Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes was 12. At his marriage in 1763 to Elizabeth Hughes of Pont-y-garreg, Llanfair Talhaearn, Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), the renowned poet and antiquary, officiated. Twm and his wife made their home at Denbigh, and he earned his living by hauling timber. Owing to certain misfortunes he soon became involved in heavy debts, with the result that he had to turn for a while to writing interludes and acting in
REES, THOMAS (Twm Carnábwth; 1806? - 1876), pugilist
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Twm Pedrog; 1774 - 1814), poet
PARRY, EDWARD (1723 - 1786), Methodist exhorter, poet and hymn-writer Born in 1723 at Llys Bychan, Llansannan, Denbighshire. He was a carpenter by trade, contemporary with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) and one of Twm's most gifted actors. He was twice married and lived first at Cefn Byr and then at Tan-y-fron In 1747 he gave up acting in the interludes and welcomed the revivalists to his house. In 1749 he began to exhort but, when the split occurred between Howel
EVANS, EVAN (fl. end of 18th century), player on the triple harp After the death of John Parry (1710? - 1782) he was appointed family harpist at Wynnstay, the residence of the Williams Wynn family. Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) refers to his skill. His name appears as a subscriber to Edward Jones, Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, as ' Mr. Evan Evans, Telynwr, Wynstay.' It is thought that he died at Wynnstay.
HUMPHREYS, GEORGE (1747? - 1813), sexton, poet and friend of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant). Harri Myllin writing in Cymru (O.M.E.), 1893, says that he was born at Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and spent his entire life there. The entry of his christening has not been found, but he was certainly buried there, 10 June 1813, at the age of sixty-six. Cynddelw (Robert Ellis) had a high opinion of him as a poet. We have, in the handwriting of his son
THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet the title of Eos Gwynedd. He wrote carols and hymns. He had a bardic controversy with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) on the subject of baptism. He died 12 September 1818.
DAVIES, MORRIS (Meurig Ebrill; 1780 - 1861), poet Born at Dolgelley, he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually worked at his trade in some of the larger houses of the neighbourhood, e.g. Nannau, Hengwrt, Dolserau, and Caerynwch. When he was about 13 years of age he came to know Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant, 1739 - 1810), who was then at Bala. He wrote numerous poems on a variety of subjects, many of them dealing with local occurrences
PUGH, EDWARD (c. 1761 - 1813), miniature and landscape painter Said to have been born at Ruthin. He exhibited twenty-three pictures, mainly miniature portraits, and including one of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), at the Royal Academy between 1793 and 1808, and during this period was working in London, except for a period in 1800 when his address is given as Chester. Another of his pictures was exhibited posthumously in 1821. He joined an artists' volunteer
JONES, THOMAS (Twm Shôn Catti; 1532 - 1609), landowner, antiquary, genealogist, and bard
OWEN, THOMAS ELLIS (1764 - 1814), cleric .), 1802; the former drew a retort, The Welsh Methodists Vindicated, 1802, from Thomas Charles and Thomas Jones, and a furious attack in verse, 'Cân ar Berson Paris' (Llandyfrydog is near Parys Montain) from Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), 1802.
PARRI, HARRI (Harri Bach o Graig-y-gath; 1709? - 1800), strolling poet the smaller eisteddfodau and some of his englynion are to be found in the almanacs, but very little of his work was printed. His muse was slow and laboured, and he could not compete with Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) in flyting. He was an unsophisticated little man who believed that, because he had been born the year Huw Morys died, Morys's mantle had descended upon him. It is clear from his

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