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ROWLANDS, EURYS IONOR (1926 - 2006), Welsh scholar clerk for three years. He returned to Bangor in 1948 and graduated with first-class honours in Welsh in 1950 and gained his M.A. in 1955 for a dissertation on the work of the poet Lewys Môn. He was appointed Welsh teacher at Holyhead comprehensive school in 1953 but towards the end of 1956 he was appointed a lecturer in the Celtic Department at Glasgow University. In 1958 he was appointed lecturer in
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet , 'Maes Bosworth.' He was a competitor also at Caernarvon in 1862 on the subject 'Y Flwyddyn,' but was beaten by Hwfa Môn. He died 17 February 1863, and was buried at Clynnog. His wife, his son, and two of his daughters had predeceased him. Eben Fardd was regarded in his day as one of Wales's foremost poets, and it is fair to say that he was endowed with more of the true poetic sensibility than was any
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet control over, the poets and their craft.' It was at that eisteddfod that he was made a bard or 'chaired' teacher. In the elegy he wrote for Tudur Aled, Lewis Mon has a couplet: ' Dug ar i wn, fel dau grair, Diwedd gwawd, y ddwy gadair ' (op. cit., II. 734), which was taken to mean that Tudur Aled was made a master musician as well as a master poet (op. cit., I, xxxviii). One of Tudur Aled's patrons was
teulu VAUGHAN Corsygedol, Phylip (died 1666), who was bardd teulu at Corysgedol, wrote about nineteen, whilst another son, Phylip Siôn Phylip (died c. 1677), wrote one. William Phylip (died February 1670), who lived at Hendre-fechan, close to Corsygedol, helped Siôn Bryncir to write a cyngor to William Vaughan, nephew of Siôn Bryncir. One poem by Gruffydd Phylip has an interesting title - ' I Wmffre Davies o Landy-frydogy Mon
WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER DAVID (1873 - 1934), artist the Investiture of the prince of Wales at Caernarvon in 1911 and ' The Charge of the Welsh Division at Mametz Wood ' in 1916. Among his portraits are those of Sir John Williams, Sir Henry Jones, Sir John Rhys, David Lloyd George (later 1st earl Dwyfor), Sir John Morris-Jones, and Hwfa Mon. Several of his pictures were shown at the Royal Academy exhibitions and his work is represented in the
WILLIAMS, DAVID (Iwan; 1796 - 1823), Baptist minister them to seek refuge in Swansea. Joseph Harris (Gomer) gave the family shelter and kept Williams to preach to English congregations at Swansea and to instruct his son John in the classics. He died 10 January 1823. ' P. A. Môn ' composed an elegiac awdl, and Caledfryn elegiac englynion in his memory.
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS (1901 - 1975), author and dramatist writer in a variety of media - essays, short stories (he was a regular contributor to newspapers and journals), novels, stage and radio plays, film, children's literature and verse. He wrote his last essay on 1 January 1975, expecting it to appear in the same number of 'Herald Mon' as his obituary, as in fact transpired. He began writing plays about 1918 and gained many prizes at the national
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author as a gift to Oriel Ynys Môn in Anglesey. In May 1974 Kyffin left his teaching post in London and returned to Anglesey, where he made a home for himself for the first time in his life, at Pwllfanogl near the village of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, in a house which belonged to the Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey, a couple who were generous patrons and supporters of Kyffin Williams. In Pwllfanogl
WILLIAMS, OWEN (GAIANYDD) (1865 - 1928), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and author prizes at local eisteddfodau on historical subjects; he also acted as an adjudicator. He was married and had two sons and a daughter. He published ' Hanes Llanerchymedd a'i Henwogion ' in Hanes a Chyfansoddiadau Arobryn Eisteddfod Llanerchymedd (Cymdeithas Eisteddfod Môn, 1906); Ein Pobl Ieuainc … (Caernarvon, 1906); Dafydd Jones o Drefriw (1708-1785) (Caernarvon, 1907); Dewis Aelod Seneddol: Drama
WILLIAMS, OWEN (Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary alone. He died at Fron Heulog, Waun-fawr, 3 October 1874, and was buried in Betws Garmon churchyard. Ioan Arfon and other friends of his collected fifty pounds to provide a suitable tomb-stone and this was unveiled, 7 March 1879. In 1904 his son, Thomas Williams, published some of his works, together with the story of his life, in Gemau Gwyrfai; and in 1911, he published another book, Gemau Môn ac
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (Hwfa Môn; 1823 - 1905), Independent minister, and archdruid of Wales front rank, being phenomenally longwinded. It was in connection with the eisteddfod that he became most prominent, and that in the days when ' to win at the eisteddfod was considered a sufficient achievement in itself….' He was invested a ' bard ' at the Aberffraw eisteddfod, 1849, and chose the name Hwfa Môn. At one time or another he had won a vast number of prizes at the eisteddfod, including the
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry the daughters of Thomas Peers Williams, son of OWEN WILLIAMS (1764 - 1832), and grandson of Thomas Williams, were married to members of the House of Lords, two others to sons of lords; a brother to these daughters was Hwfa Williams, prominent (he and his wife) at the court of Edward VII.

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