Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Born February 23, 1895 at Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the second son of Robert and Elizabeth Davies. The family soon moved to Star, between Llanfairpwll and Gaerwen, and he was brought up there. His early education was at Llanfairpwll elementary school, and the County School, Llangefni. His plans to become an architect were scotched by World War I. After leaving the army, he spent four years at the
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1803 - 1879), marine zoologist Born 23 November 1803 at Corwen, he was for some years a draper at Bangor, but in 1840 set up a successful iron-foundry at Menai Bridge. In 1864 he began studying fishes. His researches led him to effect great improvements in the construction of aquaria, and his devices were adopted by the leading museums in Britain and abroad. He died 13 August 1879.
EVANS, ALFRED THOMAS (Fred, Menai; 1914 - 1987), Labour politician
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster Lived at Menai Bridge, chiefly by selling cockles - hence his sobriquet 'the cockle-bard'; the name, in its generalized form cocosfardd, has long been applied in common parlance in Welsh to similar versifiers elsewhere. Quotation is inadmissible here, but the essence of the term is that the 'poet' should be barely literate, and that his effusions should have neither reason nor even rhyme, let
EVANS, SAMUEL JAMES (1870 - 1938), schoolmaster, educationalist, and author headmaster of the County School for Boys, Welshpool, and in 1897 the first headmaster of the County School, Llangefni, a position which he held until he retired in 1935. He afterwards lived at Menai Bridge, where he died on 2 April 1938; he was buried in the adjacent churchyard of Llandysilio. For over forty years S. J. Evans was a prominent figure in the educational life of Wales. From 1934 to 1937 he was
GLAN MENAI - see JONES, GRIFFITH
GLYNNE, MARY DILYS (1895 - 1991), plant pathologist Mary Dilys Glynne was born at Glyndyl, Menai Avenue, Upper Bangor on 19 February 1895, the youngest daughter of the five surviving children of John Glynne Jones (1849-1947), solicitor, and his wife Dilys Lloyd Glynne Jones (née Davies, 1857-1932). Her father's family home was Tyddyn Isaf (Cymryd) in the parish of Y Gyffin near Conwy. Her mother was one of the London Welsh, daughter of the
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, not known. His wife's dowry had strengthened his hold on ' Gafael Goronwy ab Ednyfed ' (Penrhyn) but his main possessions were in the commotes of Menai and Dindaethwy in Anglesey. His wife's mother (Myfanwy) and brother (Tudur ap Goronwy) were alive in 1397 and might be expected to have lived at Penmynydd; nevertheless, Gwilym ap Griffith is described as 'of Penmynydd ' in 1400 and 1403, and his
GRIFFITH, GRIFFITH WYNNE (1883 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 4 February 1883 in Brynteci, Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, son of John and Judith Griffith. He worked on his father's farm until he was 18 years old when he went to the school kept by Cynffig Davies in Menai Bridge, to prepare himself for the ministry. He was accepted as a candidate for the ministry by the Anglesey Presbytery in 1903. He was educated in the University College Bangor (where he
GRIFFITH, ROBERT ARTHUR (Elphin; 1860 - 1936), author and lawyer position which he held until his retirement in 1935. On the literary side he was a keen eisteddfodwr; he assumed the bardic name of Elphin. He wrote two volumes of Welsh verse (Murmuron Menai and O Fôr i Fynydd) and a Welsh comedy entitled Y Bardd a'r Cerddor. With David Edwards (1858 - 1916) and John Owen Jones (1861 - 1899), he produced the pseudonymous The Welsh Pulpit: divers notes and opinions. By a
HOLLAND family Berw, Towards the middle of the 15th century, the Berw estate in Anglesey was in the hands of ITHEL AP HOWELL AP LLEWELYN, a descendant of Llywarch ap Bran, lord of Menai at the end of the 12th century. Ithel had a daughter named ELINOR and a son called OWEN. The Holland family first became connected with Berw when JOHN HOLLAND, described as one of the household servants of Henry VI, married Ithel's
HUGHES, HENRY HAROLD (1864 - 1940), archaeologist vice-president of the Royal Cambrian Academy, a member of the council of the National Museum of Wales from its foundation, and a member of the royal commission on Ancient Monuments (Wales) from 1935. He died 7 January 1940, and was buried in the island churchyard of Llandysilio, Menai Bridge, which is dominated by the large Celtic Cross which he designed as a memorial to the fallen in the first World

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