Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician
LEWIS, DAVID (1828 - 1908), musician tunes and hymns. For descriptions of his numerous manuscripts, together with those of his brother, John Lewis (Eos Glan Wyre), see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., xiii. He died 6 October 1908, and was buried in Llanrhystud churchyard.
LEWIS, DAVID WYRE (1872 - 1966), minister and administrator (B) Born 13 May 1872 at Felinganol, Llanrhystud Mefenydd, Cardiganshire, son of the poet and musician John Lewis ('Eos Glyn Wyre '; 1836 - 1892), Tŷ-mawr, and Jane (née Davies; 1844 - 1917), Felinganol, and nephew of the musician David Lewis (1828 - 1908). He was educated in the church school in the village, and was apprenticed to a carpenter at Trawsgoed. Because of lack of work locally he moved to
LEWIS, JOHN (Eos Glyn Wyre; 1836 - 1892), poet and musician
LEWIS, REES (Eos Ebrill; 1828 - 1880), schoolmaster and musician
MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622 - 1709), poet , is the 'Elegy to Barbara Myddelton.' Huw Morys also wrote at least two interludes dealing with 'The Civil War' and 'The Prodigal Son,' and there are also extant a few poems which suggest that he wrote a third interlude entitled 'Y Cogiwr' (The Swindler). In 1823 a collection of his poems was published in two volumes by Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) entitled Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr
NOVELLO, IVOR (1893 - 1951), composer, playwright, stage and film actor Born at 95 Cowbridge Road, Cardiff, 15 January 1893, of a very musical family who soon moved to Llwyn-yr-eos, 11 Cathedral Road, Cardiff, the only son of David Davies, rates collector, and Clara Novello Davies. He attended Mrs. Soulez' school nearby and received musical tuition from his mother and (Sir) Herbert Brewer, Gloucester. His good soprano voice won him prizes at eisteddfodau, and a
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms information is given by James Parry's son, George Parry, himself the author of another version; the son says that the father was a well-born layman of Ewias Lacy in Herefordshire, a patron of poets and himself a distinguished one - he calls his father 'Eos Eyas.' The father presented his manuscripts to William Morgan, bishop of Llandaff; this proved an incentive to Edmund Prys and provided the first, rather
POWELL, HOWELL (1819 - 1875), Calvinistic Methodist minister in the U.S.A., and author Born 26 October 1819 at Tŷ-newydd, Ystradgynlais, Brecknock. He worked at the Ynyscedwyn Iron Works and afterwards (from 1832) at Tredegar. In 1842 he emigrated to the U.S.A., settling at Abersiwgr, Pennsylvania. Ordained in 1846, he took charge, in 1851, of a Calvinistic Methodist church at Cincinnati, removing in 1869 to take charge of a Calvinistic Methodist church in New York. With Eos Glan
REES, ROBERT (Eos Morlais; 1841 - 1892), vocalist and musician he supplemented by the study of text books. He joined the Libanus Temperance choir which was conducted by David Rosser whom he succeeded as conductor when the latter retired. He won several prizes at eisteddfodau as vocalist and when he was 26 years old he won the prize at the national eisteddfod which was held that year (1867) at Carmarthen. In the year 1870, Eos Morlais moved to Swansea where he
ROBERTS, ABSALOM (1780? - 1864), poet and collector of penillion telyn submitted a collection of penillion, but on this occasion he had to take second place, the prize being awarded to John Jones (Idris Fychan). He contributed often to Y Gwyliedydd, Y Gwladgarwr (e.g. 1837 and 1841), and Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd; he also wrote commendatory englynion to several books printed at Llanrwst (e.g. Gwaith Eos Gwynedd).
ROBERTS, DAVID (Telynor Mawddwy; 1875 - 1956), harpist, singer and author of handbooks on penillion singing was nurtured at home and in the chapel, and his interest in poetry was roused at a very early age. He began to sing in public as a member of the Bwlch Coediog plygain party. It was from his two uncles, ' Eos Mawddwy ' and ' Ioan Mawddwy ', that he learnt how to set a stanza to an air, and he was steeped in the old oral settings which were sung in the homes of the Mawddwy district and which were part

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