Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, EDWARD WILLIAM (1814 - 1892), musician 1875, and Liverpool 1885. He composed many pieces for the violin, one violin concerto by him being dedicated to Joseph Joachim. His ' Can Bugail Morgannwg ' appeared in Greal y Corau, May 1861. Towards the end of his life he resided at the Dinas Dinlle Hotel, near Caernarvon, and it was there that he died on 4 October 1892; he was buried in Llandwrog churchyard.
WILLIAMS, ELISEUS (Eifion Wyn; 1867 - 1926), poet awdl, ' Y Bugail ' (the best entry in the opinion of one adjudicator, Tafolog, for the chair competition at the Liverpool national eisteddfod, 1900), and his host of englynion, many of which were successful at the national eisteddfod. As far as the 'free' forms were concerned, his reputation as a lyricist was established by his ' Maes a Môr ' lyrics. He published Ieuenctid y Dydd, 1894; Awdl y Bugail
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet newydd yr Ysgol Sul (1930); he also assisted in preparing the Caniedydd (1960). It was he who edited the memorial volume to Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Cerddi'r Bugail (1918), and he was editor of ' Congl y Beirdd ' in Y Tyst, 1924-37, and Y Dysgedydd, 1933-36. He received an honorary M.A. degree from the University of Wales in 1930. He married (1), 1899, Claudia Bevan of Mountain Ash. She died

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