Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNN family Bodewryd, the house in Bodewryd from his kinsman, William ap Llewelyn ap Tudur ap William, or William Llechog, and gave it, in 1534, as an inheritance to his son Hugh Gwyn and the heirs of his body by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Hugh Conway of Bryneuryn. Hugh Gwyn's mother was Angharad, daughter of David ab Evan ap David, heiress of Plas y Brain, in the parish of Llanbedr. After transferring Bodewryd to
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, Dolau Gwyn, which is just off the road leading from Towyn to Abergynolwyn. LEWIS GWYN (died 1630) of Dolau Gwyn, who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1617, was the second son of John Wynn ab Humphrey (above). By his first wife, Jane, daughter of Hugh Nanney, of Nannau, Lewis Gwyn had two daughters, Gwen (below) and Elizabeth, who married Edward (?) Nanney, of Nannau. By his second wife, Annes
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, his death in 1633 he was buried in the college chapel; he left no important legacy to the college, but a Welsh Bible which came into its possession on his death is believed to have been his. The estate of Berth-ddu passed to Owen Gwynn's elder brother, HUGH WYNN I (or Hugh Gwynne), who added to it that of Bodysgallen by marriage with the heiress, daughter of Richard Mostyn. He helped Thomas Wiliems
WYNN family Wynnstay, The founder of the family was Hugh Williams, D.D. (1596 - 1670), rector of Llantrisant and Llanrhyddlad, Anglesey, and second son of William Williams of Chwaen Isaf, Llantrisant. Hugh's eldest son Sir William Williams (1634 - 1700), gained distinction as a lawyer; he was speaker of the House of Commons, 1680-1, appointed Solicitor-General in 1687, knighted the same year, and created a baronet in
WYNN, HUGH Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen - see WYNN
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer . Early in his career he was influenced by contemporary music. He heard Edward Elgar conduct a performance of his Second Symphony in Cardiff in 1923, and was much impressed; so too by the performance he heard of the opera Hugh the Drover by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by John Barbirolli, in 1925. But the turning point in his career came with the publication of the Third Quartet by the Hungarian
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic Llanaber. William Wynn married (1), 28 January 1734, Jane, daughter of William Wynne, Maesyneuadd, near Harlech (she died 9 December 1734, in childbirth), and (2) Jane, daughter of Hugh Lloyd, Trallwyn, Caernarfonshire; by Jane he had an only child, Ellin. (For further details, see Dauganmlwyddiant Ellis Wynne …). He died in July 1761. EDWARD WYNNE (1715 - 1767), cleric and author Religion Literature and
WYNNE, OWEN (1652 - ?), civil servant The second son of Hugh Gwyn (alias Hugh ap John Owen) of Gwaenfynydd, Llechylched, Anglesey, who claimed descent from Hwfa ap Cynddelw, the 12th century lord of Llifon, and of Elin, daughter of Robert ap John ap William of Tre'rddolphin. He entered Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 10 July) in 1668, and graduated B.A. in 1672. At some subsequent date he qualified as a doctor of laws, and
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, Queens' College, Cambridge, 1555, and as Fellow there (1565-81). On graduating B.A. he was presented to the rectory of Llandegla (1564-73), and in 1578 succeeded to his uncle's prebend at S. Asaph, taking the degree of LL.D. in the following year. With Edmund Meyrick he administered the see of Bangor in the vacancy between the episcopates of Nicholas Robinson and Hugh Bellot in 1585. He became

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