For Welsh language poets prior to 1600, see
List of Welsh language poets
Much of Welsh language poetry has, until quite recently, been composed in various forms of strict metre (''canu caeth''), latterly with the encouragement of the eisteddfod movement. The following list is as inclusive as possible for the years pr ...
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Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901–1987)
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William Ambrose (Emrys)
William Ambrose (1 August 1813 – 31 October 1873), whose bardic name was Emrys, was a 19th-century Welsh-language poet and preacher. Many sermons of his were published and some of his poems used as hymns.
Ordination
Ambrose was born at a Ban ...
(1813–1873)
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Gwynn ap Gwilym
Gwynn ap Gwilym (1950 – 31 July 2016) was a Welsh poet, novelist, editor and translator.
He was born in Bangor but raised in Machynlleth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. He was educated at University of Wales, University College, Galway and Wy ...
(1950–2016)
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Charles Ashton (1848–1898)
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William Ambrose Bebb
William Ambrose Bebb (4 July 1894 – 27 April 1955) was a Welsh language critic, author and politician.
Ambrose Bebb was the son of diarist Edward Hughes Bebb, and the father of noted Welsh rugby international Dewi Bebb. The family came from ...
(1894–1953)
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Tom Beynon (1886–1961)
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John Blackwell (Alun)
John Blackwell (1797 – 19 May 1840), who used the bardic name Alun, was a Welsh language poet.
Life
Blackwell was born near Mold, Flintshire, in north Wales, and followed the trade of a shoemaker. He won prizes offered for poems and essay ...
(1797–1841)
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Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (1910–1998)
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David James Bowen (1925–2017)
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Euros Bowen
Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet and priest.
Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (initi ...
(1904–1988)
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Geraint Bowen (1915–2011)
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Siôn Bradford
Siôn Bradford (1706–1785) was a Welsh language poet, from Betws, Tir Iarll, Glamorgan, in south Wales.
Although a minor poet himself he is important as the poetic teacher of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg
Edward Williams, better known by ...
(1706–1785)
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Robert Bryan (1858–1920)
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Rhys Cadwaladr (
fl. 1666–1690)
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David Charles (1762–1834)
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Thomas Charles
Thomas Charles (14 October 17555 October 1814) was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.
Early life
Charles was born of humble parentage at Longmoor, in the parish of Llanfihangel Abe ...
(1755–1814)
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Irma Chilton
Irma Chilton (born Mair Elizabeth Irma Evans, 12 November 1930 – 1990), also known as I. M. Chilton, was a Welsh children's writer in the English and Welsh languages. She was a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award presented by the Welsh Books Cou ...
(1930–1990)
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Morys Clynnog (1525–1581)
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Aneirin Talfan Davies
Aneirin Talfan Davies (11 May 1909 – 14 July 1980) was a Welsh poet, broadcaster and literary critic.
Talfan Davies was brought up in Gorseinon. During the 1930s Davies worked in London as a pharmacist before returning to Wales and settling in S ...
(1909–1980)
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Edward Tegla Davies
Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) was a Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales.
His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imaginatio ...
(1880–1967)
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Gareth Alban Davies
Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009) was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expe ...
(1926–2009)
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Grahame Davies
Grahame Davies LVO (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, librettist, literary critic and former journalist. He was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham in north east Wales.
Education
After gaining a degree i ...
(born 1964)
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James Kitchener Davies
James Kitchener Davies (16 June 1902 – 25 August 1952), also known as J. Kitchener Davies, was a Welsh poet and playwright who wrote mostly in the Welsh language. Davies's work is highly influenced by the industrial landscape of his adopted vill ...
(1902–1952)
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John Davies (Dr John Davies, Mallwyd)
John Davies, Mallwyd ( – 1644) was one of Wales's leading scholars of the late Renaissance. He wrote a Welsh grammar and dictionary. He was also a translator and editor and an ordained minister of the Church of England.
Born in Llanferre ...
(c. 1567–1644)
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John Cadvan Davies
John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet, who served as Archdruid. He is better known in Wales by his bardic name, Cadfan (sometimes Cadvan).
Life and career
Cadvan was born on a small farm, Yr Allt, i ...
