Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ELLIS, DAVID (1736 - 1795), cleric, poet, translator, and transcriber of manuscripts Penitent Shepherd: a sacred poem, which was published in Blodau Dyfed, an anthology compiled by J. Howell (Carmarthen, 1824) [p. 55]. He also copied a large number of Welsh manuscripts which today are included among such well-known collections as Peniarth, Cwrtmawr, and N.L.W., in the National Library of Wales; Gwyneddon in the library of the U.C.N.W., Bangor, and Cardiff City Free Library. He also made
EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet , and some English and Latin verse. Daniel Ddu was the poet of the eisteddfod and of the ' Cambrian Societies.' In the Dyfed provincial eisteddfod, 1823, he won the prize for his ' Awdl ar Sefydliad Coleg Dewi Sant ' and the silver medal for his ' Awdl ar Fuddugoliaethau diweddar y Groegiaid ar y Tyrciaid.' He belonged to three circles of poets: the school of Dafydd Ddu Eryri, that of Gwallter Mechain
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English chief prizes at provincial eisteddfodau and the crown for a pryddest at the national eisteddfod three times: at Abergavenny in 1913 ('Ieuan Gwynedd'), Birkenhead in 1917 ('Pwyll pendefig Dyfed'), and at Pwllheli in 1925 for his best known poem to his childhood area ('Bro fy mebyd'). He adjudicated many times at the national eisteddfod and was Archdruid of Wales in the Gorsedd of Bards, 1947-50. He was
EVANS, WILLIAM EILIR (Eilir; 1852 - 1910), cleric, poet, and journalist health), he passed the rest of his days as curate at Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan. In 1910 he published a selection of his poems and articles, Rhyddiaith a Chân. He died 7 December 1910. In Eilir's early days there existed at Newcastle Emlyn a circle of poets which included among its members Myfyr Emlyn (Benjamin Thomas, 1836 - 1893), Rhys Dyfed (Rees Arthur Rees), and others. Under their
GOWER, HENRY (1278? - 1347), bishop of the walls of the church and enlarged its windows; he walled the close, and built within it the magnificent episcopal palace whose walls stand to this day. He removed ' Bishop Beck's College ' from S. Davids to Abergwili, near Carmarthen, and repaired a good number of the episcopal manor-houses of Dyfed, together with three at least of the churches in that region. At Swansea, he founded a
GRUFFUDD ap CYNAN (c. 1055 - 1137), king of Gwynedd landed at Porth Clais in Dyfed, where he was joined by Rhys ap Tewdwr, another exile, who was laying claim to his patrimony in Deheubarth. They met Trahaearn at Mynydd Cam, where he was slain, Gruffudd thus becoming again king of Gwynedd. Soon after, however, through the treachery of Meirion Goch, one of his own men, he was captured by the Normans at Rug near Corwen and taken prisoner to Chester
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh Dyfed. He might have had less success against the sons of Rhydderch than the extant records suggest, because in 1046 (according to the 'C' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) Gruffudd allied with the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Sven Godwinson, who had been made earl of the region round Hereford in 1043, for a raid into southern Wales where they took hostages. The destruction could have been severe and the
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales avenge them Gruffudd plundered Dyfed and Ystrad Tywi; but that was all he succeeded in doing and for the next eight years Gruffydd ap Rhydderch was in sure possession of Deheubarth. Gruffudd ap Llywelyn directed his efforts in another direction; early in the summer of 1052 he invaded the land of Hereford and defeated a combined host of Saxons and Normans near Leominster. In 1055 he slew Gruffydd ap
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard saying any more and to leave the matter between himself and his protagonist. After that he sang an elegy to Gruffudd, a poem replete with unstinted praise of the 'nightingale of the men of Anglesey.' Gruffudd replies with a magnificent elegy to the 'peacock of Dyfed'; he says he would rather have satire from Dafydd than glowing praise from another bard - 'I have been his pupil…; he was right and I was
GWRTHEYRN broken heart, like a wandering beggar. That is the story of the courts. According to the ecclesiastical version of the tale as found in the 'vita' of S. Germanus, Gwrtheyrn was guilty of incest and of marrying his own daughter. He was cursed by the saint and hounded from place to place. A fire from heaven came and burnt him and his wives in Caer Wrtheyrn, Dyfed, near the river Teifi. No light at all is
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume over Taliesin Williams and John Jones (Tegid) that the tunes were accompanied by Welsh lyrics, not English as had been intended by the young collector. Lady Llanover's bardic name 'Gwenynen Gwent' (The Bee of Gwent) and her lasting influence over the design of the Welsh national costume stem from the Gwent and Dyfed Royal Eisteddfod and Musical Festival held at Cardiff in August 1834, at which she
HOWELL, JOHN (Ioan ab Hywel, Ioan Glandyfroedd; 1774 - 1830), weaver, schoolmaster, poet, editor, and musician published in Awen Dyfed (1822). He also submitted an awdl at the Brecon eisteddfod of 1822. He was, however, more important as an editor than as a poet, for it was he who collected and edited the material for Blodau Dyfed: sef Awdlau, Cywyddau, Englynion, a Chaniadau, Moesol a Diddanol, a gyfansoddwyd can Feirdd Dyfed … (Caerfyrddin, 1824). This is a good example of the local-anthology type of publication

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