Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ASAPH LLECHID - see DAVIES, ROBERT
DAVIES, OWEN HUMPHREY (Eos Llechid; 1828 - 1898), quarryman, musician, and cleric
DAVIES, ROBERT (Asaph Llechid; 1834 - 1858), musician Born 29 June 1834 at Carneddi near Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, son of David Roberts. He delighted in music while still a child and made up his mind to master the art. Robert Moses, the instructor of the Carneddi Choral Society, gave him his first lessons, and Eos Llechid (O. H. Davies) taught him harmony and composition, in which he made such good progress that by the time he was 16 he had already
EOS LLECHID - see DAVIES, OWEN HUMPHREY
JONES, DAVID (Dewi Wyllt; 1836 - 1878?), musician Born in 1836 at Mallwyd, Merionethshire. His father was a weaver who gave him a good education. ' Dewi Wyllt ' played the organ in Mallwyd church and at the age of 23 published a collection of 142 tunes under the title Udgorn Seion, which included works by Ambrose Lloyd, ' Owain Alaw ' and ' Eos Llechid '. The family moved from Mallwyd to Caernarfon c. 1859. He was apprenticed as a medical
JONES, THOMAS LLECHID (1867 - 1946), cleric, author and bibliographer
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1840 - 1871), musician Born 24 May 1840 at Tanysgafell, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. He was 12 when his father died and he began to work in a quarry. He was taught the rudiments of music by Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid). Henry Samuel Hayden then gave him some instruction and the boy was admitted, when he was 14, to the training college at Caernarvon where Hayden taught; he afterwards followed Hayden in his post. In

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