Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN EVAN (Rhuddwawr; 1850 - 1929), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author in 1916 ' Davies Lecturer.' He wrote much for Y Geninen, and published a memorial volume, 1911, to James Hughes (1779 - 1844) and other books. He was a frequent competitor at eisteddfodau, and won the crown at the national eisteddfod of 1903, at Llanelly. A volume of his poems, Blodau'r Grug, was published in 1921.
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters , removing in 1860 to Commerce House, Bridge Street, where he lived practically to the very end of his life; he also held the farm of Waun-grug near Rhydyfelin. From 1882 to 1897 he was relieving officer for the Aberystwyth Board of Guardians. He threw himself wholeheartedly into the vigorous religious, literary, and musical life which flourished in the town when he became resident in it. He was a member
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet ); Caniadau gan Islwyn (Wrexham, undated); Pregethau y Parch. William Thomas (Islwyn). Gan y Parch. Edward Matthews, 1896; Awdl ar y Nefoedd, 1878?; Cymru, gan Islwyn (Cyfres Blodau'r Grug, undated); Islwyn, pigion o'i waith, 1897; Islwyn (Llyfrau Urdd y Delyn, 1897); Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn (Owen M. Edwards), 1897; Gwaith Islwyn (Cyfres y Fil, 1903); Perlau Awen Islwyn, gan J. M. Edwards, 1909; Islwyn's
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author , like most marriages, may not have been perfect, there is no doubting the extremity of Kate's grief when Morris died, and she was once more driven to writing as a creative outlet. She published an experimental novella entitled Stryd y Glep (Gossip Row) in 1949, followed by a novel, Y Byw sy'n Cysgu (The Living Sleep), in 1956, and a collection of nostalgic short stories, Te yn y Grug (Tea in the
MARSHAL family (earls of Pembroke), to the honour of Carmarthen - the commotes of Ystlwyf and Emlyn above Cuch which the earl then granted to Maredudd ap Rhys Grug. After succeeding to the earldom (1234) he seems to have played no important part in Welsh affairs. ANSELM MARSHAL (died 1245) He was the last of the sons of William Marshal the regent, and died in December 1245, before he was invested with the earldom. Like his brothers

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