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  • ADAMS, ROGER (d. 1741), bookseller and printer at Chester Although he may not have been a Welshman, Roger Adams, who was admitted a freeman of Chester on 20 February 1713/4, merits a note as he was one of the earliest printers of Welsh books and ballads at Chester : his first book was (probably) Ystyriaethau o Gyflwr Dyn, 1724. In 1730 he had started to print Adams's Chester Weekly Courant, and in 1739 he printed John Reynolds, The Scripture Genealogy
  • ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert Born at Pen-y-cae, Ebbw Vale, 10 October 1813, son of John and Mary Adams. The father was a working collier at the time but a man of remarkable skill in that vocation; later he became mineral agent for Charles Lloyd Harford & Co. William was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. In May 1828 he was apprenticed to Charles Lloyd Harford and in the course of time he became expert in his own branch
  • ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), poet and writer of prophecies According to John Davies and Thomas Stephens, he flourished about 1240. He is referred to in Peniarth MS 94 (26) and Llanstephan MS. 119 (82), as living about 1038, and contemporary with Goronwy Ddu o Fôn. But in G. P. Jones, Anglesey Court Rolls, 1346, 37, 39, mention is made of 'the son of Adda Fras ' and 'the suit of Goronwy Ddu, attorney for the community of the township of Porthgir.' In
  • AELHAEARN (fl. 7th century), patron saint He was, according to the lists, the son of Hygarfael, son of Cyndrwyn of Llystin Wennan, now Moel Feliarth, in the parish of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire. He is the reputed founder of Guilsfield, Llanaelhaearn, and an extinct chapel of the same name, now covered by Gwyddelwern. His name, which often appears in the form Elhaearn, is also commemorated in Ffynnon Aelhaearn, a holy well, formerly
  • AFAN (fl. early 6th century), patron saint He is described as the son of Cedig ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig, and is associated, as ' Afan Buellt,' with the cantref of the name in Mid Wales. Here are two of his churches, viz. Llanafan-fawr and Llanafan-fach; the third is Llanafan in the valley of the Ystwyth. An inscription of c. 1300 at Llanafan-fawr runs: 'Hic iacet sanctus Avanus Episcopus'; from this it has been inferred that he ruled
  • AIDAN (fl. 6th century), saint Known also as Aidus, Maidoc, and Madoc. His 'Life,' as preserved in Cotton. Vesp. MS. A. xiv at the British Museum and as printed in Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, reveals Aidan as a saint connected chiefly with Ireland. His youth was, however, spent in south-west Wales, where he was a pupil of S. David, and where his name has been preserved in church appellations and place-names. Traditionally close
  • AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader Abdullah Ali al-Hakimi (occasionally spelt el-Hakimi) was born in a village near Taizz, Yemen, around 1900. His parentage is unknown, and the earliest years of his life remain shrouded in uncertainty. He is known to have spent his formative years in Yemen, before at some point in the 1920s meeting Sheikh Ahmed al-Alawi, the spiritual leader of the Alawi Sufi fellowship, in North Africa. He became
  • ALBAN DAVIES, DAVID (1873 - 1951), business man and philanthropist with a manse. He also built a schoolroom near his old home in Llanrhystud for the Presbyterian Church. He served the local community as a member of Walthamstow Borough Council for nine years. After returning to Wales he served as high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1940 and became a member and alderman (1949) of Cardiganshire County Council, and served as chairman of its health and welfare committees
  • ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist made donations to Urdd Gobaith Cymru, contributed £10,000 to the building fund of U.C.W., Aberystwyth and provided a generous subvention towards the cost of producing The Oxford book of Welsh verse. His outstanding services to various aspects of Welsh life were recognised when he was appointed high sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1951 and was awarded an honorary LL.D. of the University of Wales in 1964.
  • ALBAN, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1882 - 1965), chartered accountant and administrator Born 11 January 1882, at ? Abergavenny, Monmouth, son of David Alban and his wife Hannah. The mother died at Abergavenny, 28 September 1884. The father was a journeyman tailor and he died at Hereford, 2 January 1891. Consequently, the family was scattered. Two elder sons became shoemakers near Fleetwood. Frederick John was brought up by a Miss Williams at Lower Monk Street in Abergavenny until he
  • ALEN, RHISIART ap RHISIART, author of 'Carol ymddiddan ag un marw ynghylch Purdan' The carol can be found in NLW MS 1559B, pp.313-5, written early in the 17th century by William Bodwrda of Aberdaron. The date of composition of this carol may, however, be considerably earlier than the manuscript, particularly as the existence of purgatory is taken for granted as an unquestioned fact. Most of the poems in the collection are by poets from Llyn, and this would suggest that the
  • ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess Daughter of the gentleman poet, Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan (c. 1485 - 1553) of Llannerch in Llewenni Fechan, Denbighshire. Her mother was his first wife, Jonet, daughter of Richard ap Howel of Mostyn (died 1540). Alice (or Alice Wen) was born about 1520, and married, about 1540, David Lloyd ap Rees of Vaynol, one of the Lloyds of Wigfair. Her children were John Lloyd (died 1615