Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GILDAS (fl. 6th cent), monk annum obsessionis Badonici montis, novissimaeque ferme de furciferis non minimae stragis, quique quadragesimus quartus ut novi orditur annus, mense iam uno emenso, qui et meae nativitatis est.' The first clause is clear - 'until the year of the siege of Mount Badon, almost the last great slaughter of the wretches.' Then comes the obscure part. One is forced to explain it in this way, in order to make
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor Arthur Rhys Roberts was born on 27 April 1872 at 20 Ogwen Terrace, Bethesda, the only child of the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Jerusalem chapel (Calvinistic Methodists), and his wife Winifred, herself the child of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Rees Jones (Brynmenai, y Felinheli). He was sent, for a secondary education, to the Salop School, Oswestry, a non-denominational boarding school
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner some hope when Peter Walker replaced Nicholas Edwards to work with Wyn Roberts in the Welsh Office. Davies felt uneasy when the non-statutory Welsh Language Board was set up and with the influx into the Welsh-speaking areas. He continued to draw attention to this crisis for the rest of his days and it became apparent that he was a politician and activist whose arguments could not be silenced. He
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist well as a challenge, and it was an equally important part of her attempt to preserve the dignity of Welsh culture in the face of depopulation and governmental apathy as her everday work within education. Drawing non-Welsh speakers into this culture was very important to her, and she ensured that a part of the concerts and evenings which she organised in areas such as Pembrokeshire and Rhondda was in
ROBERTS, EDWYN CYNRIG (1837 - 1893), pioneer in Patagonia advantage of his visit to publish the first of his planned series of fifteen volumes on the history of the Welsh Settlement. Although it was a rushed project, as evidenced by its lack of planning and almost non-existing editing, it is the first ever account of a much earlier ambitious proposal by Morgan John Rhys to establish a self-governing Welsh language state in the USA (1798). Sadly, no further
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive . Gallenkamp & Co as a salesman of laboratory equipment, a job he had never enjoyed, so accepted Davies's offer to, initially, become involved as a non-staff member, to run alongside his sales role. But in 1960, Morgan was appointed to the full-time role of BBC Sports Organiser in Wales, beginning an association with the BBC that would last for much of the next 38 years. Morgan's first broadcasting role was
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman the double-think of a faith that nevertheless remained stubbornly persistent. He generated lapidary epigrams, Borgean fantasies, scientific tropes, meditative exercises, a modern Mass for Hard Times (1992), and a spiritual Counterpoint (1990), in an attempt to develop, with the assistance of a post-modern theology informed by an eirenic sympathy with some of the world's great non-Christian faiths, a
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, to it. (During the 15th century the surname ' Griffith ' became established and ' Gwilym ' became ' William ' in non- Welsh records.) All three showed outstanding skill in steering a safe and profitable course through the dangerous waters of 15th century politics; in particular, they allied themselves with prominent English houses, especially the pliant Stanleys - a process which began with the

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