Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), poet and writer of prophecies Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i gyfoeswyr 156 he is associated by Gruffudd Gryg (c. 1340 - 1412) with Casnodyn (c. 1290 - 1340). The years 1240 - 1320, therefore, would not be far wrong as the period of his life. He was buried in Maenan Abbey, near Conway, an abbey founded in 1186 (Gwaith Tudur Aled, i, 83). According to Llanstephan MS. 133 (617), his bardic teacher was Wmbar. Later poets in the elegies which
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Born 14 October 1892 in Paddington, London, one of two children of John Cadwaladr Williams, a doctor, and Catherine (née Thomas) his wife. (The son adopted the hyphenated name of Cecil-Williams by deed-poll in 1935). The family came from Uwch Aled. He was educated first in London and, for a year or so, in the village school at Cerrigydrudion. Returning to London he attended the City of London
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard dictus dominus david ap hoell ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Rector ecclesie pariochialis de llanallgo in comitatu anglesega' (N.L.W. Carreglwyd document 1824). An elegy on him by Ieuan ap Madoc seems to suggest that he died in 1527 or early in 1528 - Ieuan ap Madoc refers in his elegy to the death of two other contemporary bards, Tudur Aled (died 1526) and Lewis Môn (died 1527). Edward Lhuyd says that Dafydd
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop scholarship and learning. See poems by Bedo Brwynllys, Dafydd Amharedudd ap Tudur, Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fychan (2), Guto'r Glyn, Hywel Rheinallt, Ieuan ap Tudur Penllyn, Ieuan Deulwyn, Ieuan Llwyd Brydydd, Lewis Môn (2), Owain ap Llywelyn Moel, Rhys Pennardd, Tudur Aled (9), and William Egwad.
DAVIES, DEWI ALED EIRUG (1922 - 1997), Congregationalist minister and professor of theology
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Edern Dafod Aur' in the elegy written upon the death of Tudur Aled by Siôn ap Hywel ap Llywelyn Fychan. It is obvious that the work had become recognized as one of the ancient authorities by 1525; it is more than probable, therefore, that it belongs to the preceding century. But more research is necessary before the problem can be solved.
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston the oral tradition which underlay it, is attested by the fairly frequent references to ' Syr Ffwg ' or ' Ffwg ap Gwarin ' in the poets, e.g. Gruffudd ap Maredudd (in his awdl to Owain Lawgoch, Poetry of the Red Book of Hergest, p. 107, lines 24-5), Iolo Goch, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Tudur Aled (consult the indexes to the modern editions of their poetry), and Wiliam Llyn (ed. Morrice, p. 53, line
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, from death on the eve of the battle. Tudur Aled also refers, more obscurely, to this crisis in William Griffith's career. (Gairdner, Richard III, ed. 1898, 227-38; NLW MS 3051D, Mostyn MS. 467; Gwaith Tudur Aled, ed. T. Gwynn Jones, i, 143.) His influential connections were not confined to the Stanley s. He appears to have married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Grey, grand-daughter of Reginald, 3rd
GRUFFUDD HIRAETHOG (d. 1564), bard and herald He sang the praises of the gentry of Denbighshire, Anglesey, Caernarvonshire and Merioneth, and is supposed to have been the disciple of Tudur Aled. His licence to go on bardic circuits (which still exists, Reports, i, 1021) was granted in 1545-6 under the hands of James Vaughan, Hugh Lewis and Lewys Morgannwg. He is best known as a bardic teacher; some of the foremost bards of the second half of
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family Denbigh, additional particulars concerning him, both as a poet and as a country gentleman, Glenn's account being based on a study of Griffith family muniments, supplemented by study of other original records. Gruffydd ap Ieuan is of importance for two other reasons. With the bard Tudur Aled he was called upon to assist at the first Caerwys eisteddfod (1524) in the grading of bards and musicians; the two
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard if he is the author of the cywyddau to Sir Richard Gethin and Mathau Goch then it must be presumed that he started to write a little earlier, i.e. c. 1432-5. Guto'r Glyn was, according to Tudur Aled, the best bard for composing poems to men; the bard himself says, 'ac erioed prydydd gŵr wyf.' He knew how to praise; he also knew how to satirize as is shown by his biting references to Dafydd ab
HUGHES, JOHN WILLIAM (Edeyrn ap Nudd, Edeyrn o Fôn; 1817 - 1849), a literary tramp patronage from time to time. In the last months of 1845 he was at Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, and by the summer of 1847 in London, the recipient of charity from ' Aled o Vôn ' [ Owen Rowlands ], playing at humorous englynion with ' Sam o Fôn,' giving lessons in Welsh to the daughter of Gwrgant, and himself getting lessons in English from more than one teacher. He was an unsuccessful competitor at the

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