Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRYSE family Gogerddan, Trefnant has a cywydd (Cwrtmawr MS 12B) which was written when David Lloyd went on a pilgrimage to Rome, whilst in the same manuscript is a poem written by Gutyn Coch Brydydd to Rhys and to his father, David Lloyd. Ieuan ap Rhydderch ap Ieuan Lloyd, gentleman and bard, of Glyn Aeron, was probably a great-uncle of David Lloyd; Ieuan ap Rhydderch, who is separately noticed, was the son of a one-time owner
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer of 1771. It was through their influence that Abraham began to take an interest in Welsh prosody. He had a copy of Siôn Rhydderch's grammar which he used to lend to other boys in the school. He went to work at the Penrhyn quarry, and Gutyn Peris lodged in his house at Gwaun-y-gwiail, Llanllechid. The two friends quarrelled and in 1791 we find Gutyn sending him a cywydd seeking a reconciliation; in
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Peris; 1769 - 1838), poet
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Peris; 1769 - 1847), poet o Eifion who won the medal on that occasion. In 1813 Gwilym Peris published his poetical works in a book called Awengerdd Peris, which includes all the awdlau mentioned above. Later, he went to live at Llandygài, where he came into close contact with Gutyn Peris. A of greeting by Gutyn to Gwilym is included in the Awengerdd, and Gwilym's in reply is the most interesting piece he ever wrote. In it
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1738 - 1817) Llandygái, antiquary, author, prominent official at Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry men, and built up a Corph o Dduwinyddiaeth, that was published at Bangor in 1831; the author of a long obituary appreciation of the father in the Gwyliedydd for 1828, in the form of a letter to Gutyn Peris, was his son Edmund Williams.

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