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301 - 312 of 340 for "composed"

  • THOMAS, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1840 - 1897), scholar, teacher and linguist at the national eisteddfod in Ruthin for a poem, ' The Harpist's Grave ' for which Brinley Richards composed the music. In March 1872 Llewelyn Thomas was elected, despite keen competition, a fellow of his old college. He remained in post for a quarter of a century, teaching and instructing generation after generation of students as, senior tutor, vice-principal (1882-97) and Welsh reader (1873-80
  • TREVOR, JOHN (d. 1410), bishop of St Asaph with Owain as one of the king's arch-enemies. He died on 10 or 11 April 1410, while on a mission to Paris, and was buried there, in the infirmary chapel of the abbey of S. Victor. He had at least one admirer (as bishop of St Asaph during the years before the rebellion) for Iolo Goch composed a highly eulogistic poem (possibly two) in his honour. There are strong grounds for concluding that Trevor was
  • TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary She was in charge of the upbringing of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and also of Queen Mary when she lived with the younger Tudor children. Therefore she was the Lady Mistress for Elizabeth and Edward, the title accorded to the lady who controlled the household. Her funeral elegy, composed by Lewys Morgannwg, includes the lines: Arglwyddes breninesau,Gofrner oedd ban oedd yn iau.Hi a wyddiad yn
  • TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) , was born posthumously. Lewis Glyn Cothi and Dafydd Nanmor composed elegies upon him.
  • VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, Golden Grove and dedicated his Holy Living, 1650, and Holy Dying, 1650/1, to Carbery as his patron and protector. After the Restoration Carbery was appointed lord-president of the Marches of Wales at Ludlow, and there he had Samuel Butler as his secretary and steward of the castle; part of Hudibras is said to have been composed there. Carbery was removed from the presidency in 1672 owing to charges
  • VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, Bredwardine, Thomas ap Roger - see Vaughan family of Hergest, and (Sir) Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Tretower - and that they were brought up with their uterine brothers, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke (died 1469), and Sir Richard Herbert (died 1469), sons of Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan (died 1446). Gwladys died in 1454. Hywel Swrdwal or Hywel Dafi composed an elegy on her death. WATKIN
  • VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington , wife of Robert Whitney, upon whose wedding Lewis Glyn Cothi composed an epithalamium. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, maintained the tradition which made Hergest a resort for the greatest Welsh bards of the 15th century. For three generations Welsh culture found a home at Hergest. There were preserved the ' Red Book of Hergest,' which is now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the ' White Book of Hergest
  • VAUGHAN, Sir GRUFFUDD (d. 1447), soldier Guilsfield; and David Lloyd, ancestor of the Lloyds of Leighton and Marrington. Reynold and David Lloyd received the royal pardon, 21 December 1448. Tudur Penllyn composed an elegy upon the deaths of three sons of David Lloyd and his brother Cadwaladr, who died at the same time. The theory put forward by the compilers of the History of Parliament, that this David Lloyd was Member of Parliament for
  • VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist written in 'reply' to one by Rowland Vaughan; he also wrote two englynion when the news came that Vaughan had received judgement in his favour in respect of Caer-gai in 1637. There are also three englynion by Rhisiart Phylip in 'reply' to three by Vaughan in regard to a poem by the former respecting Rhiwedog, near Bala. Rhisiart Phylip composed two cywyddau gofyn ('request poems') of Caer-gai interest
  • WALTERS, GARETH (1928 - 2012), composer a great deal of music for broadcasting. He was an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and was music director of the Gower Music Festival. For the most part his composing was restricted to smaller forms, though he did write a Sinfonia breve in 1964. His best known composition is his Divertimento for string orchestra, composed in 1960 and recorded several times. Other
  • WILLIAM, LODWICK (fl. 1689?), writer of interludes composed c. 1689. On the title-page of the 1802 edition, the author is described as of 'Glanllwchwr, Llandybie,' 'Glanllwchwr' (or 'Cwmllwchwr') being a farmhouse in the parish of Llandybie, Carmarthenshire. He appears to have been a physician of some repute, and popular tradition also attributed to him magical powers. Other authorities, however, maintain that Lodwick William was a native of Bala
  • WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile with that of her sister GWENFRIDA ('Cate ', ' Gwenffreda ferch Brychan'), is linked with that of Lady Llanover in a poem entitled ' An Diou Vag ', which François Jaffrennou ('Taldir') composed after the national eisteddfod held at Cardiff in 1899, and published in Gwerziou gant Abherve ha Taldir, St. Brieuc, 1899. The two sisters were ' Y Ddau Wynne', joint authors of the novels One of the Royal