Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY-WILLIAMS, HENRY (1858 - 1925), schoolmaster and poet Born 11 June 1858, the son of Thomas and Mary Parry, Gwyndy, Carmel, Caernarfonshire. He was a half-brother of Robert Parry, father of the poet R. Williams Parry and of Richard Parry, father of Thomas Parry (1904 - 1985). As a young man he adopted the surname of his paternal grandfather, Henry Williams, in addition to his own. He received his elementary education at Bron-y-foel school, and stayed
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy these Merioneth families. Gruffydd, for example, wrote much in praise of the Ellis family of Ystumllyn and Bron-y-foel, Caernarfonshire, whilst there is hardly a county family of note in north-west Wales, Montgomeryshire, and Denbighshire, to some member of which they did not sing at some time or other. Siôn, Rhisiart, and Gruffydd had been through the established course of training for bards of the
PRICE, THEODORE (1570? - 1631), prebendary of Westminster Born at Bron-y-foel, Llanenddwyn, Meironnydd, son of Rees ap Tudor ap William Vaughan of Kilgerran and Margery, daughter of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle (see note by bishop Humphrey Humphreys in Bliss's edition of Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses). He entered All Souls College, Oxford, as a chorister (B.A. 16 February 1587/8, M.A. 9 June 1591, became Fellow of Jesus College, and
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist Beynon Puddicombe, foreign correspondent of Smith Payne's Bank, London. For the following eight years they lived at Addiscombe, near Croydon, and then at Winchmore Hill, Middlesex. In February 1900, as her husband suffered from a mental affliction, she removed him to Bron-môr, Traeth-saith, Cardiganshire, where, on 29 May 1906, he died. She continued to reside there until her death on 21 June 1908
ROBERTS, GEORGE (1769 - 1853), settler and Independent minister in U.S.A. Born at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1769. His father was EVAN ROBERTS (1729 - 1813, obituary by his son John in Y Dysgedydd, May 1831), whose grandmother had been servant-maid to the old Puritan minister Henry Williams of Ysgafell. George's mother, Evan Roberts's first wife Mary (1734 - 1777, née Green - the Greens were also connected with Ysgafell), had a sister Elizabeth
ROBERTS, HOWELL (Hywel Tudur; 1840 - 1922), poet, preacher and inventor Born 21 August 1840 at Bron-yr-haul, (Blaenau) Llangernyw, Denbighshire, the third of eight children. The family moved often as their father's occupation was building and selling houses. He began to take an interest in land surveying and became skilled in the craft. When he was aged thirteen he made an attempt at preaching. He attended a school at Abergele for a short time and it is said that he
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian Born 25 February 1767 at Bron-y-llan, Mochdre, Montgomeryshire. His parents were Evan and Mary Roberts (see under George Roberts), members of the Independent congregation at Llanbryn-mair who attended a branch chapel at Aberhafesp. When he was 18 years of age he went to live with his elder sister at Llanbryn-mair, where he became a member of the church October 1786. In January 1790 he began to
ROBERTS, PETER (fl. 1578-1646), attorney and chronicler Born 2 February 1577/1578, son of Robert ap Hywel ap Rhys, of Bron-yr-wylfa, near S. Asaph, and his wife Agnes - a Griffith of Gwern-eigron; he probably went to S. Asaph cathedral school. By 1599 he was notary public at S. Asaph, and in 1624 (30 June) he was appointed proctor in the bishop's court. In 1606 he married Jane, one of the daughters of David ap Lewis ap Gronw, of Meiriadog; and he
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer , 16 June 1940, aged 83, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery. He was the author of the following biographical works: Edmund Prys, 1899; Y Monwyson, 1902; Eminent Welshmen, 1908, a biographical dictionary for the period 1700-1900; and Huw Morus (Eos Ceiriog), 1910. His Edmwnd Prys includes a convenient collection of Prys's poetry, and his Eminent Welshmen, with its ample apparatus of reference, has
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author person. He died on 29 December 1979 at 92 years of age at Bron y Garth Hospital, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, and his remains were cremated at Bangor on 2 January 1980, following a public service held at Tabernacl chapel, Porthmadog. His ashes were interred at Minffordd cemetery, near Penrhyndeudraeth.
TRAHAEARN ap CARADOG (d. 1081), king of Gwynedd at a low ebb. On Bleddyn's death in 1075, he seized authority in Gwynedd. Challenged by Gruffudd ap Cynan, the representative of the old Venedotian house, he was defeated at Dyffryn Glyngin in Meirionydd, but later in the year he retrieved himself at Bron yr Erw and drove Gruffudd into second exile in Ireland. In 1078 he invaded South Wales and killed its king (Rhys ab Owain) at Goodwick. The
WILLIAMS family Bron Eryri, Castell Deudraeth, , Montgomeryshire, and practised at Pwllheli and Portmadoc, becoming also controller of the Madocks estate. In course of time he acquired much property, forming the estate associated with the house called Castell Deudraeth, Merioneth, formerly called Bron Eryri, where his brother John formerly resided. David Williams had literary interests and contributed to some Welsh periodicals; letters which he wrote to

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