Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (Gwilym Cowlyd; 1828 - 1904), poet, printer, bookseller, bibliophile, and eccentric Geirionydd, near the reputed birthplace of Taliesin. Among his productions are 'Mynyddoedd Eryri' and 'Murmuron.' He published the life and works of Ieuan Glan Geirionydd, the works of Owen Gethin Jones (Gweithiau Gethin), and Diliau'r Delyn (old penillion). He died early in December 1904 at Llanrwst, and was buried on 8 December in St. Mary's churchyard there.
JONES, OWEN GETHIN (Gethin; 1816 - 1883), local historian , Dolwyddelan. In 1852 he bought the holding of Tyddyn Cethin, and transformed the homestead and its land alike. With all this business ability, Gethin was a good littérateur, a poet of some mark, and especially a well-informed local historian, as is shown by his printed parish histories of Penmachno, Ysbyty Ifan, and Dolwyddelan. He was paralysed at the beginning of 1882, and died 29 January 1883. In 1884 a
RHYS DEGANWY (fl. c. 1480), a poet who took his name, obviously, from the Creuddyn district of Caernarvonshire. No details are known concerning his life, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript; they include poems to Dafydd Gethin ap Gruffudd Goch of Llanwnnog and William Herbert of Raglan.
IEUAN DDU ap DAFYDD ab OWAIN (fl. c. 1440-1480), poet Nothing is known about him, and no proof exists for connecting him, as Iolo Morganwg does, with Ieuan Ddu, ancestor of the family of Dyffryn, Aberdare. A number of cywyddau are attributed to him in manuscript, but the only certain example of his work appears to be the cywydd to Ieuan Gethin ap Ieuan ap Lleision.
DAVIES, GETHIN (1846 - 1896), Baptist minister and college principal the Baptist College should be removed there. Gethin Davies recognized that the development of university education in Wales represented an important new departure, and warmly advocated an arrangement by which the more secular work of the denominational colleges should be taken over by the university colleges. In the face of much opposition he gained his point and the removal from Llangollen to
HYWEL GETHIN (fl. c. 1485), poet
MORUS GETHIN (fl. c. 1525), poet
GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN (fl. c. 1380-1420), poet
WILIAM PENLLYN (fl. c. 1550-1570), chief harpist harpists and players of the crwth - Huw Dai, Robert ap Siôn Llwyd, Wiliam Penfro, Wiliam Goch Grythor, Wmffre Grythor, Morus Grythor, Tomas Grythor of Cegidfa, and Hywel Gethin. He wrote englynion to Lewis Gwynn, constable of Bishop's Castle (died 1552) (Peniarth MS 114 (109)) and Gruffudd Dwnn of Kidwelly (Llanstephan MS 133 (881)). A transcript of his music-book in the hand of Robert ab Huw is extant
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts Gethin of Maesbrook; (2) to Elizabeth, daughter of George Ludlow of Morehouse, and widow of Thomas Gethin, and by her he had one daughter, Elizabeth, who married George Jukes of Pool. In 1678 he had a share in (Sir) William Williams's attempt to purchase the Hengwrt library.He was buried at a great age at Llansilin, 23 March 1680. His library he left to his daughter, Lettice. It was valued, in 1682
RHYS WYN ap CADWALADR (fl. c. 1600) Giler,, poet second son of Cadwaladr ap Morris Gethin of Foelas. Some of his englynion and cywyddau are preserved in manuscript, among them an elegy to his son (Llanstephan MS 54 (259)), and a cywydd ymryson with Thomas Prys in Jes. Coll. MS. 12 (319), and NLW MS 3047C (84), and, in the same manuscripts, two cywyddau in reply to him by Thomas Prys and a satirical cywydd to him by Huw Machno. In Llanstephan MS
LEWIS, HENRY GETHIN (1872 - 1945), merchant and financier

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