Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN, WILLIAM (1709 - 1760), cleric, antiquary, and poet , corresponding with his friends within the Morrisian circle, mainly on these topics, in the light of manuscripts which he had collected and copied. He composed a few cywyddau, ballads, carols, and englynion on the usual subjects of his circle and his period. And though he had not the greatness of Goronwy Owen or Lewis Morris, by his learning and by collecting manuscripts, by his letters and his poetry, with
WYNNE family Peniarth, ), and was the father of WILLIAM WYNNE (died 1658), of Glyn, who, by his wife, Katherine (died 23 February 1638/9), eldest child of William Lewis Anwyl, Park, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd, had ROBERT WYNNE (died 1670), of Glyn and Sylfaen, whose wife was KATHERINE, eldest daughter and heir of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, Caernarfonshire. The fourth son of William Wynne of Glyn and Katherine (Owen) was WILLIAM
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer music at the University College in Cardiff under David Evans and John Morgan Lloyd, taking his B.Mus. in 1928. Although he found Evans and Lloyd very conservative in their musical outlook, he appreciated the fact that scores of new works by contemporary composers were regularly purchased for the College library. From 1929 to 1960 he was music master at Lewis School, Pengam (the first full time music
YORKE, PHILIP (1743 - 1804) Erddig, Erthig,, antiquary and on correspondence with Gwallter Mechain (Walter Davies, 1761 - 1849), and other scholars, and including an account of the descendants of Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, a refutation of Polydore Virgil's strictures on the ancient Britons, some notes on crown lordships in Powys, and some letters of Goronwy Owen and Lewis Morris. This was expanded four years later into his classic Royal Tribes of Wales, printed
YOUNG, GRUFFYDD (c. 1370 - c. 1435), cleric, and supporter of Owain Glyndŵr Benedict XIII of Avignon (Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 121-2), and in February 1407 was provided to the bishopric of Bangor, possibly as the result of intrigues on his part against bishop Lewis Byford. In April 1407 he was translated to S. Davids, designed by the ' Pennal policy ' as the metropolitan see of Wales. By 1408 the power of Glyndŵr was on the wane, and although Young remained in touch with him to

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