Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FITZGERALD, DAVID (d. 1176), bishop of S. Davids Son of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, and uncle to Giraldus Cambrensis. He is first heard of as archdeacon of Cardigan and a canon of S. Davids. After the death of bishop Bernard a conflict arose between the Welsh canons, on the one hand, and the English and French canons, on the other: the former in favour of appointing a Welshman as bishop, and the latter opposed to
EVANS, RICHARD THOMAS (1892 - 1962), Baptist minister and administrator benefaction was to persuade the Baptist Women's Movement to establish the denomination's home for the elderly at Glyn Nest, Newcastle Emlyn. It was appropriate that she was invited to open it officially on 26 September 1970 and that it was there that she spent the last eighteen months of her life, from September 1978 until her death at Glangwili hospital on Monday 4 February 1980. She was cremated at Parc
RHYS ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1356), nobleman Son of Gruffydd ap Hywel ap Gruffydd ab Ednyfed Fychan by Nest, daughter of Gwrwared ap Gwilym of Cemais. He was the wealthiest and most influential figure among the native gentry of the 14th century, and in his career is crystallized the attitude and aspirations of those members of his class who lent support to the Angevin cause in Wales during the first century of the English settlement. It
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath . If we take it that the bishop was the Trofarth Evans, his birth would be in 1648; if the son of ' Bonner,' it would be 1651 or 1652. The rest of the story is plain sailing. In 1678 Evans went out to Bengal, as chaplain under the East India Co., but was transferred to Madras in 1692. In India, he seems to have feathered his nest diligently, but to have got on badly with the company's officials, who
GRUFFUDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1063), king of Gwynedd and Powys, and after 1055 king of all Wales Tywysogion,' after he had been 'the head and shield and defender of the Britons.' Gruffudd left two sons, Maredudd (died 1070) and Idwal (died 1070) and one daughter, Nest, who married Osbern FitzRichard.
GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS (1146? - 1223), archdeacon of Brecon and mediaeval Latin writer Born some time between 1145 and 1147 at Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, the youngest son of William de Barri and Angharad, daughter of Gerald de Windsor and Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. He received his early education from his uncle David FitzGerald bishop of S. Davids, and at the abbey of S. Peter, Gloucester. Subsequently he was a student at the University of Paris, and after his return thence
ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal marking the third jubilee of the College's foundation. After his retirement, he lived for a time in Cardiff, travelling on Sundays to serve the churches in the South Wales valleys. When his wife died in 1968 he moved to live with one of his doctor sons, first in Worcester and later in Birkenhead. His last years were spent in Glyn Nest, the retirement home opened by the Baptists in Newcastle Emlyn. He
GRUFFUDD AP LLYWELYN (d. 1064), king of Gwynedd 1039-1064 and overlord of all the Welsh daughter of Ælfgar of Mercia came their daughter Nest who married Osbern fitz Richard; her daughter was also named Nest and she married Bernard of Neufmarché. A genealogy in Hen Lwythau Gwynedd a'r Mars claims that a third wife was Ceinfryd daughter of Rhirid Mawr and her son with Gruffudd was called Cynin. Less certain, although possible, is his parentage of three men active in the third quarter of the
IOLO GOCH (c. 1325 - c. 1400), poet on a new horse, and he is referred to later as 'Iolo Goch of Llechryd'. Iolo's wife's name was Margred ferch Adda Fychan. One daughter of that marriage is named in the genealogy, Nest, but it is likely that Dafydd ab Iolo Goch and Iolyn ab Iolo Goch, whose names occur as witnesses in a number of documents from Maelor around the end of the fourteenth century, were also their sons (or Iolo's
WYNNE family Peniarth, , LLEWELYN AP KENRIC, also of Corsygedol, who married NEST (NESTA), daughter and heiress of GRIFFITH AB ADDA, of Dôl Goch and Ynysmaengwyn, Towyn (the tomb of Griffith ab Adda can be seen in Towyn church). From this marriage there descended - to take only the main line - EINION AP GRUFFYDD AP LLEWELYN, IEUAN AB EINION, RHYS AP IEUAN AB EINION (Rhys had a better-known brother, Dafydd ab Ifan ab Einion), and
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador Germany. His orders were to remain in Venezuela for the duration of the war. After the war, in 1919, he married Elizabeth Phillips of Trefaes Uchaf, Llangwyrfon, Ceredigion, and between 1920 and 1930 they had four children - Morfudd, Ceredig, Nest and Geraint. Despite travelling a great deal, his Welshness remained very important to Ifor Rees and he ensured his children were taught Welsh wherever the
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, The Bodvel s, who trace their descent from Collwyn ap Tangno, first come into public notice with JOHN WYN ap HUGH of Bodvel (died 1576), who bore the royal standard for Warwick (later Northumberland) against the Norfolk rebels (1549), and was rewarded with the grant of Bardsey Island, which he was alleged in 1569 to be using as the headquarters of a highly-organized nest of pirates. His son HUGH

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