Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROWLANDS, HENRY (Harri Myllin; 1832 - 1903), writer and antiquary stone was raised to Huw Morys at Llansilin. Several of his hymns are to be found in Emyniadur yr Eglwys. His poems are, in many cases, imitations of English poetry.
MORYS ap HYWEL (ap TUDUR) (fl. c. 1530), a poet
PARRI, HARRI (Harri Bach o Graig-y-gath; 1709? - 1800), strolling poet the smaller eisteddfodau and some of his englynion are to be found in the almanacs, but very little of his work was printed. His muse was slow and laboured, and he could not compete with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) in flyting. He was an unsophisticated little man who believed that, because he had been born the year Huw Morys died, Morys's mantle had descended upon him. It is clear from his
BONAPARTE, Prince LOUIS-LUCIEN (1813 - 1891) mutation; see particularly his Initial Mutations in the Living Celtic, Basque, Sardinian, and Italian Dialects, 1885. He possessed the only surviving copy (as far as is known) of the book Athravaeth Gristnogavl, by Morys Clynnog, and Wales is indebted to him not only for drawing attention to its existence but also for transcribing it for the Cymmrodorion and for giving them permission to publish it in
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Kynaston and Morys Wyn of Moelyrch is most improbable, for each of the persons addressed seems to have belonged to a later period.
ROBERT, GRUFFYDD (c.1522 - c.1610), priest, grammarian, and poet Oxford or Cambridge. In 1558 he was appointed archdeacon of Anglesey, but as queen Mary died about a month afterwards it can be surmised that his stay there was but short. He refused to acknowledge the authority of queen Elizabeth in spiritual matters, and went to the Continent with Morys Clynnog. The latter stayed in Brussels and Louvain, and perhaps Gruffydd Robert did likewise, although one might
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest entered the English College, Rome, at the age of 21. After the disturbance, which resulted in the removal from the rectorship of the English College of his uncle, Dr. Morys Clynnog, he was the first Welsh student to take the mission oath, 23 April, 1579. He was ordained priest and returned to his native land in 1582. A letter of May or June 1587 refers to him in connection with other Welsh
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman
HUGHES, RICHARD (c. 1565 - 1619), poet , ' Cyfeiriadau at Richard Hughes, Cefn Llanfair.' He was a poet of love; a poet of love who preceded Huw Morys and his school. He employs only three metres in his poems, most of which are in the form of dialogues. The tang of the countryside is to be found in his poetry. He died between early February and early May 1619 and was buried in Llanbedrog church; Gruffydd Phylip wrote an elegy upon him (Y Cymmrodor
RICHARDSON, EVAN (1759 - 1824), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and schoolmaster Born in 1759 at Bryngwyn-bach, Llanfihangel-genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire, son of a mason named Rhisiart Morys Huw - Richardson himself is often styled 'Richards', not only in popular parlance but in Thomas Charles's letters and in contemporary Calvinistic Methodist records. Lewis Edwards on one occasion claimed to be a 'nephew' (qu. cousin-german) of Richardson 's. He was destined for holy orders
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) in trials for copper in Anglesey, and by his association with Morys Clynnog who wrote to Burghley from Rome a letter in Welsh (May 1567), warning him of the queen's impending excommunication. Burghley's elder son THOMAS CECIL (1542 - 1623), earl of Exeter, was equally anxious to establish his Welsh descent and deplored the change in spelling that obscured it; but his second son ROBERT CECIL (1563
JONES, GWILYM THOMAS (1908 - 1956), solicitor and administrator leukemia at the age of two, Goronwy Morys Gwilym Jones (b. 1948), and Iwan Pennant Gwilym Jones (b. 1952). Gwilym T. was a committed patriot, and he pioneered Caernarfonshire County Council's Welsh language policy, including Welsh signs throughout the county. He was Vice-chairman of the Council of the National Eisteddfod, 1954-55, and at that time he was elected a member of Gorsedd y Beirdd. He was

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