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1850s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1840s , 1860s The 1860s (pronounced "eighteen-sixties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1860, and ended on December 31, 1869. The decade was noted for featuring numerous major societal shifts in the Americas. In the United St ... , List of years in Wales, Other years in Wales , - , , 1850s, Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1850–1859 to Wales and Welsh people, its people. Events *1850 in Wales, 1850 *1851 in Wales, 1851 *1852 in Wales, 1852 *1853 in Wales, 1853 *1854 in Wales, 1854 *1855 in Wales, 1855 *1856 in Wales, 1856 *1857 in Wales, 1857 *1858 in Wales, 1858 *1859 in Wales, 1859 Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales *1853 — "Islwyn" wins the crown at the Abergavenny eisteddfod. *1858 — "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. New books *Anne Beale — ''Gladys of Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840s In Wales
{, class="infobox" id="toc" , - , align="left" , 1830s in Wales, 1830s , 1850s in Wales, 1850s , List of years in Wales, Other years in Wales , - , , 1840s, Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840–1849 to Wales and Welsh people, its people. Events *1840 in Wales, 1840 *1841 in Wales, 1841 *1842 in Wales, 1842 *1843 in Wales, 1843 *1844 in Wales, 1844 *1845 in Wales, 1845 *1846 in Wales, 1846 *1847 in Wales, 1847 *1848 in Wales, 1848 *1849 in Wales, 1849 Arts and literature New books *Anne Beale — ''Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry'' (1849) *Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — ''Yr Adgyfodiad'' (1849) *John Hughes (archdeacon), John Hughes — ''The Self-Searcher'' (1848) *John Jenkins (Welsh writer), John Jenkins — ''National Education'' (1848) *Samuel Lewis (publisher), Samuel Lewis — ''Topographical Dictionary of Wales'' (1849) *John Lloyd (poet), John Lloyd **''Poems'' (1847) **''The English Country Gent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abergavenny
Abergavenny (; cy, Y Fenni , archaically ''Abergafenni'' meaning "mouth of the River Gavenny") is a market town and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. Abergavenny is promoted as a ''Gateway to Wales''; it is approximately from the border with England and is located where the A40 trunk road and the A465 Heads of the Valleys road meet. Originally the site of a Roman fort, Gobannium, it became a medieval walled town within the Welsh Marches. The town contains the remains of a medieval stone castle built soon after the Norman conquest of Wales. Abergavenny is situated at the confluence of the River Usk and a tributary stream, the Gavenny. It is almost entirely surrounded by mountains and hills: the Blorenge (), the Sugar Loaf (), Ysgyryd Fawr (Great Skirrid), Ysgyryd Fach (Little Skirrid), Deri, Rholben and Mynydd Llanwenarth, known locally as " Llanwenarth Breast". Abergavenny provides access to the nearby Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons National Park. The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Williams (Nicander)
Morris Williams (20 August 1809 – 3 January 1874), was a Wales, Welsh clergyman and writer, commonly known by his bardic name Nicander. He worked on the Welsh Prayer Book of 1841 and himself produced a metrical Welsh Psalms of David. Early life Williams was born at Caernarfon, the son of William Morris. His mother, Sarah, was the sister of Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd). The family moved to Coed Cae Bach, Llangybi, Gwynedd, Llangybi and he went to school at Llanystumdwy. He was then apprenticed to a carpenter. Once his talent for poetry had been recognised, he was able to attend the King's School, Chester, followed by Jesus College, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1836, and appointed Curate of Holywell, Flintshire, Holywell, later of Bangor, Gwynedd, Bangor and Pentir, and eventually of Amlwch in Anglesey. In 1840, Williams married Ann Jones of Denbigh. They had eight children. Bardic chair and rectory At the Aberffraw ''Eisteddfod'' of 1849, Williams won the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas (Gwilym Marles)
William Thomas (1834 – 11 December 1879), better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles, was a Welsh minister and poet, and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name, "Marlais", in honour of William Thomas, who is also believed to have inspired the character of Rev. Eli Jenkins in the play ''Under Milk Wood''. Life Thomas was born in Brechfa near Llandysul. He had two brothers, one of whom, Evan, was the father of David John Thomas, father of Dylan. William studied at the Presbyterian College in Carmarthen, but won a scholarship which enabled him to go on to the University of Glasgow in 1856. After graduating, he became a minister at Llwynrhydowen, and for a time acted as a tutor to William Thomas (Islwyn), the poet. As well as his poems, which were published in 1859, he wrote hymns and stories, and a novel which was published in 1855 in the periodical ''Seren Gomer''. He translated works by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning and Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thomas (Islwyn)
William Thomas, bardic name A bardic name (, ) is a pseudonym used in Wales, Cornwall, or Brittany by poets and other artists, especially those involved in the eisteddfod movement. The Welsh term bardd ("poet") originally referred to the Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, who m ... Islwyn (3 April 1832 – 20 November 1878), was a Welsh language poet and Christian clergyman. His best known poems were both called ''Yr Ystorm'' ['The Storm'], and were written in response to the sudden death of his fiancée. Biography William Thomas was born in Wales on 3 April 1832 to Morgan and Mary Thomas, near Ynysddu where Morgan was an agent to the Llanarth family. Although his father was probably a Welsh speaker, his mother was probably an English (language), English-speaker and he was educated entirely in English. His fluency and love of Welsh came from the minister of their Calvinist Methodist chapel, Rev Daniel Jenkyns, who married his sister Mary and was greatly admired by the young poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
