Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist , Llinos, Heledd, Dewi and Llŷr, and many grand- and great-grandchildren. He was ordained in 1953 and began his ministry at Treorchy 1953-63, then at Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog (and Manod) 1963-70; Fforest Fach, Swansea, 1970-82; and Graig, Machynlleth (with Penegoes, Aberhosan and Llanwrin) 1982-90 when he retired to Porthmadog. He was an enlightened and prophetic preacher, and always had deep
WILLIAMS, Sir IFOR (1881 - 1965), Welsh scholar the characters in the story. Furthermore, there is a large number of stanzas which have nothing to do with Llywarch, but rather with Cynddylan ap Cyndrwyn and his sister Heledd. Sir Ifor's theory is that the englynion are the remnants of sagas which were partly in verse and partly in prose, and preserved orally. They are nostalgic and elegiac, and tell the story of Llywarch, who is old and has lost
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Pengwern ('The eagle of Pengwern', 1981), a novel set in the time of the Heledd saga poetry, which the author says that she wrote in response to the threat by Gwynfor Evans to go on hunger strike for a Welsh television channel. Dyddiadur Mari Gwyn ('The Diary of Mari Gwyn', 1985) is a novel dealing with the persecution of Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth 1 focusing on the life of the writer and
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Ruth Meredith from Aberystwyth in 1965 and they raised four children, Lowri, Heledd, Brengain and Huw, in their Welsh-speaking home in the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. His son Huw Stephens is a radio and television presenter, in English and Welsh, focusing on music and the arts. After a short stint as a journalist on The Western Mail Stephens began his life's major work as literature director at the
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic poems are important because they give a Welsh eye-witness account of Berlin's mighty civilisation in ruins at the end of the war. Interweaving depictions of the physical condition of Germany's capital at the time with references to our early poetry, the Heledd cycle and the prose tales of the Mabinogi, the traumatic experiences of the war are set in perspective and the destruction is never allowed to

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