Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHYS DYFED - see REES, REES ARTHUR
ROWLAND(S), DAVID (Dewi Brefi; 1782 - 1820), cleric instituted to the vicariate of Tregaron, but he died on 29 February, and was buried at Carmarthen. He married a Miss Matthews of Llanwnnog, who, with one son, survived him. Rowlands had a high reputation for scholarship, and some poems and carols by him are published in Blodau Dyfed (Carmarthen, 1824) and Cymru (O.M.E.), 1896, 256.
SAMSON (c. 485 - 565), abbot and bishop in the Celtic Church son of Amwn (of Dyfed) and Anna (of Gwent). He was taught by Illtud at Llan Illtud (Dyfed) from 490 on and was ordained deacon and priest by Dyfrig at Illtud's request. He went to Pŷr's monastery (again in Dyfed) and on Pŷr's death succeeded him as abbot. He then visited Ireland where there are churches bearing his name at Ballygriffin, near Dublin, and Bally Samson, in the county of Wexford
SAMUEL, WYNNE ISLWYN (1912 - 1989), local government officer, Plaid Cymru activist and organiser Pembrokeshire, in 1965. He served, too, as legal adviser to the South Pembrokeshire County Council. He was president of the West Glamorgan Baptist Association in 1950 and of the Baptist Union of Wales in 1960-61, the youngest person ever to hold this position. He worked as a legal advisor to the Dyfed County Council from its inception in April 1974 until his retirement. He was also a member of the Welsh
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer , 1820; Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul … at yr hyn yr ychwanegwyd ychydig o hymnau newyddion, 1828; and elegies on Samuel Breeze, Newcastle Emlyn, 1812; Zecharias Thomas, Aberduar (2nd ed.), 1816; and Joseph Harris (Gomer, 1826). It was only through the intercession of Iolo Morganwg that Saunders's ode to Picton was included in Awen Dyfed (1822), a compilation of the most notable compositions
SEISYLL ap CLYDOG (fl. 730), king of the combined realm of Ceredigion and Ystrad Tywi According to early pedigrees he was a descendant of Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig who is assumed to have been the first Brythonic ruler of Ceredigion to which he gave his name. At first king only of Ceredigion, Seisyll later added to his kingdom those parts of ancient Dyfed known as Cantref Mawr, Cantref Bychan, and Cantref Eginog, or collectively as Ystrad Tywi. Hence the name Seisyllwg was often
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author prominent preachers of his day, and sermons by him were published in Spence - Exall (ed.), Pulpit Commentary. He was a popular eisteddfod conductor, and was frequently invited to lecture. His poetical works, in both Welsh and English, were edited by William Morris (Rhosynog) under the title of Barddoniaeth Myfyr Emlyn, 1898, and he also published Marwnad R. A. Rees (Rhys Dyfed) Rhydlewis, 1868, and
THOMAS, EVAN (c. 1710 - c. 1770), poet and boot-maker son of Thomas Rhys Siams of Llwyndafydd, Llandysiliogogo, Cardiganshire. For some years he worked at his trade at Llanarth. We do not know when he began to write verse, but he published 'Y Maen Tramgwydd,' which is in the form of a ballad, some time between 1757 and 1761. Two of his poems appeared in Hymnau Cymwys i Addoliad, 1768, and one in Blodau Dyfed, 1824. A volume of his poetry, Diliau
THOMAS, FRANCIS (Crythwr Dall o Geredigion; 1726 - 1796) , and two of his poems - ' Cynghor i Fab Ieuanc ' and ' Hanes Cyflwr Dyn yn mhob rhan o'i oes ' - appeared in John Howell's (Ioan Howell) Blodau Dyfed, 1824. He died at Llanwenog, 4 March 1796.
WILFRE, bishop Bishop of S. Davids from 1085 (after the death of Sulien) until 1115, the last independent bishop of that diocese; he was a Welshman, despite his foreign name. He threw in his lot with the Welsh in 1096 when they rose against the Normans in Dyfed, and in revenge Gerald of Pembroke ravaged his Pebidiog lands in 1097 - according to Gerald the Welshman, Wilfre himself was imprisoned for twenty days
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (Iolo Morganwg; 1747 - 1826), poet and antiquary subjects. When the Dyfed society held an eisteddfod at Carmarthen in 1819, he succeeded in making the Gorsedd an essential part of its proceedings. He was urged to publish the manuscripts which he maintained he had discovered in Glamorgan and in his old age he was busy arranging to publish Cyfrinach Beirdd Ynys Prydain. He died at Trefflemin on 18 December 1826. He had four children, his son, Taliesin
WILLIAMS, GWILYM IEUAN (1879 - 1968), minister (Presb.) in translating and arranging several of the cantatas of J.S. Bach, such as Aros di gyda ni (1919), Amser Duw, goreu yw (1922), Iesu dyrchafedig (1922), and The Short Passion (St. Matthew's Gospel) (1931, 1932 and 1933). Having learnt the rules of cynghanedd from Dyfed (Evan Rees) who was one-time a lodger at his parents' home, he often composed englynion, &c. He contributed occasionally to Y

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