Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author Journal at Newport and edited the few numbers which appeared between 1 May and 31 July 1841. Elegies were composed on him by (1) W. Downing Evans (The Gwyddonwyson Wreath, 1853); (2) William Thomas (Islwyn), W. Ambrose (Emrys), and Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled). His library was bequeathed to his executors James Rowe and David Lloyd Isaac. A number of letters by him to William Roberts (Nefydd) are
TREBOR ALED - see JONES, ROBERT
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet Born in the parish of Llansannan, Denbighshire. There are many copies of his pedigree in the manuscripts which, however, do not always tally. It appears that his father's name was Robert and his grand-father's Ithel and that they were descendants of Llywelyn Chwith; Huw ap Dafydd, in his elegy on Tudur Aled, says, ' Ail Iolo, o Lywelyn, Ag o du'r Chwith, gwenith gwyn ' (G.T.A., II, 728). On his
WILLIAMS, JAMES (1790 - 1872), cleric Crombie Ramsay (1814 - 1891) the geologist (see D.N.B.) who first gave the name 'Cambrian' to one of the earth's strata; Ramsay was buried at Llansadwrn. James Williams and his wife were most active supporters of the Anglesey life-boats; and Williams received a gold medal (1835) for personal bravery in rescue work. See Aled Eames in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1957
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN JOSEPH (1896 - 1992), Welsh scholar Street chapel in Swansea, and president of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1969. He married Ceinwen Rhys Rowlands, a soloist and folksong singer from Llandeilo, in 1925 and they had two sons (Urien Wiliam, Aled Rhys Wiliam) and a daughter (Annest). Stephen J. Williams died in Swansea aged 96 on 2 August 1992 and was cremated in Morriston crematorium 8 August.
YORKE, PHILIP (1743 - 1804) Erddig, Erthig,, antiquary sat twice in Parliament for English pocket boroughs; but with his completely English antecedents, education, and first marriage, he took little interest in the land of his birth till, in 1782, he married Diana, daughter of Piers Wynn of Dyffryn Aled, and widow of R. O. Meyrick. Starting with ' no great respect for the mountain Welsh, great or small ' (says Apperley), and preferring his wife 'when

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