Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN family Peniarth, to Edward Breese, Kalendars of Gwynedd, and to S. R. Meyrick's edition of Dwnn's Heraldic Visitations and (b) in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 323. What follows here is, therefore, but a summary. The family traced its descent from Ednowain ap Bradwen down to a LLYWELYN who did homage for his land to Edward I. Llywelyn's son, EDNYFED, married GWENLLIAN, daughter and co-heiress of Gruffydd ab Adda ap
PRICE family Rhiwlas, gun to Humphrey Thomas of Bodelwyddan. His son was CADWALADR WYNN, Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements He was called 'Cadwaladr fab Siôn ap Cadwaladr' by the poet Edward Urien and 'Cadwaladr Prys' by two other poets - Siôn ap William Griffith and Ieuan Tew Brydydd. W. W. E. Wynne (Breese, Kalendars) says that he adopted the surname Price. He was Member of Parliament for
ROBERTS, JOHN (1767 - 1834), Independent minister and theologian supported him. He also published Galwad caredigol ar yr Arminiaid; Cyfarwyddiadau ac Anogaethau i Gredinwyr; A Friendly Address to the Arminians; Hanes Bywyd Lewis Rees; and some other books. He died 21 July 1834, and was buried in Llanbryn-mair parish churchyard. He had married (1797) Mary Breese, and had three sons ('S.R.,' 'J.R.,' and 'Gruffydd Rhisiart,' all separately noticed, and two daughters
ROBERTS, SAMUEL (S.R.; 1800 - 1885), Independent minister, editor, Radical reformer Born 6 March 1800, eldest son of John and Mary Roberts (née Breese), of Llanbryn-mair, where his father John Roberts (1767 - 1834) was Independent minister, 1794-1834. He received his early education at the local school kept by his father, and at Shrewsbury, 1810-12. It is claimed that he was one of the earliest in Wales to master shorthand. In 1819 he entered the Academy at Llanfyllin, soon to
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, a general account of Corsygedol and the Vaughans in Archæologia Cambrensis, vi (1875), 1-16; this account was edited and annotated by W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth from a transcript by Angharad Llwyd from a Mostyn manuscript compiled in 1770 by William Vaughan (below). Various members of the family, as shown by Edward Breese in Kalendars of Gwynedd, served as high sheriffs of Merioneth (and some of

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