Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist later sources give the names of his sons as John, Edward, Arthur, and Gabriel, and in addition to the three daughters named above a fourth daughter, Mary, is included, who married Peter Price, Cynllwyd, fourth son of Thomas Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. In accordance with family tradition Rowland Vaughan played a prominent part in the public life of the county and, like his father, who was sheriff
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet associated with the Welsh Republican movement - sustained by a handful of people like Gwilym Prys Davies, Cliff Bere, Huw Davies, Ithel Davies - and edited its bi-monthy newspaper. The movement failed to take popular root and Harri eventually moved on to Plaid as a realistic second best. Webb was as polemic in his literary views as he was in politics. He was contemptuous of Dylan Thomas thinking him
WILLIAMS, EVAN (1706 - ?), harpist valuable service by arranging sixteen of these tunes in the common measure (8.6.8.6.), so that the metrical psalms of archdeacon Edmund Prys, which were 8.7.8.7., could be sung to them. He also composed eight tunes in Prys's 'New Measure', 8.7.8.7. These were the first tunes composed by a Welshman to be published. With the tunes is also given, for the first time, instructions on how to sing. The Morris
WILLIAMS, OWEN (1774 - after 1827), musician works were then published as one and attained an extensive circulation. Two very important contributions appeared in 1819, in two parts, the first part, Brenhinol Ganiadau Seion, containing tunes for the Welsh psalter of Edmund Prys, the other containing hymn-tunes to be sung upon the new verse measures used by William Williams (Pantycelyn) and other hymnists; the music was arranged by S. Wesley and V
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1952), H.M. Inspector of Schools and Director of the Council of Social Service for Wales and Monmouthshire Newport High School. He became a barrister at the Middle Temple in 1912, and an inspector of schools in the Welsh Department of the Board of Education in 1915. He played an important role in encouraging the use of the Welsh language in the elementary schools of Carmarthenshire. In 1933 he succeeded Dr. G. Prys Williams as Chief Inspector of Schools, and remained in the post until he reached retirement
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn , son of archdeacon Edmund Prys, and (2) MARGARET, the heiress of Maesyneuadd, who, by her husband, Griffith Lloyd, of Rhiwgoch, Merioneth, became the mother of another Maesyneuadd heiress, JANE LLOYD. It is by the marriage of Jane Lloyd with MORRIS WYNN AP WILLIAM WYNN of Glyn (Cywarch) - that the surname Wynn comes into the Maesyneuadd family, to continue in use thereafter for several generations
WYNNE family Voelas, chaplain to cardinal Wolsey, he was the father of Elis ap Rhys, i.e. Dr. Elis Prys (see also Vaughan family, Pant Glas). Their eldest son, MAURICE GETHIN, steward of the abbey of Aberconway, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton ' Hen,' Gwenynog, receiver-general for North Wales in the time of Edward IV, and had a large family, the heir being CADWALADR WYNNE I, high sheriff of Denbighshire, 1548, who

Search results

85 - 91 of 91 for "Prys"