Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
LLYWELYN ap RHISIART (fl. 1520-1565), Chief Bard of the Three Provinces', and one of the most notable poets in the history of Glamorgan He was a Glamorgan man by birth and his home was at Llantwit Major. His first patron, Sir Edward Stradling (see the article on the family), lived in the near-by castle of S. Donats, while his friend Iorwerth Fynglwyd also lived in the same neighbourhood. In an elegy to Tudur Aled he acknowledges him to have been his teacher in the art of poetry, and his use of cynghanedd was smooth, accurate, and
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, Brwynog, Siôn Phylip, Richard Phylip, Richard Cynwal, Wiliam Cynwal, Rhys Cain, Wiliam Llŷn, Siôn Tudur, Simwnt Fychan, Tomos Prys, Huw Arwystli, Lewis Dwnn, Tudur Aled, Lewis Môn, Lewis Menai, Owain Gwynedd, besides other lesserknown bards. Even the learned Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd wrote poems to members of this family. (For the 'bardic controversy' between Richard Phylip and Richard Cynwal
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist a brother to Robert (Bob) Lloyd, and Reverend Trebor Lloyd Evans, Morriston, and Aled Lloyd Davies were his cousins. Tecwyn Lloyd claimed that he could trace his family back to Rhirid Flaidd. After his early education at Llawrybetws primary school where the headteacher, Rhys Gruffydd, was, he said, an important influence on him, he proceeded to Bala Boys' Grammar School (Ysgol Tytandomen). After
MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic correctly classified according to stress and symmetry. The final results of his study of the traditional metres were embodied in his book Cerdd Dafod, 1925, the second part of which will long remain the authoritative work on the subject. His interest in prosody also led him to write on Tudur Aled (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1908-9) and Edmund Prys (Gen., 1923), and to
MORUS GETHIN (fl. c. 1525), poet At least two examples of his work remain in manuscripts. They are elegies to Tudur Aled, and Gruffudd Rhydderch of Tregayan. Two elegiac englynion composed by Morus Dwyfech on the poet's death are also preserved.
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet englynion cyffes (confessional verses), while another memorial window to him may be seen in the east wall. In front of Pontymeibion farmhouse a memorial in stone has been erected. Huw wrote many cywyddau after the patterns set by the poets of the 15th century, but they lack the power and majestic touch common to the poems of classicists like Tudur Aled. His feat was to bring into vogue a new metre based
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, and Sir Roger Salusbury (of Lleweni) and they were assisted by the bards Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan and Tudur Aled. Thomas Pennant, (Hist. of Whiteford. …) described a visit paid to Mostyn by Henry of Richmond (Henry VII). Richard ap Hywel, who fought for Henry at Bosworth and had for some time before his death been sinecure rector of Whitford, Flintshire, died at Mostyn on 7 February 1539
RAFF ap ROBERT (fl. 1550) Cilgwyn, Bachymbyd, 'a free holder of Dyffryn Clwyd' and a non-professional poet (Jes. Coll. MS. 18) (R.W.M. II, 88). His pedigree is given in Peniarth MS 134 (142-3). As he composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled (c. 1526), and as another of his cywyddau is dated 1582 in one manuscript, it would appear that he lived to an advanced age; this is borne out in the elegy upon him by Siôn Tudur (Llanstephan MS 166 (89)). His work includes satirical englynion to Gruffudd
ROBERTS, EDWARD (Iorwerth Glan Aled; 1819 - 1867), poet and writer Barddonawl, 1862 - for a fuller list see the short memoir (by his nephew, Edward Jones, Pwllheli) in Gwaith Barddonol Iorwerth Glan Aled (Liverpool, 1890). He was married twice. He died at Rhyl, 18 February 1867, and was buried at Llansannan.
ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist in particular Vitamin D3, a vital food supplement. He met his wife, Winifred Mary Gambold (1924-1987), a nurse from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire at the London Welsh Club, and they married in February 1950, and went on to have four children, Gareth (b. 1952), Aled (b. 1953), Megan (b. 1955), and Eluned (b. 1960). In 1958 he became Chief Chemist at Peboc, and, in 1965, Director and General Manager
SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet A poet of this name composed an elegy on the death of Tudur Aled c. 1526. Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 2B; Cwrtmawr MS 242B; NLW MS 552B, NLW MS 566B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 1024D, NLW MS 1246D, NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 2288B, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 6209E, NLW MS 6495D, NLW MS 6499B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B; and B.M. Add. MSS. 14966, 14969, 14976, 14978. See also Lewis and Jones

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