Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, MARY (Whitemantle, y Fantell Wen; 1735 - 1789), mystic she was betrothed to Christ; arrayed in a red mantle she led a long procession to her 'marriage' in Ffestiniog church, after which there was a 'marriage-feast' in a tavern in that village, and Mary received many bridal gifts. On Sundays, she and her followers wore white mantles, and held ceremonies on Manod mountain and other hills. The sect spread far and wide around Ffestiniog, Penmachno, and
JONES, GWILYM EIRWYN (EIRWYN PONTSHÂN; 1922 - 1994), carpenter, entertainer, nationalist , it had its own anthem and banner. This was when Eirwyn was first seen wearing his white cap, which became a kind of official emblem of his. The little man with the moustache and the white cap became a national figure. At the Fishguard Eisteddfod of 1986 he was made a member of the Gorsedd as 'Pontshân'. At the end of the fifties he set up on his own as a carpenter and undertaker and moved back to
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, , and was dead before 25 September 1514, when those offices were granted to Sir Griffith ap Rice. His wife was Joan, daughter of Robert Whitney by Constance, daughter of James, lord Audley. The Vaughans of Tregunter descended from his second son, Thomas Vaughan. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, married Joan, daughter of Ieuan Gwilym Vaughan of White Peyton. The family became prominent with his heir, WILLIAM
ROBERTS, ARTHUR BRYN (1897 - 1964), trade unionist in 1922, they had one son and two daughters. He died 26 August 1964 at his home in White Cottage, 11 Scotts Lane, Shortlands, Kent, after a long illness.
GRIFFITH, Sir SAMUEL WALKER (1845 - 1920), judge , as a barrister-at-law of the supreme court of Queensland. In 1872 he entered Parliament, became premier in 1883, and was in the Legislative Assembly for twenty-one years. In 1893 he was appointed chief justice of Queensland. His polemical life centered around two issues, the overthrow of pastoralist oligarchy and the preservation of white Australia, the latter issue being occasioned by the
STENNETT, ENRICO ALPHONSO (1926 - 2011), race relations activist, businessman, dancer Enrico Stennett was born on 9 October 1926 in Mount Carey, near Montego Bay, Jamaica. His white Jamaican mother Lilian Stennett was rejected by most of her Jamaica plantation-holding family for having children with black Jamaican fathers. Family records and narratives are uncertain, but extracted from autobiographical details and Jamaican National Archives, Enrico appears to be the last of her
VAUGHAN, ARTHUR OWEN (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863? - 1919), adventurer and author and D.S.O. He was the author of four novels: The Jewe of Ynys Galon (1895), Battlement and Tower (1896), The White Rose of Arno (1897), and Old Fireproof (1906). He collaborated with lord Howard de Walden in a drama, The Children of Don, 1912. His historical books, Flame bearers of Welsh History, 1905, and The Matter of Wales, 1913 (a more ambitious work), have not met with the approval of
ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster with the white robe by the gorsedd of bards in Caernarfon in 1959. He published his reminiscences (with a photograph), Aroglau gwair, in 1981; his lecture, with casette, 'Iaith lafar Mon' was published in 1984. He married Margaret Elisabeth Evans of Newbrorough in August 1937 and they had two sons. He died at his home in Dwyran, Anglesey 6 April 1982 and he was buried in Ebeneser chapel cemetery
DAVIES, HOWEL (c. 1716 - 1770), Methodist cleric Abercowin, but in 1741 moved to Llys-y-frân, Pembrokeshire, where, for a short time, he worked in a similar capacity. In 1744 he married Catherine Poyer, a wealthy heiress, and went to live at Parke near Whitland. When she died he married Elizabeth White and went to live at her home at Prendergast. His only daughter, Margaret, married Nathaniel Rowland, the revivalist's son. Howel Davies died 13 January
BLEGYWRYD (fl. c. 945), an authority on the ancient laws of Wales Several of the oldest manuscripts of the laws testify to the importance of Blegywryd in the work of the council which Howel the Good (Hywel Dda) caused to be assembled in the ' White House on the Taf in Dyfed,' c. 945. There is mention of the selection of thirteen learned men from among the large congregation to codify and edit the laws, and since Blegywryd is the only one mentioned by name it is
GRYFFYTH, JASPER (d. 1614), cleric, warden of Ruthin hospital, chaplain to archbishop Bancroft, collector of manuscripts fragments in Latin and Welsh (B.M. MS. Cotton, Jul. C., iii). Some of the most important Welsh manuscripts passed through his hands, e.g. 'The Black Book of Carmarthen,' 'The White Book of Rhydderch,' Peniarth MS 44 and Peniarth MS 53, the 'Dingestow Brut' (NLW MS 5266B), the 'Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan' (Peniarth MS 17), and two manuscripts of the Laws of Howel (Harleian 4353 and Cotton Cleopatra B.V
JONES, JOHN EDWARD (IOAN MAESGRUG; 1914 - 1998) Red Cross, a governor of Aigburth Vale comprehensive school 1985-88. He was a director of the Chatham Building Society 1955-59 and the Welsh Calvinistic Assurance Trust 1953-59. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards (white robe) taking the name 'Ioan Maesgrug', a Fellow of the Merseyside Eisteddfod and an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Wales at Heathfield Road, serving as Moderator of the

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