Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRIFFITH, JOHN (fl. 1649-1669) Llanddyfnan, squire poet cywyddau is to be found among the Mostyn, Llanstephan and Henblas manuscripts in the National Library of Wales and the additional manuscripts in the British Museum. A staunch Churchman and Royalist, he was strongly antagonistic to the Puritan régime, as is evident from many of his compositions in the free metres. His elegies on Edward Wynne of Bodewryd and Mrs. Lumley Lloyd of Lligwy, both dated 1669
BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Mostyn, and published in Chester in 1765. NLW MS 843B, which was copied c. 1761, contains his sequence of englynion to the Deity. In 1784 appeared his translation of de Courcy's Letter of Advice …, in 1785 his translation of James Hervey's Meditations, and in 1792 of Theophilus Priestley's sermon on the death of Selina, countess of Huntingdon. In 1795 (?), at Chester, was printed A specimen of select
HUGHES, WILLIAM (d. 1600), bishop of St Asaph Bible into Welsh, patronized the bards, and, in 1585, refused to institute a rector for insufficient knowledge of Welsh. He died 18 November 1600, leaving a considerable fortune to his daughter, wife of the heir of the Mostyn family.
LLOYD, JOHN (1749 - 1815), lawyer and dilettante 1815. He was a member of the first Cymmrodorion Society (list of 1778), and had previously been elected F.R.S.; he was also F.S.A. and F.L.S., and in 1793 was created D.C.L. of Oxford. In 1796 he contested Flintshire against Sir Thomas Mostyn, unsuccessfully, but he unseated Mostyn on petition in 1797, and held the seat till September 1799, when he resigned it. He died at Wigfair 24 April 1815, and
DAVIES, HUMPHREY (d. 1635), vicar of Darowen, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts silence of the Welsh poets he did not take a degree. He was vicar of Darowen from 1577 until his death in 1635. He wrote several collections of Welsh poetry, and at least seven of his manuscripts have survived: Gwyneddon 1, Llanstephan MS 35, Llanstephan MS 118, Mostyn 160, Bodewryd MS 1D, B.M. Add. 14933, and Brogyntyn 2. He compiled the latter for Dr. Theodore Price, nephew of his wife Jonet, daughter
McGRATH, MICHAEL JOSEPH (1882 - 1961), Archbishop it so deteriorated that he had to resign this parish and seek a period of leave of absence to try to regain full health. In 1921, his known interest in the Celtic languages led Bishop Francis Mostyn to invite him to work in Menevia diocese. This he accepted and went to serve at Flint and later at Bangor. In 1928, he was transferred to Aberystwyth, as parish priest and Rector of the small Catholic
SION TUDUR (d. 1602), poet . Asaph, and he was a landed proprietor of the lineage of Llywarch Howlbwrch. He spent some time at the court in London where he was one of queen Elizabeth's bodyguard. He addressed eulogies, elegies, and begging poems to over sixty North Wales families; among them are poems to four generations of the house of Botryddan, four of Mostyn, and three of Lleweni - nearly all relating to the period after 1566
JONES, EDWARD ALFRED (1871 - 1943), connoisseur of silverware write to Y Cymmrodor and Archaeologia Cambrensis in 1904 and was a regular contributor for the rest of his life to journals such as the Burlington Magazine (e.g. ' Some old silver plate in the possession of Lord Mostyn ', 1907), The Connoisseur (e.g. ' Welsh goldsmiths ', 1941), Apollo, The Athenaeum and Art in America. The church plate of the diocese of Bangor (1906) was his first book, and it was
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, ; Camb. Quart. Mag., i, 72; Hist. MSS. Com., Portland, i, 475-6; C.J., vii, 791). JOHN DOLBEN (died 1709), son of the Royalist colonel, was in 1684 one of a commission of ten on concealed Crown lands in Denbighshire (Cal. Treasury Books, vii, 1132). With him the direct male line died out, the estate passing through his daughter to her husband John Mostyn, great-grandson of Sir Roger Mostyn (died 1642
SIMWNT FYCHAN (c. 1530 - 1606), poet containing his genealogical collections is in the Cardiff Public Library, and there are several other manuscripts containing his work in the various libraries. Some of his cywyddau have been published, his 'pattern' awdl to Piers Mostyn, which he showed at the Caerwys eisteddfod of 1568, is printed in the grammar, (1592), of Siôn Dafydd Rhys. In 1571 was printed a page showing an epigram by the Latin poet
ITHEL ap RHOTPERT or ROBERT (fl. 1357-1382), archdeacon . On both sides, he was of the family which, in more modern times, has borne the surname Mostyn; his father, Rhotpert ap Iorwerth ap Rhirid, had a brother, Madog, otherwise known as ' Matthew de Englefield,' who was bishop of Bangor 1327-57 (Browne Willis, Bangor, 74-5; Le Neve, Fasti, i, 99); his mother, Adles, was cousin to Dafydd ap Bleddyn, bishop of St Asaph. Ithel is styled B.C.L. in one record
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure Born 16 May 1888 in Gwredog, Amlwch, Anglesey, son of John Cemlyn Jones, a solicitor from Caerphilly, and Gaynor Hannah, daughter of John Elias Jones, from Penmaen-mawr (and through his wife, of Gwredog, Amlwch), a prominent figure in the public life of Anglesey and an ardent Liberal. His father died when he was a child and he was educated privately: at Mostyn School, Parkgate, Cheshire, at

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