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BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic staunch when her husband wavered under persecution, and eventually his father, who was reconciled by Morgan Clynnog, nephew of Morys Clynnog. Next year he was instrumental in bringing about the reconstitution of the English congregation of Benedictines. Dom Sigebert Buckley, last survivor of the pre-Reformation English Benedictines (who has been claimed as a native of Beaumaris), had got into touch with
BEUNO (bu farw 642?), patron saint He is widely commemorated in North Wales. Under his patronage are Aberffraw, Trefdraeth, Clynnog, Penmorfa, Carngiwch, Pistyll, and Botwnnog in Gwynedd, and Llanycil, Gwyddelwern, Berriw, and Betws Cydewain in Powys. Llanfeuno in Ewias Lacy alone represents him in South Wales. Of these foundations Clynnog (for Celynnog) was much the most important. The group of clergy who held it appear in the
BONAPARTE, Prince LOUIS-LUCIEN (1813 - 1891) mutation; see particularly his Initial Mutations in the Living Celtic, Basque, Sardinian, and Italian Dialects, 1885. He possessed the only surviving copy (as far as is known) of the book Athravaeth Gristnogavl, by Morys Clynnog, and Wales is indebted to him not only for drawing attention to its existence but also for transcribing it for the Cymmrodorion and for giving them permission to publish it in
teulu CECIL Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) in trials for copper in Anglesey, and by his association with Morys Clynnog who wrote to Burghley from Rome a letter in Welsh (May 1567), warning him of the queen's impending excommunication. Burghley's elder son THOMAS CECIL (1542 - 1623), earl of Exeter, was equally anxious to establish his Welsh descent and deplored the change in spelling that obscured it; but his second son ROBERT CECIL (1563
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest entered the English College, Rome, at the age of 21. After the disturbance, which resulted in the removal from the rectorship of the English College of his uncle, Dr. Morys Clynnog, he was the first Welsh student to take the mission oath, 23 April, 1579. He was ordained priest and returned to his native land in 1582. A letter of May or June 1587 refers to him in connection with other Welsh
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian His birthplace, in all probability, was Clynnog-fawr inCaernarfonshire. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1548. After being successively chaplain to (cardinal) Reginald Pole, rector of Orpington, Kent., and dean of Shoreham and Croydon, he was, in 1556, appointed rector of Corwen, by Goldwell, bishop of St Asaph. On the death of William Glyn in 1558, he was raised
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor held this office at the end of the reign of Richard II. In November 1397 he received the prebend of Llandwrog. With the chapter he rendered account on 19 May 1399 of the temporalities of the see, which had been in their hands since the death of bishop Swaffham on 24 June 1398. At one time he held a position in the church of Clynnog-fawr. This is all the contemporary evidence. Browne Willis
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph other preferments, including that of chancellor of Bangor cathedral, to which he was appointed in 1546; but he can with greater confidence be identified with the archdeacon of St Asaph of 1558-61. On the death of bishop William Glyn of Bangor in 1558, Davies was made custodian of the 'spiritualia' of the diocese by cardinal Pole, archbishop of Canterbury. Glyn's successor-designate, Morys Clynnog
DAVIES, HUGH EMYR (1878 - 1950), minister (Presb.) and poet Born 31 May 1878 at Brynllaeth, Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, son of Tudwal and Annie Davies. He was educated at Pwllheli county school, Clynnog School, U.C.W., Aberystwyth and Bala College. He was ordained in 1909, and was a minister at Llanddona, Anglesey (1909-12), Lodge, Brymbo and Ffrith (1912-20), and Llanfechell, Anglesey (1920-29). He was an exceptional preacher, but it was as a poet that
DAVIES, HUGH TUDWAL (1847 - 1915), farmer and poet Born at Mynachdy, Clynnog, Caernarfonshire - he was a nephew of Robert Hughes, Uwchlaw'r Ffynnon (1811 - 1892). At the age of 18 the family moved to Yr Orsedd Fawr, Llangybi; in 1872 he settled in Brynllaeth, Llŷn. He m, a daughter of Capt. John Hughes, Gellidara. He wrote many englynion and a few cywyddau; he won prizes at eisteddfodau held at Pwllheli, 1875, and Caernarvon, 1880 and 1894. His
EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1629 - 1712), cleric and controversialist Born at Wrexham. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, in 1655, graduated in 1659, and became Fellow of Jesus College in 1662 and vice-principal in 1668. Livings and appointments held by him included: rector of Kiddington, rector of Hinton Ampner, rector of Llandysul, Cardiganshire, and vicar of Clynnog-fawr, Caernarfonshire; in 1686 he was elected principal of Jesus, and was vice-chancellor of the
ELIAS, WILLIAM (1708 - 1787), poet According to David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), he hailed from Clynnog - Elias ap Richard of Talhenbont smithy was his father, says J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees). He is said to have started life as a shoemaker, and the list of subscribers to the Diddanwch teuluaidd, 1763, and an occasional note in the manuscripts (e.g. Wynnstay MSS. 7, 105, 131, etc.), confirm this. Later, he became a farmer and land

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