Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician for that company (1931-35) he was responsible for arranging music for a number of well-known films, Blossom Time ' being among them, with Richard Tauber as soloist. One of those impressed by that film was Sam Jones, who was at the time producer of Welsh programmes with the B.B.C., and after realising that Idris Lewis was a Welshman he succeeded in persuading him to join the B.B.C. in Cardiff, where
LEWIS, JANET ELLEN (1900 - 1979), novelist, poet and journalist novel set in the later nineteenth century, evoking the maritime and farming life of coastal Wales in that period. The novel focuses on Lettice Peters, the 'captain's wife' of the title, who has travelled the world on her husband's ships but has now settled with her children in the little cathedral town of 'St Idris', a lightly-fictionalised St David's. The narrative perspective alternates between that
LLOYD, CHARLES (d. 1698), squire of Maesllwch in Radnorshire (in his later days) and Independent elder family of Sheephouse, but it casts no light at all on the reasons why for a long period he was referred to as ' Charles Lloyd of Gwernyfed ' - that had to wait for an article in Y Dysgedydd of 1939 (339) by Idris Davies, explaining that he lived in the dower house there, with his first wife, the widow of one of the Gwernyfed sons. Charles Lloyd was brother to William Lloyd of Wernos and to Walter Lloyd
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet Em i Em. And in 1981 Cymdeithas Barddas published a selection of his poetry, Barddoniaeth O. M. Lloyd. In 1997 Gwasg Y Dydd published O Gader Idris - a selection of his columns from Y Dydd. Six of his hymns are included in Caneuon Ffydd. O. M. Lloyd died on 1 February 1980 in the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey Infirmary, Bangor.
NANNEY family Nannau, Parliament for Merioneth in 1792, and was re-elected thirteen times, remaining a member till 1836 ? Thanks were paid to him in the form of an illustrated address, signed by 122 names, in July, 1836; money was collected in 1841 to found the ' Vaughan Scholarship ' as a tribute to the length of his public service; and when he died in 1843 Meurig Idris composed a long ode of eulogy (12 pages). His brother
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party . Pennar Davies said 'truly that it was strange that the prophet of the social revolution spoke through the Welsh language and that the English-speaking industrial valleys of Wales had not produced a similar poetic propaganist in English. 'The only name that comes to mind is Idris Davies, the object of a small cult, and who places Nicholas in a special posion.' T.E. Nicholas died at his home, Glasynys
PARRY, IDRIS FREDERICK (1916 - 2008), scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster . (1951) for a critical study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonette an Orpheus. Idris Parry had wide-ranging literary interests but his major contribution to literary criticism was probably his work on Goethe and Kleist, and some of the major figures of German modernism such as Thomas Mann, Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Kafka. He was a gifted translator: his acclaimed translation of Kafka's The Trial was
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet llenyddiaeth Gymraeg o'r cyfnodau bore hyd heddiw. The 1944 volume was translated into English by Sir Idris Bell and published in 1955 under the title A history of Welsh Literature (which included a chapter on twentieth-century literature by the translator himself). In 1961 Thomas Parry wrote a monograph on John Morris-Jones. He published many other works as well during the Second World War. In 1939 he
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal in Plasnewydd. One of his close friends there was Idris Cox who became a leading member of the British Communist Party. In 1911 T. B. Phillips left school to help the family and began work at the coal face in the Davies Colliery. There he met a large number of miners who were active in the St John's Ambulance Brigade. Other movements which gained his adherence were the 'Good Templars', a temperance
REES, BRINLEY RODERICK (1919 - 2004), classical scholar, educationist and university college principal (Trinity Term 1946). In 1947-8 Rees was assistant classics master, first at Christ College, Brecon, then at Cardiff High School for Boys, before appointment in 1948 to his first university post as assistant lecturer, subsequently lecturer, in Classics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. In Aberystwyth he was much influenced by the eminent papyrologist Sir Harold Idris Bell, who had recently
ROBERTS, ABSALOM (1780? - 1864), poet and collector of penillion telyn submitted a collection of penillion, but on this occasion he had to take second place, the prize being awarded to John Jones (Idris Fychan). He contributed often to Y Gwyliedydd, Y Gwladgarwr (e.g. 1837 and 1841), and Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd; he also wrote commendatory englynion to several books printed at Llanrwst (e.g. Gwaith Eos Gwynedd).
ROBERTS, OWEN OWENS (1847 - 1926), schoolmaster and choral conductor Born 27 January 1847 at Talsarnau, Meironnydd. He inherited his musical ability from his father, Owen Roberts, who was one of the founders of the Harlech castle music festival. The son was appointed headmaster of the elementary school, Dolgelley, in 1872, and founded the Idris choral society the same year. At the same time he was one of the principal founders of the Merioneth eisteddfod, of which

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