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4801 - 4804 of 4804 for "Society for the Study of the Old Testament"

  • YOUNG, GRUFFYDD (c. 1370 - c. 1435), cleric, and supporter of Owain Glyndŵr -general of S. Davids (Regg. St. Davids, 18-22) and archdeacon of Merioneth (Willis, Bangor, 140). About 1403, he allied himself with Owain Glyndŵr, became his chancellor, and was in Paris in 1404 with John Trevor negotiating a treaty of alliance with Charles VI. He was probably responsible for the ' Pennal policy,' whereby Glyndŵr agreed to transfer the allegiance of the Welsh church from Rome to
  • YOUNG, JAMES JUBILEE (1887 - 1962), Baptist minister following year enrolled at Old College School, Carmarthen. He was ordained minister of Capel Rhondda, Pontypridd in 1910 and he ministered later to churches in Felinganol (1914) and Seion, Llanelli (1931). He retired in 1957. His gifts as a powerful preacher were clear from the start and he became one of 'the princes' of the Welsh pulpit. He was regularly invited to preach at denominational meetings, and
  • YOUNG, THOMAS (1507 - 1568), archbishop of York elected archbishop of York, 27 January 1561. As archbishop and president of the council of the North, he was active in forwarding the Elizabethan settlement, though he incurred censure for his misuse of the temporalities of his see. He died 26 June 1568, and was buried in York Minster. He married (1), a daughter of George Constantine; (2) Jane Kynaston, Estwick, Staffs., by whom he had one son, Sir
  • YSTUMLLYN, JOHN (d. 1786), gardener and land steward were married at Dolgellau, where she had moved to work from Eifionydd. Since both had left the households in which they were employed without permission, they lost their places. An opportunity came to settle and work as land stewards at Ynysgain Fawr near Criccieth, for a time. Eventually, John was offered his old place at Ystumllyn; but by his latter years he was working for a branch of the Wynn