Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHISIERDYN (fl. latter half of the 14th century) Gwynedd, poet His canon has not been fixed, and there are textual confusions. In the Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vol. i, part 2, 123-33, Dr. Henry Lewis published a study of the poems attributed to him in the R. B. H. Poetry and in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales Rhisierdyn sang panegyric awdlau to Gronwy (Fychan) ap Tudur (died 1382; see Ednyfed Fychan) and to Myfanwy his wife, and an elegiac
RICHARDS, ROBERT (1884 - 1954), historian and politician staunch patriot, loyal to Wales, its history, literature and music; he was a fluent speaker, especially in Welsh. He married in 1918 Mary Myfanwy Owen (died 1950) of Llangynog; they made their home in their native parish and stayed there all their lives. They had no children. He died 22 December 1954 and was buried in Peniel (CM) cemetery, Llangynog.
SNELL, DAVID JOHN (1880 - 1957), music publisher , and he offered eisteddfod prizes to committees which chose his publications as test pieces. He republished popular works like ' Myfanwy ' (Joseph Parry) and ' Yr hen gerddor ' (David Pugh Evans), but he also published new pieces of high standard, including ' Bugail Aberdyfi ' (Idris Lewis), ' Paradwys y bardd ' (W. Bradwen Jones; see Jones, William Arthur above) and Saith o ganeuon and ' Berwyn ' (D
THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist Born 29 February 1908 in Primrose Cottage, Holway, Holywell, Flintshire, only child of Walter Owen Davies, master saddler and his wife, Elizabeth Jane (née Jones). The mother died 3 February 1909 aged 26 and the grandmother helped to rear the child. The family moved to Yscawen, Rhuddlan, where the father obtained work as a grocer, and Louie Myfanwy was educated at the Church elementary school and
THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD (1878 - 1917), poet Helen Elizabeth Myfanwy 1910. After a couple of years in London they moved to Bearsted, Kent, in 1901, to the Weald (Sevenoaks), in 1903, and to Ashford, near Petersfield, in 1906. His first book, The Woodland Life, was published in 1897, and from then till early 1915 he was the slave of wholesale reviewing and the commissioned book. Oxford, Beautiful Wales, Richard Jeffries, A Literary Pilgrim in
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar university teacher his great learning and his skill in presentation impressed and inspired his students. He married Myfanwy Jones of Cae-glas, Pontllyfni, Arfon, in 1913, and there were two children, a daughter and a son. He died 4 November 1965, and was buried at Brynaerau.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1885 - 1972), musician examples of his lyrical style. He married Margaret Myfanwy Hughes at St John Street chapel, Chester on 9 December 1915. After her death in 1970 he moved to Patcham near Brighton to live with his son, and died at Brighton General Hospital on 11 November 1972. His funeral took place at Hermon chapel, Colwyn Bay on 17 November and his remains were cremated at Colwyn Bay crematorium.
WOOD, MARY MYFANWY (1882 - 1967), missionary in China, 1908-51 China's Consultative Council on the training of women. Her letters clearly indicate that she had a significant behind-the-scenes role in the emergence of the independent indigenous church in Beijing. The Chinese Recorder, for example, in 1920 reports that a certain Chinese lady had been voted to be Vice-President of the China for Christ Movement. It is obvious from her letters that Myfanwy Wood was the

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