyfedwen' by M. Eddie Evans, is amongst the most popular of modern Welsh hymns. There are 23 of his hymn texts in the interdenominational collection, Caneuon Ffydd, published in 2001. Nicholas learnt much about hymns by serving as secretary to the Y
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet T. C. Evans (Cadrawd) thought that he was the man of the same name who was born in Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire, in 1705. According to Cadrawd, the older people spoke of him as one who had kept school in the parish. Iolo Morganwg listed him with the literary men who were self-educated. He lived afterwards in Ystradyfodwg and perhaps in Glyncorrwg and Cwm-gwrach. It is quite possible that he was an
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, opera singer Geraint Evans, comedian Harry Secombe, and broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. HTV delivered coverage of Prince Charles's investiture at Caernarfon in 1969. He was also involved in a number of cross-party organisations, like the charity, Shelter, he chaired the European Movement (1969-75), a National Committee for Electoral Reform, and was deputy chair of
OWAIN GLYNDWR (c. 1354 - 1416), 'Prince of Wales' the bondage of their English enemies.' The year 1402, spent mainly in campaigns along the eastern march, saw the capture of Reginald Grey (later ransomed for 10,000 marks) and Edmund Mortimer, a cadet of the family whose kinship to the late king, Richard II, was a standing threat to the survival of the reigning Lancastrians. Owain's alliance with Mortimer, cemented by marriage with his daughter
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Dwr. During her widowhood, the dowager-queen, Catherine of Valois, mother of the boy-king Henry VI, fell in love with her tall, attractive attendant, and though there is no record of the event, all the evidence points to a secret marriage between them in 1429. The children of this union were: (1) Edmund, earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII; (2) Jasper, earl of Pembroke; (3) Owen, a monk of
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet church Pentrefelin; and bards such as Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), David Owen (Dewi Wyn), and Morris Williams (Nicander), used to visit the society often. Ellis Owen was also regarded as a sound adjudicator, and he was co-adjudicator with Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) on the chair poem at the Gordofigion eisteddfod, Liverpool, 1840, when Eben Fardd won the prize for his awdl ' Job '; he was also

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