Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads there is a manuscript volume of them in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 1143B). He could turn out some exquisite verse, e.g. 'Lliw gwyn, rhosyn yr haf.' But his own preference was for satire or comic songs which, says Glaslyn, were frequently pretty low, with a whiff of the muck-heap about them. He died at Liverpool (where he sang in the 'Cambria' and the 'Portmadoc Arms'), but the date of his
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist 'Gweithiau ac athrylith Llew Llwyfo' awarded at Colwyn Bay in 1910. R. Williams Parry won the chair for his ode 'Yr Haf' in the same eisteddfod. A procession was organised, lead by the Nantlle band, to welcome both home from that eisteddfod. He married (1) Claudia Roberts, 12 June 1916; one daughter was born to them. His wife died 29 November 1918. He married (2) in 1921 Enid May Jones from Port Dinorwic
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD (1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace working among the unemployed in Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, and in 1932 he moved to the Quaker Settlement at Maes-yr-Haf in the Rhondda. He retired to Dolwyddelan in 1946 and though his health was deteriorating he continued to preach and to address meetings. He suffered from depression for most of his life, and took his own life on 16 December 1949 whilst a voluntary patient at the North Wales
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author 'Beth yw'r haf i mi?' (What is summer to me?) to an eighteenth-century Welsh harp tune. Her short story, 'Henrietta', appeared in the collection Ystorïau heddiw, edited by T. H. Parry-Williams in 1938, and it was he no doubt who encouraged her to continue to write after their marriage. She published a farce, Ty ar y rhos, which had been written for her students at Barry, in 1944, and her collections
REES, THOMAS MARDY (1871 - 1953), Independent minister, historian and author and English on the results of the Act of Uniformity, 1662, and short histories of Maes-yr-haf church, Neath, and Bethel Newydd church, Mynyddislwyn. He married Margaret Williams who predeceased him by four years. They had four sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Alyn, died before his father. He was the first secretary of the Consultative Council on Technical Education in south Wales. Kenneth was
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator calling, he set his sights on academia, and took up a lecturing post at the law department in Aberystwyth in 1920. Working under the direction of his old tutor and head of the law department, Professor Thomas A. Levi, he remained there until 1924. In 1923, he married Haf, the only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards and his wife, Ellen. In 1924, a defining moment came in his career when he took up a
OWEN, GORONWY (1723 - 1769), cleric and poet Llenyddiaeth Cymru; 'Cyfres yr Ysgol Haf Gymreig,' 1907. The 'Marwnad Lewis Morris' first appeared in Gwilym Howel's Almanac, 1770, and Goronwy Owen's letters in the Greal (London), the Cambrian Register, the Cambro-Briton, and Y Gwyliedydd.
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters the University of Wales. He died (still in harness) at Llanuwchllyn, 15 May 1920. His wife, Ellen Davies of Prys Mawr, Llanuwchllyn, had died a year before him. They had two sons, Owen ab Owen (1892-1897) and Ifan ab Owen Edwards (1895-1970), and one daughter, Haf (1898-1965) who married David Hughes Parry.
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters defending her sex against the attacks made on it in the series 'Ffoledd Ffasiwn.' She married Owen Prichard (Cybi Velyn) of Holyhead, 2 January 1863. She wrote a number of lyrics, the best known being 'O na byddai'n haf o hyd' and 'Neges y Blodeuyn.' She died 29 March 1909. A collection of her poems was published in 'Cyfres y Fil' (O.M.E.).
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist organising adult education and lecturing. Poverty and economic conditions in the valley during the depression concerned him greatly, though there was no prominent position a nationalist could take in the workers' movements of his day; he helped with the social experiment in Maes-yr-haf during the war. He was a member of Bethania chapel, Tonypandy, and used to preach in the valleys, despite his dislike of

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