Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author where he enjoyed the company and contribution of intellectuals such as Professor Idwal Jones and Professor R. I. Aaron. He gave of his best to Welsh culture and he had strong convictions with regard to the Welsh language. When Ifan ab Owen Edwards decided suddenly one week in 1939 to start a Welsh Language Primary School the following Monday, he received the support of parents of four children. Of the
MEURIG ab IDWAL FOEL (d. 986), nobleman of Gwynedd Youngest son of Idwal Foel. Since he died in the same year as his nephew, Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd, he was never apparently king himself. But the lineage of Rhodri Fawr was preserved in Gwynedd through his descendants - see Idwal ap Meurig.
PUGH, Sir IDWAL VAUGHAN (1918 - 2010), civil servant, Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (Ombudsman) (1976-79) Idwal Pugh was born on 10 February 1918 at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, the eldest of five sons of Rhys Pugh (a quarry man, later a bus conductor) and his wife, Elizabeth (a schoolteacher). He was brought up by relatives in Tonpentre in the Rhondda, Glamorganshire. He attended Cowbridge Grammar School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated in Mods and Greats
RHODRI MOLWYNOG (d. 754), king of Gwynedd son of Idwal son of Cadwaladr (died 664) of the line of Cunedda Wledig. He was succeeded by two sons, Hywel (died 825) and Cynan.
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Lewis Valentine was born on 1 June 1893 in a house named 'Hillside' in Clip Terfyn street, Llanddulas, Denbighshire, the second of the seven children of Samuel Valentine (1854-1940), a quarryman who was a Baptist lay preacher, and his wife Mary (née Roberts, 1865-1928). He had three brothers, Richard, Idwal and Stanley, and three sisters, Hannah, Nel and Lilian. Bethesda chapel in Llanddulas was
WILLIAMS, DAVID MATTHEW (Ieuan Griffiths; 1900 - 1970), scientist, dramatist and inspector of schools Llanelli in 1947. S.M. Powell, the English master at Tregaron, had fostered in him a love of literature and while at college encouraged by R. Idwal M. Jones, he wrote two plays, Lluest y Bwci and Ciwrat yn y pair. Later he wrote Dirgel ffyrdd, Awel dro and others for the Swansea Drama Week Company, and at least eleven plays under the pen-name 'Ieuan Griffiths', including Tarfu'r colomennod, and Dau
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer Born 12 December 1906 at y Lan, near Efail-wen, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Brynconyn primary school, Llandysilio (where John Idwal Williams, father of his lifelong friend Waldo Williams, was headmaster) and at the county school in Narberth where he later began his career as an apprentice to a chemist. He was baptized in 1923 at Rhydwilym, and the traditions of that ancient church and the
WILLIAMS, JAC LEWIS (1918 - 1977), educationalist, author to the Faculty of Education in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and some four years later, in 1960, he succeeded Professor Idwal Jones as Professor and Dean of the Faculty. In 1976 he became Vice-Principal of the college. He became a national figure after being appointed to the chair of education in Aberystwyth. Dr W. Gareth Evans said of him: 'Never before had a Professor of Education
WILLIAMS, PETER BAILEY (1763 - 1836), cleric and writer Bingley across to Cwm Idwal and then to the summits of Tryfan, y Gluder Fawr and Gluder Fach : on the summit of Tryfan he frightened him by leaping from Adam to Eve, as the two rocks above the eastern precipice are called. He did not make much comment on the mountains in his Caernarfonshire travel-book but it is difficult to believe that he would have acted a guide for a stranger had he not been

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