Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet . Asaph, and he was a landed proprietor of the lineage of Llywarch Howlbwrch. He spent some time at the court in London where he was one of queen Elizabeth's bodyguard. He addressed eulogies, elegies, and begging poems to over sixty North Wales families; among them are poems to four generations of the house of Botryddan, four of Mostyn, and three of Lleweni - nearly all relating to the period after 1566
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer to truth, and the main judge and druid John Williams (ab Ithel) even more notorious than he had been. This essay was published in 1893, edited by Stephens's neighbour and pupil Llywarch Reynolds. Stephens turned to the periodical press as a medium of critically reviewing Welsh history in order to replace Welsh romanticism with a more scientific approach. Among his major series of critical essays
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
TRAHAEARN ap CARADOG (d. 1081), king of Gwynedd general threat to old established interests eventually brought Gruffudd and Rhys ap Tewdwr into alliance, and together they imposed a crushing defeat on their opponent at the well-known battle of Mynydd Carn, fought in 1081, and in which Trahaearn met his end. He left four sons - Meurig, Griffri, Llywarch, and Owain. His descendants ruled in Arwystli until it was absorbed into Powys by Gwenwynwyn. A
TURNER, SHARON (1768 - 1847), solicitor and historian , in 1803, by publishing A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems. He was the first to discuss their antiquity, demonstrating the ignorance of the sceptics; see John Morris-Jones, Taliesin (= Cymm., xxviii). His letters to William Owen Pughe are in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS
WALTERS, JOHN (1760 - 1789), cleric, poet, and scholar - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry. He attracted the attention of some London Welshmen, and, after the death of Richard Thomas (1753 - 1780) he was persuaded to publish the poems of Llywarch Hen, with a translation into English. Part of this translation appeared in Warrington, The History of Wales, 1788. Walters gave Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) some notes to be included in the introduction to his
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1749 - 1835), bookseller and publisher , Awdlau; John Williams, An Enquiry … concerning the Discovery of America; M. Williams, A Treasury of Knowledge). In the following year E. Williams appears with J. Owen as publishers of W. Owen Pughe, The Heroic Elegies of Llywarch Hen. Other important books begun by the brothers, and continued by E. Williams alone, are A Welsh and English Dictionary by Owen Pughe, and the Cambrian Register, 1795-1818
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar Hengerdd, the poetry associated with the names of Aneirin, Taliesin and Llywarch Hen. It was this poetry, or subjects which shed some light on it, that engaged his attention from the age of 25 until a few years before his death. After graduating in 1906 he took ' Y Gododdin ', the poem attributed to Aneirin, the sixth century poet, as the subject of his M.A. dissertation, and published notes on the

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