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SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric attributed in various other manuscripts to Dafydd ap Gwilym, and also to Robert Leiaf, a relative of Syr Siôn).
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, foundation under its patronage of the Jesuit house at Cwm (10 November 1637) and the flocking to Raglan of known recusants like Worcester's secretary Hugh Owen of Gwenynog and the bard Gwilym Puw. With the outbreak of war and the visit of prince Charles to Raglan there was a general rallying to the house of Raglan of its neighbours, among whom the house of Pembroke had lost caste by erratic politics and
SYPYN CYFEILIOG (fl. 1340-1390), poet borne the name of Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, for he is mentioned by Gwilym Ddu o Arfon. Sir Ifor Williams suggests that three poets of short physical stature have been confused, namely Cneppyn Gwerthrynion, Bach Buddugre, and Sypyn Cyfeiliog. Sypyn sang a panegyric cywydd to Henry Salusbury of Lleweni (died 1400) and his wife Agnes Courtois, and also the two cywyddau included in Iolo Goch ac Eraill. This
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate University of Oxford, which he entered in October 1883 as a non-collegiate student. He graduated in 1887 with 3rd class honours in Jurisprudence. During his stay at Oxford he was one of the seven original members of the Dafydd ap Gwilym Society, founded in May 1886. It was about this time that he adopted the name ' Lleufer.' From 1886 to 1892 he held the valuable Tancred scholarship, and this enabled him
THOMAS, DAVID (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759 - 1822), man of letters and poet North Wales. They were entrusted with the sale of the society's publications, e.g. Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1789, and were asked to collect material for The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales. After Dafydd had won medals for the awdl, both at S. Asaph and Llanrwst, the Gwyneddigion asked him to make the arrangements for their eisteddfodau, such as the one at Penmorfa in 1795, and much of the work connected
THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON (1910 - 1963), cellist Born 19 September 1910 at Plas-marl, Swansea, son of W. Roger Thomas and his wife. He was named Ffrangcon after the singer David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, one of his father's heroes. When he was eleven years old he began to learn to play the cello under Gwilym Thomas, Port Talbot, and within two years won a scholarship to the Cello School of Herbert Walenn in London. He won prizes at the national
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer have been a naturally bilingual home, produced a creative tension in the poet. Explaining later to an English poet friend what he called his 'cut-glass' accent, Thomas added revealingly '…and I can't speak Welsh either!' After all, his father was the nephew of William Thomas, the renowned radical preacher-poet Gwilym Marles (hence Dylan's middle name Marlais and that of his sister, Nancy Marles). A
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English master at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of
THOMAS, EBENEZER (Eben Fardd; 1802 - 1863), schoolmaster and poet also learnt his father's craft. On the death of his brother William in 1822, Eben took over the school kept by him at Llangybi, and in the same year he resigned from church membership. His interest in poetry had become evident before he was 15 years of age, and he had come to know Robert ap Gwilym Ddu and Dewi Wyn. His first bardic achievement was at the Powis eisteddfod held at Welshpool in 1824
THOMAS, JOHN (Eos Gwynedd; 1742 - 1818), poet Born at Bwlchmaenmelyn, a farmhouse in the parish of Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire. He married a daughter of Cernioge Mawr in 1765. He settled in Pentrefoelas where he kept a shop and farmed. In 1817 he published Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst. A selection of his works, edited by William Williams (Gwilym Caledfryn), was published in 1845 under
THOMAS, JOHN (1821 - 1892), Independent minister, politician, and historian places with a view to giving moral support to the Welsh way of life in that country. He was elected to the chair of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1878 and to the chair of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1885. He edited Y Gwerinwr (a monthly), 1855-6; Yr Annibynwr, 1857-61; Y Tyst, jointly with Gwilym Hiraethog until 1872 and then single-handed until his death. He also published
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar Timothy Thomas; in this letter Williams refers to William Thomas as ' Gwilym Gwalstawd Ieithoedd,' which suggests that he was a good linguist (B.M. Harl. MS. 7013). In B.M. Harl. MS. 7526 is a list of volumes in the library of the first earl of Oxford which Timothy Thomas was reclaiming; among them was a manuscript, ' The Statutes of St. Davids ' (now B.M. Harl. MS. 6280), which Thomas had borrowed from

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