Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist Tecwyn Lloyd was born 22 October 1914 and died suddenly almost 78 years later on 22 August 1992. He was the only child of John and Laura Lloyd, Penybryn, Glanyrafon, Corwen, Meirionethshire. Glanrafon and Llawrybetws was a totally Welsh-speaking area in Tecwyn Lloyd's childhood and this was to be an important influence on his life, his work and his convictions later on. His father John Lloyd was
ELLIS, TECWYN (1918 - 2012), educationalist, scholar and author Tecwyn Ellis was born on 24 April 1918 at Cae Crydd, a smallholding on the Pale estate in Caletwr, Llandderfel, Merionethshire, the only child of David John Ellis and his wife Madge (née Edwards). As a native of Penllyn, and later of Edeirnion, his knowledge of these commotes - their history, traditions and families - was inexhaustible. He was educated at Llandderfel council school; the boys
EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister
EVANS, JOHN JOHN (1862 - 1942), journalist Born 9 December 1862, at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at the local primary school but left to work in the quarry. He competed at literary meetings and took an interest in drama, being a member of the Llanberis company, the first Welsh drama company to be formed in Wales. During the Llanberis strike of 1886 he was told by Tecwyn Parry, minister of Gorffwysfa, who was responsible for
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer joined a contemporary folk group called Ac Eraill whose other members included Cleif Harpwood, Iestyn Garlick, Tecwyn Ifan and Phil 'Bach' Edwards. When the National Eisteddfod visited Carmarthen in 1974, Alun and the other members of Ac Eraill wrote and composed the first Welsh language rock opera, Nia Ben Aur, which was performed on the Eisteddfod's main stage. When Ac Eraill disbanded in 1974, Alun
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author the Christian faith and its Nonconformist expression. He persuaded authors like Tecwyn Lloyd, R. E. Jones, R. Tudur Jones, Pennar Davies, Gwynfor Evans, Cassie Davies and others, to publish through Ty John Penri books which were greatly appreciated by Welsh readers. He died July 13 1979, in Swansea, and was cremated in Morriston Crematorium. His ashes were interred in the cemetery nearby. On his
HUMPHREYS, EDWARD MORGAN (1882 - 1955), journalist, writer and broadcaster ', that was patriotism to him. He died 11 June 1955 at Caernarfon. D. Tecwyn Evans another of his friends, officiated at his funeral. His remains were buried in the town cemetery.
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer did not refrain from criticising and satirising organizational systems, whether religious or secular. He was one of the early promoters of Biblical criticism in Wales and Llestri'r Trysor (1914), which was edited by his friend D. Tecwyn Evans, and his preface to Y Flodeugerdd Feiblaidd (1940), caused quite a stir. But he was a Wesleyan through and through. He contributed articles on Wesleyan
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer 1956 he published in Yr Athro a detailed series of '[Philological] notes on some of the poems in Blodeugerdd o'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif' aimed at Sixth Form pupils. He published many well-crafted reviews in Barddas, Barn, Journal of the Merioneth History & Record Society, Genhinen and Taliesin during 1967-78. D. Tecwyn Lloyd said of H. J. Hughes (in trans.): 'Reviewing was his main contribution and in
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator twentieth-century literature. It was published in 1955 under the title A History of Welsh Literature. In 1926 Bell had visited Egypt to collect papyri for the British Museum. His account of the journey was translated into Welsh by D. Tecwyn Lloyd and published in two volumes entitled Trwy Diroedd y Dwyrain (1946). He also wrote two books for children - Dewi a'r Blodyn Llo Mawr (1928) and Calon y Dywysoges
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist the following year. 'Heavy attack on Manchester area. Carried on Kearsley service until it became impossible'. The diaries also show his leisure interests, stamp collecting (briefly), and particularly walking (he never learned to drive a car) and there are references to his strong friendships with some of the giants of Welsh Methodism, such as E. Tegla Davies and D. Tecwyn Evans (neither of whom

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