Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TEILO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint views of the writers. The earliest evidence we have of the cult of S. Teilo comes from the Gospel Book of S. Chad. (This manuscript, which was once at Llandaff, is now at Lichfield; the N.L.W. has a facsimile.) While it says nothing about him in person, the entries on the margins of its pages show that in the 9th century, some three hundred years after his death, he was still venerated in South Wales
OUDOCEUS (fl. late 6th century), saint One of the early bishops of Llandaff. A 'Vita' in the 'Book of Llandaff' is the only authority for his life. This states that Oudoceus was the son of Buddig, a Breton prince, and Anauued, sister of S. Teilo, and returned to Llandaff with the latter. [The second 'u' in Anauued represents 'v'.] He eventually succeeded Teilo in the bishopric, and is said to have sworn fealty to Canterbury. The
PAULINUS (fl. late 5th century), saint be invited to the Synod of Brefi. Paulinus is pictured in the 'Life of S. Teilo' too as the sage to whom Teilo went to perfect his learning. The 'Life of S. Illtud' (chapter xi) mentions a Paulinus who was a student of Illtud and a contemporary of S. David. But this is probably S. Paul Aurelian. Wrmonoc, author of the 'Life of S. Paul Aurelian,' probably borrowed his details for the early life of
ISFAEL (fl. 6th century), saint He deserves notice because of close links with several better-known contemporaries. Teilo is said to have been his uncle, Tyféi and Oudoceus, his brothers. He also appears among S. David's disciples, and, in Lib. Land., he is claimed as David's successor at Menevia. His cult was certainly confined to Dyfed (with one exception all the churches named after him are in Pembrokeshire); and, indeed
GRIFFITHS, PETER HUGHES (1871 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author . Ellis. He was a frequent contributor to the Welsh periodicals and a selection of his articles can be found in Llais o Lundain, 1912. He edited Gweithiau Gwilym Teilo (undated) while his Cofiant W. E. Prytherch appeared in 1937, after his death. He died 1 January 1937 and was buried in Salem cemetery, Pen-coed.
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian Teilo, was published under the editorship of Peter Hughes Griffiths. He died at Llandilo, 3 October 1892, and was buried there.
SAMSON (c. 485 - 565), abbot and bishop in the Celtic Church before 547, at which time Teilo, who had fled from the Yellow Death, visited him there. Samson's outstanding achievement in Brittany was the release of Iudual, a young prince of Northern Brittany, from the slavery in which he was kept in Paris by Childebert, the Frankish king, at the request of the crafty governor, Chonomor. After the defeat and death of Chonomor, Samson once more visited Paris to
PRICE, THOMAS WALTER (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869), journalist and poet Gwron stated that Y Drych favoured the slave trade). On 10 January 1857 Cuhelyn started Y Bardd Newydd Wythnosol (New York) to which many Welsh writers were correspondents - Eben Fardd, Thomas Stephens (Merthyr Tydfil), Talhaiarn, Cynddelw, Llawdden, Dewi Wyn o Esyllt, Islwyn, Aneurin Fardd, Nathan Dyfed, Nefydd, Eiddil Ifor, Gwilym Teilo, etc. An account of the life of Dafydd ap Gwilym and some of
PADARN (fl. c. 560), Celtic saint A reputed contemporary of David and Teilo, is associated with a small group of churches in the counties of Cardigan and Radnor. Very little authentic material concerning him can be obtained from his solitary 'Life' found in the collection of medieval manuscripts known as B.M. MS. Vespasian A, xiv. In this 'Vita' he is said to have come from Brittany, but since Paternus was the latinized name of
RICHARDS, WILLIAM LESLIE (1916 - 1989), Scholar, teacher, poet and author until his retirement in 1981. He published three novels, Yr Etifeddion (1956), Llanw a Thrai (1958) and Cynffon o Wellt (1960), and five volumes of poetry, Telyn Teilo (1957), Bro a Bryniau (1963), Dail yr Hydre (1968), Adledd (1973) and Cerddi'r Cyfnos (1986). In 1965 the University of Wales Press published his edition of the poems of Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn, a work which won the Sir Ellis Griffith
MATTHEWS, JOHN HOBSON (Mab Cernyw; 1858 - 1914), Roman Catholic historian, archivist and solicitor ), and edited Martin Cock's Guide to St. Ives (St. Ives, 1906). He had previously prepared Yr Hen grefydd a'r grefydd newydd. Sef dadl … am yr Eglwys Gatholig … Wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg gan … J. H. Jones (Cardiff, 1889), and The Life and Memorials of Saint Teilo (Preston, 1893). He contributed to the transactions of societies, e.g. Cardiff Naturalists Society (see Transactions, xxxiii, for a study
MATHIAS, WILLIAM JAMES (1934 - 1992), composer and teacher Teilo (1962), This World's Joie (1974), Lux Aeterna (1982) and World's Fire (1989). He composed one full-length opera, The Servants, to a libretto by the writer Iris Murdoch. His anthem 'Let the people praise thee, O Lord' was commissioned for the wedding of the Prince of Wales in 1981. During the 1970s he created a series of works for orchestra which he called 'landscapes of the mind': Laudi (1973

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