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WILLIAMS, OWEN
(Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary
-writing; Cwrtmawr MS 90C, cywyddau by Cadwaladr Cesail and
Morys
Dwyfech transcribed by Owen Williams; Cwrtmawr MS 149E, Owen Gwyrfai's 'Piser Hir,' containing a collection of poetry transcribed mostly from Peniarth MS 98. In Cwrtmawr MS 407E there is a collection of pedigrees prepared by him and Eben Fardd, while in Cwrtmawr MS 456D there is another collection of pedigrees prepared by Owen Williams
SAMWELL, DAVID
(1751 - 1798), naval surgeon and poet
to reveal a headstrong and intolerant nature. He assisted in the task of collecting for publication the poems of Dafydd ap Gwilym and of Huw
Morys
. A portrait of Samwell is reproduced in the first article noted below.
JENKINS, DAVID
(1912 - 2002), librarian and scholar
1992 and 1993. He attended Ardwyn grammar school, Aberystwyth and then, in 1932, he became a student at the University College of Wales Aberystwyth where he graduated in Welsh Literature in 1935. As the Sir John Williams Research Student 1937-39 he began his research on the life and work of the poet Huw
Morys
(Eos Ceiriog, 1624-1709). He published a valuable article in The Bulletin of the Board of
SMYTH, ROGER
(1541 - 1625), Roman Catholic priest and Welsh translator
students, against the English (see under Clynnog,
Morys
). The English won, and Smyth was dismissed from the college because he refused to express his readiness to be ordained priest, and to return to England as a missionary. After this, his history becomes obscure; perhaps he was assisted by his friends Gruffydd Robert and Owen Lewis. It is likely that there is some foundation for the statement made in Y
WYNNE, ROBERT
(d. 1720), cleric and poet
Llangywer on 2 May 1720, when Edward Samuel preached the funeral sermon. Two poems by him were printed in Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry, 1759, and others survive in manuscript (Peniarth MS 121 in particular), including an elegy and epitaphs for Huw
Morys
and John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Lâs). His son, EDWARD WYNNE (1685 - 1745), was also vicar of Gwyddelwern from 1724 till his death. He was ordained deacon by John Evans
EVANS
family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog
being John Davies (Siôn Dafydd Las), Huw
Morys
, Evan Williams, John Prichard Prys, and Ellis Rowland, Harlech. The full pedigree table of the Evans and Griffith families contains the names of several clergymen. In this connection note that Mary Anwyl (above), after her husband Evan Griffith died, became the wife of John Griffith, rector of Ffestiniog, and that John Griffith, after her death, married
ROBERTS, ELLIS
(Eos Llyfnwy, Robin Ddu Eifionydd; 1827 - 1895)
Iachus … (Caernarfon, 1816), in which he defended his faith as a Baptist. Spinther (Hanes y Bed., iii, 342-3) gives the titles of some of his poems (among them 'Cerdd i Mr. Madog a'i Dref' - see Madocks, W. A.); there is a copy in Corph y Gaingc, 1810 (ed. D. Thomas, Dafydd Ddu Eryri) of 'Emyn ar Ddydd Ympryd gan Robert
Morys
, Bryn-y-gro, yn agos i Lanllyfni.' John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Gen., 1883
DAVIES, WALTER
(Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic
North Wales (London, 1813), and a similar work, in two volumes, on South Wales, 1815 (Vol. I, Vol. II), which owed much to Iolo Morganwg; he also edited the works of the poets Huw
Morys
, 1823, and Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1837 - the latter in collaboration with John Jones (Tegid, 1792 - 1852); and further published in 1827 an edition of the metrical translation of the Psalms into Welsh made by William
OWEN, Sir JOHN
(1600 - 1666), royalist commander
the royalist poet Huw
Morys
. His marriage with Mary, widow of bishop John Hanmer, producing no heir, his estate was reunited on his death with Clenennau, inherited by Sir John's son WILLIAM OWEN (1624 - 1677), who had been with his father at the siege of Bristol; married Katherine Anwyl of Park, Meironnydd, and lived during the Interregnum on the Anwyl estate of Llanddyn. His son, Sir ROBERT OWEN
GWYN, JOHN
(d. 1574), lawyer, placeman, and educational benefactor
Born at Gwydir, Llanrwst, he was the fifth and youngest (or possibly fourth) son of John Wyn ap Meredydd, a direct descendant of Owain Gwynedd. His eldest brother
Morys
was the father of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir and another, Robert (third son), who built Plas Mawr, Conway, became second husband of Dorothy Williams, grandmother of archbishop John Williams. John Gwyn entered Queens' College
DAVIES, THOMAS
(1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph
other preferments, including that of chancellor of Bangor cathedral, to which he was appointed in 1546; but he can with greater confidence be identified with the archdeacon of St Asaph of 1558-61. On the death of bishop William Glyn of Bangor in 1558, Davies was made custodian of the 'spiritualia' of the diocese by cardinal Pole, archbishop of Canterbury. Glyn's successor-designate,
Morys
Clynnog
LEWIS, OWEN
(1533 - 1594), bishop of Cassano,
signaturae ' - an appointment which made him a man of considerable influence in the papal court. It is certain that Owen Lewis was one of those who induced Gregory to support Thomas Stukeley's raids on Ireland in 1578; he also played an important part in the establishment of the English College at Rome, and it was at his suggestion that
Morys
Clynnog was appointed warden. The troubles of that college's
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