Dictionary of Welsh Biography

POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal influence of Principal Gwilym Bowyer and Professor R. Tudur Jones. In Bangor he gained his B.D. in 1958. Eifion married Rebecca Edwards from Merioneth in 1958, and two children were born to them, Elin and Peredur. The September of the year Eifion was ordained minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at Deganwy Avenue, Llandudno, and Salem, Colwyn Bay. I shall never forget that ordination service and
PRYS, EDMWND (1544 - 1623), archdeacon of Merioneth, and poet Protestant religion - but his best poetry is found in those cywyddau which are based on his observation of life, and more particularly in his cywydd 'against the unruliness of the great.' Prys was not a romantic poet but he is entitled to be called a contemplative poet. He died in 1623. Edmund Prys was twice married: (1) to Elin, daughter of John ap Lewis of Pengwern, Ffestiniog, and (2) to Gwen, daughter
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters with his daughter Catherine (below) at Holy-head. In 1887 his wife died, and he went to live with his eldest daughter, Elin, at Bethesda, where he died 3 October 1889. Both were buried at Holyhead. When he was 16 years of age he was admitted to membership by the Methodists. Later, he was given the opportunity of going to S. Bees College and being ordained as a clergyman, but after a careful study of
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, . The last of the Hafod-y-wern family was Frances, daughter of PHILIP PULESTON (died 1776); she married, in 1786, Bryan Cooke, of Ouston, Yorks (see Davies-Cooke, Gwysaney). (3) A cadet branch of the Puleston family of Hafod-y-wern flourished at Caernarvon for part of the 16th century, its founder being the son by his first marriage (to Elin, daughter of Robert Whitney), of John Puleston ('Hen'), Sir
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) ROBERT MORRIS Robin Ddu Eifionydd (fl. 1767-1816), miller and poet Poetry Business and Industry The son of Morris Roberts and his wife Elin Williams, Pen-carth (Tŷ Popty?), Llanystumdwy; he was christened in the parish church, 16 April 1769. He became a flax-worker; afterwards he appears to have been a miller. He wrote poems in the strict and free metres and published a book, Ffurf yr Athrawiaeth
ROBINSON family Conway, Monachdy, Gwersyllt, This family was descended from a Cheshire knight, Sir William Norris, who married a sister of Owain Tudor and whose grandson, Henry (son of Robin Norris), took the surname of Robinson. NICHOLAS ROBINSON (c. 1530 - 1585), bishop of Bangor Religion The younger son of John Robinson of Conway (son of the above Henry Robinson) by Elin, daughter of the Rev. W. Brickdale of the Wirral and his wife
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library ), of Dolserau; ELIN, who married David Ellis, son of Rowland Ellis of Gwanas; and ANN, who married Hugh Evans of Berth-lwyd in Llanelltyd.
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Dolwyddelan in 1824, the son of Griffith and Elin Williams, who not long afterwards moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog. He went to work in the quarry, his sole education having been in the Sunday school. He became an acceptable lecturer on temperance, began to preach in 1848, and from 1849 to 1853 studied at Bala C.M. College. He then went to Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where he kept a day school
WYNNE, OWEN (1652 - ?), civil servant The second son of Hugh Gwyn (alias Hugh ap John Owen) of Gwaenfynydd, Llechylched, Anglesey, who claimed descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, the 12th century lord of Llifon, and of Elin, daughter of Robert ap John ap William of Tre'rddolphin. He entered Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 10 July) in 1668, and graduated B.A. in 1672. At some subsequent date he qualified as a doctor of laws, and

Search results

25 - 33 of 33 for "Elin"