Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist adopted his mother's surname. The earliest of Lewis Dwnn's poems is dated 1568 and the latest 1616 (Peniarth MS 96 (441, 586)). His wife was Alice, daughter of Meredydd ap Dafydd, and it is possible that James Dwnn the poet was the eldest of his six children. The best evidence of Lewys Dwnn's early interest in genealogy is to be found in his own introduction to his book of pedigrees where he names the
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
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug, and as Iolo Morganwg's copy was the source which was used by John Williams (Ab Ithel, 1811 - 1862) when he edited that grammar for publication he, the editor, gave the published work the title of Dosparth Edeyrn Davod Aur, 1856. Sir John Morris-Jones tried to prove that the grammar attributed to Edern Dafod Aur in the manuscripts was a pseudo-antique work belonging to the 16th
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd their widespread possessions, combined with the favourable terms on which they were held, made them the forerunners of that class of Welsh squires whose emergence is characteristic of the post-conquest period. The pedigrees are not in complete agreement about the number of Ednyfed's children, but during the reigns of Dafydd ap Llywelyn and Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (1240-82) several of his sons figure
EDNYFED, SION, musician
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.
EDWARD MAELOR (fl. c. 1580-1620), poet No details about him are known, but a number of his poems, cywyddau and englynion, remain in manuscript. They include poems in praise of North Wales gentry, including Humphrey Hughes of Gwerclys, and John Eyton and his wife, a marriage poem addressed to Andrew Meredydd of Glan Tanad, and an elegy on the poet Siôn Tudur. His englynion include some written in bardic controversy (ymryson) with Morys
EDWARD, DAFYDD, poet - see DAFYDD, EDWARD
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn Treredyn; 1606? - c. 1660?), cleric and translator , under the title of Madruddyn y Difinyddiaeth Diweddaraf. [It is not certain that Edward Fisher was the author of the Marrow.] ' Siôn Treredyn ' was not certain of his initial mutations, but apart from that the translation is a good one and the translator had a sense of style. He dedicates the book to the gentlemen of Gwent and by so doing he gives us some idea of the state of the Welsh language in
EDWARDS, JOHN (Siôn y Potiau; 1699? - 1776), translator and poet third part was published 'for Dafydd Llwyd of Bala ' at Chester in 1768 - a Robert Llwyd of Bala is mentioned in the second part as one of the translator's friends. This was the earliest translation of the 'third' part into Welsh.
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 (1799 - 1873?), musician Born at Cwmbran-fach in the parish of Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire. A shoemaker by trade, he spent his life in Llangadock, Carmarthenshire. Taught the elements of music by Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, he was precentor at the local Methodist chapel for many years, during ten years of which he acted also as parish clerk. He conducted classes in music almost every evening in some village or other; he was

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