Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARPENTER, KATHLEEN EDITHE (1891 - 1970), ecologist the impact of the commencement of mining and the ecological recovery after closure. Her study area around Aberystwyth encompassed approximately 390km2, from sea level to headwater streams on the Cambrian Mountains. She compared the mine-polluted rivers around Aberystwyth with the relatively unpolluted waters of the Teifi to the south and the Dyfi to the north. Kathleen produced some of the first
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer Ceredigion at Felin-y-cwm (in Cwm Einion above Furnace) and finally Ynys Edwin on the Dyfi estuary. Ynys Edwin was originally part of the Ynys-hir Estate owned by Hubert Mappin (of the famed jewellers Mappin & Webb). After Mappin's death in 1966, Condry encouraged his widow Patricia to sell most of the land to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) to become a nature reserve, thus bringing
DAVIES, JOHN BREESE (1893 - 1940), writer, musician, and a specialist in cerdd dant national eisteddfod at Machynlleth in 1937, and his essay on the Dyfi district as an introduction to the list of competitions for that eisteddfod was a masterpiece of its kind. Even so, his greatest eisteddfodic achievement was to ensure that a competition for a Literature Medal be included from 1938 onwards. He worked equally energetically - as a tutor, adjudicator and conductor - to establish the
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic there; one of his curates, Morgan Lloyd, published in 1830 a volume of sermons which was translated into English by Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845). He received the living of Llanwyddelan in 1803 and of Manafon in 1807 (both in Montgomeryshire); at Manafon he became friendly with John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770 - 1829) and the Vaughans of Penmaen Dyfi. In 1837 he was preferred to the living of
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer , lady Llanover consented to defray a portion of the costs of publishing the Welsh dictionary. The first part appeared in 1887, but the first volume - up to the letter C - was not completed until 1893. The first instalment of the second part appeared in 1896. In 1898 he published Telyn Dyfi: Manion ar Fesur Cerdd. In recognition of his lexicographical work, Silvan Evans was in 1897 awarded the medal of
GWALLTER DYFI - see REES, EDWARD WALTER
GWERFUL MECHAIN (1462? - 1500), poetess this. In Eminent Welshmen and Enwogion Cymru she is confused with Gwerful, daughter of Madoc of Tanad; Guto'r Glyn's poems were not addressed to Gwerful Mechain. Gwerful Mechain's poems were born of the whim of the moment; she wrote a beautiful cywydd on the passion of Christ; she produced an occasional striking englyn and she was deeply moved by jealous wives, and scurrilous poets such as Ieuan Dyfi
HOWE, ELIZABETH ANNE (1959 - 2019), ecologist Warren, north Wales, and Ynyslas, part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve, mid Wales. She also led a similar project at Presthaven Sands, Gronant Dunes and Talacre Warren to create appropriate habitat for the rare Natterjack Toad. This project has been so successful that the site has now become a donor of Natterjack spawn to re-establish other locations. Howe advised on species conservation measures
HUMPHREYS, ROBERT (1779 - 1832), Wesleyan minister Penmaen Dyfi, who had saved him from being maltreated when he was on a preaching tour. He ministered at Dolgelley (1806), Manchester (1807), and Denbigh (1808); Caernarvon (1811-12) and Dolgelley (1812), in both of which places he ran a school; as supervisor of the Dolgelley and Machynlleth circuits when these were amalgamated (1816); Caernarvon (1816); Denbigh and Llanrwst (1819); Llandilo (1820); the
IEUAN DYFI (1461? - 1500), poet
JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman warrant the truth of this theory. In 1814 Justina married, at Tywyn, the newly enriched George Jeffreys (1792-1868) and they embarked on the construction of Glandyfi Castle, a Regency gothic castle overlooking the Dyfi from above the toll road from Aberystwyth to Machynlleth. The Jeffreys family wealth was centred upon Shrewsbury and the selection of this site on what was formerly an industrial holding
LEWYS GLYN DYFI - see MEREDITH, LEWIS

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