Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HUW MACHNO (fl. 1585-1637), poet bardic diction, maintaining his excellence in poems to women, in eulogy, and in descriptive verse. Over 150 of his poems have been preserved in manuscript. The following manuscripts contain examples of his autograph, NLW MS 433B, Peniarth MS 327, Mostyn. MS. 146, B.M. Add. MS. 14998, Cardiff MS. 83 (the Book of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir), Christ Church MS. 184, and he wrote practically the whole of NLW
HYWEL YSTORM (or YSTORYN) (fl. first half of the 14th century), clerwr or composer of lampoons In Mostyn MS. 118 (509) his name is given as 'Ystoryn,' but in R.B.H. Poetry, col. 1337 we find 'Ystorym' above a scurrilous poem of his to 'Adam the tinker.' G. J. Williams (in Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 6-8) attributes to him all the anonymous abusive verse which follows to the end of col. 1348, and on these grounds he makes him contemporary with Casnodyn - see col. 1341, 1. 42. If all
IEUAN FYCHAN ap IEUAN ab ADDA (d. c. 1458), poet An ancestor of the family associated with Mostyn Hall, Flintshire. Ieuan Fychan lived at Pengwern, Denbighshire, before he married Angharad, heiress of Mostyn. Lord Mostyn and T. A. Glenn, in their History of the Family of Mostyn of Mostyn (London, 1925), give some details about the career of Ieuan Fychan; e.g. he was an esquire in the retinue of Thomas Fitz Alan, earl of Arundel and lord of
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
JONES, EDWARD ALFRED (1871 - 1943), connoisseur of silverware write to Y Cymmrodor and Archaeologia Cambrensis in 1904 and was a regular contributor for the rest of his life to journals such as the Burlington Magazine (e.g. ' Some old silver plate in the possession of Lord Mostyn ', 1907), The Connoisseur (e.g. ' Welsh goldsmiths ', 1941), Apollo, The Athenaeum and Art in America. The church plate of the diocese of Bangor (1906) was his first book, and it was
JONES, EVAN (PAN) (1834 - 1922), Independent minister receive a call, he returned to Germany, this time as a student at Marburg University, where he graduated M.A. and Ph.D. (July 1869). In January 1870 he was ordained minister of Mostyn church, Flintshire, where he spent the rest of his long life. All the Mostyn mines were flooded in 1884, and in order to relieve the burden on the church he went on a tour to the U.S.A., but, although conditions had not
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' he tried to tempt Henry Cromwell), in the ecclesiastical manor of Gogarth (which he offered to re-sell to the Mostyn family), in the manors of Llandegla, Gwytherin, and Meliden (bought by a syndicate for £3,797 in 1650) and Uwchterfyn (c. 1652) and an offer to buy up a mortgage on Brynkinallt (1653) - were normal and legal transactions, and it was on the ground that his absence in Ireland had
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts survived, mainly in the Hengwrt-Peniarth collection. It was his association with Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, the famous collector of manuscripts, and himself a notable copyist, which accounts for such a large number of John Jones's transcripts being preserved in the Hengwrt-Peniarth group; there are examples also in the Mostyn, Llanstephan, and Additional MSS. in the National Library, at Cardiff, and in
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian servant for the Mostyn family and his great-grandfather a Methodist minister. In later life, Jones took a keen interest in the fortunes of his home town's Victorian theatre, becoming its patron and officially re-opened Theatr Colwyn in 2011 after a £738,000 refurbishment. 'Theatr Colwyn means a lot to me,' he said, 'because my grandfather [William Newnes] conducted the orchestra for the Colwyn Bay
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician Born 27 December 1858 at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, only son of Enoch Lewis (great-nephew of Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) of Denbigh) and of Catherine Roberts, Plas Llangwyfan, Denbighshire. He was educated at Denbigh, Montreal (McGill University), and Exeter College Oxford [ B.A. 1879, M.A. 1884 ], and travelled widely. A lawyer by profession, he became in 1889 first chairman of the Flintshire
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies wedding. The married couple lived at Penucha Mansion, Caerwys, and at 23 Grosvenor Road, London. A daughter, Kitty, was born in 1898 and a son, Mostyn, in 1901. She had attained a thorough knowledge of Welsh and the children were fluent in Welsh. The family were regular worshippers at Welsh chapels in Caerwys and in London. Ruth Lewis identified herself with Welsh life; she involved herself in public
LEWYS ap HYWEL (fl. c. 1560-1600), poet No details concerning him are available, but from the fact that the subjects of his poetry of praise and elegy were mainly persons from Denbighshire and Flintshire, it is probable that the poet himself was a native of that part of Wales. A number of his poems remain in MSS., and these include cywyddau addressed to William Mostyn of Mostyn, Pierce Mostyn of Talacre, William Holland of Hendre fawr

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