Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SMYTH, ROGER (1541 - 1625), Roman Catholic priest and Welsh translator students, against the English (see under Clynnog, Morys). The English won, and Smyth was dismissed from the college because he refused to express his readiness to be ordained priest, and to return to England as a missionary. After this, his history becomes obscure; perhaps he was assisted by his friends Gruffydd Robert and Owen Lewis. It is likely that there is some foundation for the statement made in Y
WILLIAMS, OWEN (Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary -writing; Cwrtmawr MS 90C, cywyddau by Cadwaladr Cesail and Morys Dwyfech transcribed by Owen Williams; Cwrtmawr MS 149E, Owen Gwyrfai's 'Piser Hir,' containing a collection of poetry transcribed mostly from Peniarth MS 98. In Cwrtmawr MS 407E there is a collection of pedigrees prepared by him and Eben Fardd, while in Cwrtmawr MS 456D there is another collection of pedigrees prepared by Owen Williams
WYNNE, ROBERT (d. 1720), cleric and poet Llangywer on 2 May 1720, when Edward Samuel preached the funeral sermon. Two poems by him were printed in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry, 1759, and others survive in manuscript (Peniarth MS 121 in particular), including an elegy and epitaphs for Huw Morys and John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Lâs). His son, EDWARD WYNNE (1685 - 1745), was also vicar of Gwyddelwern from 1724 till his death. He was ordained deacon by John Evans

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