Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, OWEN ELLIS (1920 - 2018), Methodist minister and biblical scholar of editing and revising proceeded after this and a revised version of both the Old Testament and the New Testament was published in 2004, including this time inclusive language, and then a revision of the Apocrypha, which was by then under the chairmanship of Professor D. P. Davies, appeared in 2008. After assuming the Margaret and Ann Eilian Owen Fellowship of the National Library of Wales, O. E
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet the Welsh language. Their meetings, which were usually held in Morfa Du, the home of Prosser Rhys in Trefenter, came to an end when J. M. Edwards moved to Barry in the late thirties. By then, B. T. Hopkins had established another home, having married Jane Ann Phillips (1905-1988), Brynwichell, in 1937. They had two sons, Emyr (1939-2015) and Eilian (1941-2007). Triael and Brynwichell were merged
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster Gorse glen (transactions of Hugh Evans ' Cwm Eithin; 1948). He was an independent person and his life was a constant struggle against ill health. He wrote swiftly and concisely in Welsh and English. As John Eilian commented, 'having a sincere warm love towards the old country which his senses could comprehend - the excitement of Snowdonia, the peace of Merioneth and the sound of the western sea
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer volumes and journals detailing his researches. He did much of this work whilst holding the Margaret Eilian Owen Fellowship in the National Library from 1973 to 1985. He was invited to read a paper outlining his research to the International Society for New Testament Studies in Durham in 1978. He was a member of the Panel for the translation of the New Welsh Bible from the outset in 1964 until it was
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM SIDNEY GWYNN (1896 - 1978), musician and administrator Songs (1927), Caneuon Traddodiadol y Cymry/ Traditional Songs of the Welsh (1961, 1963), Un ar ddeg o Ganeuon Gwerin Cymru/Eleven Welsh folk-songs (1958). In 1937 he founded the Gwynn Publishing Company, which published a large number of (mainly vocal) works by Welsh composers and works by European composers with Welsh words by such authors as T. Gwynn Jones and John Eilian (1904-1985). Gwynn Williams

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