Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEDO HAFESP (fl. 1568-1585), poet of Montgomeryshire his skill was equal to that of poets like Owain Gwynedd, Siôn Tudur, Ifan Tew, Rhys Cain, etc. (Llanstephan MS 43 (22)). The last date appertaining to him is 1585, when he wrote a poem on the death of Siôn Gruffydd of Llŷn.
CAIN Saint - see KEYNE, Saint
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress to the stage and became part of a movement towards a National Welsh Drama. She appeared in a touring production of Little Miss Llewelyn, in The Joneses at the Strand Theatre and also in The Mark of Cain. In 1914 she toured to the USA with the Welsh Players, together with Gareth Hughes also from Llanelli, to perform J. O. Francis's prize-winning play Change. Eleanor's excellent notices throughout
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist old, grey-headed bards of undoubted reliability whom he knew and the earlier generation of bards such as Gutun Owain, Ieuan Brechfa, and Hywel Swrdwal, with whose works he was acquainted. There is evidence to show that Hywel ap Syr Mathew, Wiliam Llŷn, and Owain Gwynedd (fl. 1550-90), were his teachers and that Rhys Cain was one of his fellow-pupils. In February 1585 he obtained through the
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet seven years in London as a bookseller's assistant - this is supported by the controversy between him and Jonathan Hughes. Cain Jones, the almanac-maker, was his son and, according to Charles Ashton and others, John Edwards too was an almanac-maker. He was one of the poets who took part in the eisteddfodau of the 18th century - Bala 1738, Glyn Ceiriog 1743, Selattyn 1748, etc. - and many of his poems
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes custom, having acted an interlude for a time, to have it printed and published in pamphlet form. The interludes which he wrote in his youth have disappeared, but the following have survived: Tri Chydymaith Dyn, Cyfoeth a Thlodi, Cain ac Abel, Pleser a Gofid, Tri Chryfion Byd, Pedair Colofn Gwladwriaeth, Cybydd-dod ac Oferedd, Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd. These interludes contain a good deal of social
HUGHES, JONATHAN (1721 - 1805), poet Cain Jones, Philomath, and others from 1755 to the end of the century. He also composed in the traditional strict metres; he wrote an elegy on Richard Morris, in the form of an awdl, in 1780. An interlude by him, Y Dywysoges Genefetha, was published in 1744, and a volume of his poetry, called Bardd a Byrddau, appeared in 1778. As an enthusiastic supporter of eisteddfodau in the 18th century, we find
HYWEL ap 'Syr' MATHEW (d. 1581), poet, genealogist, and soldier History of Britain (Peniarth MS 168 (178)) that he was present at the siege of Boulogne in 1544. It appears too that he was a zealous Roman Catholic. Peniarth MS 138 and parts of Cardiff MS. 50 (274-5, 293-356) are in his hand. His genealogical manuscripts were used as a basis for Lewys Dwnn's in Peniarth MS 268. It is said that Rhys Cain and Lewys Dwnn praised his manuscripts, and that the latter was
HYWEL ap DAFYDD ap IEUAN ap RHYS (fl. c. 1450-1480) Raglan, poet (Neath) and members of the Herbert family of Pembroke and Raglan. It appears from one of the two bardic controversies between him and Guto'r Glyn that he was family poet at Raglan. Other ymrysonau were composed between Bedo Brwynllys and Hywel, and also between Gruffudd ap Dafydd Fychan, Llywelyn Goch y Dant and Hywel. According to Edward Jones (apparently on the authority of Rhys Cain) he was an M.A
JONES, CAIN, almanac-maker Son of John Edwards ('Siôn y Potiau'). The date of his birth is not known, but his brother Abel (who became a Baptist minister at Merthyr Tydfil) was christened at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog, 21 December 1740, and it may be argued that Cain was senior to Abel. Upon the death of Gwilym Howell, in 1775, he undertook the editorship of the Welsh almanac Tymmhorol, ac wybrennol Newyddion. He was
JONES, JOHN CAIN (d. 1826?), poet - see JONES, CAIN
KEYNE (fl. late 5th century - early 6th century), saint appellation 'Cein-wyry' ('Keyne the virgin'), [often shortened to 'Ceinwr ' and 'Gaynor' - or again 'Ceinwen' i.e. 'Cain the holy'], departed from her native region and settled at a place, now Keynsham, in Somerset, where she lived a hermit's life. After many years, she returned to South Wales and established a monastery at a place not identified with certainty, but perhaps Llangeinor in Glamorgan. The

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