Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HYWEL ab EINION LLYGLIW (fl. 1330-1370), poet and uncle to Gruffudd Llwyd ap Dafydd ab Einion Llygliw. Nothing is known about him, but his love poem addressed to Myfanwy Fychan of Castell Dinas Bran, Llangollen, is preserved in NLW MS 1553A (275), NLW MS 4973B (369b), NLW MS 6209E (216), and published in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales; for an English translation see T. Pennant, Tours in Wales. The poet is named Hywel ab Einion of Maelor
JEFFREYS-JONES, THOMAS IEUAN (1909 - 1967), scholar, lecturer, and warden of Coleg Harlech Born 27 June 1909 in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, son of David Jones and Myfanwy his wife, daughter of Thomas Twynog Jeffreys. He received his elementary education in Ystrad Mynach where his father was schoolmaster. Then he went to Lewis' School, Pengam, and in 1928 to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff. He graduated in 1931 with first-class honours in Economics and
JENKINS, ROBERT THOMAS (1881 - 1969), historian, man of letters, editor of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Myfanwy Wyn Williams, Aberdare.
JONES, ELIZABETH MARY (Moelona; 1877 - 1953), teacher and novelist writing essays, novels for children, Welsh books for schools, girls' novels, such as Breuddwydion Myfanwy (1928) and Beryl (1931), as well as other books. These works are characterised by a love for her own language, and enthusiasm for the education and provision of opportunities for women. Some of her books, especially Ffynnonloyw (1939), reflect very effectively the social characteristics of the
JONES, JOHN DANIEL (1865 - 1942), Congregational minister same year. In 1898 he followed J. Ossian Davies as minister of Richmond Hill Church, Bournemouth, where he remained until his retirement to Bryn Banon, near Bala. He married, (1) Emily Cunliffe, of Chorley (died 1917), and had a son, who died in Africa, and a daughter, Myfanwy, who died soon after her father, and, (2) Edith Margery Thompson, of Bournemouth, in 1933. He won for himself a remarkably
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar died in 1914, he collaborated with T. Gwynn Jones and T.H. Parry-Williams. He had obtained an M.A. degree of Victoria University, Manchester, in 1909 for his work on the Welsh of the laws of Hywel Dda; and in September 1911 he married Nellie Myfanwy (1885 - 1968), youngest daughter of Beriah Gwynfe Evans and they had two children, a son and a daughter. At the end of 1915 he joined the army; he was
MORGAN, ELUNED (1870 - 1938), writer and Patagonian colonist Born on board the Myfanwy in the Bay of Biscay, daughter of Lewis Jones (1836 - 1904), and given the surname 'Morgan' at her christening. She was brought up in the Welsh colony in Patagonia, where she was educated at the Welsh school kept by R. J. Berwyn and 'Glan Tywi.' She came to Wales in 1885, and again in 1888 when she entered Dr. Williams's school at Dolgelley, where she spent the next two
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist spectroscopic methods to biological problems. In 1924, Morton was appointed a special lecturer in spectroscopy. In 1926, he married Myfanwy Heulwen Roberts, one of his childhood friends in Garston Chapel, and they had one daughter, Gillian (Lewis) who became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1930, Morton was awarded the Meldola Medal by the Chemical Corporation for his outstanding work on the
PAGET, GEORGE CHARLES HENRY VICTOR (7th Marquess of Anglesey), (1922 - 2013), soldier, historian, conservationist Charlotte Eiluned (born 1949), Lady Elizabeth Sophia Rhiannon (born 1954) and Lady Amelia Myfanwy Polly (born 1963). Deeply conscious of his family's military heritage, the Second World War saw a young man on active service as a major in the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) in Italy. In the cold climate of 1947, on the death of his father, Henry Anglesey (previously known under his courtesy title as Earl of
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer was for a time chairman of the Caernarfonshire branch of Plaid Cymru, but his activities were limited, as he did not wish to be seen or heard in public. He married in 1923 Myfanwy Davies of Rhosllannerchrugog. He died 4 January 1956 and was buried at Coetmor cemetery, Bethesda. There were no children.
PRICE, MARGARET BERENICE (1941 - 2011), singer Margaret Price was born on 13 April 1941 in Blackwood, the daughter of Thomas Glyn Price and his wife Lilian Myfanwy (née Richards). She was educated at Pontllanfraith Secondary School, and her original ambition was to be a biology teacher. Though her father was a skilled pianist, he did not favour a musical career for his daughter, but at the age of fifteen she was awarded a scholarship to
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth. Following a private funeral, a public memorial service was held at St Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey on 20 April 2006, where the London Welsh Male Voice Choir performed 'Gwahoddiad' and 'Myfanwy'.

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