Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary Hugh Jones (Erfyl) as president and Edward Parry as secretary, a post he held until 1839. A history of The Chester Cambrian Societies was written by Thomas Edwards in 1906. In 1826 Parry promoted a scheme for the establishment of a Sunday evening 'lecture' in Welsh at one of the churches, and the constant residence of a Welsh clergyman whose duties were to be exclusively devoted to the spiritual
JONES, HUGH (Erfyl; 1789 - 1858), author, editor and translator
JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM (Erfyl Fychan; 1899 - 1968), historian, litterateur and eisteddfodwr Swansea national eisteddfod for the penillion solo in 1926. He became a member of the Gorsedd the same year. In the field of Welsh culture he owed much to the influence of T. Gwynn Jones, the Francis brothers of Nantlle, and T. D. James ('Iago Erfyl'), the talented and scholarly rector of Llanerfyl in the 1920s. At Bala in 1934 he founded the Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant and he was the society's secretary
JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES (Iago Erfyl; 1862 - 1927), clergyman, and popular preacher and lecturer gorsedd under the name ' Iago Erfyl '. He contributed much to the local papers; for years he wrote the Welsh column, under the pseudonym Y Gigfran, in The Montgomery Express. At one time he was a staunch Tory and vehemently opposed the disestablishment of the church, though when it came about he accepted it, recognising in it a greater freedom for the church and its officers. During World War I he
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Flight Lieutenant in Iceland and Northern Ireland. He met his wife, Mary Ellen Williams (1919-1993), an RAF nurse from Tŷ Croes, Ammanford, in London. They married in 1944, and had three children, Eryl Cydwel (b. 1946), Erfyl Dilwyn (b. 1950), and Wyneira Delyth (b. 1955). Islwyn returned to Sheffield University in 1946 and completed a first class honours in applied science followed by a doctoral
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist joining with them in various activities. Among his fellow lecturers were Meredydd Evans and Gwyn Erfyl. During his time there he spent a sabbatical period studying in Rome, and from October 1951 to June 1952 he researched the history of Welsh scholars of the Counter-Reformation like Morus Clynnog and Gruffudd Robert of Milan. He met Pope Pius XII and visited centres of learning in Sienna, Florence
ERFYL - see JONES, HUGH
ERFYL FYCHAN - see JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM
IAGO ERFYL - see JAMES, THOMAS DAVIES

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