Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALYS MALLT - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard ribaldry of the period. The satire is, however, nothing but a pack of untruths, and it is useless to search for historical facts in such a dunghill. Gruffudd's mother was not 'Mallt y Cwd' or 'Hersdin Hogl,' nor was he an 'Irishman' or the son of an Irishwoman. It is not unlikely that Dafydd ap Gwilym realized (D.G., 127, 49-54) that his faction had gone too far; he urges Tudur Goch to refrain from
RHYS PENNARDD (fl. c. 1480), a poet it is said that he lived either at Conway or at Clynnog, Caernarfonshire, and that he was buried at Llandrillo, Meironnydd. A number of his poems remain in manuscript, including cywyddau addressed to Elisau ap Gruffudd ab Einion of Plas yn Iâl, Gruffudd Fychan ap Hywel ap Madog, and Rhys ap Hywel ap Madog of Talhenbont, Hywel Ddu of Anglesey and his wife Mallt, and also to William, constable of
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet . He occasionally went out as a strolling bard, going as far as Abergwili, where he called on bishop Richard Davies. He was given the rank of apprentice chief bard at the Caerwys eisteddfod, 1568. There is a letter written in his own handwriting in the Wigfair collection in the N.L.W. (see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 112-7). His wife was Mallt, daughter of Pyrs Gruffudd of Caerwys
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher . Vaughan Thomas). He also published books of cerdd dant settings by Haydn Morris and Llyfni and Mallt Huws. He lost a large proportion of his stock during the air raids over Swansea in 1941, but he continued to publish after the war. Unlike some of his predecessors in the field, Snell was a publisher only, and never printed any works. He was regarded as one of the keenest of businessmen, and was known as
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, The Trevalun Trevors were founded by RICHARD, sometimes called Sir RICHARD TREVOR (fl. 1500), 4th son of John Trevor ' hên ' and sixteenth in descent 'o dad i dad' from Tudur Trevor of Brynkynallt, who acquired the estate by marriage with Mallt, heiress of David ap Gruffydd of Allington (died 1476). Richard's great-grandson JOHN TREVOR (died 1589) fought in the French wars of Henry VIII as a
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Social Service, Civil Administration Nature and Agriculture Son of Robin ap Griffith by his first marriage. He married Mallt daughter of Griffith Derwas ap Meurig of Nannau. His half-brother, Thomas, was executed as a Lancastrian at Conway in 1468 by William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke of the Herbert line, but Griffith seems to have imitated the pliancy of his Griffith kinsmen at Penrhyn; he
WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile Celts, London 1889, and A Maid of Cymru, London 1901. Gwenfrida died in 1914. As Maud Williams of Aberclydach (Llanfigan, Brecknockshire), Mallt was the second person to join Urdd y Delyn founded by Owen M. Edwards in 1896. For years this League offered prizes for penillion singing, harp-playing, reading Welsh books and speaking Welsh. Later she used to present prizes for the harp, under the name of
WILLIAMS, ALYS MALLT - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND
WILLIAMS, MALLT - see WILLIAMS, ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND

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