Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist his devoted wife May. They had two daughters, and made their home at Tresinwen, Cae'r Gog Terrace, Aberystwyth. Mary Charles died in 1998. B.G. Charles died in Cwmcynfelin Home 19 August 2000 and was cremated at Aberystwyth Crematorium.
DAVIES, JOHN (Brychan; 1784? - 1864), poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement he himself preferred the 'free' to the 'strict' metres. He wrote much to Seren Gomer, and was a diligent purveyor of anthologies (including his own poetry along with that of others); these were all printed for him at Merthyr Tydfil - the best account of them will be found in Ashton, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 609-11. They were: Llais Awen Gwent a Morganwg, 1824; Y Gog, 1825 (later editions, at
HUGHES, WILLIAM ROGER (1898 - 1958), cleric and poet Born 27 May 1898, son of John and Ann Hughes, Sain-y-gog, Llangristiolus, Anglesey. As a young man he worked for a few years in Liverpool. During World War I he served with the army in France and Egypt. He entered the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1922, and graduated in 1925. In the same year he was licensed as curate of Mold, moving to Holywell in 1929. In 1930 he was presented
MORGAN, RICHARD (1854 - 1939), schoolmaster and naturalist an enthusiastic naturalist and Sir Owen M. Edwards described him as ' one of the greatest naturalists Wales has ever produced.' He won three prizes at the national eisteddfod for works on natural history. He not only contributed articles on natural history to Cymru (O.M.E.) and other periodicals but he was also the author of Tro Trwy'r Wig; Llyfr Blodau; Llyfr Adar; Rhamant y Gog Lwydlas, and other
MOSES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Tew o Lan Tâf, Gwilym Tew; 1742 - 1824), poet inspired by a natural bent he succeeded in writing many creditable verses in Welsh on various subjects. In 1808 he published his first volume of poems and in 1824, just before his death, a second edition was published entitled Caingc y Gog; neu amryw gyfansoddiadau ar wahanol destunauyn ym cynnwys cynghorion, myfyrdodau, galarnadau, annerchiadau, etc. (J. James, Merthyr Tydfil). He died 27 November 1824
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer productive. In the sonnet ' Adref ', written in 1917, the poet vowed that he would renounce the allure of medievalism and reflect on matters of the present day. This he did, but to the exclusion of industrial conurbations, preferring the peace of the countryside and all that dwells in it, as in the poems ' Eifionydd ', ' Tylluanod ', ' Clychau'r Gog ', ' Y Llwynog '. Another product of these years is the
TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 5 October 1893 at Llwyn-y-gog, Staylittle, in the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, son of Thomas and Hannah Tudor. He was educated at Newtown grammar school, and he served with the Welsh Guards in France during World War I. As a result of deep experiences he had during the war, he felt a call to enter the ministry. He went to University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated with
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, Gôg i Feirionydd,' the well-known poem by Lewis Morris, followed by an English version by William Vaughan. Vaughan's Welsh address in the Merioneth parliamentary election of 1747 is printed by E. Breese in Kalendars of Gwynedd.
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet cultivated proudly the dialect of Dowlais which he believed to be the purest extant form of Welsh. His view of Wales was geographically confined to the southern valleys, Swansea and Gower. He was anti-English but disliked people from north Wales too and wrote a verse, 'Please Keep your Gog on a Lead'. He thought Robert Williams Parry was Wales' finest poet and felt something akin to hero-worship for Waldo

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