Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFUDD LLWYD ab IFAN (fl. 1564), poet nothing is known about his life, but it appears from one of his poems that he lived in Anglesey. Some of his work remains in manuscripts, and this includes cywyddau to Elis Prys of Plas Iolyn (NLW MS 1247D (22)), Ieuan ap Siôn ap Maredudd of Bryncyr (NLW MS 5282B (49)), and Tudur ap Rhobert of Berain (NLW MS 6495D (118b, 120 - in the poet's hand apparently)). In addition to his poetry of praise
GWYN, JOHN (d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor from the Crown a lease for twenty-one years of the office of 'rhaglaw' of Cardiganshire (at an annual rental of twenty nobles) in 1563, and about the same time the lordship of Maenan, part of the estates of the dissolved abbey of Aberconway; it was later alleged by Dr. Elis Prys that he also tried to obtain through Leicester, as lord of Denbigh (1564), a grant of the commote of Ardudwy. Sir John Wynn
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author . Prys-Jones), she used traditional forms with an effect which occasionally echoed W.H. Davies, leading 'Wil Ifan' (William Evans) to call her 'Gwent's Second Voice'.
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books issued from the London press in large numbers, 1630-32. They included the Welsh - Latin dictionary of John Davies (1570? - 1644) of Mallwyd, the translation by Rowland Vaughan of the Practice of Piety, of bishop Lewis Bayly, and the Welsh quarto Bible 'of 1630, bound up with the Welsh Prayer Book and the psalter of Edmund Prys. He died, childless, in 1631. He impressed contemporaries as 'a man of
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Prys, a social worker, and Gladys Thomas who went with Annie as a companion on the voyage. They landed in New York harbour on 11 February 1924. Influential women in America had been diligently making arrangements to publicise the petition and the deputation, and the high point of the visit was a grand luncheon at a New York hotel, where over four hundred women attended to see the petition being
HUW MACHNO (fl. 1585-1637), poet sang much to them. The gardener at Gwydir is said to have depicted the bard on horseback in a topiary there. He also sang to other families in Gwynedd and Denbighshire, and as far south as Gogerddan, Cardiganshire. He was engaged in a poetic contention with archdeacon Edmund Prys, and Siôn Phylip tried to reconcile them. The latter emphasized Huw Machno's learning, his knowledge of Latin, and of the
JENKINS, JABEZ EDMUND (Creidiol; 1840 - 1903), cleric and poet curacy of Vaynor, Brecknock, and on 16 May 1883 became incumbent of that parish, where he remained until his death, 4 June 1903. He was a keen eisteddfodwr, and, under the bardic name of Creidiol, composed a considerable amount of poetry. His Dyddanion Min yr Hwyr, sef Rhiangerdd Emma Prys, was published in 1862, Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau …, in 1867, and Rhiangerdd - Gwenfron o'r Dyffryn
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author Director of Cardiac Studies there from 1966. For a period before and immediately after the war he also served as consultant to the three main hospitals in north Wales, Bangor, Rhyl and Wrexham, as well as holding a clinic in Rodney Street which was attended by many Welsh people. Later he was Vice-Chairman of the Welsh Hospitals Board (1968-1974) and together with the Chairman, Gwilym Prys-Davies, pressed
JONES, GRIFFITH (Glan Menai; 1836 - 1906), schoolmaster and author year in recognition of his services to the literature of Wales. Glan Menai was a keen eisteddfodwr and won a number of important prizes in the eisteddfodau of those days. He published several books, e.g. a novel Hywel Wyn (1861), Enwogion Sir Aberteifi (1868), Caneuon (1886), Cyfystyron y Gymraeg (1892), Traethawd Bywgraffyddol a Beirniadol ar Edmwnd Prys (1899), Guide to Llanfairfechan (1901), etc
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' married in 1639) died c. 1653; by her second husband, a grandson of Edmund Prys she had a son Edmund Price (1662 - 1718), entered as 'pauper' at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1682 (graduating 1685), who became vicar of Clynnog 1692, inherited Maes-y-garnedd, but disposed of Gerddi Bluog (the Prys estate) in 1710. Another brother, HUMPHREY JONES (died c. 1690), mercer, of Paternoster Row, was John's banker
JONES, RHYS (1713 - 1801), antiquary and poet . O Gasgliad Rhys Jones, o'r Tyddyn Mawr yn y Brinaich, ym mhlwyf Llanfachreth, yn Swydd Feirion … (Shrewsbury, printed by Stafford Prys, in the Year MDCC. LXXIII); Can neu Fyfyrdod ar Ddaioni yr Arglwydd yn anfon yd i'n Gwlad er ein Hachub Rhag Y Newyn a'i Ganlyniadau etc., ar fesur 'Old Darby' (Denbigh, 1817). In 1864, another edition of the Gorchestion was published, revised, and annotated with
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer -health and failing eyesight, her last volume was published, Cydio Mewn Cwilsyn, in which she returns to the diary format, the imaginary diary of Elizabeth Prys, daughter-in-law of Archdeacon Edmwnd Prys from the Stuart period. That volume also contains a number of autobiographical essays noting some of the influences on her work. Rhiannon Davies Jones was an inspiring teacher and lecturer, and her

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