Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston Gwilym corpus (in a set of englynion to Ifor Hael), we might see in the words a reference to this ' Fulk of Glamorgan.' That ' Fulk of Glamorgan ' was Fulk Fitz Warin is clear from the fact that the Cymru Fu anecdote speaks of his combats with Saracens.
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar , and MA with Distinction in 1935 for a thesis on the important Middle Welsh prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen: Professor Ifor Williams was a dominant influence on him during his time at Bangor. In 1935 he was awarded a University of Wales Fellowship which enabled him to study at the National University of Ireland in Dublin with Osborn Bergin and at the University of Bonn with Rudolf Thurneysen. In 1936 he
GRIFFITHS, EVAN THOMAS (1886 - 1967), teacher, scholar and writer and which include the following: Yr Hogyn Pren neu helyntion Pinocio (from Italian, 1938); Cerddi'r Trwbadŵr (1954); Calon (from Italian, 1959); Platero a minnau (with T. Ifor Rees, from Spanish, 1961); Atgofion dyddiau ysgol (from Italian, 1965); Cerddi estron (from several languages, 1966); Y Sgarff felen a storïau eraill (from Italian, 1966), and Y Diriogaeth goll (from French, 1969). He also
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar class where he was inspired by his teachers, in particular Ifor Williams and Thomas Parry. He was proud to have been a member of Ifor Williams's last group of honours students and he used to enjoy recalling the occasion of the final lecture. A sign of his total commitment to master a subject is the anecdote that he spent the whole of the 1944 summer vacation in the National Library systematically
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer former student and an enthusiastic admirer of Sir Ifor Williams. Needless to say, he was an ardent patron of all things Welsh within his community like the Talsarnau Eisteddfod from its inception as well as other cultural societies. According to John Ieuan Jones, a local poet and friend of his, H. J. Hughes was 'an interesting conversationalist who embodied the best of rural Eifionydd in his bearing
HUGHES, HYWEL STANFORD (1886 - 1970), cattle breeder, benefactor and Welsh nationalist their cousins was Sarah Pugh Jones, a well-known local historian and librarian at Llangollen. Hywel was educated at Grove Park grammar school, Wrexham, and Kinsgwood, Bath, a Methodist foundation. After leaving school he became a pupil with a veterinary surgeon at Llangollen, but in 1907 he sailed for Bogota, Colombia, to join two uncles, Ifor and R.J. Jones, both of whom were engaged in the import
HUGHES, JOHN (CEIRIOG) (Ceiriog; 1832 - 1887), poet 'John' and the 'Hughes.' Idris Fychan was a singer to the harp; he had been collecting melodies and penillion, like Edward Jones, Ifor Ceri, and others before him. It was from him that Ceiriog got that passion for collecting old tunes which was to last all his life. He also sought out the history of the tunes and of the harpists who played them, and collected nursery rhymes. It was his intention to
HUGHES, ROBERT GWILYM (1910 - 1997), poet and minister with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist denomination of his admiration for the scholar Sir Ifor Williams, the professor of Welsh, and over the years they became great friends. The scholar wrote him at the end of his life in 1962 a delightful letter from his home in Pontllyfni where he says: 'I have a longing to see my children of old. Hurry here, and we will have a wonderful conversation.' Another lecturer from that era who became a loyal friend was
HUGHES, THOMAS ISFRYN (1865 - 1942), Wesleyan minister Moderator of the Wesleyan Assembly in 1918. He contributed many articles (mainly on theological topics) to Yr Eurgrawn Wesleaidd ('Papurau Diwinyddol ' 1911; ' Y Tu Hwnt i'r Llen ', 1921-2; and other shorter series) under his own name and under the nom-de-plume ' Ifor Glyn', articles for Y Geiriadur Beiblaidd, a commentary on Philippiaid a Philemon, and a theological catechism, Yr Arweinydd.
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman A descendant of the family of Caradog ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. According to some genealogists (e.g. Gruffudd Hiraethog in Peniarth MS 178, i (43)) he married the daughter of Tomas ab Ifor Hael. Bards from North and South Wales were entertained at his court at Baglan, and two cywyddau addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain, and the other by Iorwerth Fynglwyd. A
IFOR ap CADIFOR - see IFOR BACH
IFOR ap LLYWELYN - see IFOR HAEL

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