Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COLLEN (fl. 600?), saint The account of his life in ' Buchedd Collen ' is late and quite untrustworthy. But he merits notice as the traditional founder of the ancient church of Llangollen, the mother church of the whole of the commote of Nanheudwy. He is not commemorated outside this area, save in the neighbouring parish of Ruabon, where there was once a Capel Collen. It is unlikely that the Deeside saint is commemorated
GRIFFITH, ROBERT (1847 - 1909), musician Born 1 March 1847 at Glog Ddu, Llangernyw, Denbighshire, the son of John and Jane Griffith. The family moved to Llanrwst in 1853. The father was an Anglican and the mother a Calvinistic Methodist. After receiving some education at the National School, Llanrwst, he became a servant to 'Glan Collen' and afterwards to the Rev. John Rougler, Eglwys-bach. He then became apprenticed to Robert Roberts
WILLIAMS, STEPHEN WILLIAM (1837 - 1899), engineer, architect, and antiquary of the Elan Valley reservoir. He soon joined the Cambrian Archaeological Association, but the first of his long series of papers in Archæologia Cambrensis (this was on Castell Collen) did not appear until 1870; he was F.S.A. He became a considerable authority on the old Welsh monasteries - Talley, Strata Marcella, Cwm Hir, and above all, Strata Florida, the subject of his only book, The Cistercian
HUGHES, JONATHAN (1721 - 1805), poet Beirdd Collen in 1806. The contents of the volume were for the most part his own compositions. He, in turn, had a son called Jonathan Hughes (1797 - 1860?), who was one of the poets present at an eisteddfod held at Llangollen in 1833.

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