Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal end of the War, T. B. Phillips became seriously ill with typhoid and cholera. He was treated by Dr R. Arthur Hughes and his staff in Shillong Welsh Mission Hospital, during which time he came to know and love the Matron, Miss Menna Jones, daughter of the poet Thomas Jones (1860-1932), author of Pitar Puw a'i Berthnasau (1932), who lived in Cerrigellgwm, Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire. They were married
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet because he had been so taken with reading and composing poetry. He was introduced to cynghanedd, a complex alliterative poetic technique found only in Welsh, by Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) who was his first unofficial tutor, and the boy could compose correct englynion (four-line stanzas) by the age of twelve. He moved on to another tutor, Ifan Rowlands y Gistfaen, Llandderfel, a more adept master of
STRADLING family died 1735. Their eldest son, also named EDWARD STRADLING, was born in 1699, when Hopkin the Weaver composed englynion to mark the occasion. He was elected Member of Parliament for Cardiff, 1722, but died in 1726 in his father's lifetime. His elegy was composed by Llywelyn ab Ifan. The heir was his brother Sir THOMAS STRADLING (born 1710), who was killed in a duel at Montpellier, 27 September 1738
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy analysis of his poems: elegies, 32; eulogies, 33; requests and thanks, 13; love, 5; bardic controversies, 11; 'Nannau,' 7; miscellaneous, 7. The thirty-two elegies are mostly to members of North Wales families, but there is one to Dafydd Llwyd ab Ifan of Aber Maed (Abermâd), Cardiganshire. A little-known cywydd bemoans the death of Katheryn of Berain, and one elegy was composed when queen Elizabeth died
IFAN DYLYNIWR - see IEUAN DYLYNIWR
WIL IFAN - see EVANS, WILLIAM
ROBERT IFAN - see ROBERT ab IFAN
IFAN o GARNO - see IEUAN o GARNO
IFAN ap SION - see IEUAN ap SION
IFAN TOMOS RHYS - see THOMAS, EVAN
THOMAS ab IFAN - see EVANS, THOMAS
MARGED ferch IFAN (1696 - 1801?) - see MARGED vch IFAN

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