William Rees (8 November 1802 – 8 November 1883), usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and author, one of the major figures of Welsh literature during the 19th century. Gwilym Hiraethog took his pseudonym from his birthplace, a farm on the Hiraethog mountain in Denbighshire. Largely self-educated, he was a polymath, who took an interest in astronomy and political science as well as being a Nonconformist minister and a leading literary figure. In 1843, he founded the Welsh language journal ''Yr Amserau ("The Times")'' in Liverpool. He used the newspaper to campaign for the disestablishment of the Church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ... in Wales. Rees also penned the hymn text of ''Dyma gariad fel y moroedd'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) , Christian theologian
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Robert Parry may refer to: *Robert Parry (poet) (1540–1612), Elizabethan Welsh poet *Robert Parry (priest), Dean of Lismore from 1647 to 1660 *R. Williams Parry (1884–1956), 20th-century Welsh poet * Robert Parry (politician) (1933–2000), British politician *Robert W. Parry (1917–2006), American chemist * Robert Parry (journalist) (1949–2018), American journalist * Bob Parry (born 1953), Australian cricket umpire See also * Robert Perry *Robin Parry Robin Parry is a Christian theologian particularly known for advocating Christian universalism. His best known book is ''The Evangelical Universalist'', which he wrote under the pseudonym Gregory MacDonald because he had not at the time publicly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Wynne Jones
Owen Wynne Jones (4 March 1828 – 4 April 1870), often known by his bardic name of Glasynys, was a Welsh clergyman, folklorist, poet, novelist and short-story writer. Life Owen Wynne Jones was born at a house called Ty'n-y-ffrwd, in the village of Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon. At the age of eight, he began to read Welsh literature while recovering from an injury to his leg, and at the age of ten, he was sent to work in the quarry, but returned to school in the village of Y Fron, near Caernarfon, at the age of seventeen, and later began work as a schoolmaster in Clynnog Fawr on the Llŷn Peninsula, and in Llanfachreth, Merionethshire. He began to assist Eben Fardd in arranging local eisteddfodau. In 1860 he was ordained as an Anglican clergyman, and worked as a deacon in Llangristiolus and Llanfaethlu on Anglesey. Then he moved to Pontlotyn in Monmouthshire, and later to Newport, where he co-edited he periodical ''Y Glorian'' with William Thomas (Islwyn). He left the pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jones (Talhaiarn)
John Jones (19 January 1810 – October 1869), known by his bardic name of Talhaiarn, was a Welsh poet and architect. Life and reputation Jones was born at the ''Harp Inn'' (now known as ''Hafod y Gân'') in Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshire. He was probably apprenticed to and then working for the architect and Denbighshire county surveyor Thomas Penson between 1830 and 1843. After that he served with ecclesiastical architects in London, being employed, for instance, by Sir Joseph Paxton to oversee the building of the Crystal Palace. He became a prominent a member of Cymdeithas y Cymreigyddion in London, and its president in 1849. Suffering from ill health, he returned to Wales in 1865 and in 1869 took his own life by shooting himself in his bedroom at the ''Harp Inn''. He is buried under a yew tree at St Mary's Church in Llanfair Talhaearn. Talhaiarn lived in England and in France, but wrote in Welsh. His works included well-known lyrics such as ''Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aneurin Jones (writer)
Aneurin M. Jones (1930 – 25 September 2017) was a Welsh painter. Life and work Jones was born in Cwm Wysg on the Brecknockshire/ Carmarthenshire border to a farmer's family. He studied Fine Art at Swansea College of Art from 1950 to 1955. He then worked as a teacher at Ysgol y Preseli, Crymych (becoming Head of Art) until 1986. In 1978 Jones received a Rotary Award for outstanding service to Art. He exhibited regularly at the National Eisteddfod of Wales and won the main art prize there in 1981. Jones paintings often dwell on the old ways of life in the Wales countryside, sometimes making sketches at farm sales (where unwanted farm equipment ius sold off). He compared his life to that of a farmer, saying "An artist ploughs their own furrow; painting is very personal in terms of the pattern, the shape and the mood it creates." In 2013 a Jones painting of Welsh cobs was presented to Charles, Prince of Wales at the Royal Welsh Show. His paintings are in the public collect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ceiriog Hughes
John Ceiriog Hughes (25 September 1832 – 23 April 1887) was a Welsh poet and collector of Welsh folk tunes, sometimes termed a Robert Burns of Wales. He was born at Penybryn Farm, overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley of north-east Wales, then in Denbighshire, now part of Wrexham County Borough. One of eight children, he was a favourite of his mother, Phoebe, a midwife and herbal-medicine expert. Life At 18, Hughes left the village for Manchester to work as a grocer. He opened his own shop in 1854. There he met and was befriended and influenced by William Williams (Creuddynfab), a station master in the Pennines, who found him a job on the railway. Williams had been appointed first secretary of the National Eisteddfod Society. Hughes decided to sell his shop and concentrate on writing poetry, but he also started to drink heavily. Hughes returned to Wales in 1865 as station master at Llanidloes. From 1868, he was also manager of the Van Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Evans (Gomerydd)
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