Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIP ap RHYS (fl. 1530), Tudor organist and composer and Benedictus, and Agnus Dei, a scheme which was found to be acceptable for liturgical use right up to the time of Couperin le Grand. Rhys appears to have written his mass for use on Trinity Sunday, for the Offertory is subtitled ' In die sancte Trinitatis ' and the cantus firmus used as a basis for the contrapuntal structure corresponds to the Offertory Benedictus sit Deus Pater which is sung
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1627 - 1673), Nonconformist preacher, and physician courage to tell him some pretty plain truths. John Williams died 28 March 1673, 'in the 47th year of his age,' and was buried at Llangian; there is a photograph of the Latin inscription and coat of arms on his tombstone in Y Cofiadur, 1928 - he is called minister gratia Dei and patriae sanitas, in allusion to his double calling.
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , Mary, Jane, and Owen) and three younger brothers, Richard (Dic), Evan, and David (Dei). From 1895 onwards the family lived in Cae'r Gors, a smallholding, where they practised subsistence farming to bolster the family income. Cae'r Gors was Kate's home for most of her early years, and she conveys a vivid sense of the cottage and its surrounding four fields in her 1961 autobiography, Y Lôn Wen (The
ELIAS, JOHN (1774 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and famous preacher movement towards freedom of thought and action, e.g. the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Reform Bill of 1832. He called the supporters of these measures 'rebels,' while some of his opponents dubbed him 'the Pope of Anglesey.' To the end of his life he looked upon the idea 'vox populi, vox Dei' as a proof of infidelity. As a social reformer his zeal for temperance and purity of morals brought his
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer Merêd was born at Top Pentre, Llanegryn, Meironnydd, on 9 December 1919, the youngest child born to Charlotte Evans (née Pugh, 1881-1965) and her husband Richard Evans (1867-1936), engineer. Of the eleven children born to them only five others survived infancy: Elizabeth (1900-1990), John (Jac, 1904-1975), Francis (Frank, 1906-1977), William (Wil, 1910-1984) and David (Dei, 1913-1996). Soon after

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