Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales there he won the crown at Swansea national eisteddfod in 1907 on 'Y Greal Sanctaidd', having been very close to winning at Rhyl in 1904. He married, 11 August 1904, Annie Hopkin of Ystalyfera and they had two children. In 1908 Dyfnallt became a member of the Celtic Congress and maintained an interest in the Celtic countries thereafter. In 1910 he received a call to Lammas Street, Carmarthen where he
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal was the editor of Cristion, Y Cofiadur and Diwinyddiaeth. At the request of the Welsh Hymn Society, he delivered the annual lecture at the 1977 Wrexham National Eisteddfod, on 'The Hymn Writers of the Maelor District', published in Society's Bulletin (vol. 2:1) in 1978. At the 1990 Annual Meetings of the Union of Welsh Independents, held at the Preseli District, he delivered the Dyfnallt Lecture on
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet giving birth to a son who died within a year and five months. He married (2), 1903, Abigail Jenkins of Pontlotyn, sister to the mother of Sir Daniel Thomas Davies. She died 24 June 1936 when he was in Bangor passing the chairmanship of the Union to John Dyfnallt Owen. He died 6 May 1954.

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