Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RICHARDS, THOMAS (1710 - 1790), cleric and lexicographer the vocabulary of the cywyddwyr. This was a work which was kept close at hand by bards when they wrote awdlau and cywyddau in the second half of the 18th cent. And he was one of the men who aroused the interest of Iolo Morganwg in the literature of Wales, particularly in the vocabulary of the language. By his will, Richards left his books and manuscripts to Edward Thomas, the squire of Tre-groes in
ROBERT (fl. 1099-1147), earl of Gloucester Natural son of king Henry I of England; born before his father's accession to the throne. The legend (found in the 'Gwentian Brut,' The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, ii, 540) that his mother was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, is one of Iolo Morganwg's fabrications, though Henry did, indeed, have a son by Nest later on. Robert has a great and honourable place in English history (see D.N.B
ROBERTS, JOHN (1879 - 1959), minister (Presb.) and historian Born 16 October 1879 at Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, son of John J. Roberts ('Iolo Caernarfon') and Ann, his wife. He was educated at Porthmadog board school, Bala grammar school and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated in classics, and subsequently in theology. (The University of Wales conferred on him an honorary D.D. degree towards the end of his life.) He was ordained in 1905, and served
ROBERTS, JOHN JOHN (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and prose-writer
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar Llywelyn Goch - and for the texts of their poems. In the second edition, which appeared in 1935, Thomas Roberts added some poems and revised the introductions. In 1925 he took part in another joint effort, this time with Henry Lewis and Ifor Williams, to produce Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac eraill, in which Thomas Roberts dealt with Gruffudd Llwyd and Ieuan ap Rhydderch. The introductions were amplified and the
SAUNDERS, DAVID (Dafydd Glan Teifi; 1769 - 1840), Baptist minister, poet, and writer , 1820; Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul … at yr hyn yr ychwanegwyd ychydig o hymnau newyddion, 1828; and elegies on Samuel Breeze, Newcastle Emlyn, 1812; Zecharias Thomas, Aberduar (2nd ed.), 1816; and Joseph Harris (Gomer, 1826). It was only through the intercession of Iolo Morganwg that Saunders's ode to Picton was included in Awen Dyfed (1822), a compilation of the most notable compositions
SEISYLL BRYFFWRCH (1155 - 1175), poet identified with the ' Culfardd hardd hen' mentioned by Iolo Goch (I.G.E., xvii, 36). Seisyll sang elegiac odes on the death of Owain Gwynedd, and of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, a son of that prince, and father of Llywelyn the Great. This second elegy is a main source of our scanty knowledge of Iorwerth (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 549-50). This poet also sang the praises of the 'lord' Rhys in a poem where he
SILS ap SION (fl. end of the 16th century), bard To judge by one reference in his cywydd on husbandry, it may be thought that he lived (as Iolo Morganwg maintained) not far from the confines of Radyr and Llandaff. One book of pedigrees refers to a Sils ap Siôn who lived in the commote of Miskin - it is possible that this may have been the bard. A small collection of his work and that of some of his contemporaries, is preserved (probably in his
SIMON, BEN (c. 1703 - 1793), dissenter and copyist There is a record of the burial of ' Benjamin Simon, a Pauper,' at Abergwili, 1 March 1793, and Iolo Morganwg has left for us in his ' Agricultural Observations,' 1795 (NLW MS 13115B, i.e. Llanover MS. C 28) a picture of the old man in his poverty. Iolo says that he was 90 years of age at the time of his death and that he had been a bookbinder by trade. Another tradition, however, has it that he
SION MOWDDWY (fl. c. 1575-1613), poet the bards who attended the eisteddfod at Caerwys, 1567; he may have been too young. There is no foundation for Iolo Morganwg's story that he was the son of the 'Red Tinker of Mawddwy,' that he followed his father's trade, and that he married an heiress in Mawddwy.
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer are those on the romantic forger Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) in Yr Ymofynnydd (1852-1853), on the fictional 'Dyfnwal Moelmud' and early Welsh law in the Cambrian Journal and Archaeologia Cambrensis (from 1854), on 'The Book of Aberpergwm' in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1858), and on 'The Bardic Alphabet called “Coelbren y Beirdd”' in Archaeologia Cambrensis (1872). Numerous shorter contributions by
SYPYN CYFEILIOG (fl. 1340-1390), poet borne the name of Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, for he is mentioned by Gwilym Ddu o Arfon. Sir Ifor Williams suggests that three poets of short physical stature have been confused, namely Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, Bach Buddugre, and Sypyn Cyfeiliog. Sypyn sang a panegyric cywydd to Henry Salusbury of Lleweni (died 1400) and his wife Agnes Courtois, and also the two cywyddau included in Iolo Goch ac Eraill. This

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