Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD (Glan Alaw; 1838 - 1925), minister (Presb.)
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer over the Gorsedd ceremonies in the National Eisteddfod that was held that year in Cardiff. By the following year he was in poor health and was unable to attend the Eisteddfod at Bala. He died on 18 August 2009 of pancreatic cancer and was buried in the cemetery of Blaenannerch Chapel. One of his most famous couplets has been carved on the gravestone:Mae alaw pan ddistawoYn mynnu canu'n y co'.
JONES, ROBERT (WILFRID) (1862 - 1929), musician Born 5 July 1862 at Tyddyn-bach, Arthog, Meironnydd, the son of Meredith and Jane Jones. He joined a band when he was quite young and became a competent player of the cornet. He was sent to Chester to receive music lessons from John Owen (Owain Alaw), and stayed there until his teacher died in 1883. After a course of lessons given him by J. H. Roberts he went to the Royal Academy of Music, London
JONES, THOMAS (1871 - 1938), schoolmaster and antiquary Born 10 October 1871 at Pontrhydfendigaid, Cardiganshire. Educated at University College, Cardiff, he became headmaster of a school at Tre-alaw in the Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire. Here he interested himself in local history, particularly in place-name study and folk-lore; he wrote (in Y Brython) a series of articles on the folk-lore of Glamorgan. Among his contributions to the Bulletin of the
LEWIS MON (fl. c. 1480-1527) Llifon, Anglesey, a poet In his elegy to Tudur Aled he calls the latter his teacher, and the two poets are also grouped together in Ieuan ap Madog ap Dafydd's elegy on Syr Dafydd Trefor, the Anglesey poet and cleric. Many of his compositions are addressed to the Penrhyn family. It would appear that he died at Valle Crucis abbey, where he was buried. An elegy on his death was written by Dafydd Alaw. His will was proved 28
LEWIS, JOSEPH RHYS (Alaw Rhondda; 1860 - 1920), musician
LLEWELYN ALAW - see LLEWELYN, THOMAS DAVID
LLEWELYN, THOMAS DAVID (Llewelyn Alaw; 1828 - 1879), musician
LLWYD, RICHARD (Bard of Snowdon; 1752 - 1835), poet and authority on Welsh heraldry and genealogy been living in Chester since 1807. He was elected an honorary member of the Cymmrodorion Society in 1824. One of his last acts was to place in the B.M. the 'Branwen ferch Llŷr' sepulchral urn discovered in 1813 on the banks of the river Alaw, Anglesey. He died 29 December 1835, and was buried in S. John's churchyard, Chester. Beaumaris Bay, Llwyd's best known work, was published in 1800. He also
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts possession or had been written by or for him.He was twice married (1), to Lettice, daughter of Roger Kynaston, Ruabon, by the daughter and heiress of Roger Eyton of Cefn y Carneddau; by her he had three sons who died young, and two daughters - Ann, wife of David Williams of Glan Alaw, brother of (Sir) William Williams (1634 - 1700), Speaker of the House of Commons, and Lettice, wife of Roger, son of Thomas
MORGAN, WILLIAM (Y Bardd; 1819 - 1878), poet were, in the main, responsible for the 'cymanfa ganu' movement which, inaugurated at Aberdare in 1859, spread soon afterwards to various parts of Wales. He married Mary, sister of Noah Morgan Jones (Cymro Gwyllt). David Williams (Alaw Goch) was his brother-in-law, the husband of his sister Ann. He died 7 September 1878, and was buried in Aberdare cemetery.
MORRIS, JAMES (1853 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born in 1853 at Gopa Fach, Pontardulais, Glamorganshire, but when about fourteen he removed to Llanelly, where he began to preach. After a course at Trevecka College, he became pastor at Llansawel with Rhydcymerau, Carmarthenshire (1881-92), Pen-y-graig, Rhondda (1892-1907), and Llanstephan, Carmarthenshire (1907-14). He died 8 November 1914, aged 61, and was buried at Tre-alaw, Rhondda. He was

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