Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, (see Meyrick family) and Rowland Laugharne, both of whom rallied to him in the Civil War, but the North Wales families who had been in the 2nd earl's service mostly took the other side in his son's day. With the 3rd earl's death in 1646 the earldom became extinct, but the Welsh connection persisted through the viscounty, which devolved on WALTER DEVEREUX, 5th viscount Hereford (1578 - c. 1657) A
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander April 1647). A fortnight before this, Rupert had written from France inviting Owen to bring over a Welsh brigade for the French service, an invitation he reluctantly declined for lack of means of transport. In the second Civil War his commission was renewed (31 March 1648), and he raised Merioneth for the king, intending to join Rowland Laugharne at Pembroke, but besieging Caernarvon instead when it
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician Gwynfor Evans was born on 1 September 1912 at Y Goedwig, 24 Somerset Road, Barry, the eldest of the three children of Daniel James ('Dan') Evans (1883-1972), an industrious and highly successful shopkeeper, and Catherine Mary (née Richard) (1879-1969), herself a shopkeeper from a chapel-going London Welsh background, originally from Cydweli. Gwynfor Evans was above all the product of Welsh
MORRIS, LEWIS (Llewelyn Ddu o Fôn; 1701 - 1765), poet and scholar (by Daniel Silvan Evans,), and the second is still in MS., at the National Library - on this matter, see G. J. Williams in the 1943 Supplement to N.L.W. Jnl., 30-2. Then again, his private press (on which, see Ifano Jones, Printing and Printers in Wales), from which he intended to issue reprints of the older literature, had to be abandoned after the issue of a single item, Tlysau o'r Hen Oesoedd
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume financially supported Daniel Silvan Evans when he was preparing his multi-volume dictionary. Combining ardent Protestantism with a love of Welsh, she endowed two Calvinist Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based upon the Book of Common Prayer. Her belief in temperance led her to convert inns and pubs in the area into
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author extensively from 1940 onwards, producing many notable books, including a comprehensive biography of his hero Aneurin Bevan published in two volumes in 1962 and 1973, and authoritive works on William Hazlitt, Thomas Paine, Lord Byron, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. He was a man of high principles who dedicated his life to socialism, democracy, devolution for Wales and Scotland, human rights and freedom for
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' second Sir Thomas Myddelton for the subjugation of North Wales, at first as paymaster and later (November) as captain of foot in the reinforcements bound for North Wales, but driven by storm into Pembroke and used in the South Wales campaign of Rowland Laugharne, where Jones was at the storming of Laugharne castle (December 1644) (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1625-49, Addenda 662
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Liverpool and her childhood in Daniel Rowland's village, in the sound of villagers' recollections of the Revival led by Dafydd Morgan Ysbyty Ystwyth (1859), Sara experienced a Christian religious conversion as a young girl. Following her marriage in 1887 to John Maurice Saunders (1863-1919), a member of another well-known Methodist family who lived in Liverpool (son of Dr D. D. Saunders), Sara dedicated
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party by Daniel Hughes, Dewi Emrys and Wil Ifan as The Prison Sonnets of T. E. Nicholas (London, 1948) Nicholas achieved a great deal, especially as 'the people's poet'. His was a lonely, prophetic voice, inspired by the Bible and the writings of Communist philosophers from Karl Marx to R. Palme Dutt. His volumes of poetry await their literary critic. They include Salmau'r Werin (Ystalyfera, 1909), first
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, (without increasing his own fortune) a dominant position there to his descendants, most of whom inherited his exceptional qualities of physique and courage and were notable for longevity and fertility. He died on 23 May 1539, lamented by Rowland Lee as ' the best of his name that I know,' whose loss to the cause of order in Mid Wales he felt ' as though I had lost one of my arms.' WILLIAM HERBERT, of
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer across the road from the Evening Post offices in Castle Street. Others were the poet Charles Fisher, the musician and teacher Tom Warner, the broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, the composer Daniel Jones and, later, the poet Vernon Watkins. Up to 1938, London alternated with Swansea as Thomas's main base. Cosmopolitan artistic life in London was celebrating Surrealism and Picasso in art, 'Modernist

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