Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet , justice of South Wales, when the latter's sun set in 1447. There is evidence (Panton MS. 40 (83)) that he served in Ireland under Richard, duke of York, father of Edward IV, and it was to him, perhaps, that Hywel Dafydd addressed a cywydd which is full of references to that service. Owain's wife was Catherine, daughter of John Wogan of Picton, Pembrokeshire, and their son, Harry Dwnn, and a nephew of
DYER, JOHN (1699 - 1757), poet acquaintance of Aaron Hill and his circle, which included James Thomson and Richard Savage. In A New Miscellany, which is presumed to have been published in that year, 1726, there appeared Dyer's 'Grongar Hill' in octosyllabics; also in 1726 it came out in a pindaric version in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, ed. Savage; and finally, in Miscellaneous Poems, ed. D. Lewis, yet another version in
EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, This Cheshire family, descended from Wilkin de Edisbury, first appears in Denbighshire c. 1544, when RICHARD WILKINSON, alias EDISBURY, held lands in Bedwal. His younger son, ROBERT WILKINSON EDISBURY (died 1610), extended the estate by marriage with Jane, daughter of Kenrick ap Howel of Stryt yr Hwch, Marchwiel. Their son, KENRICK EDISBURY (died 1638), entered the service of the Navy Board
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd . Goronwy, Rhys, and Gwilym were in the personal following of Richard II. Maredudd, father of Owain Tudur and great-grandfather of Henry VII (see the article Tudor family of Penmynydd), is a more shadowy figure; he was escheator of Anglesey before 1392 and is described in 1404 as an esquire to the bishop of Bangor. The three surviving brothers and their near kinsmen were prominent supporters of Owain Glyn
EDWARD ap HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 15th century), writer of cywyddau Very little of his work is extant. In v there are two copies of his cywydd 'to ask Sir Richard for a cloak.' It can be deduced from this that it is addressed to Richard Redman, bishop of St Asaph from 1471 to 1496. In NLW MS 3047C two englynion are attributed to Edward ap Hywel, but Peniarth MS 99 attributes one of them to Siôn Tudur.
EDWARDS family Stansty, eventually sold to the iron-master Richard Thompson, who built Stansty Hall in 1830-32.
EDWARDS family Chirkland, Flintshire (1546) and Denbighshire (1547); he fought at Boulogne in 1544. The family clung to the old religion till the time of his son JOHN EDWARDS II (died 1585), of Plas Newydd or New Hall, who, although suspected in 1574 of sympathy with Mary, queen of Scots, and imprisoned in 1579 for having mass said in his house, publicly renounced the pope at Wrexham at the execution of Richard Gwyn in 1584. JOHN
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales Laidley (died 1912), daughter of W. J. Garland of Lisbon, by whom he had one son and one daughter; and third, in 1917, Margaret, daughter of canon John Richard Armistead, vicar of Sandbach, who survived him. He died 22 July 1937, and was buried at S. Asaph.
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, and according to a letter of Samuel Johnson's he was dead by 1784. Johnson and he were friends and correspondents, and Johnson stayed with him at Jesus in 1782. 'My convivial friend' is Johnson's description of Edwards - and the hint is amplified in Richard Morris's account of Edwards's reception into the Cymmrodorion Society in 1763. He was not without
EDWARDS, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and author appointed professor at Bala College, and worked there with Principal David Phillips until 1939. From 1939 to 1949 he was principal of the Theological College at Aberystwyth. He was awarded an honorary D.D. degree by the University of Edinburgh. In 1917 he married Mary Nesta, daughter of Richard Hughes, a veterinary surgeon in Oswestry; they had a son and two daughters. After retiring he returned to
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Ceiriog; 1747 - 1792), bard and orator the Gwyneddigion offered a silver medal for an elegy on Richard Morris in 1780, Siôn Ceiriog wrote a poem in blank verse, described as 'pindaric' (B.M. Add. MS. 14993, 57-8). Although it was Richard Jones, Trefdraeth, who won the medal, the society maintained that Siôn Ceiriog had written the better poem and he was given what was called an 'honorary medal.' Apart from this, little of his work has
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician ' Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear,' the anthem composed by J. Ambrose Lloyd at the Bethesda eisteddfod of 1852. He was also a good preacher and an acceptable parish priest. He died 24 November 1885 at Llanddoget rectory, the home of his nephew, and was buried in Tal-y-llyn. His brother RICHARD OWEN EDWARDS, born 31 July 1808, was also a pupil of Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, and went to Ystrad Meurig school. He taught music in

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