Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROGERS, DAVID (1783 - 1824), Wesleyan minister and author Born at Garth, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. He was convinced under the ministry of Edward Jones of Bathafarn (1778 - 1837) in 1800 and was, therefore, one of the first-fruits of the Welsh Wesleyan mission. He began to preach c. 1803, and was made a circuit minister in 1805. He served in the following circuits: Denbigh (1805), Caernarvon (1806-7), Llandeilo (1808), Caerphilly (1809-10), Llanidloes
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author person. He died on 29 December 1979 at 92 years of age at Bron y Garth Hospital, Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, and his remains were cremated at Bangor on 2 January 1980, following a public service held at Tabernacl chapel, Porthmadog. His ashes were interred at Minffordd cemetery, near Penrhyndeudraeth.
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator struck up a life-long friendship. In 1962 at Webb's invitation Stephens moved into Garth Newydd in Merthyr Tydfil, a large house which seemingly had no owner and evolved into a sort of commune for idealists, writers, radicals and nationalists. He later edited Webb's Collected Poems (1995). Stephens was politically active and took part in the first protest of Cymdeithas yr Iaith at Pont Trefechan in
THOMAS, DAVID EMLYN (1892 - 1954), politician and trade unionist qualify as an engineer. In 1906, at 13 years of age, he began working as clerk at the Oakwood and Garth collieries, he moved to a colliery at Llantrisant and then to the Caerau colliery, Maesteg. Thomas became a full-time official of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1919 and served as secretary to Vernon Hartshorn and Ted Williams (see Williams, Sir Edward John below). In the same year he joined
THOMAS, JOHN (1857 - 1944), minister (B) and author and on philosophy, and volumes of poems, The Iris and other poems; Psyche and other poems and Caniadau John Garth (the only work in Welsh). He died 20 September 1944 and was buried at Gorseinon.
THOMAS, JOHN WILLIAM (Arfonwyson; 1805 - 1840), mathematician three months studied at the school kept by Robert Roberts, the almanac-maker (1776-1836), at Holyhead. Then, he himself opened a school at Tre-garth and began work on his book, Elfennau Rhifyddiaeth. At the age of 21 he married, and moved to Bangor; the story goes that he was again engaged for a time in selling books in Anglesey; however, J. H. Cotton obtained for him the mastership of a school at
THOMAS, WILLIAM (KEINION) (1856 - 1932), Congregational minister, and publicist 'Keinion') to his name. His pastorates were: Garisim with Peniel (Llanfairfechan) 1879, Siloh with Moriah (Port Dinorwic) 1900, Pentraeth (with Penmynydd, Llanfair-pwll, and Menai Bridge) 1910, and finally Beaumaris 1922-32. He was twice married: to Ruth in 1889, and they had two sons, Garth and Robert Tibbot Kerris, and in 1902 he married Jannette Spencer, and they had five sons, Gwyn, Alon, Iwan, Jac
TUDOR, OWEN DAVIES (1818 - 1887), legal writer Born 19 July 1818 at Lower Garth, Guilsfield, eldest son of Robert Owen Tudor, a captain in the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Emma, daughter of John Lloyd Jones, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, was admitted to the Middle Temple in April 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. After practising in London for many years he was appointed joint
VAUGHAN, Sir GRUFFUDD (d. 1447), soldier his treachery, and the indignant elegies of Lewis Glyn Cothi and Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd have survived. In the pedigree books Sir Gruffudd is given two wives: Margaret, daughter of Madoc of Hope in Worthen, and Margaret, daughter of Griffith ap Jenkin, lord of Broughton. He left three sons: Cadwaladr, ancestor of the Lloyds of Maes-mawr; Reynold, ancestor of the Wynns of Garth in
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Intelligence, Vernon Watkins lived all his adult life in Gower (after marriage at 'The Garth' on Pennard Cliffs), ' the oldest cashier', as he was fond of claiming, in the banking service. The recipient of many literary prizes, he was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Wales in 1966 and became a Gulbenkian Scholar at University College, Swansea. He died 8 October 1967 while playing tennis soon after his
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet poem published in 1949. In 1954 he moved to Merthyr to take up the post of librarian in Dowlais, a calling he followed for 20 years without ever taking a professional qualification. He lived at Garth Newydd, a house on Brecon Road which seemed to belong to nobody and became a nationalist commune, including among its residents Meic Stephens, who became his close friend and editor. After 10 years at
WILLIAMS, DAVID DAVID (1862 - 1938), minister (Presb.) and author Born at Garth Lwynog, Croesor, Merionethshire, son of David and Grace Williams. He was educated at Gelli-gaer Grammar School, Bala College, and at the university colleges of Aberystwyth and Cardiff. He was ordained in 1891, and served his ministry at Peniel, Ffestiniog (1890-96); Oswestry (1896-1906); Moss Side, Manchester (1906-15); and David Street (later Belvidere Road), Liverpool (1915-38

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