Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander Myddelton (1586 - 1667); but the suggestion (D.N.B., xl, 16) that his parliamentary sympathies arose from this source seems unnecessary in view of the strength of Puritan feeling round Oswestry and in his mother's family. On the outbreak of war he was given a colonelcy in the parliamentary army, and conducted a successful campaign on the Salop - Denbighshire border, being instrumental in the capture of
OWEN family Plas-du, pressure of creditors, e.g. Sir Thomas Myddelton (1550 - 1631) and Sir William Maurice. Thomas Owen's third son was JOHN OWEN (died 1622), the epigrammatist. HUGH OWEN (1538 - 1618), Roman Catholic conspirator Religion, was a younger son of Owen ap Gruffydd, educated at Lincoln's Inn (21 April 1556), and employed in the household of Henry Fitzalan, 12th earl of Arundel and lord of Oswestry, whom he
OWEN, Sir JOHN (1600 - 1666), royalist commander authority there ceased. After the successful invasion of Wales by Sir Thomas Myddelton he was summoned to Oxford, where the king made him governor of what became the 'ffrontiere garrison' of Conway (10 December 1644), and a week later, a knight. On 17 February 1645 he was commissioned as sergeant major general of foot under lord Byron (governor of Chester). His first task was to meet threats to
PHYLIP family, poets Ardudwy character; they are of more value to the historian of religion than as literature. Like Edmund Prys, William Myddelton, Siôn Tudur, Edward Kyffin, and James Parry, all of whom essayed a Welsh metrical version of some of the Psalms, Siôn Phylip wrote a paraphrase of the first psalm. The religious and didactic group contains some interesting poems. One of them, Cywydd y ffenics, appears very often in the
PRYSE family Gogerddan, Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire, 1646-8. He married (1) Hester, daughter of Sir Hugh Myddelton, bart, and (2) Mary, widow of Anthony Van Dyck, the well-known painter. He was succeeded by his son, Sir RICHARD PRYSE, 2nd baronet, who, in turn, was followed by his brother, Sir THOMAS PRYSE, 3rd baronet. The 3rd baronet was succeeded, in 1682, by his nephew, Sir CARBERY PRYSE (died 1695), 4th
RHIRID FLAIDD (fl. 1160), nobleman and warrior inheritance at Gest, would, if all this were true, have been a cousin of Madog ap Maredudd, last king of united Powys (died 1160). He is also said to have married Gwenllian, daughter of Ednyfed ap Rhiwallon of Brochdyn or Broughton, by whom he had two sons, Einion and Madog. From him the following families claimed descent - Lloyd of Rhiwaedog, the Myddelton of Gwaenynog and Chirk, the Vaughans of Glan-llyn
SALISBURY, THOMAS (1567? - 1620), publisher translator of the (incomplete) Rhann o Psalmae …, during the plague sickness of 1603, and adds that the printing of the Basilikon was not completed. William Middleton's Psalmae is dedicated to Sir Thomas Myddelton, kinsman of the translator and patron of the publisher. As has been shown by E. D. Jones (N.L.W. Jnl., i, 52-3), Sir Thomas Myddelton, on 5 January 1593/4, advanced £10 to ' Thomas Salisbury
SALUSBURY, Sir THOMAS (1612 - 1643), poet and country gentleman Born 6 March 1612, eldest son of Sir Henry Salusbury of Lleweni, the 1st baronet, and Hester, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton. He went to Jesus College, Oxford, but did not graduate. He joined the Inner Temple, November 1631, with the intention of studying law but, when his father died at the end of July 1632, he returned to Lleweni to look after the estate. He was elected a burgess of Denbigh
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, known for persistent feuds with its neighbours, the Kyffin s, and later the Myddelton 's, the latter lasting till the early 18th century (Wynn, The history of the Gwydir family, 1927 ed., 41-5; Edwards, Star Chamber Proceedings, 68; Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accts., 1605-66, 14 and n.; Cust, Chronicles of Erthig, i, 51, 57). The founder of the family fortunes was Sir EDWARD TREVOR (died 1642) Military
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Myddelton, and he was mortgaging land in 1612. He was outlawed, probably for debt, and his goods and chattels were granted to Dr. John Craig, the king's physician, who later compounded with the heir, Henry Williams. He died February 1612 (article Myddelton; Jnl. N.L.W., i, 85; Penrhyn MSS. 276; T. I. J. Jones, Exchequer Procs., James I, 51-3; Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1611-18, 132). HENRY
WYNN family Gwydir, Parys Mountain (Anglesey) copper mines, and in 1625 suggested to Sir Hugh Myddelton a project for reclaiming Traeth Mawr, separating Caernarvonshire from Merioneth. He founded [?] a school and alms houses at Llanrwst in 1610 [but see under John Williams (fl. 1584-1627?). One of the petitioners for a royal commission to hold an eisteddfod in 1594, he encouraged the literary activities of his kinsmen
WYNN family Wynnstay, old name of the mansion and the estate). After his succession to this estate Sir Watkin Williams adopted 'Wynn' as an additional surname. He was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire, 1716-41; in the 1741 election he lost the seat through a trick played by the high sheriff, although he had, in fact, fairly beaten his opponent, John Myddelton of Chirk castle; but this was put right in July 1742, and

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