Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian court of quarter sessions, 1768-88 (1924); Beaumaris bailiff's accounts, 1779-1805 (1929); a volume of Beaumaris borough records, 1694-1723 (1932) and the diary of Bulkeley, Dronwy (1937). He also edited Braslun o hanes Methodistiaid Calfinaidd Môn, 1880-1935 (1937); and, with Gwilym Peredur Jones, Caernarvon court rolls, 1361-1402 (1951), and he published the following books: The life and works of
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar Gadwyn' (1976) and his translations of old Welsh literature proved popular: Taliesin (Llanerch Press 1989), The Poems of Taliesin (Tern Press, 1989), The Black Book of Carmarthen (Llanerch Press, 1989, Tern Press, 2007), Peredur (Llanerch Press, 1991), 'Cad Goddau' (Tern Press, 1993). He was translating the Gododdin poem when he died. Another book of verse, Glesni, remained unpublished at the tine of
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar Cymru [The University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language], 1970-99, and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies Poets of the Princes Series, 8 volumes, 1991-6: Caerwyn, together with Professor Peredur Lynch, was responsible for the whole of Volume I of this series, Gwaith Meilyr Brydydd a'i Ddisgynyddion [The Work of Meilyr Brydydd and his Descendants], 1994. He was also able to
MORTON, RICHARD ALAN (1899 - 1977), biochemist Peredur Jones, Jennie Thomas and others who were influential later in the life of the Welsh nation. Morton graduated with first class honours in Chemistry in 1922 and he then studied for his doctorate under Professor Edward Charles Cyril Baly (1871-1948), a pioneer in the application of spectroscopy in the field of chemistry. The influence of his co-researcher Selig Hecht (1892-1947) led Morton to apply
WILLIAMS, MARY (1883 - 1977), French scholar University of Paris for her thesis in French which examined the relation of the Welsh story of Peredur to the French and German versions. A special grant allowed her to remain in Paris until September 1912, with the exception of four months at the National University of Ireland in Dublin where she studied Old Irish intensively. In 1914 Williams also won a Research Fellowship of the British Federation of
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal influence of Principal Gwilym Bowyer and Professor R. Tudur Jones. In Bangor he gained his B.D. in 1958. Eifion married Rebecca Edwards from Merioneth in 1958, and two children were born to them, Elin and Peredur. The September of the year Eifion was ordained minister of the Welsh Congregational Church at Deganwy Avenue, Llandudno, and Salem, Colwyn Bay. I shall never forget that ordination service and

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