Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MYRDDIN FARDD - see JONES, JOHN
MYRDDIN WYLLT - see HENRY, DAVID
MYRDDIN-EVANS, Sir GUILDHAUME (1894 - 1964), civil servant France and Flanders during World War I and was seriously wounded. He was a member of Lloyd George's personal secretariat at 10 Downing Street in 1917, and assistant secretary to the War Cabinet in 1919. He held a number of key positions within the Treasury from 1920 until 1929 when he was appointed to the Ministry of Labour. Myrddin-Evans served as the Head of the Production Executive Secretariat at
NICHOLAS, JOHN MORGAN (1895 - 1963), musician promising oboist. His best-known composition is his classic hymn-tune 'Bryn Myrddin', written for the words 'Mawr oedd Crist yn nhragwyddoldeb' by Titus Lewis. He married Marion May Lloyd of Ton Pentre, Rhondda, on 27 April 1921, and they had two daughters, Joan, who died of polio aged 16, and Meriel. Morgan Nicholas died on 12 August 1963 and his funeral took place at Thornhill crematorium in Cardiff on
PAGE, LESLIE ALUN (1920 - 1990), Minister (Cong.) began preaching there at Noddfa, Cwm-felin. He was educated at Myrddin College, and in 1937 he entered the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and the same year, the University College, Cardiff, where he graduated B.A. in Hebrew and Philosophy in 1940. In 1945 he was ordained minister of the English Congregational Church at Pembroke Dock, where he remained for four years. He was one of the small group
PARRY, HUMPHREY (c. 1772 - 1809), schoolmaster, member of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies of London Eurgrawn (1807), Parry printed in the second number (1808) of that short-lived periodical the first part (dated 'Clynnog, July 1807') of an article on Welsh grammar. Several of Dafydd Ddu's letters printed in Adgof uwch Anghof by Myrddin Fardd (John Jones, 1836 - 1921) have references to Parry and to his intention of publishing a Welsh grammar. Leathart terms Parry a good scholar, in the classical and in
PARRY, RICHARD (1710 - 1763) Newborough, poet, schoolmaster, and sexton His published work includes ' Araith Wgan ar Gân ' (Brython, 1863), and also a number of other poems (one of them at least a translation from English) which were published in the 18th century; a list of these is given by Myrddin Fardd in Y Traethodydd, 1886. A carol composed by him is found in NLW MS 1666B (209b); it is also probable that he is the Richard Parry whose poems are found in Bodewryd
PRITCHARD, EVAN (Ieuan Lleyn; 1769 - 1832), poet England about this time. A collection of his poetry under the title Caniadau Ieuan Lleyn, edited by Myrddin Fardd, was published at Pwllheli in 1878. Some of his hymns are well known today. (See J. Thickens, Emynau a'u Hawduriaid, 75.)
RICHARDS, DAVID THOMAS GLYNDWR (1879 - 1956), Independent minister and principal of Coleg Myrddin, Carmarthen College School was reopened (it had been closed for a period during World War I) under the name Coleg Myrddin and he was the principal until the closure of the college in 1946. In addition to his work at the college he was also the minister of Burry Port English Congregational church (1919-21), Nebo, Llanpumsaint (1921-1931), Elim, Ffynnon-ddrain, Carmarthen (1931-54). He was an able teacher, learned in
ROBERTS, ELLIS (Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895) Iachus … (Caernarfon, 1816), in which he defended his faith as a Baptist. Spinther (Hanes y Bed., iii, 342-3) gives the titles of some of his poems (among them 'Cerdd i Mr. Madog a'i Dref' - see Madocks, W. A.); there is a copy in Corph y Gaingc, 1810 (ed. D. Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri) of 'Emyn ar Ddydd Ympryd gan Robert Morys, Bryn-y-gro, yn agos i Lanllyfni.' John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Gen., 1883
ROBERTS, JOHN (Siôn Lleyn; 1749 - 1817), poet, schoolmaster, and religious pioneer Gaingc; see also Adgof uwch anghof by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd), and the Myrddin Fardd manuscripts in N.L.W. Siôn Lleyn wrote some hymns also. He died 7 May 1817 and was buried in Deneio churchyard, Pwllheli.
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Twm Pedrog; 1774 - 1814), poet , cywyddau, and englynion included by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cynfeirdd Lleyn, 1905. He died in May 1814, and was buried in the churchyard of Ceidio, Caernarfonshire

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