Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD (1848 - 1915), itinerant bookseller Born 24 August 1848 at Ty'n-y-fron, Clipiau, Aberangell, Merionethshire, the son of Richard Jones, farmer, and his wife Lowri (née Hughes). His mother hailed from Cwmtirmynach, Bala. He originally intended to follow his elder brother, Robert, into the ministry, but because of his poor health and a lack of education he had to abandon this path. He was persuaded by friends to become an itinerant
WATKIN-JONES, ELIZABETH (1887 - 1966), author of children's books in 1947, she published seven novels or historical stories for children - Plant y Mynachdy (1939) - (her own favourite), Luned Bengoch (1946), Y Cwlwm Cêl (1947), Y Dryslwyn (1947), Esyllt (1951), Lois (1955), and ' Lowri ' in Storïau Ias a Chyffro (1951). Every one of these, with the exception of Y Dryslwyn, is set in Nefyn, and together they ensure for their author a place in the front rank of
EVANS, THOMAS (fl. 1596-1633), poet and transcriber of manuscripts He is known as Thomas Evans of Hendreforfudd, a township in the old parish of Corwen, but now lying in the ecclesiastical parish of Llansantffraid Glyn Dyfrdwy. He was the son of Evan ap John ap Robert ap Madoc ap Jenkin ap Griffith ap Bleddyn and Lowri, daughter of Griffith ab Evan ap David Ddu ap Tudur ab Evan ap Llewelyn ap Griffith ap Meredith ap Llewelyn ap Ynyr. The place and time of his
JONES, JOHN (1773 - 1853), cleric Born 31 March 1773, the eldest of the thirteen children of Thomas and Lowri Jones, Dolgellau, Meironnydd. Thomas Jones was a businessman and financier, founder of the first bank in Dolgellau, and a relative of David Richards, ' Dafydd Ionawr '. John Jones was educated in Dolgellau, Ruthin Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1796 (M.A. in 1800). He was curate in
OWEN, MATTHEW (1631 - 1679) Llangar, Edeirnion, poet porch at Tal-y-llyn, and on other churches in Merioneth and Denbighshire, including Llanfachreth and Llansilin. There are also two englyn of his in Cefn Coch MSS. 210, 274. The poet was married (date and place unknown) to an Elizabeth, and a daughter of theirs, Lowri, was christened 16 September 1678. His dwelling-place was Tyn-llwyn-isaf. According to Llangar parish registers in N.L.W., he was buried
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Born at Ty Mawr, Wybrnant, in the parish of Penmachno, the son of John ap Morgan ap Llywelyn, a copyholder on the Gwydir estates, and his wife Lowri, daughter of William ap John ap Madog. Reputed to have received his early education at the hands of a former monk, he entered S. John's College, Cambridge, as a sub-sizar in 1565. He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1571; and later became a B.D
YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (d. 1786), gardener and land steward , two of whom died in infancy. Of the remainder, a daughter named Ann married James Martin, a musical instrument vendor in Liverpool; another daughter, Lowri, married, first, Robert Jones, a butler from Madryn on the Ll?n Peninsula, and secondly, a man named John Mcnamare; and a son, Richard (1770-1862), served as huntsman at Glynllifon under Sir Thomas Wynn (d. 1807), first baron Newborough. John
STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator Ruth Meredith from Aberystwyth in 1965 and they raised four children, Lowri, Heledd, Brengain and Huw, in their Welsh-speaking home in the Cardiff suburb of Whitchurch. His son Huw Stephens is a radio and television presenter, in English and Welsh, focusing on music and the arts. After a short stint as a journalist on The Western Mail Stephens began his life's major work as literature director at the
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure , the daughter of Sir George Hamer, CBE, of Llanidloes, a prominent and influential figure in the locality and a powerful Liberal in the politics of Montgomeryshire where he served as its Lord Lieutenant. There were to be two daughters of the marriage, Sioned and Lowri, both educated at the Welsh School at London, where their father became the chairman of the Governing Body. He had served in the Royal

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