Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller with him almost everywhere and illustrated his works. Pennant was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of James Falconer, of Chester, by whom he had two children, David, his heir, and Arabella. His second wife was Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, who bore him a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Thomas. The health of Pennant began to fail in 1793. He died 16 December 1798, at the age of
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy John Wynn of Gwydir and his eldest son John Wynn, Simwnt Thelwall of Plas y Ward, the Vaughans of Corsygedol, Sir William Maurice of Clenennau, etc. He wrote one cywydd priodas. The occasion was the marriage of Sir Roger Mostyn to Mary, daughter of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir. Of the love poems, the best known is the cywydd to the sea-gull. Siôn Phylip wrote his share of poems of a religious or didactic
PRICE family Rhiwlas, . 1530) requesting him to send a ram to Mrs. Mostyn. Cadwaladr ap Robert (alias Cadwaladr Price) died in 1554 : a metrical version of the year appears in a memorial cywydd in NLW MS 436B, p.39. JOHN WYNN AP CADWALADR AP ROBERT AP RHYS, Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements When Lewis Dwnn, deputy herald at arms, visited Rhiwlas on 21 July 1588, he received the pedigree of
PRYS, THOMAS (1564? - 1634) Plas Iolyn,, poet and adventurer (probably in his own handwriting); many are found also in the Peniarth, Mostyn, and Cefn Coch manuscripts. He wrote many poems on the traditional subjects of the bards, and he composed many love and nature poems. He composed many poems to ' Eiddig ' (the jealous one); and he had a long bardic contest with Edmund Prys and other bards 'about Eiddig.' There was also a bardic contest between him and two other
PUGH, HUGH (1803 - 1868), schoolmaster and Independent minister to the Dysgedydd and it was during this period that he published Drych y Cymunwr for the benefit of young communicants, and Hawl a chymwysder dyn i farnu drosto'i hun. In 1837 he moved to Mostyn, Flintshire, where he continued to work with the same assiduity and where he had men of similar opinions as neighbours, e.g., his predecessor, Gwilym Hiraethog, now at Denbigh, and Scorpion, at Trelawnyd
REES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Hiraethog; 1802 - 1883), Independent minister, writer editor, and political leader eisteddfod for a cywydd on the victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson - an achievement which brought him into public notice. He was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist, but when the Independents came to Llansannan in 1828 he was admitted a member of their church. It was not long before he was invited to preach and in 1831 he was appointed minister at Mostyn. In 1837 he went to Swan Lane, Denbigh
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister Ieuan Gwynedd, Cofiant H. Pugh, Mostyn (joint editor), Cofiant Caledfryn; and he had begun a memoir of Gwilym Hiraethog, which was completed by David Roberts (1818 - 1897).
SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet containing his genealogical collections is in the Cardiff Public Library, and there are several other manuscripts containing his work in the various libraries. Some of his cywyddau have been published, his 'pattern' awdl to Piers Mostyn, which he showed at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568, is printed in the grammar, (1592), of Siôn Dafydd Rhys. In 1571 was printed a page showing an epigram by the Latin poet
SION MOWDDWY (fl. c. 1575-1613), poet He sang the praises of the aristocracy throughout Wales, from Mostyn to Glamorgan. There were occasions when he spent a long time in Glamorgan. He indulged in flyting poetry with Meurug Dafydd of Llanishen concerning the rights of the strolling bards in Gwent and that neighbourhood, c. 1575-80, and he also had a poetic disputation with Llywelyn Siôn of Llangewydd. He is not mentioned as one of
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet . Asaph, and he was a landed proprietor of the lineage of Llywarch Howlbwrch. He spent some time at the court in London where he was one of queen Elizabeth's bodyguard. He addressed eulogies, elegies, and begging poems to over sixty North Wales families; among them are poems to four generations of the house of Botryddan, four of Mostyn, and three of Lleweni - nearly all relating to the period after 1566
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, appointment that he sentenced Richard White, the Roman Catholic schoolmaster of Llanidloes, to his death in 1584. Thelwall was an exceptionally gifted man, who, according to Simwnt Fychan, was fluent in eight languages. After the death of Gruffudd Hiraethog, c. 1560, it appears that Simwnt forsook the patronage of the Mostyn family for that of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward. In an awdl to Simon Thelwall
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, judicial impartiality in sharp contrast with his political venality. He was a benefactor of many county charities, including Denbigh grammar school. His portrait is preserved at Brynkynallt. He married Jane, daughter of Sir Roger Mostyn and widow of Roger Puleston of Emral. With the death, in 1762, o his eldest son, who unsuccessfully contested Denbigh boroughs in the Tory interest in 1741, the male line

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