Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SIÔN CEIRIOG - see JONES, JOHN CAIN
SIÔN CEIRIOG - see EDWARDS, JOHN
TELFORD, THOMAS (1757 - 1834), civil engineer engineer, namely the aqueducts over the river Ceiriog at Chirk and over the Dee at Pontycysylltau - projects which, when they were completed, were described as 'among the boldest efforts of human invention in modern times.' The Pontycysylltau project occupied from 1795 to 1805 and the other from 1796 to 1801. After this Telford was busy elsewhere; e.g. in Scotland - roads, bridges, harbours, and the
THOMAS, MORRIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Calvinistic Methodist), writer and historian ' notes, and he turned the work into a novel. Toriad y Wawr is a story of the early days of Methodism in the Llŷn peninsula in the days of ' Morgan y Gogrwr ' (Morgan Gruffydd. He wrote another novel, Y Clogwyn Melyn, which was never published. He used also to publish a short story in the Christmas number of the Goleuad. His wife, L.M. Thomas, a native of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, was a sister of Prof
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist of Merioneth in 1669-70; EDWARD, who matriculated from All Souls College, Oxford, in 1634, aged 16, graduated B.A. there in 1637/8, and M.A. from Jesus College in 1640, and became vicar of Upchurch, Kent (1642), and Llanynys, Denbighshire (1647), and rector of Llangar (1662), Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog (1662), and Mallwyd (1664); WILLIAM; ELLEN; ELSBETH; and MARGARET. Harleian MS. 1973, however, and
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1824 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author Born at Dolwyddelan in 1824, the son of Griffith and Elin Williams, who not long afterwards moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog. He went to work in the quarry, his sole education having been in the Sunday school. He became an acceptable lecturer on temperance, began to preach in 1848, and from 1849 to 1853 studied at Bala C.M. College. He then went to Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where he kept a day school
WILLIAMS, JOHN CEULANYDD (Ceulanydd; 1847? - 1899), Baptist minister, poet, and writer Robert Foulkes, Denbigh, and John Palmer, Amlwch, under the title of Y Ddau Foneddwr (n.d.); (2) a critical essay on the poetry of Ceiriog, under the title Athrylith Ceiriog Hughes (1892?); and (3) a lecture on Welsh hymnology delivered at the annual meetings of the Welsh Baptist Union at Cardigan in 1888. But his main interest was poetry. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, a frequent adjudicator
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet ode ' Y Lloer ' (which immediately became popular because of its smooth, rhythmical lines) and in 1908 at Llangollen for an ode ' Ceiriog '. He adjudicated the chair competition for nearly a quarter of a century and was Archdruid for the period 1936-39. He wrote two scriptural plays in verse, Ruth (1909) and Esther (1911), set to music by James Davies. He wrote ' Cadair Tregaron ' (1929), which
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (1658 - 1726), cleric and translator son of the Rev. William Williams and Elizabeth his wife; born at Eglwysbach, Denbighshire, 1658. He matriculated at Oxford from Jesus College, 3 April 1674, took his B.A. in 1677 and his M.A. in 1680. It is thought that he succeeded his father as rector of S. George, near Abergele, in 1684; possibly he was the Thomas Williams who was rector of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog from 1687 to 1702. He was
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Creuddynfab; 1814 - 1869), poet and literary critic this period also that he became friendly with Ceiriog - see Saunders Lewis, Ceiriog (1929), 21-31.About 1860 he resigned and settled at Llandudno in order to become secretary of the National Eisteddfod Association - the Association's first paid secretary - a position he had to relinquish five years later (two years according to one source) for reasons of health. Although he has only one publication
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies , who was the first pupil of Richard Roberts, the Caernarvon harpist; (2) WILLIAM WOOD, father of HENRY WOOD ('Harri Ddu') the Llanidloes harpist who was so well known to the poet Ceiriog - Harry was buried at Penrhyn-deudraeth about 1883; and (3) SARAH WOOD, who married John Robert Lewis of Pentrefoelas, cousin of the almanac-maker John Robert Lewis. Their son was John Roberts of Newtown (1816 - 1894).

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