Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD, IFAN (c. 1655 - c. 1734), poet wyneb yngwrthwyneb ' printed in Meddylieu Neillduol ar Grefydd (1717). He produced a number of englynion and at least one 'summer carol.' We hear of him being present at the Machynlleth eisteddfod, 1702, where he was lampooned by Siôn Rhydderch. Iaco ab Dewi wrote a poem in his honour, while Siencyn Thomas of Cwm-du and Alban Thomas of Blaen-porth wrote elegies upon him.
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar of the court poets of the princes of medieval Wales is a worthy memorial to his inspiring leadership. He retired in 1993 and was appointed Honorary Senior Fellow that year. A festschrift, Beirdd a Thywysogion: barddoniaeth llys yng Nghymru, Iwerddon a'r Alban (eds Morfydd E. Owen and Brynley F. Roberts), was published in 1996. The subject of his PhD dissertation was a challenging one. It
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Richard Jones, or Dic as he was known throughout Wales, was born on Good Friday, 30 March 1934 at Pen-y-graig, a smallholding near Tre'r-ddôl in North Cardiganshire. His mother, Frances Louisa (1910-1986) was one of the daughters of the Isaac family who farmed there. She qualified as a teacher and after taking up a post at Blaen-porth school she married a local farmer, Alban Lewis (Abba) Jones
MUTTON, Sir PETER (1565 - 1637), judge and politician died at Llannerch, 14 November 1637). The son of a modest landowner in the vale of Clwyd, whose family had been prominent in the borough of Rhuddlan for two centuries, Peter or Piers Mutton was one of the most eminent Welsh lawyers of the 17th century. Educated at S. Alban Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln's Inn, he was called to the Bar in June 1594; throughout his career he took an important part in
OWEN, GEORGE (c. 1552 - 1613), historian, antiquary, and genealogist . He completed his formal education at Barnard's Inn where he was admitted in 1573 but soon afterwards he took up residence at his ancestral home at Henllys and became the most influential squire in north Pembrokeshire. He married (1), 1571, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of William Philipps of Picton, by whom he had eleven children, the eldest son being Alban Owen (died 1658) who succeeded his
PHILIPPS family Picton, ) interested himself in Welsh literature (see Peniarth MS 155). He died on the Thursday after the feast of S. Meugan 1551 (see Peniarth MS 176 (397); W. Wales Hist. Records, vii, 161-4) and was succeeded by his young son WILLIAM PHILIPPS whose wife was Janet Perrot, sister of Sir John Perrot. His daughters married Alban Stepney and George Owen of Henllys. Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire in 1559 and
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet College, 7 April 1682, at the age of 20, that he graduated B.A. in 1685, and took his M.A. (from S. Alban Hall)'in 1688. It is possible that the Edw. Price, stated by Foster to have been his father, was Edward Prys, son of Morgan Prys of Gerddi Bluog, i.e., the Edward Prys who married Lowry Poole of Cae Nest, Llanbedr. There is no certainty about the FOULK (FOULCE?) PRICE, B.A., who obtained the living
SALESBURY, HENRY (1561 - 1637?), grammarian Born in Henllan parish, Denbighshire, his family being a branch of the old Lleweni family. He graduated in Oxford University (S. Alban Hall), studied medicine, and followed the profession of a physician. Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as ' medicus doctis annumerandus.' In 1593 he published his Welsh grammar, Grammatica Britannica (London). It is also recorded that he had begun another
STEPNEY family Prendergast, The family was founded by Alban Stepney, a Hertfordshire man and son of Thomas Stepney of S. Albans by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Winde of Ramsey, Huntingdonshire. Educated at Cambridge and Clement's Inn, it is said that he came to Wales as a young lawyer in the employ of bishop Richard Davies during the visitation of 1559. On 31 December 1561 the bishop appointed him receiver-general of
THOMAS, ALBAN (d. 1740?), cleric, poet, and translator bibliographers Alban Thomas is of interest as the author of Cân o Senn i'w hên Feistr Tobacco, 1718, one of the two first works (both of them in ballad form) to issue from the first permanent printing press established in Wales, viz. that of Isaac Carter, Trefhedyn (Adpar), Newcastle Emlyn. 'A.T.,' i.e. Alban Thomas, together with 'J.Ll.,' was responsible for the publication of a 1722 book printed by Carter
THOMAS, ALBAN (1686 - 1771), physician - see THOMAS, ALBAN
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter , in 1751, to Rome, where he remained six years. From Rome he made painting expeditions to Tivoli, the Alban Hills, and the Neapolitan coast. While in Italy, he abandoned portraiture for landscape, on the advice of Vernet and Zuccarelli. In 1757 he left Italy and settled in London. He exhibited landscapes at the Society of Artists, 1760-8, his first and most famous being the ' Niobe,' painted for the

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