Dictionary of Welsh Biography

SALMON, DAVID (1852 - 1944), training college principal Born in the parish of Newport Pembrokeshire, 30 January 1852, son of James and Martha Salmon. His forebears on both sides had for generations been farmers in the parish of Nevern. He was a pupil-teacher in Haverfordwest from 1865 to 1869, a student at the Borough Road (London) Training College in 1870-71, and a tutor at that college in the following session. From 1875 to 1891 he was headmaster of
PHILIPPS, LEONORA (1862 - 1915), campaigner for women's rights performance, according to one report (The Cardiff Times, 8 October 1910). It was under the name of Lady St Davids that she made her seminal contribution to the formation of the South Wales Nursing Association, a group which aimed to ensure that Welsh-speaking nurses were available to administer to Welsh patients, as explained at an influential meeting in Carmarthen in October 1910. She further displayed her
BEYNON, THOMAS (1744 - 1835), archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of eisteddfodau and Welsh literature stipend towards the building of churches in the places under his care, and the newly-founded S. David's College, Lampeter, was generously supported by him. He supported the circulating schools of Bridget Bevan and testified to the ability of Morgan Rhys the hymn-writer as a schoolmaster in his parishes in 1771-2 by applying for an extension of his services for 1772-3. He was a patron of the
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer Born 2 January 1878 at Bryn Melyn near Harlech, Meironnydd, the son of John Hughes Jones, a physician, of Clwt-y-Bont, Caernarfonshire (who dropped the surname Jones) and his wife, Annie Harriet (née Jones; Gwyneth Vaughan, novelist. He became a ' Welsh scholar ' at St. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated. He edited two anthologies of poetry which in their day were extremely useful to
DAVIES, DEWI ALED EIRUG (1922 - 1997), Congregationalist minister and professor of theology He was born in Cwmllynfell, Glamorganshire, 5 February 1922, one of the eight children of Thomas Eirug Davies, the Congregationalist minister there (and after 1926 in Lampeter) and his wife. His mother Jennie was the daughter of R. H. Thomas, the Calvinistic Methodist minister in Llansannan. He was educated at Peterwell primary school, Lampeter, and at Aberaeron County School. As a consequence of
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director Stanford in 2002, he began work on Prosiect Ogam: Rhwng ei dau fôn - a deep map of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. A study for this project, Bro, was presented in the art tent at the National Eisteddfod in St Davids in August of that year. However, the work remained unfinished due to McLucas's untimely death of a brain tumor on 1 September 2002. McLucas's archive is housed in the National Library of
SYMMONS family Llanstinan, which, by the influence of his friend William Windham, that of the adjoining rectory of Lampeter Velfrey was added in 1794; he received the prebendal stall of Clydey in the cathedral church of S. Davids on 11 October 1789. He married, 1779, Elizabeth (died 1830), daughter of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Sir Thomas Foley. Among the five children of the marriage were Caroline and
JONES, ALWYN RICE (1934 - 2007), Archbishop of Wales David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated in 1955. He went on to Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge, to study theology, gaining a BA in 1957 and an MA in 1961. He trained for the priesthood at St Michael's College, Llandaff, and was ordained deacon in 1958 and priest in 1959. His first clerical post was as assistant curate at Llanfairisgaer in Caernarfonshire from 1958 to 1962. After this, he became
REES, RICE (1804 - 1839), cleric and scholar at Oxford, and when Lewellin became principal of the newly founded S. David's College, Lampeter, Rice Rees was appointed lecturer in Welsh and librarian. He was ordained the same year; in 1832 he became rector of Llanddewi Velfrey, and in 1838 was appointed bishop's chaplain - he had already been entrusted with the responsibility of examining candidates for holy orders in Welsh. He was a scholar by
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner Born on 25 March 1863 at Warminster Vicarage, Wiltshire, the third son of the Reverend Sir James Erasmus Philipps and his wife, Mary Margaret Best. A more detailed account of the family will be found in the entry on his eldest brother, John Philipps, 1st Viscount St. Davids; two other brothers are also noticed separately: Sir Ivor Philipps and Laurence Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford. Sir
RHYGYFARCH (1056/7 - 1099) extant works are a Life of S. David, some Latin verses in a psalter at Trinity College, Dublin, and a ' Lament ' (ascribed to him in B.M. Cotton MS. Faustina C. i). This latter is a short Latin poem bewailing the increasing oppression of the Welsh by the Normans. His chief work, the Latin Life of S. David, was probably written about A.D. 1090, to advocate the claims of S. Davids to be the metropolitan
PRICE, HUGH (1495? - 1574), founder and first benefactor of Jesus College, Oxford Born at Brecon, son of Rhys ap Rhys. He was educated at Oxford and took the degree of doctor of canon law in 1526. Price was appointed first prebendary of Rochester in 1541, and he held the prebend until his death. In 1571 he became treasurer of S. Davids cathedral. Towards the end of his life he decided to devote his money and estate to the establishing of a new college in Oxford, and he

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