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MILES, WILLIAM JAMES DILLWYN (1916 - 2007), local government officer and author Wales in Aberystwyth, where he studied geography, he was so dogged by ill-health and periods of acute depression - culminating in a nervous breakdown - that the editor of the college magazine, The Dragon, prepared his obituary. Recover he did, although he failed to complete his degree, and he began his working life as a school teacher, first at Letterston followed by Dinas, then Ysgol Dewi Sant at St
MORGAN, DEWI (Dewi Teifi; 1877 - 1971), poet and journalist Dewi Morgan was born 21 December 1877 at Brynderwen, Dôl-y-bont, Ceredigion, the son of William Morgan (1852-1917) and Jane Jones (1846-1922). When he was two years old, the family moved to Garn House, Pen-y-garn where his father kept a grocer's shop, and ran a coal and haulage business. Dewi received little formal education: after helping in his parents' business for a few years, he joined the
MORGAN, RHYS (c. 1700 - c. 1775), poet , vicar of Cadoxton from 1718 to 1727, a man who knew Iaco ab Dewi and Moses Williams. It was thus that Rhys Morgan came into touch with the followers of Edward Lhuyd, and that provides one explanation for the poetic revival witnessed in the hill-country of Glamorgan during the first half of the 18th century. He also came into contact with Siôn Rhydderch, and this probably accounts for the fact that he
MORGAN, THOMAS (Afanwyson; 1850 - 1939), Baptist minister, historian and littêrateur Born at Cwmafan, 9 March 1850, son of Walter and Jane Morgan and nephew of David Michael (Dewi Afan). He entered Pontypool Baptist College in 1875, and was minister successively at Caersalem, Dowlais (1878-95), Ainon, Cardiff (1895-1900) where he was appointed, with Thomas Powel, to reorganise the Salusbury library in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and finally at Skewen
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party by Daniel Hughes, Dewi Emrys and Wil Ifan as The Prison Sonnets of T. E. Nicholas (London, 1948) Nicholas achieved a great deal, especially as 'the people's poet'. His was a lonely, prophetic voice, inspired by the Bible and the writings of Communist philosophers from Karl Marx to R. Palme Dutt. His volumes of poetry await their literary critic. They include Salmau'r Werin (Ystalyfera, 1909), first
NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales he married Jane Margaretta (Jean) Davies. In 1959 he returned to his old school haunts in Cardiganshire, as Vicar of Tregaron, where he was heavily involved with 'Cymry'r Groes' the Church in Wales Youth movement. In 1967 he moved to his only incumbency outside the Diocese of St David's when appointed Vicar of Dewi Sant Church, the Welsh language Anglican church in the centre of Cardiff. He also
OWEN, DAVID (Dewi Wyn o Eifion; 1784 - 1841), farmer and poet , named Gaerwen, at Pwllheli, and owing to his brother's ill-health, Dewi and his mother moved to Pwllheli in 1827. He still held the farm at Gaerwen, and when his brother died in 1837, he returned home, and remained there to the end of his days. His bardic tutor was Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), his neighbour, who lived at Betws Fawr, near Gaerwen. At the age of 21 Dewi won the Gwyneddigion
OWEN, ELLIS (1789 - 1868), farmer, antiquary, and poet Born at Cefn-y-meysydd Isaf, Ynyscynhaearn, Eifionydd, Caernarfonshire, 31 March 1789. He was unmarried and spent his days at Cefn-y-meysydd with his mother and sisters. He died 27 January 1868, and was buried at Ynyscynhaearn, near Pentrefelin, 31 January 1868. He received his early education in a school held in Penmorfa church; David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) was one of his contemporaries. He
OWEN, JOHN (John Owen of Tyn-llwyn; 1807 - 1876), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer on agriculture ) was his schoolfellow. At home, he turned in the literary circle of Eifionydd, which included such men as Dewi Wyn, Robert ap Gwilym Ddu, and Ellis Owen. He began preaching in 1836, married, and went to Bala C.M. College, but had to leave on the death of his father. He was ordained in 1842, but never undertook a pastoral charge, for he held that such an institution had no place in Methodism. In 1853
OWEN, ROBERT (Eryron Gwyllt Walia; 1803 - 1870), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet literature; he sought the company of the local poets and was given instruction and encouragement by the master poet, Dewi Wyn. Towards the end of April 1824, when he was 21, he went to London. He became a member of the chapel at Jewin Crescent where he came into prominence as a teacher at the Sunday school and later as its superintendent. In 1832 he married Ellen Owen, whose sister was the wife of the
PARRY, DAVID (Dewi Moelwyn; 1835 - 1870), Independent minister, and poet
PARRY, EDWARD (1798 - 1854), publisher and antiquary , e.g. Coffhad am y Parch. Daniel Rowlands, by John Owen, 1839, and The Poetical Works of Richard Llwyd, 1837. Parry wrote the memoir which forms the preface to this book, and he also edited and published Blodau Arfon, sef gwaith Dewi Wyn, 1842. He was a successful competitor on historical essays at eisteddfodau. He published Historical Researches on the Flintshire Castles, 1830, which was submitted

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