Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer Born Ceridwen Lloyd on 24 September 1900 in Griffithstown, Pontypool, she was the eldest of the five children of Herbert Davies Lloyd, a foundry worker born in Ebbw Vale, and his wife Ceridwen, born in Blaenafon. She received her education at the Pontypool High School for Girls and at the University College in Cardiff, where she took the degree of Mus. Bac. in 1921, becoming only the second woman
JONES, ALICE GRAY (Ceridwen Peris; 1852 - 1943), author Fourcrosses, Caernarfonshire. They had 4 children. She edited Y Gymraes from 1896 to 1919. She wrote a number of books for children, including Caniadau Ceridwen Peris. She played a prominent part in the establishment of the Treborth Home. She was one of the founders of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union, and was an active member of many committees. She moved to live at Cricieth in 1919. She died at
MATHIAS, RONALD CAVILL (1912 - 1968), trade union leader Welsh College for Advanced Technology, to name but a few. He became chairman of the Labour Party Wales in 1965. Mathias published a number of articles in journals, and he was a popular lecturer on economic and industrial matters. He received the M.B.E., in 1938 and the O.B.E. in 1967. He married in 1938 Annie Ceridwen Hall; they had one daughter. He died 15 April 1968 at the beginning of a
TREE, RONALD JAMES (1914 - 1970), priest and schoolmaster other hobby was carpentry. He was a genial character, at his best when tutoring students. He married in 1944 Ceridwen, daughter of G.E. Thomas, Gwauncaegurwen, and they had a daughter and a son. He died 28 November 1970 and was buried at St. David's.
THOMAS, IFOR OWEN (1892 - 1956), operatic tenor, photographer and artist , having returned from Wales the previous year. He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Delwanna, N.J. He married twice (1) Ceridwen Evans in 1920; a child from the marriage died in 1922. The marriage was annulled and he married (2) Mildred Unfried, a professional pianist from New York, who survived him.
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer lecturer Ceridwen Lloyd Davies of Bangor, who offered to teach her, and as a pupil at Pwllheli Grammar School she was strongly influenced by the music master John Newman. While still in her teens she appeared on radio and television, travelling to London at the age of fifteen to sing on a TV programme. She featured on the front page of the Welsh newspaper Y Cymro on 26 February 1954, dressed in her Welsh
TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard attributed, wrongly, a number of poems which formed a part of a narrative or tale which was put together in a later age, possibly in the 9th century. The chief character in this dramatic tale is Gwion Bach who swallowed the three drops (containing particular virtues) which flew in the fullness of time from the cauldron of Ceridwen the Witch. Gwion in turn was swallowed by the angered witch and was reborn
JONES, GWENAN (1889 - 1971), educationalist and author first president of Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru and was honorary president for many years after that, playing an important role in the publication of Ysgolion y Cymry (1942) and Polisi Addysg i Gymru (1945). An active member of Undeb Cymru Fydd and its predecessor, Cyngor Diogelu Diwylliant Cymru, she served as chair of the Women's Committee and editor of Llythyr Ceridwen, 1957-1968. She
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Tom Nefyn; 1895 - 1958), minister (Presb.) and evangelist guidance of R.B. Jones before proceeding to the theological colleges of his denomination at Aberystwyth and Bala. He was ordained in 1925, and that same year he married Ceridwen Roberts Jones of Coed-poeth, and they had 3 children. He received a call to Ebenezer, Tumble, Carmarthenshire, the anthracite coal district where there was much industrial and political unrest in the 1920s. Tom Nefyn spent a
WILLIAMS, ALICE HELENA ALEXANDRA (ALYS MEIRION; 1863 - 1957), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker Britannia; the latter, described as a 'patriotic pageant-play' for women and girls, was translated into Welsh by Alice Gray Jones ('Ceridwen Peris'). For her work with the Fund Alice Williams was awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française. Her commitment to providing wider opportunities for women's social, educational, and cultural development remained central to her life. She founded the fourth
GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar R. Geraint Gruffydd was born on 9 June 1928 in Egryn, an ancient house in Tal-y-bont, Dyffryn Ardudwy. He was the second of the two children of Moses Griffith (1893-1973), researcher in experimental agriculture and later an independent agricultural advisor, and his wife Ceridwen (née Ellis), a teacher of Welsh and Latin. He had an elder sister, Meinir (1926-1992). Egryn had been the home of the
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author characters of Llangeitho, testify to the way she moved Welsh women's writing a huge step forward. As a result of the recent renewal of interest in Welsh women's writing, S.M.S. today is regarded as one of the literary mothers of the generation that followed her. Her work has been analysed by Jane Aaron, Katie Gramich and Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, and in the opinion of E. Wyn James, Y Diwygiad ym Mhentre Alun

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