Dictionary of Welsh Biography

IFOR HAEL, patron of bards ; Lewis Glyn Cothi in the 15th century believed that Dafydd ap Gwilym had predeceased his patron - 'Aeth Dafydd gwawdydd drwy gwr/I Nefoedd o flaen Ifor.' For a further consideration of the matter consult Williams and Roberts, Cywyddau Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1914, xvii-xx, and for Bassaleg see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vii, 277, and see further the article on Dafydd ap Gwilym.
(fl. 1268), eulogist
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) Plaid Cymru and fought four parliamentary elections in Llanelli on its behalf (1950, 1951, 1955 and 1959). He also edited the Party's Welsh language newspaper, Y Ddraig Goch. The journalist W. Anthony Davies, 'Llygad Llwchwr', said of him that he was one of Wales's best journalists. His journalistic talent is exemplified in his editorship of Seren Cymru, the Welsh Baptist denominational newspaper
MORRIS, ROBERT DAVID (1871 - 1948), itinerant bookseller and author , Ffordd Sera Parri and Gŵr Betsan Huws, and a play, Y Clwyf, depicting the devastating effect of World War I upon a particular family. A large number of performances of his comedies were produced in all parts of Wales. He had a passion for reform in Wales. He was one of the leaders of the I.L.P. in his district. He reacted against the system which made Welsh a language of religion and chapel and
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander fourteen months earlier. He died at Clenennau in 1666; the inscription placed on his tomb in Penmorfa church by his granddaughter (now almost obliterated) is quoted in Trans. Shrops. Ant. Soc., II, iv, 54, and contemporary drafts exist in Latin, Welsh, and English. But his best epitaphs were written by two bards when he first became sheriff : Gwr purffydd … a gwr a nerthai'r Goron,' and ' mae rhinwedd ar
PHILLIPS, CLIFFORD (1914 - 1984), journalist Cliff Phillips, the son of William Phillips, a steel worker, and his wife Maria Davies, Glanaman, was born 17 September 1914 in Glanaman, Carmarthenshire and educated at the local primary school and Amanford Secondary School. Encouraged by his uncle, William Anthony Davies ('Llygad Llwchwr'), Cliff Phillips turned to journalism as a career, first as the Ammanford correspondent for the Amman
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy , who wrote more in the free metres than in cynghanedd, was a gwr bonheddig tiriawg (landed gentleman), who wrote as and when inspired. Siôn wrote several poems to members of the Vaughan family of Corsygedol, as did his son Gruffydd a generation later, whilst Rhisiart was bardd teulu (household poet) to the Vaughan family of Nannau. But not one of the three confined the range of his 'family' poems to
SAMUEL, CHRISTMAS (1674 - 1764), Independent minister press at Trefhedyn in south Cardiganshire. He was connected, in some form or other, with the publication of such works as Gemau Doethineb, 1714; Llythyr at y Cyfryw o'r Byd, 1716; Catecism o'r Scrythur, 1719; Llun Agrippa, 1723; Golwg ar y Testament Newydd, 1729; Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol, 1730; etc. [The only work written by himself was Lloffion y Gwr Tywyll, 1759.] He died 18 June 1764
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet (see op. cit., II, 725, 15-25, 729, 23-6, 735, 9-14). Raff ap Robert in his elegy to Tudur Aled says: ' Mae'n brudd llu am un bardd llwyd, O bur addysg, a briddwyd; Aeron o gorff yr un gŵr, Un i Dduw yn weddiwr; Dyna roi un da'n i raid, Syr Siôn, rhag siars i enaid; Peri alaeth i'r prelad, Fu oer a dwys farw i dad ' (op. cit., II, 744, 17-24). On the strength of these lines it has been maintained
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet exponents of the traditional forms of poetry, but his elegies are his most notable achievements - particularly the masterly cywyddau he wrote in memory of Siôn Brwynog ('y gwr mwya gerais'), of his old master Gruffudd Hiraethog, and of Owain ap Gwilym, poets every one. Of these three cywyddau, which are among the best elegies in the language, the last two referred to, as well as that to Gruffudd ap Tomas
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist cyfoes (1961), and an autobiography, Inc yn fy ngwaed (1963). A festschrift edited by Meredydd Evans, Gwr wrth grefft (1974), has a bibliography. Both books contain photographs of J. Ellis Williams. J. Ellis Williams died at ysbyty Dewi Sant, Bangor 7 January 1975 and was cremated at Bangor Crematorium. He left a widow ('Cadi') and 2 daughters. There is a collection of his papers at the National
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM LLEWELYN (1867 - 1922), Member of Parliament, lawyer, and author the American story Helen's Babies, and Gwr y Dolau, 1899 (2nd imp. 1946) - neither of them is of very high standard; and he wrote some entertaining reminiscences, ' Slawer Dydd,' in Y Beirniad in 1917, which were published in book form under the same title in 1918. He published a considerable amount of work in English, notably in the transactions of the Society of Cymmrodorion from 1900 on - some of

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