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BERNARD (bu farw 1148), bishop of S. Davids to annex to his diocese the regions of Ystrad Yw, Gower, Kidwelly, and Cantref Bychan, and thus to extend its boundary from the Tawe to the Towy. Having received no support in the Council of Westminster in 1127, Urban appealed to the Holy See, and in 1128 secured from Honorius II, in the absence of opposition, a provisional award in his favour. This was confirmed on a second visit to Rome by Urban
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner West Cross. Her father's residual legatee, Dillwyn inherited a spelter works on the banks of the river Tawe which she rescued from debt and eventually sold for a handsome sum to a German metallurgy company in October 1905. She employed a manager to run the works on a day to day basis, but worked daily at her offices dealing with correspondence in French and German and overseeing the finances. Aged
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist painting of a group of about a hundred Welsh men of letters for which William Morris (Gwilym Tawe) paid him 100 guineas, and (b) a portrait of Siôn Wyn o Eifion entitled ' The Bard in Bed,' which is reproduced in the 1861 and 1910 editions of Gwaith barddonol Siôn Wyn o Eifion; the original of (b) is in the National Library of Wales. There are in the Library also two of his books with original
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author hardworking with the young in Cwm Tawe. He established the Urdd Aelwyd youth club in Morriston and worked hard to establish the first Welsh primary school in Swansea, in Lonlas, Llansamlet. He was an enthusiastic Eisteddfod supporter and he competed as an elocutionist and adjudicated recitation competitions in the Urdd and National Eisteddfodau on numerous occasions. He gained an University of Wales M.A
GEORGE, THOMAS NEVILLE (1904 - 1980), Professor of Geology carboniferous limestone (Avonian) of the North Crop of the South Wales Coalfield and the uppermost Avonian strata of Gower. He continued his work to complete Kidwelly to the Tawe Valley and examine brachiopod fauna from limestone at Port Eynon. In 1926 he was awarded a Fellowship of the University of Wales to spend two years at Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, to continue research on carboniferous fossils. While
JAMES, WILLIAM (1761 - 1845), minister (Congl.) Born on Palm Sunday [15 March] 1761 at Abersŵn, Llanllwni, Carmarthenshire. He became a member of Rhyd-y-bont church and began preaching when he was young. He kept school at Glyn Tawe, and then (1785-89) went to 'Carmarthen' academy, which was at the time located in Swansea. He was ordained minister of the churches of Watford and of Trinity, Cardiff, and lived at Ysguborwen farm. About 1826 he
JONES, DAVID JOHN TAWE (1885 - 1949), musician
MORGAN ap CARADOG ap IESTYN (bu farw c. 1208), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Avan) in the honour of Glamorgan sons of whom the third, Morgan Gam, succeeded him. A daughter, Sybil, appears to have married into the family of Turberville of Coity. Giraldus Cambrensis (Itin., i, cap. 8) recounts that it was Morgan ap Caradog who guided archbishop Baldwin in 1188 across the quicksands between the Afan and Tawe estuaries. Of the four sons of Morgan whose names are known to us, LLEISION was the eldest; in the
MORRIS, ROBERT (bu farw 1768), industrialist collieries. Morris lived at Clasemont, between Llangyfelach and the Tawe river. Soon after his death, his second son (Sir) JOHN MORRIS (1745 - 1819), born 15 July 1745, took a step which put the family name literally 'on the map.' It is not perfectly clear whether it was he or his father who built the ' castellated mansion of collegiate appearance ' (Walter Davies, General View of the Agriculture. … of
PENCERDDES TAWE - gweler PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS
PHILLIPS, DAVID RHYS (1862 - 1952), librarian documents and traditions of all kinds relating to the life of the community, a facsimile reprint appeared in 1994. He married twice, (1) Mary Hancock, who died April 1926, and (2) Anne Watts, ' Pencerddes Tawe ', December 1927. The son of the first marriage died in 1924, and there was a daughter of the second marriage. Rhys Phillips died at his home Beili Glas, 15 Chaddesley Terrace, Swansea, 22 March
ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author were performed by 'Cymdeithas y Ddraig Goch' (The Red Dragon Society) in the Tawe valley during the war. Two of Kate's brothers, Evan and Dei, were soldiers in the First World War; Evan was severely wounded and suffered from the after-effects of those wounds throughout his life, while Dei was wounded and died of dysentery while recuperating in Malta in 1917. He was only nineteen years old. Kate was

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