Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PARRY, JOHN (The Blind Harpist; 1710? - 1782), harpist and publisher of music Born at Bryn Cynan, near Nevin, Caernarfonshire, c. 1710. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) says that his harp teacher was Robert Parry, Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire; Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) says that he received lessons from Stephen Shôn Jones, Penrhyndeudraeth. He became one of the best harpists in the kingdom and took part at concerts given in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Dublin. He was family
PHILLIPPS, Sir THOMAS (1792 - 1872), antiquary, bibliophile, and collector of manuscripts, records, books, etc. ; for details see J. Gwenogfryn Evans, Repts. on MSS. in the Welsh Language, Cardiff, and the annual reports of that period of the Cardiff Public Libraries Committee. One of the most famous early Welsh manuscripts, viz., the ' Book of Aneirin ' (now in Cardiff), had found its way to the Phillipps collection, via Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) and others (Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, xi, 109-12
PRICE, THOMAS (Carnhuanawc; 1787 - 1848), historian and antiquary until 1841 when he built himself a house at Cwm-du. He received the rural deanery of the third part of Brecon South in 1832. A series of articles by Carnhuanawc appeared in Seren Gomer in 1824 and he continued to be a frequent contributor to Welsh periodicals down the years. He was also an enthusiastic supporter of the provincial eisteddfodau established in the years following 1819. His eloquent
THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet at Cefn-coed-y-cymer eisteddfod for a poem, 'Abraham yn aberthu Isaac,' and another at the last eisteddfod of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society for an elegy on Carnhuanawc; he won the chair at Rhyl eisteddfod, 1870, for his awdl, 'Y Nos'; at Holyhead, 1872, for an awdl, 'Moses'; at Caerphilly, 1874, for an awdl, 'Cartref'; and at Treherbert, 1877, for an awdl, 'Y Nefoedd.' He never succeeded in
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr afterwards a weigher in the iron-works at Blaina, but returned (c. 1860) to Blaenavon to keep the 'Three Cranes' inn - his wife, Mary (Lewis), had died 1859 at Blaina - they had two daughters. He died 31 January 1889. A zealous eisteddfodic competitor, he was a founder-member of ' Cymreigyddion y Fenni ' (for which see under Carnhuanawc and under Bevan, Thomas, 1802 - 1882); he won many prizes and medals
WILLIAMS, JANE (Ysgafell; 1806 - 1885), Welsh historian and miscellaneous writer therein; The Literary Remains of the Rev. Thomas Price, Carnhuanawc … with a Memoir of his Life (Llandovery, 1854-55); The Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Paper People (London, 1856), a little book about paper-cutting, with illustrations by lady Llanover; The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis, a Balaclava Nurse, Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr (London, 1857); The Literary Women of England (London, 1861
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician talent as showing an 'inherent genius for music' in her obituary. She is also said to have been a very accomplished guitar player. In 1826, she spent an unusually long two months in Ireland without Elizabeth Ann, accompanied by Rev Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc'), and staying at Adare Abbey, ancestral home of the Earls of Dunraven. There is evidence to confirm local traditions that her journey was
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym ab Ioan; 1800 - 1868), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Merionethshire, and educated in an elementary school there. Emigrating to the U.S.A. in 1825, he became a merchant in New York and, in time, secretary of the S. David's Charitable Society. He took the prize at the Abergavenny eisteddfod of 1837, for elegiac englynion on Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc); he also won prizes for poems submitted to eisteddfodau in the U.S.A. Many of his
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies harpist to the Gwynnes of Glanbrân, near Llandovery, then kept a school for harpists under the patronage of Carnhuanawc at Carmarthen, and finally became harpist to the Llanover family; he died at Llanover, 12 December 1844. (b) EDWARD WOOD (1838 - 1908), harpist Music Performing Arts Born 26 August 1838, died at Bala about 1908 - see J. Glyn Davies's recollections of him (Edward Wood a'r Dadgeiniaid

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