Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SIÔN ap SIÔN - see JOHN, JOHN ap
SIÔN ap y BEDO ap DAFYDD ap HYWEL ap TUDUR - see SION CERI
SION BRWYNOG (d. 1567?), poet Son of William ap Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. He lived at Brwynog, in the parish of Llanfflewyn, Anglesey, from which farm he took his surname. He belonged to the lesser squirearchy and, as a strolling poet, had wandered over many parts of the country, writing poems for the aristocracy of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Merioneth. There was a brief exchange of flyting poetry
SION CAIN (c. 1575 - c. 1650), herald bard Son of Rhys Cain, and born probably before the family settled at Oswestry about 1578. He succeeded his father in his profession, and he was regarded, in his day, as the last of the herald bards. He left some notes which suggest that he was also engaged in husbandry. He travelled widely in North Wales in the course of his occupation. The record of his public career begins with a visit to Lleweni
SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet - much of it, there is little doubt, incorrectly - consists of religious cywyddau. His subjects are confined to the uncertainty of life and all that pertains to it, and to the inevitability of death and the last judgement. When Rhys Goch Eryri and Llywelyn ap y Moel were engaged in a discussion as to the origin of the muse and agreed that it was derived from the Holy Ghost, Siôn Cent intervened and
SION CERI (fl. 1500?-1530?), poet His full name was Siôn ap y Bedo ap Dafydd ap Hywel ap Tudur. (Bodl. Welsh, c.4, 27b). Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 1D; Esgair MS. 2; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 3; Cwrtmawr MS 204B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; Peniarth MS 69, Peniarth MS 77, Peniarth MS 82, Peniarth MS 84, Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 87, Peniarth MS 98, Peniarth MS 100, Peniarth MS 103, Peniarth MS 112
SION DAFYDD ap SIENCYN, poet
SIÔN DAFYDD RHYS - see RHYS, JOHN DAVID
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric Son of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf of Denbighshire, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (20)). No details regarding his life are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two religious poems, one being a confession and the other a poem on the vernicle, a poem in praise of Richard Kyffin, dean of Bangor, a love poem, and another to the owl. (The last one is
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet Siôn Tudur died on the eve of Easter Sunday, 3 April 1602, and was buried in S. Asaph church the following Monday, 5 April. In view of the fact that, towards the end of his life, he claimed to be the oldest of all the bards, and that some time before 1580 he had complained to Rhys Gruffudd of Penrhyn that he was growing old, it is suggested that he was born before 1530. His home was at Wigfair, S
STEPHEN, DAVID RHYS (Gwyddonwyson; 1807 - 1852), Baptist minister and author
STEPHEN, THOMAS (1856 - 1906), musician Born 24 February 1856 at Brynaman, Glamorganshire. His parents moved to Aberdare when he was a child and it was there, in Ysgol y Comin, that he went to school. He joined the Aberdare Choral Society then under the conductorship of G. Rhys Jones (Caradog), and when the latter gave up the conductorship and was succeeded by Rhys Evans, Stephen became assistant conductor. In 1877 he became precentor

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