Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist Born in Prestatyn, Flintshire, in 1874, the son of Griffith Eames and his wife Margaret Dowell from Prestatyn. His father was a carpenter who had been apprenticed in Liverpool after working, for a time, on the land in his native Anglesey. He settled in Barrow-in-Furness where he met his future wife as a fellow chorister in the choir conducted by Peter Edwards, 'Pedr Alaw'. Margaret Eames insisted
EDWARDS, PETER (Pedr Alaw; 1854 - 1934), musician
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author by the Pentrefelin period (the second Peter (Pedr), was born in 1952, and a daughter, Naomi, in 1955), learnt Welsh like native speakers - they could play, argue, and curse in the language, she boasted - and she offered leadership to the local village community in extending their use of Welsh to new domains. This perseverance was deeply rooted. It was she who, as a young girl, insisted on speaking
HUGHES, GAINOR (1745 - 1780), fasting woman (1816); and a new wave of interest surfaced from the 1870s onwards, possibly under the influence of the story of Sarah Jacob (1857-1869), the young Carmarthenshire girl whose death was covered in the Welsh press at the turn of the 1860s. One question which was not satisfactorily answered by authors such as John Peter ('Ioan Pedr') and David Robert Daniel was the identity of the poet whose two englyn
IOAN PEDR - see PETER, JOHN
JONES, EVAN (PAN) (1834 - 1922), Independent minister outspoken championship of temperance made him unpopular and he moved to Blaina, Monmouth, where, within a year, he began to preach in Berea chapel. In 1857 he was admitted to the Bala Independent College, and in 1860, on the advice of Ioan Pedr (John Peter), went on a visit to Germany. In 1862 he was admitted to the Presbyterian College at Carmarthen; but, at the end of his course there, as he did not
JONES, LEWIS (fl. 1703) Pandy, Llan-uwchllyn, poet examples of the latter's poetry is found in NLW MS 672D (257), NLW MS 4698A (141), and, possibly, in Cwrtmawr MS 206B (176), NLW MS 4697A (67) NLW MS 12867D (35), and Swansea MS. 3 (13). [It is possible that Ioan Pedr copied MSS. by these two - see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, iv, 4, p. 167.]
JONES, PETER (Pedr Fardd; 1775 - 1845), poet and hymnist
KADWALADR, SION (fl. 1750-1765), writer of ballads and interludes Born, according to Ioan Pedr in NLW MS 2629C, in Llanycil parish, Meironnydd. In his interlude, 'Gaulove,' Siôn describes himself as 'a sad creature, without brother or sister, stubborn, and always poor'; and a ballad of his (Bibliog. of Welsh Ballads no. 73), together with his interlude 'Einion' and a marwnad (NLW MS 2629C), testifies that he was transported for seven years to America - for
MICHAEL, DAVID (Dewi Afan; 1842 - 1913), poet Ruth a Naomi … A Cantata (Cwmafan, 1876) and Gwaredigaeth Pedr o'r Carchar (3rd ed., Cwmafan, 1885; 1st ed., 1879; 2nd ed., 1880). He also published, with Llewelyn Griffiths (Glan Afan), two anthologies of contemporary poetry under the titles of Blodeu'r Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1871), and Oriel y Beirdd (Cwmafan, 1882). He died 11 August 1913, leaving one daughter and four sons. Thomas Morgan (Afanwyson
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Gwilym Gelli-deg; 1808 - 1878), poet ' Awdl Gweledigaeth Pedr ' (Merthyr, 1836) and ' Cywydd o glod i Wenynen Gwent ' (Merthyr, 1837). A selection from his works was published under the title of Cerbyd Awen (Merthyr Tydfil, 1846), whilst thousands of copies were sold, in fairs and taverns, of his ballad - ' Ple byddaf mhen can mlynedd? ' He died, in poverty, 29 May 1878, and was buried in Cefn cemetery, near Merthyr Tydfil.
PEDR ALAW - see EDWARDS, PETER

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