Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Descended on his father's side from Marchudd (Peniarth MS 127 (57); Powys Fadog, vi, 221), and on his mother's from prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Peniarth MS 127 (105), Peniarth MS 129 (128, 130); Dwnn, ii, 102, 132) - she was Margred, daughter of Rhys Gethin, partisan of Owain Glyn Dwr (on him see Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 66). His exploits during the Wars of the Roses are related in Sir John Wynn's
MAURICE, DAVID (1626 - 1702), cleric and translator son of Andrew Maurice, dean of S. Asaph. This Andrew Maurice was, according to Browne Willis, a Shropshire gentleman, but according to Wood (Athenae Oxonienses), a native of Denbighshire. 'Llyfr Silin' and Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) make him the eighth in descent from Ieuan Gethin. Philip Yorke (Royal Tribes) says he was ' of a younger branch of Clenennau.' But his son, David Maurice
ROBERTS, DAVID OWEN (1888 - 1958), educationalist Born 6 October 1888 at 28 Church Row, Trecynon, Aberdare, son of Hannah (née Jones) and Gethin Roberts. He was educated at Llwydcoed Elementary School, Aberdare County School and Bangor Normal College, 1907-09, where he gained his Teacher's Certificate. He became successively schoolmaster at Park School, Trecynon, Cwmdâr school and Abernant school, all in the vicinity of Aberdare. He taught Welsh
MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN (1879 - 1960), army administrator
MADRYN family Madryn, Llŷn : colonel in the Parliamentary army, sheriff in 1648-9 (and before that in 1643), member of parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1654-5; he held many important offices in Anglesey and Caernarvonshire. His influence was great and far-reaching; he managed to keep the cleric John Gethin, married to his sister Dorothy, in the living of Llangybi after losing that of Criccieth under the Propagation Act of 1650; he
REES, Sir JAMES FREDERICK (1883 - 1967), Principal of the University College at Cardiff , among them The dominion of Ceylon (1949) and the B.B.C. Welsh regional annual lecture entitled Of Welsh nationality and historians (1951). He married in 1913 Dora Rose Lucile, daughter of Gethin Davies, Principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff and they had one son. He died 7 January 1967 at his home, 11 Celyn Grove, Cyncoed, Cardiff.
GUTO'R GLYN (fl. second half of the 15th century), bard if he is the author of the cywyddau to Sir Richard Gethin and Mathau Goch then it must be presumed that he started to write a little earlier, i.e. c. 1432-5. Guto'r Glyn was, according to Tudur Aled, the best bard for composing poems to men; the bard himself says, 'ac erioed prydydd gŵr wyf.' He knew how to praise; he also knew how to satirize as is shown by his biting references to Dafydd ab
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Henry Dwn of Croesasgwrn, Llangyndeyrn, in Carmarthenshire, was the son of Gruffudd Dwn (also called Gruffudd Gethin) ap Cadwgan and Annes, daughter of Cadwgan ap Ieuan, and a direct descendant of Llywelyn ap Gwrgan, lord of Cydweli. Dwn first appears in the historical record serving in Picardy and Normandy in 1369 under John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, who appointed him steward of the
WYNNE family Voelas, chaplain to cardinal Wolsey, he was the father of Elis ap Rhys, i.e. Dr. Elis Prys (see also Vaughan family, Pant Glas). Their eldest son, MAURICE GETHIN, steward of the abbey of Aberconway, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton ' Hen,' Gwenynog, receiver-general for North Wales in the time of Edward IV, and had a large family, the heir being CADWALADR WYNNE I, high sheriff of Denbighshire, 1548, who
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn , daughter of Maurice Gethin, Voelas, Denbighshire. The heir of Dafydd and Lowry was HUMPHREY AP DAFYDD, who was, it may be noted incidentally, the uncle of Humphrey Davies, vicar of Darowen. Humphrey ap Dafydd married Annes, daughter of Eliza Morris (i.e. Ellis ap Maurice), Clenennau - see Morris and Owen families of Clenennau - their heir being EDWARD AP HUMPHREY, whose death in 1620 was mourned in
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge , at Bangor), and also Lowe, The Heart of Northern Wales, ii, 437-40, and Gweithiau Gethin, 250, 253-4. He married in 1703, Anne, widow of Robert Pugh of Pennar or Pennard, Penmachno (a lawyer of Middle Temple), and left a daughter, another Anne, who married in 1730 Edward Williams of Meillionydd. Their daughter, yet another Anne, by her marriage to Robert Howell Vaughan (Griffith, op. cit., 201

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