Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic honours in mathematics in 1887. As a student he had read Welsh books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and had attended the lectures of John Rhys; he was also one of the original members of 'Cymdeithas Dafydd ab Gwilym,' which was established on 6 May 1886. Having held a scholarship to read Celtic, he was appointed, in January 1889, lecturer in Welsh at the University College of North Wales
MORUS ap DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION - see MORUS DWYFECH
MORUS DWYFECH (fl. c. 1523-1590), a poet
MOSES-EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1822 - 1893), poet and schoolmaster (Ioan Cunllo) for an ode to the memory of Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), his work being highly praised by Eben Fardd. He was known colloquially as Dafydd Moses but about 1860 he added the surname Evans after researching his family history, and this was the surname used by the 5 or 6 youngest of his 9 children, 4 sons and 5 daughters. Moses died 1 September 1893. His daughter Mary was the step
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet
OWAIN ap GRUFFYDD (fl. 1260), prince of Gwynedd eldest son of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn by Senena, and brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Some years a prisoner of his brother, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Henry III secured to him a portion of Snowdonia by the treaty of Woodstock (1247). Again deprived by Llywelyn after Bryn Derwin (1254), he spent another long period in confinement, until Llywelyn was obliged to release him after the humiliating defeat of
OWAIN GWYNEDD (OWAIN GWYNEDD; c. 1100 - 1170), king of Gwynedd Church. By the former he had two sons, Iorwerth Drwyndwn and Maelgwn; and also two sons by Christina - Dafydd and Rhodri He had at least six other sons, of whom two, Hywel and Cynan, survived him, and two daughters, Angharad, wife of Gruffydd Maelor I, and Gwenllian, wife of Owain Cyfeiliog. As a young man during the decade 1120-30 he was associated with an elder brother, Cadwallon, in restoring the
OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Llwydiarth, Siôn Salbri of Llyweni, Dafydd Llwyd ap Wiliam of Peniarth, and Dafydd Llwyd ap Huw ab Ifan of Ynys y Maengwyn. He composed an elegy to the poet ' Sir ' Owain ap Gwilym, and poems of ymryson, or controversy, to Wiliam Llŷn, and to Hugh Arwystl; he also wrote religious poems, a poem on the snow, and a number of various englynion, which include one composed by him when on his sick bed.
OWAIN TUDOR (c. 1400 - 1461), courtier Grandfather of Henry VII, son of Maredudd ap 'Sir' Tudur ap Goronwy Fychan (see under Ednyfed Fychan) by Margaret, daughter of Dafydd Fychan ap Dafydd Llwyd. The circumstances surrounding the early part of his life are very obscure, but it is certain that as a young man he became a servant in the household of Henry V, possibly through the influence of his courtier kinsman, Maredudd ab Owain Glyn
OWAIN, Syr DAFYDD, cleric and poet According to Camb. Biog., and Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, he flourished 1540-70. The statement in Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen that he hailed from Maenan, Caernarfonshire, suggests that he may be identified with Dafydd ab Owen, rector of Nannerch and Llanddoged, and vicar of Eglwysfach, 1537 (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 196). A
OWEN family Peniarth, Gruffydd of Dol-goch, raglot of the commote of Ystumanner on two occasions during the reign of Edward III - his tomb is at Towyn church. Their son, ARON AB EDNYFED, was succeeded by EDNYFED, whose son was GRUFFYDD, father of the RHYS AP GRUFFYDD whose will is dated 1476. JOHN AP RHYS married Angharad, daughter of Dafydd ap Meurig Fychan, Nannau, their heir being WILLIAM, living in 1566, whose wife was
OWEN, DAVID (Dafydd y Garreg Wen; 1711 - 1741), harpist Christened 27 January 1711, son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Gwen (Roberts), Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 353). He attained fame both as harpist and as the reputed composer of the airs called ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen ' ('David of the White Rock'), ' Codiad yr Ehedydd ' ('The rising of the lark'), and ' Difyrrwch gwyr

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