Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, HUGH (1832 - 1897), musician Society, and he was one of the founders of the Eryri music festival ('Gwyl Gerddorol Eryri'), 1866. He was a noted vocalist and his services were much in demand as conductor and adjudicator. He composed many hymn-tunes. His song, ' Deigryn ar fedd Mam,' which took the prize at an eisteddfod held at Portmadoc in 1871, was popular for many years. He died 4 June 1897, and was buried in Salem burial ground
PARRY, JOHN (1775 - 1846), Calvinistic Methodist minister, man of letters, and editor must we forget the Rhodd Mam, a little book published in 1811, which for over a century remained the primer of systematic religious instruction for Welsh Calvinistic Methodist children. Parry was an enthusiastic supporter of the Home and Foreign Mission, of religious instruction, of the Sunday schools, and of similar movements and activities. He was ordained as early as 1814, and had a hand in
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Grammar, editions of several medieval Welsh texts, Peniarth 49 in 1929, Theater du mond in 1930 and Sant Greal in 1933, a translation (with R. Hughes) of Hedda Gabler (1930), and the awdl “Mam” written for the Chair competition in the Aberafan National Eisteddfod, published as 'the best awdl according to Dr. T. H. Parry-Williams ' in Cerddi'r lleiafrif, 1932. It was during these years that he began to
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author Deg o storïau in 1950, Y plât piwtar a storïau eraill in 1962, and Dyddiadur Jane Parry in 1965. Her work is notable for its fluency of language and lively characterisation. She was also an active broadcaster, writing and singing songs for children for the radio series 'Ar lin Mam', and presenting the television programmes 'Lloffa' and 'Canu'r bobol' relating to the folk tradition, and was one of
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress the radio, for instance in Choir Practice: A storm in a Welsh teacup by Cliff Gordon, which was broadcast from Maida Vale in 1946, with Ivor Novello in the main role as the conductor of the quarrelsome choir, and a cast which also included Glynis Johns and Mervyn Johns. In 1939 she appeared in her first film, The Proud Valley (Tennyson, 1939) in which she first played the role of the Welsh Mam, the
THOMAS, THOMAS GEORGE (Viscount Tonypandy), (1909 - 1997), Labour politician and Speaker of the House of Commons 1974 (and may well have been told by Wilson that the position was his for the taking), but Harold Wilson, fully aware of his attitude to Welsh nationalism, chose in his place the more moderate and emollient figure of John Morris, long-serving MP for Aberavon. He had been severely shaken, too, by the death in 1972 of his beloved Mam, herself a figure of some consequence throughout south Wales. She had

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