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EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer Welsh word for committee - pwyllgor (from pwyll, deliberation, and cor, assembly, company). Caerfallwch was one of the members of Jewin Welsh Methodist church, London, excommunicated by the Calvinistic Methodist authorities for supporting the emancipation of Roman Catholics.
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English chief prizes at provincial eisteddfodau and the crown for a pryddest at the national eisteddfod three times: at Abergavenny in 1913 ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), Birkenhead in 1917 ('Pwyll pendefig Dyfed'), and at Pwllheli in 1925 for his best known poem to his childhood area ('Bro fy mebyd'). He adjudicated many times at the national eisteddfod and was Archdruid of Wales in the Gorsedd of Bards, 1947-50. He was
HYWEL FOEL ap GRIFFRI ap PWYLL GWYDDEL (fl. c. 1240-1300), poet

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