Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, JOHN (Iocyn Ddu; 1795 - 1864), poet and adjudicator the chair were Emrys (William Ambrose) and Nicander (Morris Williams). Eben Fardd was for 'chairing' Emrys, while Iocyn Ddu stood out stoutly for Nicander. The third adjudicator, Chwaneg Mon (Joseph Jones), thought that Bardd Du Môn (R. M. Williamson) should get the chair, but was over-persuaded by Richards to cast his final vote for Nicander. The decision provoked a heated controversy in the press
ROBERTS, EDWARD EMRYS - see EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWAIN - see ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN
ROBERTS, EMRYS OWEN (1910 - 1990), Liberal politician and public servant , MA). He became a solicitor in 1936 and was awarded the Clements Inn Prize. He also attended the Geneva School of International Law. He was a Gold Medallist of the Cambridge and Wales Law Societies. He served in the RAF, 1941-45, where he became a squadron-leader. He was called to the bar from Grays Inn in 1944. He was made MBE in 1946 and CBE in 1976. Emrys Roberts had been short-listed as the
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author Journal at Newport and edited the few numbers which appeared between 1 May and 31 July 1841. Elegies were composed on him by (1) W. Downing Evans (The Gwyddonwyson Wreath, 1853); (2) William Thomas (Islwyn), W. Ambrose (Emrys), and Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled). His library was bequeathed to his executors James Rowe and David Lloyd Isaac. A number of letters by him to William Roberts (Nefydd) are
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist paper ceased publication in 1930, and again when it was revived for a short run in 1936. Although the aims of Y Deyrnas were primarily devotional, it gave Valentine the opportunity to express his culture nationalism, showing the influence of Emrys ap Iwan, particularly with regard to his belief in the inextricable link between religion, language and nation. And it was on the pages of Y Deyrnas that he
WILLIAMS, PETER (Pedr Hir; 1847 - 1922), Baptist minister, author, and eisteddfodwr kind of college education, was, in 1881, invited to become minister to the Baptists of Abergele, where he met Emrys ap Iwan; in 1886 he moved south to Shiloh, Tredegar; in 1897 he became minister of Balliol Road church, Bootle, Lancashire, and there he remained until his death on 24 March, 1922. In person he was immensely tall, broad in proportion, a fine handsome presence; as a preacher he developed
WILLIAMS, ROBERT HERBERT (Corfanydd; 1805 - 1876), musician ), 1843. Some doubts were expressed as to who had composed this tune but John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), J. Ambrose Lloyd, William Ambrose (Emrys), and William Evans (under whose conductorship it had been sung first, at Tabernacle chapel, Liverpool) testified that it was the work of Corfanydd. He wrote other hymn-tunes and published a small collection in 1848 under the title of Alawydd Trefriw. For some

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