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PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator calling, he set his sights on academia, and took up a lecturing post at the law department in Aberystwyth in 1920. Working under the direction of his old tutor and head of the law department, Professor Thomas A. Levi, he remained there until 1924. In 1923, he married Haf, the only daughter of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards and his wife, Ellen. In 1924, a defining moment came in his career when he took up a
PARRY, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1884 - 1956), poet, university lecturer received instruction from two Tal-y-sarn poets, Owen Edwards ('Anant'), a quarry man, and H.E. Jones ('Hywel Cefni'), a shopkeeper, both of whom competed regularly at local eisteddfodau and published their successful englynion in periodicals, especially Y Geninen. As early as 1906 Williams Parry wrote an awdl on ' Dechrau Haf ' for an eisteddfod at Ffestiniog. In 1907 he was a competitor for the chair at
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author 'Beth yw'r haf i mi?' (What is summer to me?) to an eighteenth-century Welsh harp tune. Her short story, 'Henrietta', appeared in the collection Ystorïau heddiw, edited by T. H. Parry-Williams in 1938, and it was he no doubt who encouraged her to continue to write after their marriage. She published a farce, Ty ar y rhos, which had been written for her students at Barry, in 1944, and her collections
PRYSE, ROBERT JOHN (Gweirydd ap Rhys; 1807 - 1889), man of letters defending her sex against the attacks made on it in the series 'Ffoledd Ffasiwn.' She married Owen Prichard (Cybi Velyn) of Holyhead, 2 January 1863. She wrote a number of lyrics, the best known being 'O na byddai'n haf o hyd' and 'Neges y Blodeuyn.' She died 29 March 1909. A collection of her poems was published in 'Cyfres y Fil' (O.M.E.).
REES, THOMAS MARDY (1871 - 1953), Independent minister, historian and author and English on the results of the Act of Uniformity, 1662, and short histories of Maes-yr-haf church, Neath, and Bethel Newydd church, Mynyddislwyn. He married Margaret Williams who predeceased him by four years. They had four sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Alyn, died before his father. He was the first secretary of the Consultative Council on Technical Education in south Wales. Kenneth was
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1806 - 1851), poet and writer ' Y Gwanwyn,' ' Yr Haf,' ' Yr Hydref,' ' Y Gaeaf,' ' Y Daran,' ' Y Môr,' as well as metrical translations. From 1830 until he died he worked in the printing and publishing office of William Rees (1808 - 1873), Llandovery. Poems and other work by him appear in journals printed by William Rees, e.g. Yr Haul, Y Cylchgrawn, and Yr Efangylydd, he was also responsible for editing part of Rice Rees's
SIMMONS, JOSEPH (1694? - 1774), Independent minister, and schoolmaster Llansamlet, the better to oversee the Independent cause at Neath (meeting at that time in Chwarelau-bach chapel) - he had charge also of the cause at Skewen. In 1772, Maes-yr-haf chapel at Neath was built, and at its opening, Simmons's son Noah (who had been at Abergavenny Academy, 1768-72) was ordained as his assistant. Joseph Simmons died suddenly, at Swansea, 12 May 1774. Noah Simmons succeeded him, and
STEPHEN, ROBERT (1878 - 1966), schoolmaster, historian and poet captain from Borth-y-Gest. They had three children, (2) in Caxton Hall, London, on 8 January 1942, to Mary Elizabeth Owen, widow of Captain Ralph D. Owen, army officer, and daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth Thomas, Gelli Haf, Maesycwmmer. The Gelli Haf family was very famous in Monmouthshire, and connected in some way with the family of William Thomas ('Islwyn'). After his second marriage, he began to
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (fl. 1790?-1862?), a writer and singer of ballads there is a manuscript volume of them in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 1143B). He could turn out some exquisite verse, e.g. 'Lliw gwyn, rhosyn yr haf.' But his own preference was for satire or comic songs which, says Glaslyn, were frequently pretty low, with a whiff of the muck-heap about them. He died at Liverpool (where he sang in the 'Cambria' and the 'Portmadoc Arms'), but the date of his
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM AUBREY (Gwilym Gwent; 1834 - 1891), musician with a ten pounds prize for a cantata, 'Y Mab Afradlon.' He was probably the most popular and possibly one of the most prolific composers in Wales in his time, producing part-songs, anthems, solos, etc. His part-songs called 'Yr Haf,' 'Cymru Gynt,' 'Y Gwanwyn,' 'Y Clychau,' 'Yr Afonig,' and 'Gwenau y Gwanwyn' were very popular during the second half of the 19th cent. His cantata, 'Plant y Tloty

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