Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel the Soul and the Body', composed in the period 1375-82, Iolo Goch refers to three 'men of Cydweli' as 'princes of battle', almost certainly evoking Henry Dwn and his family. Lewys Glyn Cothi names Henry Dwn in a poem to Gwilym ap Gwallter, whose mother was Dwn's granddaughter. Not unlike some others of his class, Henry Dwn could be heavy-handed and contentious, and he was often undeterred by legal
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Many copies of this are extant. The copyists claimed, sometimes, that he was Edern, son of Padarn Beisrudd, that is, that he was the father of Cunedda Wledig. On the other hand, John Davies of Mallwyd said that he flourished c. 1280. EDWARD WILLIAMS (Iolo Morganwg) was the first to state categorically that Edern's work was the grammar which is associated with the names of Einion Offeiriad and
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor , and his work remains today in many churches and cemeteries in Wales, in Westminster Abbey, in Merthyr town hall, and elsewhere. He executed busts of members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families, and of such well-known Welsh people as Taliesin ap Iolo, Thomas Stephens, G. T. Clark, William Williams (M.P. for Coventry), and Edith Wynne. In 1859 the widow of George Virtue, proprietor
EINION OFFEIRIAD (fl. c. 1320), the person whose name is associated with the earliest Welsh grammar or metrical grammar which we possess ynrrydedd a moliant') of the same Rhys ap Gruffydd. He is not referred to in the earliest manuscripts of the grammar except as one who fashioned three metres. Apart from this we know nothing of him. Iolo Morganwg tried to show that he was grandfather of Hopcyn ap Tomas ab Einion of Ynystawe, but there is no foundation for this statement.
ELFODD (d. 809), bishop most of them (see The Lives of the British Saints, iii, 431). He is said (The Lives of the British Saints) to have become bishop of Bangor in 755, but this statement rests on late and extremely dubious authority - the manuscripts of Iolo Morganwg. The chronicler Nennius, who styles himself Elfodd's pupil ('Elvodugi discipulus'), refers to him as 'episcopus sanctissimus' with no local designation; and
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian improve his written Welsh in the course of his enduring friendship with like-minded scholars like Iorwerth Peate and Ffransis Payne, and his writings contain frequent reference to Welsh literature; his epigraph to Where Beards Wag All is Iolo Goch's fourteenth century cywydd 'Y Llafurwr' in the original, with Evans ' own translation alongside it as 'The Farmworker'. He had first realised that people's
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1799), traveller and Spanish colonial agent Born at Waunfawr, Caernarfonshire (christened 14 April 1770), son of Thomas Evans, a Methodist exhorter, and Anne, daughter of Evan Dafydd, also a Methodist exhorter. In 1792 he agreed to accompany Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) on a journey to visit the so-called 'Welsh Indians' who were reputed to be inhabiting the upper reaches of the Missouri. On Iolo's withdrawal from the enterprise, Evans
EVANS, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER (Cadrawd; 1846 - 1918), antiquary and folk-lorist Glamorgan triban verses. Other eisteddfodic prizes, and a gold medal, were awarded him. In 1910 he edited (with L. J. Hopkin James) Hen Gwndidau, a collection of old religious poetry; and in 1913 a volume of selections from Iolo Morganwg (in O. M. Edwards's 'Cyfres y Fil'). He kept up a correspondence (now in the Cardiff City Library) with a wide circle of scholars, e.g. Sir John Rhys and Sir Joseph
FITZ WARIN family, lords Whittington, Alderbury, Alveston the oral tradition which underlay it, is attested by the fairly frequent references to ' Syr Ffwg ' or ' Ffwg ap Gwarin ' in the poets, e.g. Gruffudd ap Maredudd (in his awdl to Owain Lawgoch, Poetry of the Red Book of Hergest, p. 107, lines 24-5), Iolo Goch, Guto'r Glyn, Dafydd Nanmor, Tudur Aled (consult the indexes to the modern editions of their poetry), and Wiliam Llyn (ed. Morrice, p. 53, line
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher issued from his press were Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1873, Y Mabinogion Cymreig, 1880, Iolo Manuscripts, 2nd ed., 1888, Philip Yorke, The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887, and John Fisher, The Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. He published some outstanding biographies, including those of Thomas Charles Edwards, John Hughes (1827-1893), Daniel Owen the novelist, John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog), and the poems and letters of
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, . Ll. Williams and I. Williams), 52, 55; Iolo Goch ac Eraill (ed. H. Lewis, T. Roberts and I. Williams), 307; H. T. Evans, Wales and the Wars of the Roses, 14). WILLIAM GRIFFITH (c. 1445 - 1505/6) The son and heir by the first marriage of GWILYM FYCHAN, is not always easy to distinguish him from his father. He married (1) Joan Troutbeck, widow of Sir William Butler of Bewsey, Cheshire; her mother was
GRUFFUDD GRYG (fl. second half of the 14th century), bard is but done in jest. Each bard heaps foul insults upon the other's mother, their lampoons being couched in the language of the gutter. For the eulogizing in the style of the chief bards there is substituted a competition as between writers of obscenities. They were joined in the jest by Iolo Goch, Ithel Ddu, Tudur Goch, and others; see Ashton, Gweithiau Iolo Goch, 404-20, for a fair example of the

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