Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary mother he claimed descent from Rhys ap Tewdwr and Trahaearn Goch o Lŷn, and he adopted a shield on which were quartered the arms attributed to them. CHARLES EDWARD BREESE (1867 - 1932), solicitor and antiquarian Law History and Culture Scholarship and Languages Of his sons followed him both in his profession and his antiquarian interests. Admitted a solicitor in 1889, he served on the Caernarvonshire
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman Lyn Talfan Davies (who married the rugby international Barry John), Christopher Humphrey Talfan Davies, and Kathryn Elizabeth Talfan Davies. Alun Talfan Davies was made QC in 1961 and knighted in 1976. He was appointed Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil in 1963; of Swansea in 1969; and later that year of Cardiff; was Honorary Cardiff Recorder and a Crown Court Recorder 1972-1983; Deputy Chair of Cardigan
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar avant garde writers who met at J. Gwyn Griffiths' home in Pentre, Rhondda Valley. Although his early poems, under the name of 'Davies Aberpennar', were published in English, henceforth he wrote in Welsh. His volumes of poetry Cinio'r Cythraul (1945), his contributions to Cerddi Cadwgan (1953), Naw Wfft (1957) and Yr Efrydd o Lyn Cynon (1961) combined vast knowledge, vivid imagination and innovative
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor sense of fun, which never left him. Returning from National Service, Davies enrolled at Bangor Teacher Training College, qualifying as a teacher. He taught Maths and English at Mountside School in Leek, Staffordshire, and subsequently at a school in Elephant and Castle in London. He became involved with amateur dramatics in his spare time throughout the 1950s. He married Eluned (Lyn) Evans in 1957
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer -Fan Care Home in Betws, near Ammanford. His mind was as alert and his voice as strong as ever and his memory was amazing. He was ill for the short period of a week before his death at Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen on 2 December 2010. He was buried at Rhydgoch Cemetry, Pontarddulais on the 9 December following a service at the Chapel of Rest at Blaenau where the Reverend Lyn Rees paid him a
IEUAN RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard to visit Tir Iarll and the district; in them he is described as a man 'o Lyn Rhoddne Wlad' - the first bard from that valley, as far as is known. The cywydd on the paternosters shows that he possessed considerable descriptive skill.
JONES, WILLIAM (1896 - 1961), poet and minister for a time though he was never formally its minister. He also assisted in the local branch of the County Library. He came to prominence as a poet during his college days. One of his best-known poems, the ballad ' Y llanc ifanc o Lyn ' appeared in A Book of Bangor Verse (1924). He was friendly with many well known literary figures such as R. Williams Parry and J.T. Jones, Porthmadog, and he won
JOSHUA, SETH (1858 - 1925), minister (Presb.) Born 10 April 1858 in Ty Capel, Trosnant Uchaf, Pontypool, Monmouth, son of George Joshua and Mary (née Walden) his wife. He married Mary Rees, Llantrisant, in Neath, Glamorganshire, 23 September 1883, and they had eight children (one son, Peter, was a minister and a popular evangelist in America; another son, Lyn, was responsible with Mai Jones for the radio programme ' We'll keep a welcome in
MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress directed by the famous Welsh actor Lyn Harding (1867-1952), who also played the lead role. One review reported that Miss Mason 'displayed quite an uncommon degree of artistic instinct and a capacity for much greater things'. Over the next year she appeared with her husband in The Gate of Dreams, Lucky Durham again and Right to Die. In the summer of 1912 Lilian joined Edmund Gwenn and Hilda Trevelyan's
ROBERTS, DAVID (Dewi Ogwen; 1818 - 1897), Independent minister something to do with it. He went on a tour with Ieuan o Lŷn, who was a master at Arthur Jones's school at the time, and in the course of this tour began to preach at Dolwyddelan. He received a call to Seion and Seilo, Anglesey, where he was ordained 7 May 1839. In 1842 he went to Tabernacle, Gartside Street, Manchester, returning to Anglesey in 1845 as minister of Cemaes and Seion. In 1850 he became
ROBERTS, IOAN (1941 - 2019), journalist, producer and author series was originally produced by Teledu'r Tir Glas and Ffilmiau'r Nant and later by Uned Hel Straeon and then Seiont, a company of which Ioan was one of the directors. He was delighted when his travel series to Scotland and Ireland with Lyn Ebenezer achieved the highest viewing figures on S4C. However, it was a great disappointment to him when Hel Straeon ended in 1998 and he found himself once more
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect . Dewi-Prys Thomas was appointed head of The Welsh School of Architecture in 1960. He became the first Professor of Architecture in the University of Wales in 1964, and held that post until his retirement in 1981. The school grew in size under his leadership, and he established a separate Department of Town Planning with Lyn Allen in 1967. Dafydd Iwan and Prys Edwards were amongst his students. He

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