Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights candidate in the General Election representing the Independent Coalition but did not actually stand. Her vigorous campaigning continued until the vote was given to women on the same terms as men in 1928. Following the death of Alice Vowe Johnson in 1938, and the subsequent outbreak of the Second World War, she returned to Carmarthen to her nephew's house at Bryn Myrddin in Abergwili on the outskirts of
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer . Davies was minister. After following the preparatory course at Coleg Myrddin, he was accepted, in October 1943, to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. In 1948, he gained his B.A. with honours in Philosophy from the University College, Cardiff, and his B.D., in 1951, from Carmarthen College, with honours in the Philosophy of Religion. He accepted a call to be minister of the church at Ebeneser
DAFYDD GORLECH (1410? - 1490?), writer of cywyddau brud (vaticinations) Chepstow (see G.G.G., 342). The poet is old and asks for protection. Couplets in the cywydd beginning 'Y brud hen wyd yn bratau' suggest that Dafydd Gorlech survived Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. His cywyddau contain references to prophecies attributed to Myrddin, Taliesin, and Y Bardd Glas.
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Born in the parish of Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, according to a statement by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cwrtmawr MS 561C. In one of his poems, 'Cywydd i ofyn geifr,' he speaks of Morgan ap Hywel, Llanddeiniolen, as his uncle. A summarized account by Irene George (Lloyd-Williams) giving particulars about the bard's history and his poems appears in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations Myriel Davies was born in Swansea on 5 March 1920, the daughter and second child of a Congregationalist (Independent) minister, David Morgan (1883-1959), and his wife Sarah Jane (née Jones, 1885-1953). Her brother, Herbert Myrddin Morgan (1918-1999), had been born two years previously. She spent her early years at Glyn Neath, Caerau, Maesteg and Whitland before moving, aged 12, to Bancyfelin
EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME MYRDDIN - see MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath , places them at Elernion in the north of Llanaelhaiarn, Caernarfonshire; John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), in Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon, 74, gives Bryn Bychan, in the south of that parish, as their habitat; J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 257), while locating them at Bryn Bychan, places that house in Nantlle. It seems on the whole better to regard Griffith's 'Nantlle' as a slip, to take Thomas's 'Elernion' as a
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist Education Committee, the executive committee of the National Foundation for Educational Research, a governor of the National College for the Training of Youth Leaders, chairman of the Statutory Committee on Youth Employment, treasurer of the Standing Conference of Studies in Education, a member of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales under the chairmanship of Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans, a
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, , Mostyn MSS. 529, 532, 556, 559, 562, 566, 569, 572, 575; Cynfeirdd Lleyn, ed. Myrddin Fardd, 195; Gwaith Tudur Aled, ed. T. Gwynn Jones, i, 145.) He was one of three squires who were concerned with the Caerwys eisteddfod in 1523. (Llên Cymru, ii, 130.) His eldest son, William, died young and he was succeeded by his second son EDWARD GRIFFITH (1511 - 1540) Born 18 May 1511 (P.R.O. Min. Acc., 4948), he
GWILYM MYRDDIN - see JONES, WILLIAM
HENRY, DAVID (Myrddin Wyllt; 1816 - 1873), Independent minister and folk poet prizes at eisteddfodau, including essays on local history in Maesteg, 1859, and Carmarthen, 1867. None of these works have survived, although two medals which were awarded to him are in private hands. He contributed articles and poetry to Y Diwygiwr, the monthly organ of the Welsh Independents, under the pseudonym 'Myrddin Wyllt'. He also published a sermon Gwresogrwydd Crefyddol (1860), and Llawlyfr
HININ FARDD (1360? - 1420), writer of prophecies As far as one can judge from the content of the four poems attributed to him, he flourished towards the end of the 14th cent. His work is often associated in the manuscripts with the work of Myrddin and Taliesin, and his poetry belongs to the same tradition as the prophecies they are said to have written. In Llanstephan MS 173 (130b) the form given to his name is ' hinyn fardd ' and in a poem

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