Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWAIN GWYNEDD (fl. c. 1550-1590), poet Llwydiarth, Siôn Salbri of Llyweni, Dafydd Llwyd ap Wiliam of Peniarth, and Dafydd Llwyd ap Huw ab Ifan of Ynys y Maengwyn. He composed an elegy to the poet ' Sir ' Owain ap Gwilym, and poems of ymryson, or controversy, to Wiliam Llŷn, and to Hugh Arwystl; he also wrote religious poems, a poem on the snow, and a number of various englynion, which include one composed by him when on his sick bed.
IEUAN (IFAN) DYLYNIWR (fl. 1520-1567), harpist and bard
IEUAN (IFAN) ap SION (fl. c. 1612-1636), poet
DAFYDD ap IEUAN (IFAN) ab OWEN (fl. 1560), poet
GRUFFUDD, IFAN (c. 1655 - c. 1734), poet
MARGED vch IFAN (MARGED vch IFAN (Margaret Evans; 1696 - 1801?), 'character'
EVANS, MAURICE (1765 - 1831), Evangelical cleric Ifan and Bron-gwyn, 30 October 1820. He died 24 December 1831. His evangelical zeal was much admired by many leaders of the Evangelical movement in England in the time of Henry Venn. Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845) said of him in a letter to Thomas Charles, March 1794 - 'He is a charming soul, a bundle of sweet dispositions.' He played a leading part in paving the way for getting Bibles for the
THOMAS, STAFFORD HENRY MORGAN (1896 - 1968), minister (Presb.) and poet Born at Glenview, Melin Ifan Ddu, Glamorganshire, 13 July 1896, son of Morgan and Margaret Thomas. His parents moved to Porthmadog and he commenced preaching at Tabernacl church. During World War I he was imprisoned as a conscientious objector. He was educated at Porth grammar school, University College, Cardiff (where he graduated), and Bala College. He was ordained in 1923 and served his
HOPKIN, LEWIS (c. 1708 - 1771), poet Son of Lewis Hopkin of Llanbedr-ar-fynydd (Peterston-super-Montem), Glamorganshire, one of the descendants of Hopcyn Thomas Phylip, Gelli'r-fid, a writer of cwndidau. He learnt the craft of a carpenter; he became a master of other crafts also. When he was a young man he moved to the parish of Llandyfodwg and it was there, at Hendre Ifan Goch, that he made his home until he died in 1771. He became
PRYS, ELIS (Y Doctor Coch, The Red Doctor; 1512? - 1594) Plas Iolyn, Second son of Robert ap Rhys ab Meredydd of Plas Iolyn, Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire. It is said that his grandfather, Rhys ab Meredydd, or Rhys Fawr, fought at Bosworth with Henry VII. His father, Robert ap Rhys, was chaplain to Cardinal Wolsey, and Henry VIII gave him the lands of Dolgynwal and parts of Penllyn, where his son Cadwaladr founded the family of Price of Rhiwlas (see articles Price of
JONES, OWEN GETHIN (Gethin; 1816 - 1883), local historian , Dolwyddelan. In 1852 he bought the holding of Tyddyn Cethin, and transformed the homestead and its land alike. With all this business ability, Gethin was a good littérateur, a poet of some mark, and especially a well-informed local historian, as is shown by his printed parish histories of Penmachno, Ysbyty Ifan, and Dolwyddelan. He was paralysed at the beginning of 1882, and died 29 January 1883. In 1884 a
DAVIES, DAVID (Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau; 1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist preacher , of Tir-Ifan-Ddu, whose father was step-brother to Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi, 1764 - 1833). He lived from 1860 to the end of his days at Cwmcyfyng, near Capel Isaac, where he died 2 January 1891. Although he had but little schooling, he was interested in languages, and read the Bible daily in the original languages. He was remarkable for his dramatic style of preaching, and his ready retorts

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