Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet - much of it, there is little doubt, incorrectly - consists of religious cywyddau. His subjects are confined to the uncertainty of life and all that pertains to it, and to the inevitability of death and the last judgement. When Rhys Goch Eryri and Llywelyn ap y Moel were engaged in a discussion as to the origin of the muse and agreed that it was derived from the Holy Ghost, Siôn Cent intervened and
SIÔN DAFYDD RHYS - see RHYS, JOHN DAVID
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet Siôn Tudur died on the eve of Easter Sunday, 3 April 1602, and was buried in S. Asaph church the following Monday, 5 April. In view of the fact that, towards the end of his life, he claimed to be the oldest of all the bards, and that some time before 1580 he had complained to Rhys Gruffudd of Penrhyn that he was growing old, it is suggested that he was born before 1530. His home was at Wigfair, S
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author
STEPHEN, THOMAS (1856 - 1906), musician Born 24 February 1856 at Brynaman, Glamorganshire. His parents moved to Aberdare when he was a child and it was there, in Ysgol y Comin, that he went to school. He joined the Aberdare Choral Society then under the conductorship of G. Rhys Jones (Caradog), and when the latter gave up the conductorship and was succeeded by Rhys Evans, Stephen became assistant conductor. In 1877 he became precentor
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator about Welsh literature and culture. As an obituarist he recorded the lives of his notable contemporaries in The Independent; these were collected in three volumes, Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries (2008), Welsh Lives (2012) and More Welsh Lives (2018). His biography Rhys Davies: A Writer's Life (2014) won a Wales Book of the Year award. He was founder and secretary of the Rhys Davies Trust
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer reform, a subject debated since the misguided efforts of William Owen Pughe. Following a meeting at the 1858 Llangollen Eisteddfod Stephens and Robert John Pryse (Gweirydd ap Rhys) circulated questionnaires that led to the publication of Orgraph yr Iaith Gymraeg in 1859, a valuable forerunner of articles on the same subject published by Sir John Morris-Jones in Y Geninen in the 1890s. These efforts
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875) America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century (he lost the prize for this essay at Llangollen in 1858 owing to a bit of knavery by the committee, but it was published under the editorship of Llywarch Reynolds in 1893); Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg, 1859, jointly with Gweirydd ap Rhys. He also contributed articles to the Beirniad, 1861-3, and Archæologia Cambrensis, 1851-3. He was a fine example of
STRADLING family Cyprus on his way home. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan. Jane, one of their daughters, married Miles ap Harry, and had Blanche Parry as grand-daughter. The heir, THOMAS STRADLINGE, died 1480, under 26 years of age. His wife was Jenet, daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, and afterwards wife of Sir Rhys ap Thomas. During this period the family became more prominent
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, JOHN THELWALL from whom the family is descended, settled in the Ruthin district with Reginald de Grey, about 1380. His son, also named JOHN, married Ffelis, daughter and heiress of John ap Rhys Fychan by Alice, daughter and heiress of Walter Cooke or Ward, of Plas y Ward; and thus were the Thelwall family first associated with this historic house. Little of note is known of the family's fortune
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author prominent preachers of his day, and sermons by him were published in Spence - Exall (ed.), Pulpit Commentary. He was a popular eisteddfod conductor, and was frequently invited to lecture. His poetical works, in both Welsh and English, were edited by William Morris (Rhosynog) under the title of Barddoniaeth Myfyr Emlyn, 1898, and he also published Marwnad R. A. Rees (Rhys Dyfed) Rhydlewis, 1868, and
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet , Caernarvon, 1800, and, jointly with the Rev. P. Bailey Williams, Llan-rug, Trysorfa Gwybodaeth neu Eurgrawn Cymraeg, Caernarvon, 1807. There are seventeen of his articles to be found in the Cylchgrawn Cynmraeg (of Morgan John Rhys), 1793-4, among them his 'Traethawd ar ddim,' the first attempt to write in Welsh a light essay in the English manner; a number of englynion and an essay written by him are also

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