Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BERGAM, Y (fl. 14 c.), poet, vaticinator In the MSS he is known as ' Y Bergam o Faelor ' (Bergam from Maelor) and in an extent prepared for the Black Prince in 1352 reference is made, in connection with Pennant in Eifionydd, to Gafael mab Bergam (the holding of Bergam's son). His prophesies provided a source for the vaticinatory poems (cywyddau brud). See Enid Griffiths, Early Vaticination in Welsh (1937).
JONES, EMYR WYN (1907 - 1999), cardiologist and author for due recognition of the Welsh language within the health service. In 1936 he married Enid Llywelyn Williams (1909-1967), daughter of Dr David Llewelyn Williams and sister to Alun Llywelyn-Williams. They had one daughter, Carys (b. 1937) and one son, Gareth Wyn (b. 1940). During the intense bombing of Liverpool in the Second World War, the family moved first to Enid's parents' house in Old Colwyn
JONES, ROBERT (Trebor Aled; 1866 - 1917), poet and Baptist minister 1905. He published Fy Lloffyn Cyntaf, sef Casgliad o Gynyrchion Prydyddol, 1894; Cofiant y Diweddar Thomas Jones, Llansannan, 1901; Awdl Geraint ac Enid (Testyn y Gadair, Eisteddfod Frenhinol Genedlaethol Rhyl, 1904, 1905); Pleser a Phoen, sef Cyfrol o Farddoniaeth yn y Llon a'r Lleddf, 1908; Talhaiarn, 1916. He died 7 January 1917.
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant of Shipping. He played hockey for Wales against Ireland in 1910. He married 8 October 1919, Enid Strathearn, daughter of Sir John Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario, and they had three daughters. He made his home at Montreal and died 21 February 1957.
TREVOR, Sir CHARLES GERALD (1882 - 1959), inspector of forests was prominent in the National Farmers' Union and all agricultural activities. For 17 years he served as a magistrate, and was High Sheriff of his county in 1941. In 1912 he married Enid Carroll Beadon and had three daughters. He died 20 May 1959.
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea University College Swansea from 1929 to 1955. Appointed C.B. in 1913, Barstow was knighted in 1920. The University of Wales awarded him an honorary LL.D. in 1937. In 1904, Barstow married Enid Lilian Lawrence and they had two sons and a daughter. He died at his home, Chapel House, Builth, on 29 January 1966.
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon attended Waunfawr Primary School and then Caernarfon County Grammar School. He chose to follow a medical career and studied at Liverpool University School of Medicine, graduating MB ChB in 1943. At Liverpool he met Enid Rees, also a doctor, and they were married in 1949. In the same year he became a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He continued his surgical training first at the
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet words for Wyth gân werin (Enid Parry) which appeared in 1947. In 1953 he published The Language of Pictures, a book (to quote the preface) 'not intended to increase anyone's knowledge of the world's masterpieces or of contemporary pictures … but rather to enrich the experience of people, when confronted by a picture, with some understanding of what the painter is trying to say and how he says it.' He
JONES, ENID WYN (1909 - 1967), a prominent worker in religious, social and medical fields
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor married (2) Elizabeth Bowen, Halfway, Llanelli, who died in 1937 leaving two daughters, Rhiannon and Enid. He died 22 April 1955, and was buried in the new Horeb cemetery.
LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician (1945) which was translated into Welsh by Enid Parry. His brother was D.H. Lewis, Llanelli, author of Cofiant J.T. Rees, and also of a number of articles on Welsh musicians which were published in Y Genhinen and other periodicals.
DAVIES, DANIEL JOHN (1885 - 1970), Independent minister and poet Welsh Independents and his address from the chair was published in the Union's annual report for 1957. He was one of the editors of the Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol which was published in 1960. He retired from his ministry at Capel Als in 1958. He died 4 June 1970. His ashes were buried in Glandŵr cemetery. His likeable and talented wife, Enid, was the daughter of D. Stanley Jones, minister of the

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