Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN (CYNDDYLAN) (1841 - 1930), preacher and theologian
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister ', and 'Fy Nhad o'r Nef, O! gwrando 'nghri', were first published. In addition to the poems he published Yr Athro o Ddifrif, 1903, Cofiant a Phregethau'r Parch. Griffith Davies, Aberteifi (jointly with Dr. J. Cynddylan Jones), Llewyrch y Cwmwl, Anfarwoldeb yr Enaid, A New Method for the study of the German Language, Pedair Cymwynas Pantycelyn, 1922; Mr. Saunders Lewis a Williams Pantycelyn, 1928
PARRY, JOHN (1812 - 1874), Calvinistic Methodist minister, college tutor, and editor Edwards himself - there is probably justice in the verdict of J. Cynddylan Jones that Parry did too much of their work for them, but that Lewis Edwards did them more real good. He was ordained in 1845, and was moderator of the North Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association in 1866. In 1844 he married Sarah Gee, sister of the publisher Thomas Gee. When Gee, in 1853, started the Welsh encyclopaedia Y
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Crwys; 1875 - 1968), poet, preacher, archdruid Jones (died 22 December 1937), a fellow-student at Bangor, and they had two sons and two daughters. In 1915 he accepted an invitation to succeed Dr. John Cynddylan Jones as the agent of the Bible Society in south Wales, and he retained the post until his retirement in 1940. Between 1946 and 1953 he was in charge of Rhyddings church (English Congregational), Swansea. He died 13 January 1968 and was
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar the characters in the story. Furthermore, there is a large number of stanzas which have nothing to do with Llywarch, but rather with Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn and his sister Heledd. Sir Ifor's theory is that the englynion are the remnants of sagas which were partly in verse and partly in prose, and preserved orally. They are nostalgic and elegiac, and tell the story of Llywarch, who is old and has lost
JOHN, MARY HANNAH (1874 - 1962), singer and revivalist do.' In January 1905 May John was working in North Wales with the young Calvinistic Methodist minister W. Llewelyn Lloyd. She then worked in Bristol with John Cynddylan Jones, where they shared responsibility for leading meetings in the Broadmead Wesleyan Chapel. She also worked there with Thomas 'Awstin' Davies, the well-known Revival reporter. By May 1905, May John was part of a large group of

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