Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian 1907 to 1951. There can be little doubt that his zeal and enthusiasm sustained the society and its journal. His own publications include: Select bibliography of Owain Glyndwr (1915), The romantic history of the monastic libraries of Wales (1912), Dr Griffith Roberts, Canon of Milan (1917), Lady Charlotte Guest and the Mabinogion (1921), The Celtic countries, their literary and library activities
RICHARDS, DAVID THOMAS GLYNDWR (1879 - 1956), Independent minister and principal of Coleg Myrddin, Carmarthen the classics, and ' Ysgol Glyndwr ', as it was called, was instrumental in preparing some hundreds of young men from different denominations to gain entry to the theological colleges, apart from many others who were trained in commercial subjects which prepared them for secular employment. Coleg Myrddin can be regarded as the last of the small Independent academies. He took a firm stance in support
ROOS, WILLIAM (1808 - 1878), portrait painter and engraver The son of Thomas and Mary Roose, Bodgadfa, Amlwch, he was christened at Amlwch 30 April 1808. His paintings of 'The Death of Owen Glyndwr' and 'The Death of Captan [sic] Wynn at Alma' were awarded second place at the national eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1858. He was a popular portrait painter and the N.L.W. holds his portraits in oils of Christmas Evans, John Cox, Thomas Charles, John Jones
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Descended from the same stock as Griffith of Penrhyn, the founder of the family was ROBIN AP GRIFFITH (died c.1445) Brother of the Gwilym ap Griffith who established the Penrhyn fortunes on a firm foundation. Robin may have been settled in Bodfeio as early as 1389. He married (1) Angharad, daughter of Rhys ap Griffith and (2) Lowry, daughter of Grono ap Ifan. He supported Owain Glyndwr in the
WILLIAMS, CYRIL GLYNDWR (1921 - 2004), theologian
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian stormy and enigmatic epoch of Welsh history between 1282 and the early sixteenth century. He edited a collection of essays on his native heath in 1966, Merthyr Politics: the Making of a Working-class Tradition. A short study of Owain Glyndwr and his Welsh Reformation Essays followed in 1967. Another collection of his essays, Religion, Language and Nationality in Wales appeared in 1979, and a collection
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author University of Wales 1978, OBE 1983, Deputy Lieutenant of Gwynedd 1987, honorary fellowships of the University of Wales Swansea (1989), the University of Wales Bangor (1991) and the University of Wales Aberystwyth (1992), the Cymmrodorion medal 1991, President of the Royal Cambrian Academy (for two periods), member of the Court of the National Library of Wales, the Glyndwr Award of the Tabernacle Trust
WILLIAMS, PETER (Pedr Hir; 1847 - 1922), Baptist minister, author, and eisteddfodwr Moses in 1903 and 1907; but his most ambitious effort, Owain Glyndwr, was acted and published in 1915. He was deeply touched by the revival of 1904-5, and his Key and Guide to Welsh, published in 1911, was really an effort to rouse the young members of his church, many of them with insufficient knowledge of Welsh, to polish up their knowledge of it, examine its niceties, and at the same time open
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator , Neath 1934, Caernarfon 1935. At the first three the choir won, and held permanently the Iorwerth Glyndwr John Memorial Shield for their singing of arrangements of folksongs. The choir also won first prize at the Urdd Gobaith Cymru national eisteddfod at Colwyn Bay in 1934. The choir became well known throughout Wales in eisteddfodau and concerts, and was one of the first to broadcast a Welsh programme
WYNN family Gwydir, Wyrion Gruffydd ' in Penyfed. The descendants of this union are found at Gesail Gyfarch, Ystumcegid, Clenennau, and Brynkir. During the revolt of Owain Glyndwr, Ieuan ap Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd ap Gruffydd of Cefn-y-fan (later called Ystumcegid) and Gesail Gyfarch supported the crown and died in 1403 while defending Caernarvon castle against Glyndwr's forces; his brother, Robert, was one of Glyndwr
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, , early in the 16th century. His son, ROBERT SALUSBURY, bought, in 1549, the lordship of Glyndyfrdwy, part of the patrimony of Owain Glyndwr; see in N.L. W. Jnl., iii, 48, a description of a document in the lord Bagot collection recording the transfer by Glyndwr, in 1392, of a tract of land. As already noted, the old family home of this branch of the Wynn family is Boduan. Details concerning the branch
WYNN family Bodewryd, HOWELL is named as one of the heirs of ' Gwely Meuric ap Gathayran ' in the Record of Caernarvon. Howell is described as a free tenant in Caerdegog in 1391. He took part in the war of Owain Glyndwr, and was one of the long list of amerced persons, 10 November 1406. His wife was Angharad, daughter of Madoc ap Howell Gymen. His son GRIFFITH AP HOWELL's name is found in documents in 1421-2. LLEWELYN, son

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