Dictionary of Welsh Biography

NICHOLLS, JOHN (1555 - 1584?), controversial theologian His only connection with Wales is that he was a son of a John Nicholls and was born at Cowbridge. He entered White Hall (afterwards Jesus College), Oxford, and later transferred to Brasenose, but left without a degree. After leaving the University he returned home and acted as a tutor before obtaining a curacy at Withycombe in Somerset. The rest of his short life was spent partly on the continent
GOODWIN, GERAINT (1903 - 1941), author to fiction and Welsh subjects, with The Heyday in the Blood (1936), The White Farm, (short stories; 1937), Watch for the Morning (1938), and Come Michaelmas (1939). His stories of Wales and the Border are vivid and earthy. After his return to Wales he lived in Upper Corris and then in Montgomery, where he died 10 October 1941.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (fl. 1648-1677), author of Poetical Piety Little is known of this man beyond what he says himself in the dedication to Sir Thomas Pryse, Gogerddan, Cardiganshire, of his book Poetical Piety: or Poetry made Pious …, printed for the author 'at the White Swan in Black-Fryers near the King's Printing-house,' London, 1677. He says that he was then 'near Thirty' years of age, that he had been born in the vicinity of Gogerddan, and that he knew
HUGHES, JOSEPH TUDOR (Blegwryd; 1827 - 1841), boy harpist all manner of audiences by his skill as a performer on the harp and concertina. He accompanied his father and brothers on a concert tour in various parts of the United States in 1840, performing in the White House (Washington), and in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc. He died by drowning in the river Hudson, 12 May 1841. His brother, David Edward Hughes, is separately noticed.
OLIVER, JOHN (1838 - 1866), poet Born 7 November 1838 at White Hall, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, and christened 18 November, the fourth child of John and Sarah Oliver. He received his early education at the village school (1843-50) and in a Carmarthen school (1850-3), and then determined to prepare himself for the Independent ministry. After a successful career from 1853 to 1859 in the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, where he
MORRIS, ROGER (fl. 1590) Coed-y-talwrn, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, transcriber of manuscripts Nothing is known of his private life. He wrote an exceptionally neat hand, and he had opportunities to copy some of the older Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' Black Book of Carmarthen ' and the ' White Book of Rhydderch,' possibly through friendships with Jasper Griffith. His interests were wide and there remain of his transcription collections of lives of saints (Llanstephan MS 34), a botanology
GRIFFITHS, PHILIP JONES (1936 - 2008), photographer Associate member of Magnum Photo Agency, thanks to the help of Ian Berry, Griffiths arrived in Vietnam in 1966. He travelled the country developing a respect for a people whose manner reminded him of rural Wales. His travels disproved official reports to reveal a military-industrial complex at work desecrating both culture and landscape. Choosing Leica and Nikon F cameras loaded with black and white film
MADDOCKS, ANN (the Maid of Cefn Ydfa; 1704 - 1727) been discovered; that the 'Maid' was in love with the poet ' Wil Hopcyn ' - that he composed the verses ' Watching the White Wheat ' to her - and that she died of a broken heart. This story has been fully discussed by G. J. Williams, in Y Llenor, 1927 and 1928; see also his Traddodiad Llenyddol Morgannwg, 251-9.
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr Born 1 May 1801 at ' Pwll-yr-hyward ' (probably Pwll-yr-hwyaid), Llanfoist (Llan-ffwyst), Monmouthshire; his father, of the same name, worked at Abertillery (Abertyleri), but returned to Llanfoist to work in the limestone quarries belonging to the Blaenavon iron-works, becoming a member of Llanwenarth Baptist church, where he married. The son became innkeeper of the 'White Hart' at Blaenavon, and
MARTHA'R MYNYDD, Mountain Martha (fl. c. 1770), impostor invisible) mansion on the mountain, close to her cottage - ' Miss Ingram ' (his daughter) was indeed at times visible to mortal eyes, clad in white from head to foot; and her father preached, at dead of night, to gatherings in the darkness of Martha's cottage. It is probable that Martha's father was ' Mr. Ingram,' and pretty certain that Martha herself was ' Miss Ingram,' for on one occasion, when Martha
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician parliamentary elections but he refused, believing he could have a greater impact through other means. However, he helped a number of young politicians to pursue their careers in the party. He was instrumental in securing the nomination of Eirene Lloyd Jones (later Eirene White), as a Labour candidate for the Flintshire constituency in 1945, using all his influence and, probably, some devious methods. Despite
CYBI (fl. 550), saint himself within the walls of a dismantled Roman fort. The 'clas,' or monastic community, which he founded, had a long history; it continued as a collegiate church throughout the Middle Ages and had twelve prebendaries in the 16th century. The picturesque legend of the weekly meetings of Seiriol Wyn (White) and Cybi Felyn (Yellow) at Clorach in the midst of Anglesey is a bit of modern folk-lore, but the

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