Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1854 - 1933), schoolmaster, geologist, and antiquary he published articles on the Manod and Moelwyn mountains; these were rewarded by a grant out of the Murchison Fund of the Geological Society. He was also a talented musician and had some gift as a poet. He married, May 1881, Mary Helena (died 1916), daughter of Daniel Howell, Gellidywyll Mills, Llanbryn-mair; there were seven children of the marriage. His Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog was published in
HUGHES, JOHN GRUFFYDD MOELWYN (1866 - 1944), Calvinistic Methodist minister , Addoli, 1935, Pregethau Moelwyn, 1925. He was very acceptable as a lecturer and preacher.
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MORRIS (1883 - 1954), quarryman, choir conductor, soloist and cerdd dant adjudicator daughters. The family emigrated about 1909 to Granville, NY, and he formed a children's choir there but they returned to Tanygrisiau in 1911 because of his mother's ill health. He joined Moelwyn male voice choir, conducted by Cadwaladr Roberts, and he re- established the children's choir which he had set up in the village in 1905. A slack period in the quarries led to the family moving to Abertridwr in
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet musician, and came from the same stock as Edward Jones Stephen ('Tanymarian') and Robert Stephen ('Moelwyn fardd', 1828 - 1879), who was a police officer in Conwy. He won the prize in the Ystradgynlais national eisteddfod in 1954, for a translation into Welsh of the libretto of Princess Ju Ju. His translation of the Bohemian Girl was performed in Penygroes, his native village, on 11 December 1947. He
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author their pacifism. He also valued the continuing friendship of some of his fellow students at Oxford, T. Rowland Hughes, Professor Alun Moelwyn Hughes and Reverend Glyn Parry Jones. He received golfing lessons from Dai Rees, the professional at Aberdare Golf Club, though it cannot be claimed that he spent much time at the game. Later in life he became a keen fisherman. In 1937 J. E. Meredith received a
DEWI MOELWYN - see PARRY, DAVID

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