Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym. Her Cymmrodorion lecture of 1964, 'Tradition and Innovation in the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym', was followed by an overview of the poet's work in her 'Writers of Wales' volume, Dafydd ap Gwilym (1974). Her various critical papers were brought together in 1986 in Aspects of the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym: collected papers. The high spot of her work on Dafydd ap Gwilym was
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet Ieuan ap Gruffudd, of Ceredigion (an elegy to Angharad, wife of this Ieuan, is attributed to Dafydd ap Gwilym). He also sang to the Trinity, and his elegy to Madog Fychan of Coetref, Llangynwyd, steward of Tir Iarll under the lord of Glamorgan, and a man of considerable importance about 1330, is the first extant poem to any male member of a Glamorgan family. Casnodyn has other references to places in
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Gwilym Bowyer, Alwyn Charles was appointed to the Chair of Christian Doctrine at the Bala-Bangor Theological College, Bangor, in October 1966, a post that he held until his death. Among his publications is his address to the Undeb meeting in Cardigan, 'Dylanwad y Brifysgol ar ddiwinyddiaeth Cymru' (1974) and an article in Efrydiau Athronyddol. He was a powerful convincing preacher who was much sought
CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION (fl. 13th century), poet and grammarian in all probability, although none of his compositions seem to have survived. The earliest reference to him is by Gwilym Ddu o Arfon (a poet who sang in 1322) in an elegy to the poet Trahaearn (The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, 277b 12/13). Cneppyn is here named among a number of the leading poets of the 13th century, and it is maintained that he was of their tradition. From this reference we may
COSLETT, COSLETT (Carnelian; 1834 - 1910), collier and poet was buried in Groes-wen burial-ground, where later a monument to him (illustration in Cymru, O.M.E., xliii, 229) was erected. His elder brother, WILLIAM COSLETT (Gwilym Elian; 1831 - 1904), a colliery official, was also a poet, and indeed, at several eisteddfodau defeated Islwyn, but was never successful at a national eisteddfod. He died 22 September 1904, at Caerphilly. The brothers, members of
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master ' Eiddig.' He was more appreciative of feminine beauty than was Dafydd ap Gwilym, for he wrote gracefully and with consummate skill cywyddau describing the lady's loveliness and praising her golden hair and delicately flushed cheeks. Nature he mostly ignores, although he has a few superb descriptions of the bower in some of his cywyddau. Although the poet was in the flower of his age at the time of the
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd of his greatest triumph; he ejected all his rivals, including Rhodri, imprisoned Maelgwn, who had ventured to return from exile, and became for a brief season ruler of the whole of Gwynedd. To this year, it would appear, belongs the laudatory poem of Gwilym Rhyfel, who calls him ' king of Cemais.' In the great upheaval of 1173, Dafydd took the king's side, and he was thus emboldened to ask for the
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet Dafydd ap Gwilym was the son of Gwilym Gam ap Gwilym ab Einion Fawr o'r Tywyn ap Gwilym ap Gwrwared ap Gwilym ap Gwrwared Gerdd Gymell ap Cuhelyn Fardd. His mother's name was Ardudful, and it is possible that the Llywelyn ap Gwilym ap Rhys ap Llywelyn ab Ednyfed Fychan whom the poet referred to as his uncle was a brother of hers. Dafydd's ancestors were prosperous noblemen who had served Norman
DAFYDD ap GWILYM (fl. 1340-1370), poet He was probably born at Brogynin in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion, son of Gwilym Gam ap Gwilym ab Einion, and thus a member of one of the most influential families in South Wales in the 14th century. His forbears had been king's men for generations. The original home of the family was Cemais in Pembrokeshire, where they are known to have been settled since the beginning of the 12th
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet He is named after the village of Nanmor (Nanmor Deudraeth) near Beddgelert. He sang cywyddau in the manner of Dafydd ap Gwilym, to a married woman, Gwen o'r Ddôl, i.e. Dolfriog in the same neighbourhood, and because of these poems he was sent from the district after a verdict given by twelve jurymen. This happened, according to the bard, when Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion was engaged in the war in
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher he did not have enough to make up a volume Griffiths suggested that he invite W. H. Reese to join him. At the National Eisteddfod in Caernarfon in 1935 a poem by Aneirin was awarded the second prize in the vers libre competition, with W. H. Reese third, and first prize going to Gwilym R. Jones (1903-1993). The vers libre was an unfamiliar metrical form in Wales at that time, and the collection in Y

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