Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RHYS (1713 - 1801), antiquary and poet collection. His original poetry is to be found in NLW MS 3059D, i.e. 'Y Llyfr Gwyrdd gan Rhys Jones'; his works were published in 1818 under the title Gwaith Prydyddawl Y Diweddar Rice Jones o'r Blaenau, Meirion. Gan Rice Jones Owen, Wyr yr Awdur. He died 14 February 1801 and was buried in Llanfachreth church.
JONES, ROBERT EVAN (1869 - 1956), collector of books and manuscripts Born 22 May, 1869, one of seven children of John and Catherine Jones, High Street, Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionethshire. His father was a grocer, and soon after Robert Evan's birth the family moved to Meirion House, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He received his early education in the boys' school, Tanygrisiau and later spent five years there as a pupil-teacher before becoming an assistant teacher
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author the war, he remained there only a year before moving to a post as a teacher of Welsh and music at the Garw Grammar School in Pontycymer. In 1946 he married Stella Price (1919-1984), a former domestic science teacher and a non-Welsh speaker - at the time - from Swansea. They had four sons, Rhodri Prys Jones (1948-1991), Berwyn Prys Jones (b. 1951), Meirion Prys Jones (b. 1954) and Rhoslyn Prys (née
LLOYD, JOHN (1885 - 1964), schoolmaster, author and local historian cultural bodies in Merioneth including the education committee, the Eisteddfod Meirion committee and the county's Urdd Gobaith Cymru committee. He was amongst the founders of the county's Hist. and Record Soc. in 1939 and was made a vice-president. He was an elder in the Presb. Ch. of Wales consecutively at Talsarnau, Dolgellau and Llanbedr. He married 1925 Nancy Roden, Aberystwyth (died 1980), and one
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author J. Meirion Lloyd was born on 4 May 1913 in Corris, Merionethshire, the eldest of six children of David Richard Lloyd, a quarryman, and his wife Ruth (née Ellis). He attended primary school in Corris, but his father decided to move to London and set up a business selling slate in Bow, with an office in Corris. The family became faithful members of the Mile End Welsh Chapel, and it was there that
MÔR MEIRION - see MORGAN, RICHARD WILLIAMS
MORGAN, RICHARD WILLIAMS (Môr Meirion; c. 1815 - c. 1889), cleric and author
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar Meirion Pennar, the eldest of the five children of W. T. Pennar Davies and his wife Rosmarie (née Wolff), was born in Cardiff 24 December 1944. Geraint, Hywel and Owain were his brothers, Rhiannon was his sister. His mother was born in Detmold, Germany but because of her Jewish ancestry, she was forced to flee from the family home in Berlin, where her father was a family doctor, before World War
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, in 1813. On the death, without issue, of Sir THEOPHILUS PULESTON in 1890 the baronetcy became extinct. It may be interesting to note that the old house at Emral was demolished in 1936, part of it ('The Emral Hall') being re-erected at Port Meirion, Merioneth. (2) Before the middle of the 15th century a branch of the family had settled at Berse, near Wrexham, and by the end of that century Hafod-y
PWYNTIL MEIRION - see EDWARDS, JOHN KELT
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron him to Solomon, but also to numerous characters from traditional tales and triads: Arthur, Cai, Caw, Garwy Hir, Meirion, Bedwyr, Llŷr, Geraint, and Rholant (the French hero Roland). Such a list surely reflects Rhydderch's interest in and familiarity with the Welsh narrative tradition, especially as preserved in the famous manuscript that bears his name. Around the middle of the fourteenth century
ROBERTS, GWEN REES (1916 - 2002), missionary and teacher a convoy of ships on what was a memorable journey. Despite the dangers of a wartime voyage, the Welsh among the missionaries kept up their spirits by walking the decks at night singing Welsh hymns. Gwen made lifelong friends, including Marian Prichard, who traveled to work as a senior nurse at the Shillong hospital in the Khasi Hills, and Revd Meirion Lloyd who accompanied Gwen on the journey

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