(1846–1923)
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John Humphreys Davies
John Humphreys Davies (15 April 1871 – 10 August 1926) was a Welsh lawyer, bibliographer and educator. He joined the movement to start a National Library of Wales.
Family and schooling
Born at Llangeitho, Ceredigion, he was the son of Robert ...
(1871–1926)
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Lewis Davies
Arthur Lewis Davies (26 January 1913 – 9 December 2011), the younger brother of Rhys Davies, was a Welsh librarian and philanthropist who in his later years established a foundation (the Rhys Davies Trust) devoted to the promotion of Welsh writ ...
(1863–1951)
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Pennar Davies (1911–1996)
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Richard Davies (c. 1501–1581)
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Richard Davies (Mynyddog)
Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (10 January 1833 – 14 July 1877) was a popular Welsh language, Welsh-language poet, singer, and Eisteddfod conductor. The original source of the name Mynyddog is from Newydd Fynyddog, a hill near his home. Another sub ...
(1833–1877)
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Thomas Glynne Davies (1926–1988)
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Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (1761–1849)
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Robert Jones Derfel (1824–1905)
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Aled Eames
Aled Eames (29 July 1921 – 7 March 1996) was a Welsh historian and author. He wrote primarily on Welsh maritime history.''Independent'' obituary, 15 March 1996/ref>
Life and career
Eames, born in Llandudno, attended a local grammar school. He ...
(1921–1996)
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Marion Eames
Marion Eames (born Gwladys Marion Griffith Eames, 5 February 1921 – 3 April 2007)Dictionary of Welsh BiographRetrieved 29 September 2018./ref> was a Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh. She was also a talented musician.
Biography
Marion was ...
(1921–2007)
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David Miall Edwards
David Miall Edwards (22 January 1873 – 29 January 1941) was a Welsh Non-conformist writer and theologian who wrote in both Welsh and English.
Edwards was born in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire (now Powys) in 1873. He was educated at Bala-Bangor T ...
(1873–1941)
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Hywel Teifi Edwards
Hywel Teifi Edwards (15 October 1934 – 4 January 2010) was a Welsh academic and historian, a prominent Welsh nationalist, a broadcaster and an author in the Welsh language. He was the father of the BBC journalist Huw Edwards. ...
(1934–2010)
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Lewis Edwards
Lewis Edwards (27 October 1809 – 19 July 1887) was a Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister.
Life
He was born in Pen-llwyn, Ceredigion, Wales, the eldest son of Lewis and Margaret Edward. He was educated at Aberystwyth and at Llangeit ...
(1809–1887)
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Owen Morgan Edwards
Sir Owen Morgan Edwards (26 December 1858 – 15 May 1920) was a Welsh historian, educationalist and writer. He is often known as O. M. Edwards.
Biography
Owen Edwards was born in Llanuwchllyn near Bala, the eldest son of Owen and Beti Edw ...
(1858–1920)
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Roger Edwards (1811–1886)
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Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant)
Twm o'r Nant was the pseudonym of a Welsh language dramatist and poet, Thomas Edwards (January 1739 – 3 April 1810), also known as ''Tom of the Dingle''. He was famous for ''anterliwtau'' (interludes or short plays), which he performed mainly ...
(1738–1810)
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John Elias
John Elias was a Christian preacher in Wales in the first half of the 19th century, as part of the Welsh Methodist revival. His preaching was noted as being exceptionally powerful, "as if talking fire down from heaven". On one occasion it is sa ...
(1774–1841)
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Islwyn Ffowc Elis
Islwyn Ffowc Elis (; 17 November 1924 – 22 January 2004) was one of Wales's most popular Welsh-language writers.
Born Islwyn Ffoulkes Ellis in Wrexham and raised in Glyn Ceiriog, Elis was educated at the University of Wales colleges of Bangor ...
(1924–2004)
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Robert Elis (Cynddelw) (1812–1875)
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Thomas Iorwerth Ellis
Thomas Iorwerth Ellis OBE (19 December 1899 – 20 April 1970) was a Welsh classicist, who wrote many books on Welsh literature and Welshmen (in Welsh and English), including a biography of his father, Thomas Edward Ellis.
