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ROBERTS, GLYN (1904 - 1962), historian and administrator from 1535-1832 and in 1929 was awarded an M.A. as well as the Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd prize for his thesis which reveals the influence of Lewis Namier. In the same year he was appointed assistant lecturer at University College, Swansea where he remained until 1939 when he joined the Civil Service. By 1942 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Supply and in 1944 was promoted deputy head
ROBERTS, HUW (fl. c. 1555-1619), poet, author, and cleric (controversy) poems addressed to Gruffudd Llwyd, and also to Llywelyn Siôn of Glamorgan. His prose work, The day of Hearing: or six lectures upon the latter part of the third Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews …, was published in London in 1600.
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1765-6 - 1841) Llwyn'rhudol, pamphleteer known that his wife's name was Mary, and that she was a native of Warwickshire and was a member of the Society of Friends. It is not certain whether Thomas Roberts became a Quaker. A daughter was born in October 1791. The eldest son, MAURICE ROBERTS, who had translated Dafydd Benfras's awdl to Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, died at the age of 20 in December 1812. In all, four children died before their
ROBERTS, THOMAS (1884 - 1960), educationalist and scholar the Normal College, Bangor, and was vice-principal from 1920 till his retirement in 1949. As a scholar Thomas Roberts was interested in the works of the poets of the gentry throughout his life. The subject of his M.A. dissertation in 1910 was the poetry of Gruffudd ab Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan. In 1914 he published Gwaith Dafydd ab Edmwnd in the Bangor Welsh Manuscripts Society ” series. The work was
ROBIN DDU (fl. c. 1450), poet About ninety of his compositions are preserved in manuscript, many of them being vaticinatory. In one of these he converses with his book of prophecies, a type of vaticination also attributed to Meredudd ap Rhys and Llywelyn ap Cynfrig Ddu. He was an adherent of the Tudors during the Wars of the Roses, and wrote an elegy on the death of Owain Tudor. Among the more notable of his poems are his
ROWLANDS, EURYS IONOR (1926 - 2006), Welsh scholar especially their metrical skills and artistry. He edited Gwaith Lewys Môn (Cardiff, 1975) and Gwaith Owain ap Llywelyn ab y Moel (Cardiff, 1984), he revised and completed editions of Gwaith Iorwerth Fynglwyd (Cardiff, 1975) and of Gwaith Rhys Brydydd a Rhisiart ap Rhys (Cardiff, 1976) and he also prepared a useful selection of poems, Poems of the Cywyddwyr (Dublin, 1976). He published a host of innovative
ROWLANDS, Sir HUGH (1828 - 1909), general, and the first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross Born on 6 May 1928 at Plastirion, Llanrug, Caernarfonshire, the second son of John and Elizabeth Rowlands. His father was the heir to the Plastirion estate which amounted to approx. 1,200 acres. The family claimed descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, prince of Powys and were also descended from Dafydd, brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd; they had resided in the Caernarfon area for nearly two hundred
SEISYLL BRYFFWRCH (1155 - 1175), poet identified with the ' Culfardd hardd hen' mentioned by Iolo Goch (I.G.E., xvii, 36). Seisyll sang elegiac odes on the death of Owain Gwynedd, and of Iorwerth Drwyndwn, a son of that prince, and father of Llywelyn the Great. This second elegy is a main source of our scanty knowledge of Iorwerth (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 549-50). This poet also sang the praises of the 'lord' Rhys in a poem where he
SION ap HYWEL ap LLYWELYN FYCHAN, poet
SION BRWYNOG (bu farw 1567?), poet Son of William ap Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. He lived at Brwynog, in the parish of Llanfflewyn, Anglesey, from which farm he took his surname. He belonged to the lesser squirearchy and, as a strolling poet, had wandered over many parts of the country, writing poems for the aristocracy of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, and Merioneth. There was a brief exchange of flyting poetry
SION CENT (1367? - 1430?), poet - much of it, there is little doubt, incorrectly - consists of religious cywyddau. His subjects are confined to the uncertainty of life and all that pertains to it, and to the inevitability of death and the last judgement. When Rhys Goch Eryri and Llywelyn ap y Moel were engaged in a discussion as to the origin of the muse and agreed that it was derived from the Holy Ghost, Siôn Cent intervened and
SION MOWDDWY (fl. c. 1575-1613), poet He sang the praises of the aristocracy throughout Wales, from Mostyn to Glamorgan. There were occasions when he spent a long time in Glamorgan. He indulged in flyting poetry with Meurug Dafydd of Llanishen concerning the rights of the strolling bards in Gwent and that neighbourhood, c. 1575-80, and he also had a poetic disputation with Llywelyn Siôn of Llangewydd. He is not mentioned as one of

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