Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, Brwynog, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Wiliam Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Tomos Prys, Huw Arwystli, Lewis Dwnn, Tudur Aled, Lewis Môn, Lewis Menai, Owain Gwynedd, besides other lesserknown bards. Even the learned Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd wrote poems to members of this family. (For the 'bardic controversy' between Richard Phylip and Richard Cynwal
LLYWARCH ap LLYWELYN (fl. 1173-1220) Gwynedd, court-poet from the death of Owain Gwynedd to the rise of Llywelyn the Great to the height of his power. He addresses Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd as ' lord of Aberffraw'; this must have been between 1173 and 1175. Fratricidal strife between the princes was the curse of Wales at that time, and the reference to Cain and Abel in the ode to Rhodri is very much to the point. The solution advocated by Llywarch was
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet , prebendary of St Asaph, 1599-1632, rector of Whittington, Salop, 1605-8; vicar of Gresford, 1609-13; rector of Llandrinio, 1613-32; rector of Cwm, Flintshire, 1616-24; and rector of Llan-fechain, Montgomeryshire, 1617-32. Siôn Cain wrote an elegy upon this Dr. Price in 1633-see the copy (in the poet's own handwriting) in Peniarth MS 116. Siôn Cain mentions the names of six of Dr. Price's children (by his
PRYS, THOMAS (1564? - 1634) Plas Iolyn,, poet and adventurer bards, namely, his cousin Rhys Wyn of Giler and Rhys Cain. These have little literary value; but they throw some light on his life and the characteristics of his age. His best poetry is in his elegies. Amongst the best are his elegies on his two sons, Elis and Hanibol Prys; and also that on his old friend Pirs Griffith of Penrhyn. On his faulty diction and his use of English words and phrases, Lewis
RHYS CAIN (d. 1614), herald bard The older biographical dictionaries make him a native of Trawsfynydd, but it is more probable that he took his bardic name from another river Cain, in Mechain Iscoed. His pedigree is traced from Edwin, king of Tegeingl. His father was Rheinallt ap John Wynn, and his paternal grandmother was a daughter of Thomas Ireland of Oswestry, in which town he also resided for the greater part of his life
SION CAIN (c. 1575 - c. 1650), herald bard Son of Rhys Cain, and born probably before the family settled at Oswestry about 1578. He succeeded his father in his profession, and he was regarded, in his day, as the last of the herald bards. He left some notes which suggest that he was also engaged in husbandry. He travelled widely in North Wales in the course of his occupation. The record of his public career begins with a visit to Lleweni
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library North Wales. Robert Powell Vaughan, or Robert Vaughan as he came to be known, was born at Gwengraig, about 1592, judging by the record of his entry into Oriel College, Oxford, at the age of 20, in 1612. He left college without taking his degree. The early period of his life is obscure, but it can be argued from his friendship with Rhys and Siôn Cain, whom he acknowledged to be his tutors in genealogy
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet of that parish there are records not only of the death of the poet on the last day of August 1580, but also of the christening of his son Richard in 1569, of the death of his daughter Jane in 1585, and of the death of ' Richard Llŷn, Miller ' in 1587. It may, therefore, be inferred that he lived at Oswestry, at least for the last eleven years of his life. Rhys Cain and Morris Kyffin were his pupils
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Tom Nefyn; 1895 - 1958), minister (Presb.) and evangelist years later he published Dagrau Cain - dagrau Crist (1935), an essay against war, and the Fellowship of Reconciliation published a pamphlet of his, At Suvla Bay; what a soldier learnt at Gallipoli (n.d.). He began to hold evangelical meetings locally, and he was persuaded to become a candidate for the ministry. He went to Porth school in the Rhondda Valley to prepare himself for his vocation under the
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, Maes y Pandy) and left two daughters, coheiresses - (1) ELIZABETH (died 17 May 1642); she married Sir JAMES PRYSE of Gogerddan (died 1642), who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1606 and to whom Rhisiart Phylip, Siôn Phylip, and Siôn Cain wrote poems, and (2) CATHERINE, whose husband was John Owen ap John ap Lewis ab Owen, of Llwyn, Dolgelley. The heir of Elizabeth and Sir James Pryse was their

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