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DIC TRYFAN - see
WILLIAMS, RICHARD HUGHES
EDWARDS, JOHN MENLOVE
(1910 - 1958), rock climber
, founded the Rock Climbing Club. He soon became one of the leading figures during the second golden age of climbing in Snowdonia. He was the pioneer of the 'three crags' of Llanberis Pass and was the author of the Climbing Club handbooks on Cwm Idwal (1936);
Tryfan
(1937) and Lliwedd (1939) in collaboration with Wilfrid Noyce; and Clogwyn du'r Arddu (1942) with J.E.Q. Barford. Exceptionally strong, he
JONES, OWEN GLYNNE
(1867 - 1899), mountaineer and schoolteacher
invited G.W. Young to join him 'for Everest '. But his love of Cadair Idris was proverbial and he chided the English for mis-pronouncing Welsh names. Kern Knotts Crack on Great Gable (1897) and Terrace Wall Variant on
Tryfan
(1899) are amongst his many notable first ascents; the most popular climb created by him is, however, the ordinary route on the Milestone Buttress of
Tryfan
, which reaches the A5
JONES, OWEN WYNNE
(Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet
wrote articles for Y Brython, Baner y Groes, and Taliesin, and letters to the Herald Cymraeg under the pseudonym 'Salmon Llwyd o ben Moel
Tryfan
'; his short stories were published in Cymru Fu and some of his letters and essays in Y Geninen.
MORGAN ap HUW LEWYS
(fl. c. 1550-1600), poet
Of Hafod-y-wern in the parish of Llanwnda, Caernarfonshire; son of the chief constable of the commote of Uwch Gwyrfai in 1548 (and not the son of Huw Lewys of Plas-yn-Bont, translator of Perl Mewn Adfyd, as some people have thought). Apparently
Tryfan
and its surrounds were the homes of Huw ap Lewys and his children, and it was probably through marriage that Morgan became resident at Hafod-y-Wern
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY
(1763 - 1836), cleric and writer
Bingley across to Cwm Idwal and then to the summits of
Tryfan
, y Gluder Fawr and Gluder Fach : on the summit of
Tryfan
he frightened him by leaping from Adam to Eve, as the two rocks above the eastern precipice are called. He did not make much comment on the mountains in his Caernarfonshire travel-book but it is difficult to believe that he would have acted a guide for a stranger had he not been
WILLIAMS, RICHARD HUGHES
(Dic Tryfan; 1878? - 1919), journalist and short story writer
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM GILBERT
(1874 - 1966), schoolmaster and local historian
and papers, particularly in Y Genedl, where an occasional argument arose between him and his friend Bob Owen), demonstrating the more disciplined and academic method of Gilbert Williams of studying history. He was also a contributor to The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940. A selection of his work was published (Gareth Haulfryn Williams, ed.) in Moel
Tryfan
i'r Traeth (1983). He received an