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1 - 12 of 26 for "Garmon"

  • WILLIAMS, ROBERT ARTHUR (Berw; 1854 - 1926), cleric and poet prepare for holy orders. He was ordained deacon by bishop Campbell of Bangor, 4 June 1882, and licensed to the curacy of Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Merioneth, where Thomas Edwards (Gwynedd) was rector. He was ordained priest, 8 March 1884, and, in November 1888, went as rector to Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire. From there, in May 1891, he was appointed by bishop D. L. Lloyd vicar of Betws Garmon
  • WILLIAMS, OWEN (Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary Born in a cottage called Bryn-beddau on the Plas Glan'rafon estate, Waun-fawr, and christened at Betws Garmon, 10 January 1790. His parents were William Pritchard of Pant Ifan Mawr, Llan-rug, and Siân Marc of Plas Mawr, Llandwrog. When he was still very young, Owen Williams married Margaret Lloyd of Pen-y-bryn, Llanwnda, and they set up house together at Tu-ucha'r-ffordd, Waun-fawr. He was a
  • EVANS, THOMAS (1844 - 1922), Congregational minister Born 1 November 1844 at Y Ffatri, Pen-y-bont-fawr, Montgomeryshire. He worked in his father's factory for some time. Influenced by the Welsh religious revival of 1859 he started to preach. He was at Bala Independent College, 1865-8, ministering afterwards at Betws-y-coed and Salem (Capel Garmon), 1868-74, and at Amlwch, 1874-1922. He was considered a diligent pastor and a preacher with a kindly
  • CYNWAL, RICHARD (d. 1634), poet of Maes y Garnedd (?), Capel Garmon, Denbighshire His work, written in the strict metres, consists chiefly of poems to various North Walian gentry. He took pride especially in his position as family poet at Rhiwedog mansion (near Bala), and a bardic controversy ensued between Richard Phylip and himself because of this. He composed an eulogy to Tomas Prys of Plas Iolyn and an elegy to Siôn Phylip
  • WILLIAMS, WILLIAM WYN (1876 - 1936), minister and poet .), Llanystumdwy; in 1921 he moved to Salem, Dolgellau, and thence to Glan-rhyd, Llanwnda in 1925. He published two volumes of poems Wrth Borth yr Awen (1909) and Caniadau (1911). A shy and musical person, he suffered ill health, and spent a year travelling through U.S.A. and Patagonia and climbing the Andes to recover his health. He married Kate Pritchard of Betws Garmon in 1927 and they had a son. He died 12
  • JONES, WILLIAM OWEN (Eos y Gogledd; 1868 - 1928), musician Born in Llanbedr, in the Conway Valley, 29 December 1868, the son of Owen Jones and his wife; they moved in 1877 to Dolrhedyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He went to Tanygrisiau elementary school and afterwards started to work as a quarryman in Cwmorthin slate quarry; he worked later in Maenofferen slate quarry. In 1901 he married Margaret Jones, Capel Garmon. He went to Cardiff University College to
  • JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University
  • PRICE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1816 - 1898), musician Born in 1816 at Pen-lan, a mountain cottage in Pant-y-dwr, S. Harmon, Radnorshire, son of John Price; both his parents died when he was young. He began to take an interest in music at an early age. He had become acquainted with Hafrenydd (Thomas Williams, 1807 - 1894), in whose Ceinion Cerddoriaeth, 1852, six of Price's hymn-tunes, including the very well known ' St. Garmon,' appeared; in 1855
  • JONES, GRIFFITH HUGH (Gutyn Arfon; 1849 - 1919), musician , Aberystwyth; he moved in 1869 to become headmaster of the primary school, Rhiwddolion, Betws-y-coed. He formed music classes at Capel Curig, Betws-y-coed, Penmachno, Ysbyty Ifan, Capel Garmon, and Dolwyddelan; he also formed a musical society at Betws-y-coed and led a band. He arranged operettas for school children, many performances taking place in the Conway valley. He was regarded as a good adjudicator
  • JONES, OWEN (1825 - 1900), cleric and musician Born in 1825 at Pontruffydd, Bodfari, Denbighshire, but his parents, Joseph (died 1865) and Sarah Jones, removed in his infancy to Rhyd Orddwy, Rhyl. In 1849 he went to S. Bees, and in 1851 was ordained and licensed to Altrincham, whence, in 1853, he went to Ysgeifiog as curate to Rowland Williams the elder. Afterwards (1855-7) he was perpetual curate of Capel Garmon, but in 1857 became vicar of
  • ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY (1907 - 1982), actor, broadcaster also took part in plays broadcast from Cardiff, sometimes under the direction of T. Rowland Hughes and including some by Saunders Lewis, 'Amlyn ac Amig' (with Hugh Griffith), 'Buchedd Garmon'. He served in the army during World War II and went to India, to Calcutta and Mysore, in 1942. He resumed his career on his return to Newborough and became well known as an elocution adjudicator. He was honoured
  • MORRIS, RICHARD ROBERTS (1852 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet - ' Yspryd byw y deffroadau ' - has become a national treasure. Alafon, Glan Llyfnwy, and he were great friends. He retired from the ministry in 1924 and went to live at Plas-y-coed, Betws Garmon, but continued to preach to within two years of his death. He died 24 August 1935 and was buried in Caeathro cemetery.