Dictionary of Welsh Biography

RHYS NANMOR (fl. 1480-1513), poet
AELHAEARN (fl. 7th century), patron saint He was, according to the lists, the son of Hygarfael, son of Cyndrwyn of Llystin Wennan, now Moel Feliarth, in the parish of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire. He is the reputed founder of Guilsfield, Llanaelhaearn, and an extinct chapel of the same name, now covered by Gwyddelwern. His name, which often appears in the form Elhaearn, is also commemorated in Ffynnon Aelhaearn, a holy well, formerly
CYFEILIOG (d. 927), bishop of Llandaff The English Chronicles record that, in the course of a Danish invasion of the west Midlands, he was captured in the region of Archenfield (Erging), then, it may be, within his diocese, and carried off to the ships; Edward the Elder ransomed him for the sum of £40. The year is now reckoned to be 914. He appears as Cimeilliauc in the Book of Llandaf and is there made the recipient of nine grants
OWEN, FOULKE (fl. 1686), poet a native of Nantglyn, Denbighshire. There appears to be no evidence as to where he was educated, although it is possible that he went up to Oxford, particularly if he was related (he may have been a grandson) to the Foulk Owen of Denbighshire who graduated there in 1584. He owned 'The Black Book of Basingwerk,' an important manuscript of the 14th and 15th cents., now kept at the N.L.W. (NLW MS
JUSTINIAN SAINT (fl. 6th century) The only surviving authority for the legend of S. Justinian is a 'Life' summarised in the mid-14th cent, by John of Teignmouth from an original which is now lost. A native of Brittany, S. Justinian left his homeland at the bidding of an angel, and eventually landed on the island of Limeneia, now Ramsey Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, near S. Davids. There he remained together with the
REYNOLDS, JOHN (fl. 1739), antiquary the latter. In 1736 he published Heraldry Displayed, a second edition of A Display of Herauldry by Davies, published in 1716. In 1739 he published The Scripture Genealogy. Beginning at Noah and To which is added the Genealogy of the Caesars and Also, a Display of Herauldry of the particular Coat of Armours now in use in the Six Counties of North Wales etc. This book, which has no great merit, is
BIRD, JOHN (1768 - 1829), landscape painter Born at Cardiff, 1768. He prepared some drawings for Principal Seats of the Nobility (1787) and other topographical works. Examples of his work are ' Llewenni Hall ' (copper-plate engraving) and ' Llewenni Bleach Works ', now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. He died at Whitby.
DAVIS family, coalowners , Davis had taken a lease of valuable steam-coal seams on the Blaen-gwawr estate at Aberaman, and began sinking a pit there in 1843, using first (1845) the canal and, afterwards (1847), the new Taff Vale Railway to get his coal down to Cardiff. Leaving the Hirwaun shop in charge of his second son, Lewis (below), he now placed his eldest son, David (below), in a shop at Trecynon (Aberdare); and as a
CYNDEYRN, saint This Saint is commemorated at Llangyndeyrn in Carmarthenshire. Late-mediaeval genealogies make him the son of Saint Cyngar ap Garthog ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig; his feast was on 25 July, O.S. - the patronal fair at Llangyndeyrn is now held on 5 and 6 August His father, Cyngar, should not be confused with the saint Cyngar / Docwin / Dochau.
ROBERTS, GRIFFITH (1735 - 1808), physician at Dolgelley, antiquary, and collector of manuscripts as ' Hen Dŷ'r Doctor ' (Plas Isa) and now forming part of the Golden Lion hotel. At Dolgelley he had access to the Hengwrt manuscripts (in Welsh and other languages) which, in his day, were still at Hengwrt. Moreover, he himself owned several manuscripts, many of which now form part of the Hengwrt-Peniarth collection in N.L.W.; for particulars, with references also to other Welsh manuscripts, which
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1727 - 1795), schoolmaster and diarist Born 29 July 1727, son (it seems) of a William Thomas of St. Fagans, Glamorganshire. He was probably the 'William Thomas, Charity-school Master' who wrote a manuscript of hymns and other matter, now in the C.M. Archives kept at N.L.W., and who is said to have kept school at one time at Llandybïe, Carmarthenshire - he is known to have kept schools in various south-eastern parishes of Glamorgan in
DAVIES, JAMES (1767? - 1860), Baptist minister therefore natural that he should in 1820 have left the General Baptists (now becoming increasingly anti-Trinitarian) and returned to the Particular Baptists; yet there are hints that his theological views were still unchanged - it was rather that his personal popularity and his eminence as a preacher effaced the memory of controversies, now twenty years past, which had lost much of their meaning

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