Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist (1934); Winding Lanes: a book of impressions and recollections (1938). He died in a private hospital in Colwyn Bay on July 7th, 1947, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery, Colwyn Bay, on July 9th.
HUGHES, ELLEN (1862 - 1927), poet, essayist, lecturer, preacher, temperance campaigner ' ('Solitude'), first published in the Frythones in 1890, she confesses that 'Though my heart is cheered by meeting many a one / Yet the sweetest hour of all is spent in my own company' ('Er llonni'm bron i gwrdd â llawer un, / Mae'r awr felysaf oll yn nghwmni f'hun'), and closes the poem imagining herself in heaven, longing 'even there for some hours in my own company' ('Gael yno ambell awr yn nghwmni f'hun
HYWEL ap GRUFFYDD (d. c. 1381) Son of Gruffydd ap Hywel (from Collwyn), of Bron-y-Foel in the township of Ystumllyn and the parish of Ynyscynhaiarn, Eifionydd, by Angharad, daughter of Tegwared y Bais Wen. His paternal grandmother was a grand-daughter of Ednyfed Fychan. A younger son, he acquired fame in the French Wars of Edward III. The tradition that he won his spurs at Poitiers is not, however, confirmed by the evidence
JEREMY, JOHN (DAVID) (1782 - 1860), preacher and schoolmaster Born 28 October 1782 at Cwmynys farm near Carmarthen. After having been at the Wrexham Independent Academy (1803 for a short time) and the Carmarthen Presbyterian Academy (1804-8), he became successively a schoolmaster at Llan-y-bri, a private tutor at Saethon, Llŷn, to the family of Williams of Bron Eryri, and an Independent minister at Salem, Llandovery (ordained 20 April 1815). The story of
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author . Years later she gave a home to a young mother and her son who had fled Latvia after the Second World War, providing both with an education. Gwenan Jones died on 12 January 1971 in Bron-glais Hospital, Aberystwyth, and was buried in the cemetery at Talybont near Bala. A memorial service was held at Seilo Chapel, Aberystwyth.
JONES, OWEN WYNNE (Glasynys; 1828 - 1870), cleric, antiquary, story-writer, and poet Born at Ty'n-y-ffrwd, Rhostryfan, near Caernarvon, 4 March 1828. When he was 10 years of age he went to work in the quarry, leaving it at the age of 17 to go to Bron-y-foel school. It is not definitely known whether he went to Eben Fardd's school at Clynnog, but he certainly went to the Caernarvon Training College to qualify as a teacher in the Church schools. He was a schoolmaster at Clynnog
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, development of Nonconformity there and in Merioneth in the 17th and 18th century. EDWARD KENRICK (died 1741), Bron Clydwr The eldest son of Samuel Kenrick (died 1716) of Fawnog, Bersham, and the grandson of Edward Kenrick (died 1693) of Gwersyllt. Both of these had belonged to the 'Old Meeting' - the congregation first established in Wrexham by Morgan Llwyd - and had provided the premises in which it
LEWIS, JOHN (GOMER) (1844? - 1914), Baptist minister and orator that occasion being ' Our Nation and our Religion.' He died 11 July 1914 at Bron-deg, Tre-fach, and was buried at Saron, Llangeler.
LLOYD-OWEN, DAVID CHARLES (1843 - 1925), eye specialist his interests. Among them are copies of parish registers and other records, etc., together with transcripts of three books published by his great-grandfather John Owen (1757 - 1829). He married (1868) Anna, daughter of John Green, M.R.C.S., Muxton, Salop. He died on Christmas Day, 1925, at his home, Bron-y-graig, Harlech.
MAURICE family Clenennau, Glyn (Cywarch), Penmorfa kindred, the one lineally descended of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, consisting then and now of four houses, viz., Keselgyfarch, y Llys ynghefn y fann, now called Ystymkegid, Clenenny, and Brynkir, Glasfryn or Cwmstrallyn; the other sect descended of Collwyn [ap Tangno], wherof are five houses or more, viz. Whelog, Berkin, Bron-y-foel, Gwynfryn, Talhenbont, and the house of Hugh Gwyn ap John Wynne ap
OWEN, DAVID SAMUEL (1887 - 1959), minister (Presb.) built on the site of the old. In 1913 he married Gracy Jones, Glan Conwy and they had two sons and three daughters. He died 26 March 1959, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery, Colwyn Bay. A powerful and popular preacher, there was great demand for his services in Wales, where he served as Moderator of the North Wales Association (1954). From an early age he excelled as an elocutionist at
OWEN, HUGH (1639 - 1700), Puritan minister, Independent 'apostle of Merioneth' ; in 1668 he married Martha Brown, daughter of one of its more prominent members, once one of the seventy-one commissioners under the Propagation Act of 1650; and before 1672 he was overseer of the Independent nonconformists of Merioneth from his headquarters at Bron-y-clydwr in Llanegryn parish, the lands that fell to his mother from the Peniarth heritage. In May of that year he secured a licence

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