Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN (Taliesin Hiraethog; 1841 - 1894), farmer and poet down utterly. He died 20 March 1894 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh, near Twm o'r Nant. He was an eisteddfod poet. His neighbour at Hafod Elwy, Elias Jones (Llew Hiraethog), Hafod-y-llan, a grandson of Robert Davies of Nantglyn (1769 - 1835), taught him the art of poetry and aroused his interest in the eisteddfodau. He won a number of prizes for poems in the classical metres and for modern
DAVIES, MORRIS (Meurig Ebrill; 1780 - 1861), poet Born at Dolgelley, he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually worked at his trade in some of the larger houses of the neighbourhood, e.g. Nannau, Hengwrt, Dolserau, and Caerynwch. When he was about 13 years of age he came to know Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant, 1739 - 1810), who was then at Bala. He wrote numerous poems on a variety of subjects, many of them dealing with local occurrences
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Liverpool School of Art before starting work as a commercial artist in the city. He returned to live and work at Star on the death of his father. It was about this time - 1923-24 - that Ifan ab Owen Edwards asked him to provide illustrations for the monthly magazine Cymru'r Plant, and thus began more than forty years of work for Urdd Gobaith Cymru. His cartoon characters ' Toodles ' and ' Twm y gath
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer question (F. G. Payne in N.L.W. Jnl., i, 42-3) and who is mentioned several times in Dee's diary. He also called Thomas Jones, 'Twm Shôn Catti' with whom he was acquainted, 'cousin'. Dee graduated from S. John's College, Cambridge, 1544/5, and was nominated one of the original Fellows of Trinity College on its foundation in 1546. He visited the Low Countries in 1547, and was a student at Louvain from
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, (died 1573?) and widow of Thomas Jones ('Twm Sion Catti,' c. 1530 - 1609), acquiring through her considerable property at Ystrad Ffin, Carmarthenshire. He served as sheriff for Carmarthenshire in 1581 and for Cardiganshire in 1587 (while at Lamphey), and again for Cardiganshire in 1611 (while at Ystrad Ffin). ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2nd earl of Essex and 3rd viscount Hereford (1567 - 1601) Son of the 1st
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes was 12. At his marriage in 1763 to Elizabeth Hughes of Pont-y-garreg, Llanfair Talhaearn, Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), the renowned poet and antiquary, officiated. Twm and his wife made their home at Denbigh, and he earned his living by hauling timber. Owing to certain misfortunes he soon became involved in heavy debts, with the result that he had to turn for a while to writing interludes and acting in
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet , at the age of 79. Elegies upon him were written by Dafydd Ellis of Holyhead and by Twm o'r Nant. He had been taught prosody by Owen Gruffydd - some of the latter's manuscripts, e.g. Llyfr Madryn (NLW MS 799D), had passed into his possession - and the elegy (a cywydd) upon his old master, 6 December 1730, is his principal poem. Several of his lyrics and englynion are to be found in manuscripts which
EVANS, EVAN (fl. end of 18th century), player on the triple harp After the death of John Parry (1710? - 1782) he was appointed family harpist at Wynnstay, the residence of the Williams Wynn family. Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) refers to his skill. His name appears as a subscriber to Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, as ' Mr. Evan Evans, Telynwr, Wynstay.' It is thought that he died at Wynnstay.
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician NLW MS 19B. He is probably the 'Ioan ab Hywel' some of whose work is found in NLW MS 1238B (a Thomas Edwards, Twm o'r Nant MS.) He died 18 November 1830, and was buried in the churchyard of Llandingat, Llandovery.
HUGHES, JONATHAN (1721 - 1805), poet him mentioned in connection with the eisteddfod held at Selattyn in 1748, and naturally he was prominent at the eisteddfod held at Llangollen in January 1789. At the eisteddfod held at Corwen in May of the same year he was one of the three (Twm o'r Nant and Gwallter Mechain being the other two) upon whose works the panel of adjudicators failed to reach a decision, with the result that the
HUMPHREYS, GEORGE (1747? - 1813), sexton, poet and friend of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant). Harri Myllin writing in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1893, says that he was born at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and spent his entire life there. The entry of his christening has not been found, but he was certainly buried there, 10 June 1813, at the age of sixty-six. Cynddelw (Robert Ellis) had a high opinion of him as a poet. We have, in the handwriting of his son
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer in both Welsh and English, and he was in demand not only throughout Wales but also in Welsh centres in England. He preached in London during World War I, in Liverpool cathedral in 1927, and he had been invited to deliver a Welsh sermon in St. Paul's cathedral, London, in 1928. His most popular lectures were those on Robert Owen, Twm o'r Nant, Mynyddog, Ceiriog, Y Bardd Cwsg, Owain Glyndŵr and Ann

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