Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GREEN, FRANCIS (1854 - 1942), antiquary Born at Carmarthen, 15 December 1854, the eldest son of Francis Green, Oaklands, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Harries) of Tre-facwn near Trefin. He was educated at a Moravian school at Pendine, the chapter school at St. David's, and Shrewsbury School. After studying law in London, and working in his father's office, he emigrated to Canada in 1878 where he was engaged in farming until he returned
PHILLIPS, EDGAR (Trefîn; 1889 - 1962), tailor, school-teacher, poet, and Archdruid of Wales, 1960-62 the workshop was a nursery for poets and a school in the cynganeddion, Trefin mastered Yr Ysgol Farddol (Dafydd Morganwg), the poets' primer. For a year after completing his apprenticeship he worked as a tailor in Letterston and Whitland. He returned to Cardiff to specialize in cutting and he became a tailor of ladies' wear. In 1912 he moved to London, working in several clothes shops before
EVANS, WILLIAM (1800 - 1880), hymnist ; he was most active in Sunday-school work and in fostering congregational music - he held singing-schools at Fishguard, Trefîn, and St. Davids. He was also a hymnist, and one of his hymns still holds its place in some of our hymnals. On 11 April 1826 he married Margaret (died 1879), only daughter of William Meyler, of Ford, and took up his residence at Ford. In 1851 he bought a holding at Ambleston
MORGAN, DAVID (1814 - 1883), religious revivalist the Calvinistic Methodists and was ordained at the Association at Trefîn, 20 May 1857. In the following year he came in contact with Humphrey R. Jones, who had recently returned from the United States of America deeply influenced by a religious revival which had swept that country, and who had already kindled the flame of revival in north Cardiganshire. Morgan joined him in his campaign, and under
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Crwys; 1875 - 1968), poet, preacher, archdruid 1956). His recitation pieces for children and adults were very popular at eisteddfodau in the second quarter of the twentieth century, but he is chiefly remembered as the author of well-known lyric poems such as ' Dysgub y Dail ', ' Melin Trefin, ' Siôn a Siân ', ' Y Border Bach ', and ' Y Sipsi '. He is one of the poets who succeeded in freeing himself from the fetters of the 'New Bard'. He also
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist He was born 13 February 1908 at Penparc, near Trefin in Pembrokeshire. He was brought up at Tresinwen Farm and educated at Henner elementary school and Fishguard County School, where he was taught by D. J. Williams as his English master. In the autumn of 1926 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, to study English, and graduated with an exceptionally good first class honours
HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician Pontllan-fraith Primary School and Pontllan-fraith Secondary School, ended at the age of fifteen, he remembered these schools with affection and paid tribute to the influence of a master at the secondary school, Edgar Phillips (Trefin). Finding his first job at the local colliery office tedious, Hughes moved to work underground as a coal miner until he was conscripted in 1944. He served as a private in a
TREFÎN - see PHILLIPS, EDGAR

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