Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN GLYN (1870 - 1953), scholar, songwriter and poet much labour he became dissatisfied with his terms of employment. In 1907 he was appointed to the staff of the library of the University of Liverpool and later as assistant to Professor Kuno Meyer in the Celtic department of the University. When Meyer retired in 1920, Glyn Davies was appointed head of the department and remained in that post until he retired in 1936; he lived at Mostyn and Denbigh
HUW MACHNO (fl. 1585-1637), poet bardic diction, maintaining his excellence in poems to women, in eulogy, and in descriptive verse. Over 150 of his poems have been preserved in manuscript. The following manuscripts contain examples of his autograph, NLW MS 433B, Peniarth MS 327, Mostyn. MS. 146, B.M. Add. MS. 14998, Cardiff MS. 83 (the Book of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir), Christ Church MS. 184, and he wrote practically the whole of NLW
GRIFFITH family PENRHYN, (117, 293, 329), 1467-77 (54, 490), 1476-85 (121)). He was dead by 13 September 1483 (Penrhyn MSS. 38-9). A number of contemporary poets sang his praises - Cynwrig ap Dafydd Goch, Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Guto'r Glyn, Rhys Goch Eryri, and Robin Ddu (NLW MS 3051D, Mostyn MSS. 493, 495, 498, 542; Llanstephan MS 118, Llanstephan MS 78; Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd (ed. T. Roberts), 107; Gwaith Guto'r Glyn (ed. J
MORRIS, EDWARD (1607 - 1689) Perthi Llwydion, Cerrig-y-drudion, poet and drover . He refers to himself as the family bard of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaeth and on festive occasions he was certain of a welcome from the Mostyns and from the Wynn family of Bodysgallen. He was a master of cynghanedd, an able descriptive writer who was acquainted with the essentials of the old bardic fraternity, and a writer of cywyddau in the manner of the master poets. He learned the four and twenty
LEWIS, Sir JOHN HERBERT (1858 - 1933), lawyer and politician Born 27 December 1858 at Mostyn Quay, Flintshire, only son of Enoch Lewis (great-nephew of Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) of Denbigh) and of Catherine Roberts, Plas Llangwyfan, Denbighshire. He was educated at Denbigh, Montreal (McGill University), and Exeter College Oxford [ B.A. 1879, M.A. 1884 ], and travelled widely. A lawyer by profession, he became in 1889 first chairman of the Flintshire
HUGHES, WILLIAM BULKELEY (1797 - 1882), Member of Parliament Anglesey in 1861. As chairman of the Llandudno Improvement Commissioners he contributed in large measure to the development of the town through his successful negotiations with the Mostyn Estate between 1873 and 1877. A keen speculator in railway shares, he took full advantage of the boom of the 40's to replenish his estate, and held the chairmanship of the Anglesey Central Railway from its opening to
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, appointment that he sentenced Richard White, the Roman Catholic schoolmaster of Llanidloes, to his death in 1584. Thelwall was an exceptionally gifted man, who, according to Simwnt Fychan, was fluent in eight languages. After the death of Gruffudd Hiraethog, c. 1560, it appears that Simwnt forsook the patronage of the Mostyn family for that of the Thelwall family of Plas y Ward. In an awdl to Simon Thelwall
LLOYD, HUMPHREY (1610 - 1689), bishop of Bangor . At S. Asaph he distinguished himself by his stout and uncompromising opposition to the granting of a lease to Sir Roger Mostyn of the tithes and profits of the rectory of Whitford. In 1673 he removed from Ruabon to the rectory of Gresford, and on 5 January 1673/4 was enthroned bishop of Bangor. By a special Act of Parliament in 1685 he procured the archdeaconries of Bangor and Anglesey, the
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York this grievance, he negotiated with Mytton, commander of the Parliament forces then invading North Wales, and took an active part in his storming of Conway in August 1646. The Welsh cavaliers never forgave his apostasy, though there are indications that he repented of it after the execution of the king. He died 25 March 1650 at the Mostyn royalist house of Gloddaeth, and is buried in Llandygài church
ROBERTS, THOMAS (Scorpion; 1816 - 1887), Independent minister Ieuan Gwynedd, Cofiant H. Pugh, Mostyn (joint editor), Cofiant Caledfryn; and he had begun a memoir of Gwilym Hiraethog, which was completed by David Roberts (1818 - 1897).
DAVIES, JOHN (1652 - post 1716) Rhiwlas,, genealogist British Museum (B.M. Add. MSS. 9864-7). These show clearly the debt which John Davies owed to the labours of Lewis Dwnn. In 1716 his book, A Display of Herauldry, was published by John Roderick. It is full of interesting and valuable details, especially about the families of North Wales (see Moule, Bibliotheca Heraldica, 296-7). At the request of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaeth, John Davies copied the
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, his death in 1633 he was buried in the college chapel; he left no important legacy to the college, but a Welsh Bible which came into its possession on his death is believed to have been his. The estate of Berth-ddu passed to Owen Gwynn's elder brother, HUGH WYNN I (or Hugh Gwynne), who added to it that of Bodysgallen by marriage with the heiress, daughter of Richard Mostyn. He helped Thomas Wiliems

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