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SIÔN TREREDYN - gweler EDWARDS, JOHN
SION TUDUR (bu farw 1602), poet Siôn Tudur died on the eve of Easter Sunday, 3 April 1602, and was buried in S. Asaph church the following Monday, 5 April. In view of the fact that, towards the end of his life, he claimed to be the oldest of all the bards, and that some time before 1580 he had complained to Rhys Gruffudd of Penrhyn that he was growing old, it is suggested that he was born before 1530. His home was at Wigfair, S
SIÔN WYN O EIFION - gweler THOMAS, JOHN
SIÔN Y POTIAU - gweler EDWARDS, JOHN
teulu SOMERSET Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, (died 1570) most of the South Wales offices held by the first two earls of Worcester and all their influence in central and North Wales reverted to the house of Pembroke. To the Gwentian bards, however, Worcester was 'tew Wilym o Went,' for whom Dafydd Benwyn claimed in a marwnad ' traw yn un a Harbord trwy'n iaith. ' EDWARD SOMERSET 4th earl of Worcester (1553 - 1628) Eldest son of the 3rd earl
SYPYN CYFEILIOG (fl. 1340-1390), poet He is best known for his 'one night's awdl ' to Dafydd ap Cadwaladr of Bachelldref, near Church Stoke, the famous last lines of which may be translated ' Come when you like, take what you will; and after you have come, stay as long as you desire.' It is said in the manuscripts that this poem was written at short notice by the poet to repay for his welcome after seeking refuge from a storm in
teulu THELWALL Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, , son of Eubule ap Simon ap Dafydd ap John Thelwall Hen, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Ieuan ap Dio ap Meredydd of Llangar. Their son JOHN WYN THELWALL (1528 - 1586) married Jane (died 12 December 1585) daughter of Thomas Griffith of Pant y Llongdy in Tegeingl. Of their ten children, a few deserve particular mention. JOHN THELWALL (1533 - 1630) The oldest, was brought up at court as 'Groom of the
THOMAS, BENJAMIN (Myfyr Emlyn; 1836 - 1893), Baptist minister, poet, lecturer, and author elegies in E. Pan Jones, Cofiant Samuel Griffiths, Horeb, 1879, and J. P. Williams, Cofiant Thomas Williams, Llangunog, 1887. But he is probably best remembered for his biographies - Cofiant … Owen Griffiths … Gelli a Blaenconin, 1889, and above all else his Cofiant Dafydd Evans, Ffynonhenry, 1870 (four later eds.), and Ffraethebion Dafydd Evans, Ffynonhenry, 1908, which contains excerpts from the
THOMAS, DAFYDD (1782 - 1863), hymnist - gweler THOMAS, ROBERT
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 known as 'Belle Isle March') at the end of the winter of 1783-4, inviting the poets to meet at Betws Bach on Lady-day; Hywel Eryri, William Bifan, Siôn Caeronwy, Sian Parry, and others accepted the invitation, and that was the first of a series of meetings of bards in Caernarvonshire which gave Dafydd an opportunity of teaching the rules of Welsh poetry to his 'chicks,' as he called them. He gave up
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect Law (1943) and Caneuon Siôn (1943) by T. Rowland Hughes; Hunangofiant Tomi by E. Tegla Davies (1947); and Havoc in Wales; the War Office demands (1947) by Gwynfor Evans. He was also a political cartoonist. His booklet The history and architecture of Lisvane Parish Church was published in 1964. The Liverpool School of Architecture invited him back in 1947 as a lecturer and he was later appointed a

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