Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, SARAH WINIFRED (1870 - 1953), writer, and editor of Cymru'r Plant from 1908 to 1912 . Her three books, Sioned, 1906, Cerrig y rhyd, 1907, and Y ddau hogyn rheiny, 1928, were mainly selections from her contributions to periodicals. She published one serial in Y Cymro in 1896, 'Catrin Prisiard', which did not appear later as a book. For a time in 1895-96 she corresponded with John Glyn Davies mainly on literary matters. He used to visit her on his trips from Liverpool to Llŷn; she
MORGAN ELFAEL (fl. c. 1528-1541), poet A number of his poems remain in manuscript including some written to members of South Wales landed families, Sir John Mathew of Radur (Radyr), Sioned, the daughter of Sir Thomas Philipps of Picton castle, and Lewys Gwynn of Tref Esgob. A number of his poems to Gruffudd Dwn (of Ystrad Merthyr) and his family are also found, two of them being in holograph (Llanstephan MS 40 (73, 74)). He was buried
IEUAN RUDD (fl. 1470), a Glamorgan bard who sang in the second half of the 15th century. Two cywyddau by him survive, the one upon the marriage-feast of Sir Rhys ap Thomas and Sioned (Janet), daughter of Thomas Mathew of Radyr, Glamorganshire, and the other to the 'paderau main crisial' (the crystal paternosters). There is a reference to him in a cywydd which Llywelyn Goch y Dant wrote c. 1470 to invite Hywel ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector of the ' Piser Sioned ' poems (Bangor MS. 3212 (564)); born at Llanycil, Meironnydd, son of David Thomas and Lowry Cadwaladr. He kept a school at Dwyryd near Corwen, and at Tre'rddôl (this in 1740). The ' Piser ' was gathered together in the years 1733-45, the main corpus being country songs and plygain carols, composed by homely bards of Penllyn and Edeirnion, the district of Cerrig-y-drudion
JONES, JOHN (Ivon; 1820 - 1898), man of letters was the joint publication of Ysten Sioned neu Y Gronfa Gymmysg anonymously in 1882; the authors divulged their identity in a second edition published in 1894. Ivon was regarded as an authority on the history of Aberystwyth and on the folklore of the district. He published gleanings and articles in Cymru (O.M.E.), particularly from 1894 till his death. He died 6 September 1898, and was buried on the
GRUFFYDD ap IEUAN ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN (c. 1485 - 1553), bard and member of a Welsh landed family translation by Richard Davies of some of S. Paul's epistles; this latter manuscript found its way from Llannerch, the home of Gruffydd ap Ieuan and afterwards of his Davies (of Llannerch) descendants, to Gwysaney, Flintshire, the home of the Davies-Cooke family, also descendants. It is now at the National Library of Wales. Gruffydd ap Ieuan was twice in. His first wife was Janet (Sioned), daughter of
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer - 1892) and David Howell (1831 - 1903) of Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin. This was a special prayer book for the use of Aber-carn chapel, Monmouth. In 1878 he edited Lewis Morris's Celtic Remains. He published in 1882, conjointly with John Jones (Ivon, 1820 - 1898), Ysten Sioned neu Y Gronfa Gymmysg, and in 1883 he edited [ Sadler's] Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys yn Wirionedd y Bibl. The honorary degree of B.D. had
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector Mabinogion' in a lavishly illustrated and annotated three-volume edition. Over a century and a half later, its second translatrix argues that ever since Lady Charlotte's achievement, these stories have 'taken on a life of their own, and earned their place on the European and world stage' (Sioned Davies). During the same years as she was translating and preparing her publications, Lady Charlotte gave birth
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, JOHN PULESTON (died 1551), who was sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1543-4, Member of Parliament for Caernarvon, 1541-4, and for Caernarvonshire, 1545-7 and 1547-51, chamberlain of North Wales, 1547, and constable of Caernarvon castle, 1523-51. He married (1) Gaynor, daughter of Robert ap Meredydd ap Hwlcyn Llwyd of Glynllifon, and (2) Sioned, daughter of Meredydd ap Ieuan ap Robert, of Cesail Gyfarch and
HOOSON, HUGH EMLYN (1925 - 2012), Liberal politician and public figure , the daughter of Sir George Hamer, CBE, of Llanidloes, a prominent and influential figure in the locality and a powerful Liberal in the politics of Montgomeryshire where he served as its Lord Lieutenant. There were to be two daughters of the marriage, Sioned and Lowri, both educated at the Welsh School at London, where their father became the chairman of the Governing Body. He had served in the Royal

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