Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAS, SHOSHI MUKHI (1868 - 1921), missionary, teacher and nurse parental home in Sylhet city, the Foreign Mission appointed her to the station in Karimganj. There, she shared a bungalow with the medical doctor and missionary Oswald Osborne Williams (1868-1926), his wife Emma, their daughter Mona, and a varying number of orphaned girls. As a fully qualified medical missionary, Shoshi worked long and demanding hours. In January 1896, she opened her girls' school. From
ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts a transcript of Mona Antiqua Restaurata, by Henry Rowlands (1655 - 1723), which he presented to the library of his old school at Ystrad Meurig.
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist , Llandudno. He began writing at a young age winning in many local eisteddfodau and as many as 13 prizes in the national eisteddfod. He is mainly remembered, however, as the author of the following adventure novels for children in Welsh: Ynys y trysor (1925); Plant y Fron (1926); Atgofion hen forwr (1926); Capten (1928); Mêt y Mona (1929); Dirgelwch y Cwm (1929); Ogof yr ysbïwyr (1933) and Ym Môr y De (1936
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist - pioneered charter flights between north and south Wales, setting up Welsh Dragon Aviation Ltd. in 1991 to fly passengers from Mona Airport in Anglesey to Cardiff in a Cessna 340 aircraft. In 1993 he set up PPM Ltd in Caernarfon to manufacture gas monitors, thus diversifying the fuel cell technology used for the breathalyser. The company was sold to its management team in 1999. Tom Parry Jones combined his
LLWYD, ANGHARAD (1780 - 1866), antiquary 'Catalogue of Welsh Manuscripts, etc. in North Wales,' two of her other essays being 'Genealogy and Antiquities of Wales' and 'The Castles of Flintshire.' She edited and published a new edition of Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family, 1827. Her chief work, the History of the Island of Mona, 1832, gained the premier essay prize at the Beaumaris eisteddfod of 1832. Her voluminous MS. notes on
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (1527 - 1568), physician and antiquary na golyd,' i.e., fame is more lasting than wealth. Amongst his published works are An Almanack and Kalender containing the Day, Hour, and Minute of the Change of the Moon for ever; De Mona Druidium Insulâ, a letter dated 5 April 1568, addressed to Abraham Ortelius (the publisher) of Antwerp and printed in editions of the latter's atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin, 1603, English, 1606
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker Abraham Ortelius. The first of these is a letter sent by Llwyd to Ortelius on 5 April 1568. The letter known by its opening 'De Mona Druidum insula' is chiefly concerned with the derivation of the Welsh name for Anglesey and also its antiquities. This letter seems to have been a response to the queries posed by Ortelius during their meeting in Antwerp in 1567. After Llwyd's death Ortelius published the
MONA - see WILLIAMSON, ROBERT
OWEN, HENRY (1716 - 1795), cleric, physician, and scholar ) of Beaumaris, and the essay was the work of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt. Still, Owen certainly brought out the 2nd edition of Mona Antiqua Restaurata, by Henry Rowlands (1655 - 1723). He was a prominent Cymmrodor, and acted as reviser of the papers sent up to be read before the society. There is much talk of him in the Morris Letters. He was a neighbour and friend of Richard Morris's - not that this
OWEN, WILLIAM RICHARD (1906 - 1982), pioneer of Welsh broadcasting 1900. He left the army to work as a guard on the Irish Mail, the train from Holyhead to Euston Station after meeting Margaret Ann Lewis. They were married at Holyhead in 1905, and had 3 children, William Richard, Ellen Mary (Elma) (1910-1999) and Mona (1923-2005). The family moved to Birkenhead about 1915 when W. R. was about 9 years old, before moving back to Bangor when he was about 18. He was
PAGET family (marquesses of Anglesey), Plas Newydd, Llanedwen - 1802) formed, in 1785, the Mona Mine Company to work the rich deposits of copper discovered on the eastern side of Parys Mountain, near Amlwch. Henry Bayly Paget died 13 March 1812, and was succeeded by his eldest son, HENRY WILLIAM PAGET (1768 - 1854), born 17 May 1768, who had a brilliant military career and was created 1st marquess of Anglesey 4 July 1815 as a reward for his prowess on the field
PARRY, ROBERT IFOR (1908 - 1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher ordained in June 1933, as the successor of the Revs. David Price (1843-78) and D. Silyn Evans (1880-1930). In 1940, he married Mona, the only daughter of Richard Morgan, a deacon at Siloa. The author of these words remembers staying in September 1959 at their home in Newlands, Aberdare, during a Collecting Journey towards the Bala-Bangor College – as was the custom in those days. The vicar of Aberdare

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