Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts Nothing is known of his private life. He wrote an exceptionally neat hand, and he had opportunities to copy some of the older Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' Black Book of Carmarthen ' and the ' White Book of Rhydderch,' possibly through friendships with Jasper Griffith. His interests were wide and there remain of his transcription collections of lives of saints (Llanstephan MS 34), a botanology
MORRIS, VALENTINE (1727 - 1789), colonial administrator and landowner administrator and led, ultimately, to his imprisonment for debt, give weight to this descriptor. However, his financial misfortunes were also due to his extravagant lifestyle and gambling. On the one hand, he was not popular as a governor of St Vincent - neither among the white settlers, nor, certainly, among the fugitives from slavery which he personally led expeditions to recapture. On the other, he was
NICHOLLS, JOHN (1555 - 1584?), controversial theologian His only connection with Wales is that he was a son of a John Nicholls and was born at Cowbridge. He entered White Hall (afterwards Jesus College), Oxford, and later transferred to Brasenose, but left without a degree. After leaving the University he returned home and acted as a tutor before obtaining a curacy at Withycombe in Somerset. The rest of his short life was spent partly on the continent
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet Born 7 November 1838 at White Hall, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, and christened 18 November, the fourth child of John and Sarah Oliver. He received his early education at the village school (1843-50) and in a Carmarthen school (1850-3), and then determined to prepare himself for the Independent ministry. After a successful career from 1853 to 1859 in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario proposed Skybolt system, and assisted in Macmillan's efforts to implement a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Alongside a close friendship with the President, he developed important strategic relationships with key administration figures. Britain's influence within the White House was probably never closer. Yet Kennedy's tragic assassination in Dallas in November 1963 was not just a personal loss. The elevation
OWEN, DAVID (Dafydd y Garreg Wen; 1711 - 1741), harpist Christened 27 January 1711, son of Owen Humphreys of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Gwen (Roberts), Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire (See J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 353). He attained fame both as harpist and as the reputed composer of the airs called ' Dafydd y Garreg Wen ' ('David of the White Rock'), ' Codiad yr Ehedydd ' ('The rising of the lark'), and ' Difyrrwch gwyr
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet banks of the river and also depicts the river as a symbol of life. A strange theme for one who lived out his childhood years in Sarnau, a village that cannot boast a river! He was honoured with the white robe of the Gorsedd in Cardigan in 1976 taking the bardic name Gerallt Llwyd, and he intended to compete at that Eisteddfod but did not finish his poem with the title 'Gwanwyn' (Spring) before the
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator national life. Above all, Hughes Parry felt a particular obligation towards Wales, her language, culture and institutions. In a sense, he had taken upon himself the mantle of O. M. Edwards as one of Wales's guardians, showing an almost paternalistic responsibility for her welfare. A tall, lean and physically striking figure, his trademark mane of thick, backcombed white hair remained a distinctive
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar tradition of Welsh free-metre poetry, namely Carolau Richard White (1931), Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi… (1931), Canu Rhydd Cynnar (1932) and Hen Benillion (1940). Parry-Williams edited several further volumes of modern poetry and prose. His analysis of the craft of poetry, Elfennau Barddoniaeth (1935), does not always reflect his own subtler practice. He was a frequent adjudicator in the literary
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller of Edinburgh. Among Pennant's foreign correspondents were several distinguished persons, such as Linnaeus, Le Comte de Buffon, Dr. Pallas (The Hague), and Gronovius (Leyden). The English naturalist, Gilbert White, the author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, also had correspondence with him. Of Welshmen with whom he had association and to whom he was indebted were the following
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner the purchase of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. from the International Mercantile Marine Co., an American firm, for seven million pounds in 1926-27. This was a very popular move because Kylsant was purchasing a British shipping line back from American control and he had little trouble in raising the money required. His new shipping line was renamed the White Star Line. In business, Kylsant was
PHILLIPS, CLIFFORD (1914 - 1984), journalist to the white robe order in the Cardigan National Eisteddfod in 1976. He was an ardent Welshman and a genial companion with a stock of entertaining stories about his life as a journalist and reporter. He wrote up some of these in articles in the monthly journal Barn and in a book of reminiscences, Dilyn fy nhrwyn (1980). He died at his home in Cwmllynfell 9 August, 1984, and was cremated at

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