Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, JOHN DYFNALLT (Dyfnallt; 1873 - 1956), minister (Congl.), poet, writer, journalist and Archdruid of Wales there he won the crown at Swansea national eisteddfod in 1907 on 'Y Greal Sanctaidd', having been very close to winning at Rhyl in 1904. He married, 11 August 1904, Annie Hopkin of Ystalyfera and they had two children. In 1908 Dyfnallt became a member of the Celtic Congress and maintained an interest in the Celtic countries thereafter. In 1910 he received a call to Lammas Street, Carmarthen where he
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator Dyfnallt Morgan was born in Penydarren, Merthyr Tydfil on 24 May 1917, the only child of Osborne Morgan (1881-1937) and his wife Frances Jane (née Hawes, 1882-1966). His father's family had moved to Merthyr from Ceredigion during the nineteenth century, and his mother had roots in Llanddewi Brefi. His parents met in Llanddewi after his mother moved to the village from London to live with her aunt
JONES, DAVID JOHN TAWE (1885 - 1949), musician extensive to be included in this article. He suffered a great deal from the effects of World War I when he was gassed and received a shrapnel wound in his head. Shortly before his death he completed a five-act opera, The Enchantress, based on the biblical theme of ' Jezebel ' - the libretto by J. Dyfnallt Owen and an English translation by ' Wil Ifan ' (William Evans). The opera is scored for full
DAVIES, MORRIS (Moi Plas; 1891 - 1961), quarryman, local historian and researcher until his retirement in 1956, he worked at the Maenofferen, Oakeley and Llechwedd quarries, Blaenau Ffestiniog. His first act after retiring was to establish a local society to find work and improved living conditions for the injured. It was the Rev. J. Dyfnallt Owen whilst a minister in Trawsfynydd between 1898-1901, who first encouraged him to take an interest in the history of his native district
GRIFFITH-JONES, WILLIAM (1895 - 1961), Independent minister and administrator Born at Deiniolen, Caernarfonshire, 2 November 1895, the son of David and Mary Jones, members of Ebenezer Independent Chapel. The ministers at Ebenezer, J. Dyfnallt Owen and E. Wyn Jones, had a great influence on the young Griffith-Jones. When the family moved to Liverpool, he joined the English church in Great George St. During World War I, he served for two and a half years in Salonica, 1916-19
JONES, JAMES IFANO (1865 - 1955), librarian and bibliographer . Dyfnallt Owen's grandmother. He was educated at the Park Board School, Trecynon, popularly known as ' Ysgol y Comin ', which he left at the age of 11 to attend for one year a private school kept by Owen Rees in Seymour Street, Aberdare. He started work at the age of 12 as an apprentice in the printing works of the newspaper Tarian y Gweithiwr. In 1884 he joined as a compositor and proof reader the
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet giving birth to a son who died within a year and five months. He married (2), 1903, Abigail Jenkins of Pontlotyn, sister to the mother of Sir Daniel Thomas Davies. She died 24 June 1936 when he was in Bangor passing the chairmanship of the Union to John Dyfnallt Owen. He died 6 May 1954.
JONES, THOMAS JOHN RHYS (1916 - 1997), teacher, lecturer and author author was misspelled as T. H. Rhys Jones - for Gwŷr Llên y Ddeunawfed Ganrif, a volume of essays on eighteenth-century Welsh writers, edited by Dyfnallt Morgan, 1966.) A Baptist by conviction and a regular chapel-goer, he was a conscientious objector during the Second World War and for a time worked on his future father-in-law's farm near Llandovery. Appointed a teacher of Welsh at Tonyrefail after
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
LEWIS, JOHN DANIEL VERNON (1879 - 1970), scholar, Independent minister, author, tutor and theological college principal y Salmau: cyfieithiad Cymraeg (I-XLI), … gyda nodiadau ar y testun Hebraeg (1967); Mawl i'r Goruchaf, emynau a chyfieithiadau (1962); editing Grand Mass in C Minor Mozart, with words in Latin and Welsh (1965); Astudiaethau: y gelfyddyd o gyfieithu'r Ysgrythur, Dyfnallt Memorial Lecture (1967); Golud yr oesoedd, sermons (1970).
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal was the editor of Cristion, Y Cofiadur and Diwinyddiaeth. At the request of the Welsh Hymn Society, he delivered the annual lecture at the 1977 Wrexham National Eisteddfod, on 'The Hymn Writers of the Maelor District', published in Society's Bulletin (vol. 2:1) in 1978. At the 1990 Annual Meetings of the Union of Welsh Independents, held at the Preseli District, he delivered the Dyfnallt Lecture on

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