Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORUS DWYFECH (fl. c. 1523-1590), a poet wife, poems in reply to others by Huw Arwystl and also Wiliam Llŷn, one on Caernarvon town and another on Nevin. His will, in the form of a poem, expressed the poet's desire to be buried at Penllech, and, from the elegies composed to him by Siôn Phylip and Huw Pennant, it is evident that his wish was granted.
MORYS ap HYWEL (ap TUDUR) (fl. c. 1530), a poet no details are known concerning his life, although a number of his poems remain in manuscripts. They include a number on religious themes, and some addressed to Siôn Wyn of Y Tŵr (Mold), Edward Puleston of Emral, and Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Hywel of Moelyrch.
OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet He graduated as pencerdd cerdd dafod at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568 (Peniarth MS 121 (215), Peniarth MS 132 (60), Peniarth MS 144 (268)). No details are known concerning his life, but a large number of his poems remain in manuscripts. Most of these are addressed to various members of landed families in North Wales, including Lewys Owain of Dolgelley and his sons, Siôn Owain Fychan of
OWAIN, Syr DAFYDD, cleric and poet 8330B. Some of his cywyddau have been attributed to Gruffudd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan and Siôn Tudur.
OWEN ap SION ap RHYS (fl. second half of 16th century) Trefeilir, poet
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist ('Twm Sion Cati'), and other antiquaries and genealogists of his day. He was the centre of a small group of writers in Pembrokeshire which included George Owen Harry, Robert Holland, and George William Griffith, and he gave his patronage and the hospitality of Henllys to many of the Welsh bards of the period. His most important work is ' The Description of Penbrockshire ' which appears to owe
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer brother Vivian, and his father became his trainer. By 1970 and 1973 he had won Welsh School championships; he represented Wales seventeen times, losing only twice. With all his successes as an amateur boxer, the time came for him to move on. When registering as a professional he was keen to use a Welsh form of his name, Sion Rhisiart Owain, but he was persuaded to adopt the name Johnny Owen because of
PARRY, MORRIS (fl. 1661-1683), cleric and bard 3057D, Wynnstay MS. 6, NLW MS 11993A, and B.M. Add. MSS. 14891, 14892, 14975, and 14994. An elegy composed on his death by Siôn Dafydd of Penllyn is found in NLW MS 3027E. He appears to have been the possessor of a manuscript copy of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir's work, 'The history of the Gwydir family,' about 1674. He was buried at Llanelian, 26 September 1683.
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet contracted scarlet fever and pleurisy, he graduated a year late, in 1926, with First Class honours in Welsh. His supplementary subject was Latin. He was immediately appointed to an assistant lectureship in Welsh and Latin at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. There, as well as lecturing in two departments, in 1929 he finished his MA thesis on “The Life and Work of Siôn Dafydd
PERRI, HENRY (1560/1 - 1617) Maes Glas (Greenfield) that there are only two branches of rhetoric - 'elocutio' and 'pronuntiatio.' Salesbury's views were somewhat different. Moreover, he rejected some of Salesbury's terms and borrowed others from the grammars of Siôn Dafydd Rhys and Gruffydd Robert. His eulogy of the art of rhetoric in the introduction to this book is highly typical of the Renaissance. He was descended from the Tudor family of
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy A family of Welsh poets who lived in Ardudwy, Meironnydd, in the 16th and 17th cents.. Their period ranges from c. 1543, in which year Siôn Phylip was probably born, to 1678, when probate was granted of the will of Phylip Siôn Phylip, one of his sons. The royalist poet, William Phylip, is usually accounted of the group. The two brothers, Siôn and Rhisiart, and Siôn's two sons, Gruffydd and Phylip
PHYLIP, PHYLIP SION (d. 1677), poet - see PHYLIP

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