Dictionary of Welsh Biography

FISHER, JOHN (1862 - 1930), Welsh scholar vice-president. His principal literary work, of which he was joint-author with S. Baring Gould, was The Lives of the British Saints (4 vols.) published by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, 1907-13. He had previously edited the Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. Later he edited Fenton's Tours in Wales for the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1917, Allwydd Paradwys (by John Hughes, 1615 - 1686), 1930, and
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher issued from his press were Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1873, Y Mabinogion Cymreig, 1880, Iolo Manuscripts, 2nd ed., 1888, Philip Yorke, The Royal Tribes of Wales, 1887, and John Fisher, The Cefn Coch MSS., 1899. He published some outstanding biographies, including those of Thomas Charles Edwards, John Hughes (1827-1893), Daniel Owen the novelist, John Ceiriog Hughes (Ceiriog), and the poems and letters of
GEE, THOMAS (1815 - 1898), Calvinistic Methodist minister, journalist, and politician political, educational, and religious movements of the day. He died at Denbigh, 28 September 1898, and was buried in the new cemetery. He married October 1842, Susannah, daughter of John Hughes of Plas Coch, Llangynhafal; they had six daughters and three sons. He was succeeded in control of Y Faner by his son HOWEL GEE who died in 1903.
GRIFFITH, JOHN EDWARDS (1843 - 1933), naturalist and antiquary pedigreemaking, of which his natural bent and his family connections made him an ideal devotee. His father, Griffith Griffith of Taldrwst in Llangristiolus, was a descendant of the Penhesgin family of Llanfaethlu, his mother derived from the Hugheses of Plas Coch, an uncle had married a daughter of William Williams (1738 - 1817) of Llandygái, while he himself had married (as second wife) a daughter of Glasfryn
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM JOHN (1875 - 1931), writer of short stories Born at Bwlan, Aberffraw, Anglesey, 15 September 1875, son of Thomas Lewis Griffith, farmer and valuer, and Margaret Griffith of Bwlan. The family went to live at Cefn Coch farm, Llansadwrn, near Beaumaris, where Griffith lived until he was 24 years of age. He was educated at Llansadwrn and at Beaumaris grammar-school, won an agricultural scholarship to the university college, Bangor, and took a
GRUFFUDD ab YR YNAD COCH (fl. 1280), poet
GUEST, LADY CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH (1812 - 1895), translator, businesswoman and collector by the Rector, Evan Jenkins. Working with the Welsh clerics, notably Reverends Thomas Price ('Carnhuanawc') and John Jones ('Tegid') and drawing upon the research inspired by the Romantic revival and the translation work of William Owen Pughe who had recently died, Lady Charlotte began transcribing and translating into English eleven medieval Welsh tales (from the Llyfr Coch o Hergest / Red Book of
GWILYM DDU O ARFON (fl. c. 1280-1320), poet it is said that he lived in the place called Muriau Gwilym Ddu (Enwogion Sir Gaernarfon). A little of his work remains in manuscript and this includes two poems in praise of Sir Gruffydd Llwyd of Tregarnedd and written while Gruffydd was imprisoned in Rhuddlan castle, and an elegy to Trahaearn Brydydd ap Goronwy, or Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr - Jes. Coll. MS. 1 and 'Llyfr Coch Hergest' (1225, 1229
HARKER, EDWARD (Isnant; 1866 - 1969), quarryman, poet and preacher (Congl.) years at Craig Ddu quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog and for a further 15 years on the Gwydir estate. After this he worked at Cae Coch quarry, Trefriw. He retired in 1933. He composed many poems in the standard Welsh metres and won many prizes, 3 chairs, a crown and a gold medal, in eisteddfodau. He contributed regularly to the poetry column of Y Tyst and to Welsh periodicals. A hymn by him is included in
HERBERT, Sir JOHN (1550 - 1617), civil lawyer, diplomat and secretary of state remaining vacant till 1614; although retaining his secretaryship in name he took no further part in public affairs, and did not sit in the 1614 Parliament. He died at Cardiff on 9 July 1617, after (perhaps in consequence of) a duel fought with Sir Lewis Tresham in May. By his wife Margaret, daughter of William Morgan of Cefn Coch (or of Pen-clawdd), he had an only daughter.
HOPCYN ap TOMAS (c. 1330 - 1403), gentleman century ' Llyfr Coch Hergest ' has five awdlau written to him; the contents of these poems show that he was not only one of the chief patrons of the bards in South Wales but also a man who interested himself in their craft and was a collector of Welsh manuscripts. In 1403, when Owain Glyndŵr was at Carmarthen, messengers were sent by the prince to fetch Hopcyn ap Tomas so that he might explain to Owain
HUGHES, HUGH (Huw ap Huw, Y Bardd Coch o Fôn; 1693 - 1776), gentleman and poet

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