Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SION DAFYDD ap SIENCYN, poet
EDNYFED, SION, musician
SION CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1610-1630), poet
SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet Practically nothing is known about his life. It may be confidently asserted that his name was Siôn Cent although he has been called Siôn Gwent (e.g. by Gruffydd Robert), Siôn y Cent, and Siôn Kemp(t). He is also called Doctor in many of the manuscripts, but not in the earlier ones. The reason for these variants is that in the folk memory of Herefordshire and the marches he got mixed up with Dr
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy A family of Welsh poets who lived in Ardudwy, Meironnydd, in the 16th and 17th cents.. Their period ranges from c. 1543, in which year Siôn Phylip was probably born, to 1678, when probate was granted of the will of Phylip Siôn Phylip, one of his sons. The royalist poet, William Phylip, is usually accounted of the group. The two brothers, Siôn and Rhisiart, and Siôn's two sons, Gruffydd and Phylip
PRYS, SION (d. 1640?), poet According to some of the manuscripts which contain his work, he was heir to the Caerddinen and Llwyn Ynn estates in Denbighshire. A large number of his poems remain, including cywyddau to Roland Jones of Llanferais, Siôn Wyn Lewys, Siôn Hope, William Wynn of Nercwys, Peter Wynn of Manechdid, a satirical poem to a tavern-keeper of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd. A number of free-metre poems by him also
HUW ap DAFYDD (fl. 1550-1628), poet From the fact that the objects of his panegyrics and elegies were North Wales gentry it appears that the poet, too, was from that part of Wales though according to Cambrian Biog., Cymru (O.J), Enwogion Cymru: a Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, and Blackwell he was from Ewyas, Herefordshire. A number of his poems remain in manuscripts, including some to Hywel ap Siôn ap Dafydd ab Ithel
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 1774), poet, and sexton of Llanfair Talhaearn Denbighshire NLW MS 6146B, which is chiefly in his hand, contains one of his poems in free verse entitled 'Cywydd y Dylluan' (193-8), and a translation by him of a piece of Latin prose 'Am y flwyddyn a'i rhannau' concerning the Gregorian calendar (187 et seq.). The parish register of Llanfair Talhaearn for the years 1740-74 is also in his neat hand. Among his more notable friends were Siôn Powel, Dafydd Siôn
SION TREFOR, poet Poems attributed to Siôn Trefor are found in Gwysaney MS. 25; Llanstephan MS 11; Peniarth MS 84, Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 313; NLW MS 1553A, NLW MS 6471B; and to Sir Siôn Trefor in Jes. Coll. MS. 15. An englyn to Sir Hugh, earl of Worcester, composed by Sir John Trefor and Edmund Prys, appears in NLW MS 11993A.
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet Siôn Tudur died on the eve of Easter Sunday, 3 April 1602, and was buried in S. Asaph church the following Monday, 5 April. In view of the fact that, towards the end of his life, he claimed to be the oldest of all the bards, and that some time before 1580 he had complained to Rhys Gruffudd of Penrhyn that he was growing old, it is suggested that he was born before 1530. His home was at Wigfair, S
SION BRWYNOG (d. 1567?), poet , daughter of Owen ap Ifan ap Madog of Ucheldre, Llanfflewyn, and they had a son, William Brwynog. Siôn Brwynog died in 1562, according to an elegy by Gruffudd Hiraethog (Bodleian MS. 31440, f. 4, 176-80), and was buried in Llanddeusant churchyard.
LLEWELYN, SION (1690 - 1776), poet at Cefn, nearer to the home of Siôn, in 1747, with Siôn as one of the prominent promoters, and first deacon. The poet, a blacksmith by trade (although one manuscript calls him a weaver), died 1 January 1776, and was buried in the grounds of Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, Cefn. A marble memorial tablet was unveiled at the old chapel by his descendants on 17 August 1947. His grandson was William Harri, of Garw Dyle

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