Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet , is the 'Elegy to Barbara Myddelton.' Huw Morys also wrote at least two interludes dealing with 'The Civil War' and 'The Prodigal Son,' and there are also extant a few poems which suggest that he wrote a third interlude entitled 'Y Cogiwr' (The Swindler). In 1823 a collection of his poems was published in two volumes by Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) entitled Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet Ceiriog of the 18th century. Here is a lyric poet, one who could hear the music of words, a poet who delighted in the liveliness of his measures. He was undoubtedly the best bard in Glamorgan in the 18th cent, before the time of Iolo Morganwg. It is generally said that he sent to Edward Evan (1716 - 1798) a letter in which the technique of composing in the free metres was discussed, but it is fairly
PALMER, ALFRED NEOBARD (1847 - 1915), historian (1875-9), and married (June 1878) the daughter of John Francis, city surveyor, a Caernarvonshire man who was a patron of Ceiriog and a leader in the Manchester Welsh community. Returning for health reasons to Thetford, he was directed by a Wrexham man, whom he had met in London, to a new opening in his own line at Wrexham, and he lived there from September 1880 to his death, employed professionally at
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer Eisteddfod. His adjudications were not a mere recital of errors and shortcomings, but a constructive attempt to improve the competitors' poetic sensibility and expression. He published articles in periodicals on various aspects of the poetic craft, commenting approvingly on all forms of lyrical poetry in particular, and the two masters of the formal lyric, Ceiriog (J. Ceiriog Hughes) and Eifion Wyn
REES, SARAH JANE (Cranogwen; 1839 - 1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate of the winning poem being 'Y Fodrwy Briodasol'; at this contest she beat Islwyn and Ceiriog. She also became a public speaker, lecturer, and preacher; in 1878 she began to edit Y Frythones, a Welsh journal devoted to the interests of women which continued to appear until 1891. In 1901 she founded the Women's Temperance Movement which is still known as 'Undeb Dirwestol Merched y De.' She died 27
RICHARDS, FREDERICK CHARLES (1878 - 1932), artist the Royal Society of Painters-Etchers. In 1911 he was commissioned by Sir Alfred T. Davies, permanent secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education, to copy Sir Edwin Poynter's cartoon of S. David for the Ceiriog Memorial Institute, and in 1913 Messrs. Adam and Charles Black invited him to make drawings for the Oxford Sketch Book. This was the first of a series of reproductions of
RICHARDS, ROBERT (1884 - 1954), historian and politician was characteristic of him that his maiden speech in parliament on 3 March 1923 dealt with the bill that sought to turn the Ceiriog Valley into a reservoir for Warrington. He was a hard worker; in spite of his political duties he continued as tutor in economics at Coleg Harlech. At the end of the war he was prevailed upon to accept the headship of the department of economics at Bangor. He was a
ROBERTS, MORRIS (1799 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and later Independent minister Methodist preacher. In 1824 he went to live at Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where he rented a small farm and continued to preach regularly. While there, he got into trouble because of his opinions in regard to ' certain matters relating to the teachings of the Gospel.' He was accused of leaning towards the 'New System' in doctrinal matters and of following John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767 - 1834) and
ROBERTS, PETER (1760 - 1819), cleric, Biblical scholar and antiquary expense of the University of Cambridge in 1800) he was assigned a pension by two of his pupils. He returned to Wales and worked upon the study of Welsh antiquities. In 1810 he was appointed vicar of Llanarmon, in the vale of Ceiriog; he resided, however, at Oswestry and there wrote a history of the town (published anonymously in 1815). About 1814 he became vicar of Madeley, Salop, and in 1818 was given
ROBERTS, THOMAS ROWLAND (Asaph; 1857? - 1940), biographer , 16 June 1940, aged 83, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery. He was the author of the following biographical works: Edmund Prys, 1899; Y Monwyson, 1902; Eminent Welshmen, 1908, a biographical dictionary for the period 1700-1900; and Huw Morus (Eos Ceiriog), 1910. His Edmwnd Prys includes a convenient collection of Prys's poetry, and his Eminent Welshmen, with its ample apparatus of reference, has
ROBERTSON, HENRY (1816 - 1888), civil engineer and railway pioneer and designer of the railway from Chester to Shrewsbury with its viaducts over the Dee and the Ceiriog. Like George Stephenson in other areas, Robertson had to survey Welsh land for his railways by night owing to the hostility of the owners. Removing to Shrewsbury, he designed and made most of the railways radiating from the Shropshire capital, in addition to the line from Ruabon to Llan-gollen
SAMUEL, EDWARD (1674 - 1748), cleric, poet, and author examples see (a) Blodeu-gerdd Cymry, 1759; (b) Llu o Ganiadau, neu Gasgliad o Garolau a Cherddi … o Gasgliad W. Jones, Bettws Gwerfil Goch (Oswestry, 1798); (c) Eos Ceiriog, 1823; and (d) B.M. Add. MS. 14961. Sermons by him were published (Pregeth ynghylch gofalon bydol a bregethwyd yn Eglwys Llangywer, yr ail dydd o fis Mai, 1720. Ar gladdedigaeth Mr. Robert Wynne, diweddar Vicar Gwyddelwern, 1731 and

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