Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWILYM O FEIRION - see PUGHE, WILLIAM OWEN
GWILYM PADARN - see EDWARDS, WILLIAM
GWILYM PENNANT - see POWELL, WILLIAM
GWILYM PERIS - see WILLIAMS, WILLIAM
GWILYM RHONDDA - see THOMAS, WILLIAM PHILLIP
GWILYM RYFEL (fl. 12th century), poet All that remains of his work are two chains of englynion of intercession to Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd. These belong to the period 1174-75 when David ruled over the greater part of Gwynedd, including Anglesey. Gwilym Ryfel was one of the friends lamented by Gruffudd ap Gwrgenau in a chain of beautifully written englynion, and from this work (Hendregadredd MS. 76a, The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
GWILYM TEILO - see DAVIES, WILLIAM
GWILYM TEW (fl. c. 1460-1480), one of the bards of Glamorgan Gwilym Tew lived in Llangynwyd, the original centre of the tribe; Dafydd Benwyn calls him 'Gwilym tew brydydd o dir jarll.' His cywyddau show that he flourished c. 1460-1480. He sings to the gentry of upper Glamorgan and to the descendants of the Normans and of the English in the 'Vale' of Glamorgan, and 'itinerated', as a bard, to Kidwelly, Ewyas, and, perhaps to Maelienydd. He is not important as a
GWILYM TEW - see MOSES, WILLIAM
GWILYM TEW O LAN TÂF - see MOSES, WILLIAM
GWILYM TWROG - see WILLIAMS, WILLIAM
GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari

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