Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, HUMFFREY (fl. 1600?-64?), poet
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic strong hold upon him throughout his life - he was 88 when he sent an awdl ('Y Greadigaeth') to the Aberffraw eisteddfod of 1849. After graduating he took orders (1795) and became curate of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, and later (1799) of Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire. At the latter place he married the widow of Rice Price, Rhosbrynbwa; there were four children of the marriage. He does not seem to have resided
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Liverpool School of Art before starting work as a commercial artist in the city. He returned to live and work at Star on the death of his father. It was about this time - 1923-24 - that Ifan ab Owen Edwards asked him to provide illustrations for the monthly magazine Cymru'r Plant, and thus began more than forty years of work for Urdd Gobaith Cymru. His cartoon characters ' Toodles ' and ' Twm y gath
EDWARD ab IFAN, harpist
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru
EDWARDS, JOHN (1755 - 1823), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born 8 September 1755 at Ereiniog, Penmorfa, Caernarfonshire, a farm on which his ancestors had lived for many generations. When young, he was something of a poet and interludist, but about 1774-5 his thoughts were turned to religion, and in 1787 he began preaching. He married (c. 1790) Elizabeth Jones of Hafod Ifan (Ysbyty Ifan, Denbighshire). In 1795 he had to leave his farm, as the landowner
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters the University of Wales. He died (still in harness) at Llanuwchllyn, 15 May 1920. His wife, Ellen Davies of Prys Mawr, Llanuwchllyn, had died a year before him. They had two sons, Owen ab Owen (1892-1897) and Ifan ab Owen Edwards (1895-1970), and one daughter, Haf (1898-1965) who married David Hughes Parry.
ELIS DRWYNHIR (fl. c. 1600?), poet of whose work only two examples have been found in manuscript, these being two englynion. An anonymous englyn, written to Elis Drwynhir 'when he became a sheriff's bailiff,' has also been found. Blackwell gives a poet, Elis ab Ifan ap Rhicart or Elis ab Ifan Drwynhir, said to have flourished c. 1600. Foulkes (Enw.) gives a poet, Elis ap Ieuan ap Rhisiart or Elis ab Ifan Drwyndwn, said to have
EVAN(S), EDWARD (1716 - 1798), Presbyterian minister and poet Born March 1716 (possibly 1717) at Llwydcoed, Aberdare, son of Ifan ap Shôn ap Rhys, a weaver and smallholder. After a few years as a weaver he was apprenticed to carpentry under Lewis Hopkin, who also instructed him in the practice of the strict metres in poetry. In 1749 he took the farm of Ton Coch, above Dyffryn House, Mountain Ash. He had joined (c. 1748) the Nonconformist congregation at Cwm
EVANS family Tan-y-bwlch, Maentwrog The family of Tan-y-bwlch (or Bwlch Coed y Dyffryn), Maentwrog, Meironnydd, claimed descent from Collwyn ap Tangno. According to the pedigrees, ROBERT AB IFAN, whose will was dated 24 August 1541, was twelfth in descent from Collwyn. As with other families in west Merioneth there was a connection with Osbwrn Wyddel - through the marriage of Robert ab Ifan with Annes, daughter of Nicholas ap
EVANS, EVAN (1882 - 1965), businessman was a member of London County Council 1931-34 and was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1946. Elected an alderman in 1932, he served as secretary of Jewin (Presb.) Church from 1938 until his death, and was moderator of the Association in the South, 1961-62. He contributed towards the cost of publishing the book by Tom Beynon on Howel Harris in London. Under the bardic name 'Ifan Gwynfil
EVANS, JOHN (1815 - 1891), archdeacon of Merioneth hard both in his parish and in the diocese generally, was an able scholar, and a sound antiquary. He wrote 'Pentrefoelas' (in the Cambrian Journal, 1854 and 1855), and 'Ysbytty Ifan and the Hospitallers' (in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1860).

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