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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 CERI (fl. 1500?-1530?), poet His full name was Siôn ap y Bedo ap Dafydd ap Hywel ap Tudur. (Bodl. Welsh, c.4, 27b). Poems attributed to him are found in Bodewryd MS 1D; Esgair MS. 2; Brogyntyn MSS. 1, 2, 3; Cwrtmawr MS 204B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, Cwrtmawr MS 448A; Peniarth MS 69, Peniarth MS 77, Peniarth MS 82, Peniarth MS 84, Peniarth MS 86, Peniarth MS 87, Peniarth MS 98, Peniarth MS 100, Peniarth MS 103, Peniarth MS 112
SION DAFYDD ap SIENCYN, poet
SION LEIAF Syr (fl. c. 1480), poet and cleric Son of Ieuan ap Gruffudd Leiaf of Denbighshire, and a descendant of Owain Gwynedd (Peniarth MS 127 (20)). No details regarding his life are known, but a number of his poems remain in manuscript. These include two religious poems, one being a confession and the other a poem on the vernicle, a poem in praise of Richard Kyffin, dean of Bangor, a love poem, and another to the owl. (The last one is
SIÔN RHYDDERCH - gweler RODERICK, JOHN
STEPHENS, THOMAS (1821 - 1875) America by Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd in the Twelfth Century (he lost the prize for this essay at Llangollen in 1858 owing to a bit of knavery by the committee, but it was published under the editorship of Llywarch Reynolds in 1893); Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg, 1859, jointly with Gweirydd ap Rhys. He also contributed articles to the Beirniad, 1861-3, and Archæologia Cambrensis, 1851-3. He was a fine example of
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer reform, a subject debated since the misguided efforts of William Owen Pughe. Following a meeting at the 1858 Llangollen Eisteddfod Stephens and Robert John Pryse (Gweirydd ap Rhys) circulated questionnaires that led to the publication of Orgraph yr Iaith Gymraeg in 1859, a valuable forerunner of articles on the same subject published by Sir John Morris-Jones in Y Geninen in the 1890s. These efforts
teulu STRADLING , who became prominent in South Wales and the west of England in the first half of the 15th century. He held a variety of offices, being, for example, chamberlain and receiver of South Wales, 1423, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1424, on a commission of oyer and terminer in Wales, 1424, on a commission to inquire into treasons done by Matthew ap Llewelyn Dduy, canon of Talley, 1427, on a commission
SUTTON, Sir OLIVER GRAHAM (1903 - 1977), meteorologist Graham Sutton was born 4 February 1903, son of Oliver Sutton, Cwmcarn, Monmouthshire, and Rachel, daughter of William Rhydderch, Brynmawr, Breconshire. He attended Cwmcarn Elementary School, where his father was headmaster, and gained scholarships to Pontywaun Grammar School in 1914, and to University College of Wales (UCW), Aberystwyth, in 1920 where he graduated BSc (Pure Mathematics, 1st class
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
TALIESIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), bard at the time of the fighting against Ida, king of Northumbria, and his sons, according to a note in Nennius's Historia Brittonum. He was a contemporary of ' Neirin,' i.e. Aneirin, the bard of the ' Gododdin.' The chief leader of the Britons in this war was ' Urbgen,' i.e. Urien Rheged ap Cynfarch (see Cymm., ix, 173); three other kings are named, Rhydderch Hen, Gwallawg, and Morgant, who fought
teulu THELWALL Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, JOHN THELWALL from whom the family is descended, settled in the Ruthin district with Reginald de Grey, about 1380. His son, also named JOHN, married Ffelis, daughter and heiress of John ap Rhys Fychan by Alice, daughter and heiress of Walter Cooke or Ward, of Plas y Ward; and thus were the Thelwall family first associated with this historic house. Little of note is known of the family's fortune

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