Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, JOHN (GOMER) (1844? - 1914), Baptist minister and orator . New Salem was built, and by 1878 had admitted over 1,100 members. In March 1878 he went to Belle Vue, Swansea, and after the opening of Capel Gomer in March 1891 added the name 'Gomer' to his own. He was regarded by the poor as a great philanthropist, was celebrated as a preacher, and had no rival as a lecturer. In 1898 he was chairman of the Union of Welsh Baptists, the subject of his address on
LEWIS family, printers and publishers
HARRIS, JOHN RYLAND (Ieuan Ddu; 1802 - 1823), printer and author Born 12 December 1802 at Swansea, son of Joseph Harris (1773 - 1825), Gomer. He was taught the art of printing by D. Jenkin and, when the latter failed, Gomer secured his business for his son. From 1816 on it was Ieuan who did all the composing while his father corrected the proofs after school hours. He was given private coaching in the classics from about 1822 and also attended the Hamsworth
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter Griffiths, 'Amanwy', who edited O Lwch y Lofa (1924), a volume of collected poems by local miners, including Gomer Roberts. Every copy was sold and the profit of £30, as stated by John Griffiths in his introduction, presented to 'the talented poet Gomer Roberts - a young man of whom Wales will hear much more in the future.' Following his year at Birmingham, he entered Trevecka College, proceeding to the
HARRIS, JOSEPH (Gomer; 1773 - 1825), Baptist minister, and man of letters . He kept alive the tradition of the revivalist preachers and worked zealously for the Welsh language and for congregational singing. In 1821 he published Casgliad o Hymnau, which included many of his own hymns; it was sold in his own bookshop. He also kept a day-school. He may be regarded as the father of the Welsh newspaper, for his Seren Gomer, 1814-15, was the first all-Welsh weekly. Although
FRANCIS, JOHN (1789 - 1843), miller and musician Born 20 March 1789, son of William and Margaret Francis, Melin Rhyd-hir, Pwllheli. He learnt the rudiments of music (including harmony) and began to compose when still quite young. In Seren Gomer for November 1821 there appeared two hymn-tunes by him called ' Mwyneidd-dra ' and ' Gomer ' and in the same journal for March 1823 a hymn-tune called ' Pwllheli ' (but originally called ' Morwydden
LLWYD, STEPHEN (1794 - 1854), musician became precentor of Carmel Baptist chapel; he also conducted music classes in the district. His hymn-tune 'Caerllyngoed,' first appeared in Seren Gomer, June 1822; other hymn-tunes composed by him ('Abergwaun,' 'Taf,' and 'Rhondda') were published in Seren Gomer whilst a 'Carol Nadolig,' arranged by D. Emlyn Evans, appeared in Cronicl y Cerddor, December 1882. He died in April 1854, at the age of 60
DAVIES, JAMES (Iago ap Dewi; 1800 - 1869), printer and poet Born near Pencader, Carmarthenshire, he received no educational advantages when a child, and spent his youth as a farm labourer. He joined the Pencader Congregational church. At about 20, he forsook farming, and became an apprentice with John Evans, printer, Carmarthen, of the Seren Gomer office. Here he met kindred spirits with a love for the muse, e.g. W. E. Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf) and William
LLOYD, JOHN (Einion Môn; 1792 - 1834), schoolmaster and poet that Society; and when clerics in Wales attacked the society, Lloyd, in 1829, composed a reply to these ' brainless chatterers ' as he called them. The reports of Cymreigyddion meetings, in Seren Gomer, show that he also lectured to the society. But in 1832 we find him, in company with Griffith Davies, F.R.S., protesting vigorously against the increasingly Radical tone of the society - see the debate
EVANS, DAVID DAVIES (1787 - 1858), Baptist minister and editor 1812), the congregation meeting at the New Tabernacle, the debt on which and on the new burial place he succeeded in clearing. He started a school for young preachers; he also hoped to be able to complete the translation of Gill's commentary which had been begun by Titus Lewis, Christmas Evans, and Joseph Harris (Gomer). He married a young woman from Pont-rhyd-yr-ynn, Monmouth, who was possessed of
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Callestr, Wil Ysgeifiog; 1790 - 1855), poet for an awdl (Seren Gomer, 1832, 312), and at Mold, 1823, for an englyn. His elegy on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) in 1853, printed in Golud yr Oes, 1863, 112-3), was written in the asylum. Much of his work is scattered through the pages of Seren Gomer, Y Gwladgarwr, Yr Eurgrawn, Y Geninen, and Cymru (O.M.E.). He published a volume, Cell Callestr (Trefriw, 1815), of his own poetry and that of others
THOMAS, THOMAS EMLYN (Taliesin Craig-y-felin; 1822 - 1846), Unitarian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Born November 1822 at Pen-y-graig (Pengraigwnda), in the parish of Penbryn, Cardiganshire, son of David and Elizabeth Thomas. He was educated at a school which the rector maintained at his own expense at Troedyraur, at Ffrwd-y-fâl, and at Carmarthen Academy (1839-43). In 1843 he was ordained minister of the Unitarian churches at Cribin and Ciliau Aeron (see Seren Gomer, 1843, 275) and while he

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