Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALIS WEN - see ALIS FERCH GRUFFUDD AB IEUAN AP LLYWELYN FYCHAN
JONES, EVAN (Gurnos; 1840 - 1903), Congregational and Baptist minister, poet, critic, lecturer, and eisteddfod conductor the award. He secured the prize for a drama on Owain Tudur at the Caernarvon National Eisteddfod, 1894. He excelled in shorter poems, proverbial stanzas, and poems for recitation. He was one of the chief public lecturer s of his day, and for the last twenty years of his life was the leading Welsh eisteddfod conductor. He published the following works: Rhian-Awdl: 'Alis Arthur' (Aberaman, 1871); Awdl
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 1979. His time in Bangor after the war represented a period of stability in his life. He had married Alis - the Welsh spelling which she adopted after learning the language - on 10 September 1938 and settled in Rhiwbina; the first eight years of their married life were disrupted by a series of separations like hundreds of thousands of similar couples at the time. In
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Gwynedd) by queen Elizabeth. Furthermore he could compose an englyn, as is proved by the poetic dispute between him and Rhys Gruffydd and William Mostyn (NLW MS 1553A (761)). He married (1) Alis, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Rug, (2) Jane, daughter of John Massey of Broxon in Cheshire, and (3) Margaret, daughter of Sir William Griffith of Penrhyn. He died 15 April 1586, aged 60, and was buried at

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