Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PRYS, THOMAS (1564? - 1634) Plas Iolyn,, poet and adventurer (probably in his own handwriting); many are found also in the Peniarth, Mostyn, and Cefn Coch manuscripts. He wrote many poems on the traditional subjects of the bards, and he composed many love and nature poems. He composed many poems to ' Eiddig ' (the jealous one); and he had a long bardic contest with Edmund Prys and other bards 'about Eiddig.' There was also a bardic contest between him and two other
LEWIS, Lady RUTH (1871 - 1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies wedding. The married couple lived at Penucha Mansion, Caerwys, and at 23 Grosvenor Road, London. A daughter, Kitty, was born in 1898 and a son, Mostyn, in 1901. She had attained a thorough knowledge of Welsh and the children were fluent in Welsh. The family were regular worshippers at Welsh chapels in Caerwys and in London. Ruth Lewis identified herself with Welsh life; she involved herself in public
WILLIAMS family Marl, involved in lengthy litigation with the Prendergasts; he was twice married and had many children; he held a commission in the Royal Navy; and died suddenly in London in 1791. He had, some time before 1774, sold the Pant Glas estate to the Lloyds of Penbryn (i.e. the Mostyn family). They pulled down part of the mansion, and used the materials for the building of Plas Glasgwm, Penmachno; the rest of the
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, co-heiress of Robert Owen of Ystumcegid, he was the father of OWEN WYNN (died 1682/3), of Glyn and Ystumcegid, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Robert Mostyn, of Nant, Flintshire, the issue of the marriage being two daughters, (1) MARGARET (died 1727), who married Sir ROBERT OWEN (died 1698), of Clenennau and Brogyntyn who was Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1681-85, and was
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician countrymen.' But Roger Mostyn, Sir John Wynn's son-in-law, writes in disparaging terms of his medical knowledge and ridicules his presumption in posing as a physician. Dr. Alexander Read, a contemporary orthodox practitioner of great repute in North Wales, and the author of several medical books, also pours scorn on his 'ineffectual old simples.' According to Humphrey Humphreys, bishop of Bangor, Thomas
PENNANT, THOMAS (1726 - 1798), naturalist, antiquary, traveller with him almost everywhere and illustrated his works. Pennant was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of James Falconer, of Chester, by whom he had two children, David, his heir, and Arabella. His second wife was Ann, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, who bore him a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Thomas. The health of Pennant began to fail in 1793. He died 16 December 1798, at the age of
REES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Hiraethog; 1802 - 1883), Independent minister, writer editor, and political leader eisteddfod for a cywydd on the victory at Trafalgar and the death of Nelson - an achievement which brought him into public notice. He was brought up as a Calvinistic Methodist, but when the Independents came to Llansannan in 1828 he was admitted a member of their church. It was not long before he was invited to preach and in 1831 he was appointed minister at Mostyn. In 1837 he went to Swan Lane, Denbigh
JONES, JOHN (c. 1578-1583 - 1658?) Gellilyfdy, Loveday, Ysgeifiog, calligrapher and transcriber of manuscripts survived, mainly in the Hengwrt-Peniarth collection. It was his association with Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, the famous collector of manuscripts, and himself a notable copyist, which accounts for such a large number of John Jones's transcripts being preserved in the Hengwrt-Peniarth group; there are examples also in the Mostyn, Llanstephan, and Additional MSS. in the National Library, at Cardiff, and in
EL KAREY, YOUHANNAH (1843/4 - 1907), missionary , Bangor, Conwy, Mostyn, Denbigh, Holywell, Llangollen, Narberth, Haverfordwest, Glynneath, Tredegar, Llanelli, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr Tydfil, and Aberdare. There are numerous contemporary newspaper articles documenting his lectures, which usually wrote about him with fascination and respect, and spoke of him as if he was well known to Welsh audiences. He spoke about his missionary work, his life in
NANNEY family Nannau, one of the sons of the first lord Mostyn, with the clear proviso that these were only interim arrangements for one life, that the two estates were eventually to come into the hands of JOHN VAUGHAN (born 1829), a member of the Dolmelynllyn branch of the Hengwrt family. This happened in 1874; and Vaughan was very soon faced with the problem of the new railway to Bala, the old problem of fishing in the
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian servant for the Mostyn family and his great-grandfather a Methodist minister. In later life, Jones took a keen interest in the fortunes of his home town's Victorian theatre, becoming its patron and officially re-opened Theatr Colwyn in 2011 after a £738,000 refurbishment. 'Theatr Colwyn means a lot to me,' he said, 'because my grandfather [William Newnes] conducted the orchestra for the Colwyn Bay

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