Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer . Early in his career he was influenced by contemporary music. He heard Edward Elgar conduct a performance of his Second Symphony in Cardiff in 1923, and was much impressed; so too by the performance he heard of the opera Hugh the Drover by Ralph Vaughan Williams, conducted by John Barbirolli, in 1925. But the turning point in his career came with the publication of the Third Quartet by the Hungarian
WYNNE, EDWARD (1715 - 1767), vicar - see WYNNE, ELLIS
WYNNE, EDWARD (1685 - 1745), vicar - see WYNNE, ROBERT
WYNNE, ELLIS (1670/1 - 1734), cleric, and author of an outstanding Welsh prose classic Born 7 March 1670/1, at Y Lasynys, near Harlech and in the parish of Llandanwg, Merionethshire, son of Edward Wynne, who descended from a well-known Merioneth family (Wynne of Glyn Cywarch), and his wife, who had inherited Y Lasynys. It has not been ascertained, as yet, where Ellis Wynne received his early education nor how he spent his life until he entered Jesus College, Oxford, on 1 March 1691
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer The son of the squire of Copa'rleni (the name has several forms - see Ellis Davies, Prehistoric and Roman Remains of Flintshire, 159-60; the old mansion is now a farmhouse, known as ' Y Gop'), Trelawnyd ('Newmarket'), Flintshire. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all named John Wynne; the great-grandfather was the son of Edward ap John Wynne ap Robert ap Ieuan ap Cynwrig ap
WYNNE, JOHN (1667 - 1743), bishop of St Asaph and principal of Jesus College, Oxford which was translated into French and Italian. Edward Lhuyd felt in 1704 (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1859, 253) that Wynne was cold, if not actually hostile, to him - Moses Williams, on the other hand, received from him a letter of recommendation when he was applying for the post of secretary of the Royal Society. Two of the bishop's sons were buried at Northop. The elder, JOHN WYNNE (1724 - 1801
WYNNE, ROBERT (d. 1720), cleric and poet Son of Edward Wynne of Plasnewydd, Llangywer. He was probably the Robert Wynne, 'of Merioneth ', who was entered as a sizar at Queens ', Cambridge, 28 June, 1676, matriculated 1676, B.A., 1679-80. Ordained priest by Humphrey Lloyd, bishop of Bangor, 31 March 1681, he was curate of Llangywer for the period 1681-5 if not earlier and later. His collation to the rectory of Llanuwchllyn by William
WYNNE, SARAH EDITH (Eos Cymru; 1842 - 1897), vocalist the S. James's Hall, the other in the Crystal Palace. She now settled in London and was soon to become one of the best vocalists in the country. In 1862 she sang in the national eisteddfod held at Caernarvon. She toured during 1863-5 with Madam Patti, Santley, and Edward Lloyd, and for eight weeks in 1864 she took the part of ' lady Mortimer ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV at Drury Lane Theatre. She had
WYNNE, WILLIAM (1671? - 1704), historian 1704. At Oxford, he was one of the circle of Edward Lhuyd. In 1697, he published a History of Wales - really a working-over of the Historie of Cambria (1584) of David Powel; it was reprinted (unaltered) in 1702, again (with some changes) in 1774 and 1812, and finally in 1832 (with topographical notes by Richard Llwyd of Llannerch Brochwel). Its merits are slight, but it remained for well-nigh two
WYNNE, WILLIAM EDWARD WATKIN (1801 - 1880), antiquary - see WYNNE
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, (see under Edward Lloyd (1570 - 1648?), was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, of which he became Fellow (1544-67) on taking his bachelor's degree. Ten years after proceeding to M.A. (1546) he was admitted to minor orders (24 September 1556) by bishop William Glyn, who inducted him to the rectory of Llantrisant (Anglesey) a few weeks later. He never resided there, qualifying instead for a legal
YARDLEY, EDWARD (1698 - 1769), archdeacon

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