Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, IDRIS (1905 - 1953), miner, schoolmaster and poet Cemetery. During his lifetime four volumes of his poetry were published: Gwalia Deserta (1938), written at Rhymney; The Angry Summer: a poem of 1926 (1943), which he wrote in three months at Meesden; Tonypandy and other poems (1945), which he wrote during the short stay at Treherbert; and Selected Poems (1953), chosen by T. S. Eliot, who thought that the poems of Idris Davies had a claim to permanence as
DAVIES, MARY (1855 - 1930), singer Born in London, 27 February 1855, daughter of William Davies (Mynorydd, 1826 - 1901). Her singing at the Welsh concerts in the capital brought her into prominence while she was still young; her first teachers were Henry Brinley Richards and Megan Watts Hughes. She joined the Welsh Choral Union which was then under the conductorship of John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia, 1826 - 1913), and, in 1873 won a
DIVERRES, POL (1880 - 1946), linguist, Celtic scholar, and sometime Keeper of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales to the National Library. His most important publications were Le plus ançien texte de Meddygon Myddveu … (Paris, 1913) and Le Siège de Lorient par les Anglais en 1746 … (Rennes, 1931); articles in Revue Celtique and Les Annales de Bretagne. Diverres married, in 1913, Elizabeth Jones ('Telynores Gwalia'), daughter of Hugh Jones ('Trisant'), Liverpool; they had one son. Diverres died 25 December 1946
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer composer John Henry Roberts ('Pencerdd Gwynedd'). He acted as organist of Edge Lane chapel in Liverpool for 36 years and conducted the Gwalia Mixed Choir and the ATM Male Voice Choir. He spent his working life as a driver and salesman for Hughes Brothers of Aintree, meat purveyors. He lived in several different places in the Liverpool and Manchester area and for a short while in Prestatyn. He began
GRIFFITH, JOHN OWEN (Ioan Arfon; 1828 - 1881), poet and critic , Caernarvon, opposite the then office of the Herald Cymraeg and this shop soon became the centre of the Caernarvon literary coterie, - Llew Llwyfo and Alfardd, editors of the Herald, were regular visitors; Gwilym Alltwen, Cynddelw, John Morgan (Cadnant), and Y Thesbiad were frequently there; Hwfa Mon, Mynyddog, and Ceiriog would call when they happened to be in the town; while 'Bro Gwalia,' the doggerel
HARRIES, ISAAC HARDING (d. c. 1868), Independent minister, and editor of periodicals built a new chapel near Swansea by the name of Caersalem Newydd. His conduct went on deteriorating so that his erstwhile friends had to turn him out early in 1841. In 1842 he is heard of at Bangor as minister to a number of Independent Wesleyans or 'Wesle Bach' at Bethel, Union Street, keeping school in the chapel as well. In January 1843, he began publishing a monthly magazine named Tŵr Gwalia
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1828? - 1872), author and musician ) Y Drysorfa Gerddol (Rome, N.Y., 1856-7), (3) Y Gronfa Gerddorol … (New York, 1868?), (4) Traethawd ar Gerddoriaeth Gyssegredig … (Rome, N.Y.), (5) Yr Awen Gymraeg: Pigion o Farddoniaeth Prif Feirdd Gwalia … (New York, 1871), (6) Llyfr Hymnau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd … (New York, 1871). He died on. 1 January 1872 at Hyde Park, Pa.
HUGHES, ROBERT OWEN (Elfyn; 1858 - 1919), journalist and poet , member of the publishing firm of Hughes and Son, Wrexham; seven children were born of the marriage. In 1885 he was appointed sub-editor of Gwalia, a newspaper; in 1888 he went to Blaenau Ffestiniog to edit another newspaper, Y Rhedegydd; in 1899 he became editor of Y Glorian, another local newspaper; he also served, for a time, as librarian of the local public library. He edited the prize compositions
HUWS, WILLIAM PARI (1853 - 1936), Independent minister distinguished writer and poet who had won a number of eisteddfodic chairs and a reputation as a hymn-writer. He was joint editor of his denomination's Blwyddiadur for twenty-one years and of the Dysgedydd, 1915-18. He edited a small book, Gemau Gwalia, containing selected extracts from the works of the great Welsh poets, and collaborated in Cofiant y Parch David Adams. In 1930 he published a volume of his own
JONES, GWILYM GWALCHMAI (1921 - 1970), musician Wales as a conductor of singing festivals and as an eisteddfod adjudicator. He was also the founder (in 1959) of Cantorion Gwalia, which was regarded as an interesting experiment as every member of that party was an experienced soloist.
JONES, JOHN (Talhaiarn; 1810 - 1869), architect and poet wrote lyrics for many of the airs in Welsh Melodies by John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) and for songs by Brinley Richards, Blockley, Owain Alaw, and J.D. Jones. [In London he became in 1843 a member of the Cymreigyddion Society, and president in 1849; in 1855 he printed an account of its last days. His fame rests mainly on his songs and light verse, often satirical.]
JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright commissioned by the Drama Company of the University College of North Wales, Bangor to write a full-length play, 'Gwalia Bach', but unlike his other plays it was never published. In the same year he won the short drama competition in the National Eisteddfod for 'Dalar Deg'. The following year, the most important of his career, a collection of five of his plays, Pum Drama Fer, was published and he gave up the

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