Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, JOHN (Tegidon; 1810 - 1877), printer and poet became the chief agent of the Company, a position he retained for twenty years. As a printer he helped Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), to establish his printing press at Tremadoc in 1854. He wrote much to Y Drysorfa, Y Gwyliedydd, Y Geiniogwerth, Seren Gomer, Y Methodist, and Y Traethodydd (1849-54). He was sub-editor of Y Gwyliedydd, and was editor of the poetry in Goleuad Cymru, 1822-38. He did
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal Eifion Powell was born 7 November 1934, at 34 Church Street, in the coal mining village of Cwmgors, Glamorganshire. Evan John (Jack), his father, a quiet unassuming coal miner, was the financial secretary of the Tabernacl, the Welsh Congregational Church, Cwmgors. Two sons, Eifion and Huw, were born to him and his wife, Eleanor, a person who possessed a good measure of humour and wit. Later, the
PRICE, THOMAS WALTER (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869), journalist and poet Born 23 December 1829 in Glamorgan. After emigrating to the U.S.A., he spent some time in Minersville, Pa. He also spent some time in California during a ' gold rush ' period and whilst here he was bardic teacher to Taliesin Evans (Tal o Eifion), some poems by whom he sent over to Wales to his friend John Jones (Talhaiarn). He came to Wales in 1855, but was back in 1856, in which year he and L. W
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1760 - 1811), printer Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), 1812. Thomas Roberts died 30 April 1811, at the age of 51, and was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844 - 1895?), poet and editor in the 1880s a volume of the works of Mary Davies (1846 - 1882), the Portmadoc poetess, under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion. Three of his own poems, which he had submitted in the competition for the chair at the national eisteddfod in 1884, 1887, and 1894 respectively, were published, viz., Awdl ar Gwilym Hiraethog, 1884; Y Frenhines Victoria, 1887; and Hunan Aberth
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author also became an authority on the literary tradition of Eifionydd, especially from about the end of the 18c. to the days of Eliseus Williams ('Eifion Wyn'). Welsh drama was also a special interest of his; he was the first producer of Cwmni Drama Dyffryn Madog which won the first prize in a competition in the National Eisteddfod in Liverpool in 1929. As expected, he was amongst the earliest members of
ROWLANDS, ROBERT JOHN (Meuryn; 1880 - 1967), journalist, writer, poet, lecturer, preacher Not ' was in force. Following a brief period as a shop assistant in Llanfairfechan he moved to Isaac Foulk's printing and publishing office in Liverpool; for a short time he also sold insurance policies in Porthmadog where he was a close friend of ' Eifion Wyn ' (Eliseus Williams). Whilst in Liverpool he became a correspondent for Y Darian and Yr Herald Cymraeg and was subsequently responsible for
SIÔN WYN O EIFION - see THOMAS, JOHN
TALIESIN O EIFION - see JONES, THOMAS
THOMAS, JOHN (Eifionydd; 1848 - 1922), founder and editor of Y Geninen Born 6 August 1848 in a cottage near Clenennau in the parish of Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire. He lost his father when he was very young, received no formal schooling, and at 9 years of age, before he had learnt to read script, he was apprenticed in the printing office of Robert Isaac Jones (Alltud Eifion), Tremadoc, where the literary periodical known as Y Brython was being printed and published. He
THOMAS, JOHN (Siôn Wyn o Eifion; 1786 - 1859), poet
WILLIAMS family Bron Eryri, Castell Deudraeth, Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) and John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion) are preserved in Cwrtmawr MS 404C. He was clerk of the peace for Merioneth, 1842-59, one of the deputy-lieutenants for Merioneth and Caernarvonshire, high sheriff for Merioneth, 1861-2, and for Caernarvonshire, 1862-3. He contested Merioneth as a Liberal in 1859 and 1865, unsuccessfully, but he won the seat in 1868. He married 25 September

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