Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters , and had a brilliant career, winning the three chief university prizes in history and a first class in honours (1887). Two important influences upon him in his early Oxford days should be noted. The first was the aestheticism of Ruskin (with whom he afterwards corresponded) and of William Morris. The second was the 'Dafydd ap Gwilym Society,' on which see T. Rowland Hughes ('Cymdeithas Dafydd ap
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer accounts of some of the princes. For this service he was awarded £1,000 by the firm. He died in London, 4 July 1858, and was buried in Highgate cemetery. All his life he was interested in the Welsh language and in music. He contributed many articles to such periodicals as Y Gwyliedydd, Seren Gomer, and Cymro Llundain under the pseudonyms T. ap Edwart ap Eurgain, Zabulonun, and Caerfallwch. Y Gwyliedydd
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes criticism. Twm's two main characteristics, his ready wit and his facility in versification, account for many a scathing passage in his works, and also for the fact that some of his verses remained in the popular memory for generations. (It will be recalled how Mari Lewis, in Daniel Owen's novel, Rhys Lewis, was continually quoting 'Tomos o'r Nant.') A collection of his poems, entitled Gardd o Gerddi and
EDWARDS, WILLIAM ROBERT (Glanllafar; 1858 - 1921), Congregational minister, poet, and littérateur eisteddfodau of Welsh communities throughout the United States. He contributed much to the Welsh press and was the editor of Cofiant Rhys Gwesyn Jones (Utica, T. J. Griffiths, 1902).
EDWART ap RAFF (fl. 1578-1606), poet Son of Raff ap Robert. In a cywydd composed in 1602 when he had grown old he refers to the battle of S. Quentin, 1557, as though he had been actually present. It is stated in NLW MS 5282B that he was a blind poet, but there is no reference to this elsewhere. His poems are mainly in praise of the landowning families of the Vale of Clwyd; they also include elegies on Siôn Tudur, 1602, and Simwnt
EDWIN (d. 1073), prince of Tegeingl pedigrees as great-great-grandson of Hywel Dda; his mother was Ethelfleda, daughter of Edwin, king of Mercia. He married Iwerydd, sister of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, and by her had three sons, Owain, Uchdryd, and Hywel. Many North Wales families (particularly in Flintshire and Denbighshire) claimed descent from Edwin, among them those of Mostyn of Mostyn and Mostyn of Talacre. David Powel of Ruabon also claimed
EINION ap ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1163) - see ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD
EINION ap COLLWYN (fl. 1100?), prince and warrior According to tradition, he quarrelled with Iestyn ap Gwrgant, and in consequence invited the Normans to invade Glamorgan. He is a semi-legendary figure, and it is significant that at least three different accounts of his descent are given us. According to one story, he was the son of Collwyn ap Gwaethfoed of Ceredigion; another makes him the son of Cadifor ap Collwyn of Dyfed; while poets like
EINION ap GWALCHMAI (fl. 1203-1223), poet A portion of an awdl by him to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth mentions that prince as fighting against the English, and was therefore probably composed after the turn of the century. He also composed a beautiful elegy to Nest, daughter of Hywel, of Towyn, Meironnydd, and three awdlau to God. In one of these he refers to his intention to go on a pilgrimage over the Alps to the Holy Land. References in his
EINION ap GWGON (fl. c. 1215), one of the poets of the Age of the Princes Only one poem by him is extant, an eulogy to prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Llywelyn the Great). This is found in Hendreg. MS. and in transcripts of it (B.M. MS. 14, 869, Llanstephan MS 31, Peniarth MS 119). It was published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i, 320; Anwyl, The Poetry of the Gogynfeirdd, 113; Llawysgrif Hendregadredd, 50-4; and also in part, in Stephens, The Literature of the
EINION ap MADOG ap RHAHAWD (fl. c. 1237), one of the poets of the Age of the Princes Only one poem by him is extant, an eulogistic awdl to prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. This is found in Hendreg. MS. and in transcripts of it (B.M. MS. 14,869, Llanstephan MS 31, Peniarth MS 119). It was published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, i, 391; Anwyl, The Poetry of the Gogynfeirdd, 154; Llawysgrif Hendregadredd, 54-5; and Stephens, The Literature of the Kymry, 371-2.
EINION fab ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1163) - see ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD

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