Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN ap MOEL Y PANTRI (d. 1440) Llanwnnog, poet , cxxxiii); it is also suggested that his father ('Moel y Pantri') was the real author of two other poems attributed to Llywelyn in some MSS. (Iolo Goch ac Eraill, 1925 ed., cxxix). No details are known concerning the life of his son OWAIN, but a large number of his poems remain in manuscript, see Jones and Lewis, Mynegai; Bodewryd MS 1D; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 6; Cwrtmawr MS 312B; Gwysaney MS. 25; NLW MS
LLYWELYN FARDD (fl. c. 1150-1175), poet His dates and list of works are not easily fixed. Cerdd Dafod gives c. 1185 - 1220, but J. Lloyd-Jones has c. 1155 - 1200. It may be suggested that there were two poets of the same name, one in the 12th century, and the other in the 13th century, and that that is why the ' Red Book of Hergest ' refers to ' Llywelyn Fardd, son of Cywryd.' This poet was the earlier, and apparently a native of
LLYWELYN SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Margaret Ann Price (1875-1948) from Rhyl. Enid Wyn Jones was his sister. His background was different to that of most other Welsh-language writers of the time in that he had a middle-class professional upbringing in Cardiff. Although English was the main language of the home, that did not mean that the family was Anglicized: he says that he had 'a faint memory of playing by myself in Welsh as a young boy
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker of David Peter, he entered Manchester Unitarian College where, in his second year, he was appointed assistant tutor in the classics. At about the same time he took charge of the congregation at Lob Lane, near Manchester. On his marriage he was persuaded by his brothers-in-law, Samuel and William Jones, to abandon the ministry and to become a partner in their banking business. This new career of
MACHEN, ARTHUR (1863 - 1947), writer
MACLEAN, Sir EWEN JOHN (1865 - 1953), first professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Welsh National School of Medicine work of the Council for, appointed its second chairman in succession to Sir Edgar Jones, MP for Merthyr Tydfil, he secured a knighthood in 1923. Maclean gave long and devoted service to the British Medical Association. Honorary secretary of the Cardiff division between 1904 and 1907 he acted as its representative on the Association's Representative Body from 1906 to 1913. In particular he served as
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn descendant of the attorney's sister Jane. See, in continuation, Parry and Jones-Parry family, of Madryn.
MANUEL, DAVID (1624? - 1726), poet Born 1624-5, according to some of the sources below. Little is known of his life. He was a native of the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire. His wife, Margaret, died in 1699. There were three children: Mary, who became well known as a penillion -singer, Anne, and David. Some of the poet's work was published in Thomas Jones, Carolau a Dyriau Duwiol, 1696, David Jones, Blodau-Gerdd Cymry, 1759
MARC, SIARL (1720 - 1795) Tŷ-mawr, Bryncroes, Llŷn, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer After his conversion about 1741 he became far and away the most important exhorter in his part of Wales. He is thought to have been a carpenter by trade. He had changed his home three or four times before settling at Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes. This is what Robert Jones of Rhos-lan says about him in Drych yr Amseroedd : 'He was a man of great intelligence, strong in the true doctrine, and clearly
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician Born in 1879, the son of Thomas Isaac and Gwen Jones, Brynaman, Carmarthenshire. His father and both his grandfathers were killed in coal-mining accidents. He received his early education at Ferndale board school, and began working in a local coal mine at 12 years of age. His wages had to support a family of six. He took advantage of the opportunity to study political and economic history at

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