Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARHAM family Trecŵn, boundary in Llanstinan parish and later at Nant-y-bugail) for the children of the district. In 1868 the well-known ' Barham School ' at Trecŵn was founded by Henry Alexander Ince in memory of his sister's interest in local education. Charles Foster-Barham died at Trecŵn without issue, and the family estates came to his nephew, FRANCIS WILLIAM ROBINS, born at St. John's Wood in 1841, son of his sister
DAVIES, ANNIE (1910 - 1970), radio and television producer and Echo prize for the best programme of the year in Welsh. She visited the Welsh colony in Patagonia and produced the first film of that country ever seen on television. She was responsible for a large number of programmes such as ' Nant dialedd ', ' Shepherd's calendar ', ' Bugail Cwm Prysor ' and ' Prynhawn o Fai '. In 1969 she retired from the B.B.C., returned to Tregaron where she bought a
EVANS, ELLIS HUMPHREY (Hedd Wyn; 1887 - 1917), poet of which was written at Trawsfynydd. It was finished in camp at Litherland and was posted from France. When his pseudonym (Fleur-de-lis) was called out at the national eisteddfod at Birkenhead in 6 September 1917, it was announced that he was dead; he had been killed at the battle of Pilkem Ridge, 31 July. A volume of his poems, Cerddi'r Bugail, was published in 1918. With the profits of this work
HENRY, JOHN (1859 - 1914), musician , and after completing his course there settled as a teacher of singing in London, moving afterwards to Liverpool (1884) where he became a teacher of music. Besides taking part as soloist in performances of ' The Messiah,' ' Elijah,' ' Samson,' etc., he wrote several solos which became popular, among them being ' Teyrn y Dydd,' ' Galwad y Tywysog,' ' Cân y Bugail,' ' Cenwch im yr hen Ganiadau,' and
HUGHES, RICHARD (c. 1565 - 1619), poet , Carolau Richard Hughes, and Cymdeithas Llên Cymru, v-vi, Caniadau yn y Mesurau Rhyddion, where on p. 49 we have three stanzas of his ballad, ' Bywyd y Bugail,'; see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, ii, 243, ' An Early Printed Welsh Ballad.' His work is also found in Cynfeirdd Lleyn, in Canu Rhydd Cynnar (T. H. Parry-Williams), and in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies iii, 128
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist (1917), and in a book, Y wers olaf (1921). Several essays and stories were published while she was in Cardiff, including Teulu bach Nantoer (1913) and Bugail y Bryn (1917). In 1914 she began contributing a children's column to the weekly newspaper, Y Darian, under the editorship of J. Tywi Jones, minister of Glais, whom she married in 1917. She then took up lecturing for a while, but returned to
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet neu Ddwy (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1942); Gwilym Deudraeth, Yr Awen Barod (Llandysul, 1943); Rolant Wyn, Dŵr y Ffynnon (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1949) and R.R. Morris, Caneuon R.R. Morris (1951). One of his close friends was Ellis Humphrey Evans ('Hedd Wyn') and he assisted J.R. Jones with the publication of Cerddi'r Bugail. He assisted with collecting the contents of O Drum i Draeth by Eliseus Williams
JONES, OWEN (Meudwy Môn; 1806 - 1889), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and man of letters , although he continued to work for the temperance movement and the Bible Society. In 1866 he was given a testimonial of £50 collected by public subscription. He died 11 October 1889 and was buried in S. Tudno churchyard. He edited four short-lived monthlies - Y Cynniweirydd, 1834, which later became Y Newyddiadur Hanesyddol, 1835; Y Cymedrolwr, 1835; Y Cerbyd Dirwestol, 1837-8; and Y Bugail, 1859. He
PIERCE, ELLIS (Elis o'r Nant; 1841 - 1912), author of historical romances and bookseller as weight keeper at Cwt-y-bugail quarry, under Evan Evans, an enthusiastic local littérateur. Encouraged by his master Ellis began to contribute articles to Baner ac Amserau Cymru. He became the paper's correspondent for the Llanrwst district for fifty years. He took a prominent part in newspaper controversies on education and land and social reform, and wrote extensively on local history and
REES, WILLIAM THOMAS (Alaw Ddu; 1838 - 1904), musician Gwyllt), and contributed frequently to journals, mainly on the subject of music). He won the prize at the London eisteddfod of 1887 for an essay on the raising of the standards of instrumental music in Wales. He composed oratorios ('Ruth a Naomi ' and ' Brenin Heddwch'), cantatas ('Llywelyn ein Llyw Olaf,' ' Y Bugail Da,' etc.), a motet ('Gweledigaeth Ioan '; this won for him the prize at the Conway
ROBERTS, ROBERT (SILYN) (Rhosyr; 1871 - 1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor Cymreig, The Welsh Outlook, etc. He published Gwyntoedd Croesion, 1924 (a translation of J. O. Francis's drama, Cross Currents), Bugail Geifr Lorraine, 1925 (a translation of Souvestre's novel), and in 1945, a romance, Llio Plas y Nos. He married, in 1905, Mary Parry, of London, and had two sons and one daughter. He died at Bangor 15 August 1930.
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , and he offered eisteddfod prizes to committees which chose his publications as test pieces. He republished popular works like ' Myfanwy ' (Joseph Parry) and ' Yr hen gerddor ' (David Pugh Evans), but he also published new pieces of high standard, including ' Bugail Aberdyfi ' (Idris Lewis), ' Paradwys y bardd ' (W. Bradwen Jones; see Jones, William Arthur above) and Saith o ganeuon and ' Berwyn ' (D

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