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NANNEY, DAVID ELLIS (1759 - 1819), attorney-general for North Wales Born in 1759, son of Richard Ellis, vicar of Clynnog - he lived at Gwynfryn by Llanystumdwy, on an estate acquired by one of his Bodychen ancestors through a lucky marriage in 1667 - and Catherine, daughter of the evangelical Richard Nanney, also vicar of Clynnog (died 1767). David Ellis matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1778, graduating B.A. in 1782; in the same year he was admitted
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric of David Ellis Nanney, the learned lawyer, ancestor to Sir HUGH J. ELLIS NANNEY of Gwynfryn by Llanystumdwy.
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party enrolled at Gwynfryn School, Amanford, under Watkin Hezekiah Williams, 'Watcyn Wyn' (1844-1905) and John Gwili Jenkins (1872-1936), an advocate of the broad and liberal theological views associated with the New Theology of R.J. Campbell. T.E. Nicholas acknowledged his immense debt to Gwili Jenkins for opening for him the world of Christian Socialism, though he had read for himself accounts of the work of
PENCERDD GWYNFRYN - gweler CARRINGTON, THOMAS
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (fl. 1680-1722), Independent minister preach in Llŷn, residing at Gwynfryn, Pwllheli, the heritage of Elin (Glyn), widow of Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682); he afterwards married her, and thus became owner of Gwynfryn. He was ordained, 3 July 1688, at Swansea, in the presence of James Owen - the certificate of ordination, preserved among the papers of Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799) in N.L.W., is printed in Y Cofiadur, 1923, 19-20. Phillips
REES, THOMAS MARDY (1871 - 1953), Independent minister, historian and author and John, were working in No. 2 pit on 23 December 1885 when a tragic explosion happened there, but the three were saved. Thomas ' public career as a reciter, orator, poet and narrator began early. He began preaching when he was eighteen years of age, at the request of Siloa, Maerdy. He attended Pentre secondary school, Rhondda, before moving on to Gwynfryn school, Ammanford. He won a scholarship
RHYS, WILLIAM JOSEPH (1880 - 1967), minister (B) and author leaving school he worked in a grocer's shop in Abergwynfi, but after being urged to enter the ministry, he went to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, in 1901 and Bangor Baptist College (1903-06), where he came under the powerful influence of the Revival. He became pastor of Horeb, Maenclochog, and Smyrna, Puncheston, Pembrokeshire (1906-25), and Dinas Noddfa, Landore, Swansea (1925-47), finally retiring to
THOMAS, JOHN (Siôn Wyn o Eifion; 1786 - 1859), poet periodicals were lent him by the Gwynfryn family, and distinguished people like Fenton the historian and Shelley the poet used to visit him. Welsh books were lent him by Dafydd Ddu Eryri and others (Adgof uwch Anghof, 42), and we hear of him sending an awdl on the subject of Music for adjudication by Dafydd at the Caernarvon eisteddfod, 1821, but it arrived too late for inclusion with the others. As might
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer of Moriah (Congl.), Tŷ-croes. Eurof Walters had for a time been a clerk with the Merthyr-Brecon Railway Company, before being apprenticed at Tracy's shop in Morriston as a jeweller and goldsmith (the explanation of his bardic name). He went to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford (see Watkin Hezekiah Williams), for half a year. He walked there from the home of his cousin John Dyer Richards, the eldest son of
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher 'Gwynfryn School' became well known as a seminary, for preachers particularly, about twenty students leaving annually to enter the colleges and professions. Watcyn Wyn had a considerable reputation, during his lifetime, as a poet. He won the major awards at several of the chief eisteddfodau held between 1881 and 1893; he also wrote many shorter poems, both in serious and in lighter vein, particularly

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