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ALAW AFAN - gweler EVANS, WILLIAM
ALAW DDU - gweler REES, WILLIAM THOMAS
ALAW ELWY - gweler ROBERTS, JOHN
ALAW GOCH - gweler WILLIAMS, DAVID
ALAW RHONDDA - gweler LEWIS, JOSEPH RHYS
BARDD ALAW - gweler PARRY, JOHN
DAFYDD ALAW (fl. 1550), poet
DAVIES, OLIVER (fl. c. 1820), harpist Born at Montgomery. He was the principal harpist at the Welshpool eisteddfod in 1824 and in the Cymmrodorion eisteddfod in London, 6 May 1829, when his skill on the pedal harp caused a sensation. He also appeared at the eisteddfod held in London in 1831. In Y Cymmrodor, i, Bardd Alaw (John Parry, 1776 - 1851), writing on the ' Cambrian Pedal Harp,' refers to him as follows: 'This harp will be
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist Born in Prestatyn, Flintshire, in 1874, the son of Griffith Eames and his wife Margaret Dowell from Prestatyn. His father was a carpenter who had been apprenticed in Liverpool after working, for a time, on the land in his native Anglesey. He settled in Barrow-in-Furness where he met his future wife as a fellow chorister in the choir conducted by Peter Edwards, 'Pedr Alaw'. Margaret Eames insisted
EDWARDS, PETER (Pedr Alaw; 1854 - 1934), musician conducted a children's choir. An anthem which he composed for a Liverpool eisteddfod was awarded the prize by Owain Alaw (John Owen, 1821 - 1883). After five years in Liverpool he worked at Barrow-in-Furness, removing in 1877 to London as a shorthand writer to a firm of timber merchants. He attended music classes at Birkbeck College and at Trinity College of Music under Turpin and Karn. He conducted
ELLIS, JOHN (1760 - 1839), saddler and musician chapel. In 1827 he became a member of Bedford Street chapel, where again he was made precentor. He composed several anthems - ' Molwch yr Arglwydd,' ' Duw yn ddiau a glybu,' and ' Cân Moses ' are included in Y Gyfres Gerddorol, arranged by Owain Alaw. His hymn-tune ' Eliot,' 9.8, appeared under the title ' Hill Street ' in Y Dysgedydd, January 1822, and continues to be popular. At Liverpool he became a
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster guise he would turn up punctually at national eisteddfod meetings. They also conducted a fabricated correspondence between him and queen Victoria, to whom he proposed marriage. His 'poems' have probably been augmented by tradition. Benefactors would get them printed in leaflet form and the bard would hawk them around the fairs. A selection, with a good introduction by Thomas Roberts (Alaw Ceris), was

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