Early life
Ellis, ...
(1899–1970)
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Beriah Gwynfe Evans
Beriah Gwynfe Evans (12 February 1848 – 4 November 1927) was a journalist, Congregationalist, dramatist, Liberal politician and Welsh Nationalist.
Early life
Born at Nant-y-glo, near Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire, Evans was educated at the Be ...
(1848–1927)
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Christmas Evans
Christmas Evans (25 December 1766 – 19 July 1838) was a Welsh nonconformist minister, described as "the greatest preacher that the Baptists have ever had in Great Britain."
Life
Evans was born near the village of Llandysul, Cardiganshire. ...
(1776–1838)
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Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) (1792–1846)
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Daniel Silvan Evans
Daniel Silvan Evans (11 January 1818 – 12 April 1903) was a Welsh clergyman, scholar and lexicographer. Educated at the Independent College in Brecon, Silvan Evans worked as a schoolmaster for five years. On marriage he conformed to the Est ...
(1818–1903)
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David Emrys Evans
Sir David Emrys Evans (29 March 1891 – 20 February 1966) was a Welsh classicist and university principal.
Life
Evans, from Clydach, Glamorgan, was educated at Ystalyfera County School, before going on to University College, Bangor, and t ...
(1891–1966)
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Donald Evans
Donald Louis Evans (born July 27, 1946) is an American businessman. He was the 34th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Bush and sworn into office on January 20, 2001. On November 9, 2004, the White Hou ...
(born 1940)
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Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn) (1887–1917)
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Gwynfor Evans
Gwynfor Richard Evans (1 September 1912 – 21 April 2005) was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru for thirty-six years and was the first Member of Parliament to represent it at Westmi ...
(1912–2005)
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Hugh Evans (1854–1934)
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John Evans (I.D. Ffraid) (1814–1875)
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Theophilus Evans
Theophilus Evans (February 1693 – 11 September 1767) was a Welsh clergyman and historian.
Life
Evans' father was from Pen-y-wenallt and he was christened in the church in Llandygwydd in Cardiganshire in 1693.
Evans served curacies in Brecknock ...
(1693–1767)
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William Evans (Wil Ifan) (1883–1968)
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Albert Evans-Jones
Sir (Albert) Cynan Evans-Jones CBE (14 April 1895 – 26 January 1970), more commonly known within Wales by his bardic name of Cynan, was a Welsh war poet and dramatist.
Early life
Cynan was born in Pwllheli as Albert Evan Jones, the son of Ric ...
(Cynan) (1895–1970)
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William Richard Philip George (1912–2006)
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John Gwyn Griffiths (1911–2004)
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Elis Gruffydd
Elis Gruffydd (1490–1552), sometimes known as "The soldier of Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de ...
(c. 1490 – c. 1552)
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Owen Gruffydd
Owen Gruffydd (1643-1730) was a Welsh poet partly noted for a lament on the decline of the Welsh language in the early 18th century.
Not much is known about Owen Gruffydd's early life and career except that he was born in the parish of Llanystum ...
(c. 1643–1730)
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Robert Geraint Gruffydd (1928–2015)
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William John Gruffydd
William John Gruffydd (14 February 1881 – 29 September 1954) was a Wales, Welsh scholar, poet, writer and editor, and the last Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament to represent the University of Wales (UK Parliament const ...
(1881–1954)
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Bethan Gwanas (born 1962)
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Joseph Harris (Gomer)
Joseph Harris (1773 – 10 August 1825) was a Welsh Baptist minister, author, and journal editor. A Welsh language poet, he took the Biblical name of Gomer as his bardic name. On 1 January 1814 he launched the first Welsh-language weekly ''Seren G ...
(1773–1825)
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Isaac Daniel Hooson
Isaac Daniel Hooson (2 September 1880 – 18 October 1948), or I. D. Hooson as he was commonly known, was a Welsh solicitor and poet.
Hooson was born to parents Edward Hooson and his wife Harriet in Victoria House, Market St. in the village of ...
(1880–1948)
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Mererid Hopwood
Mererid Hopwood (born February 1964) is a Welsh people, Welsh poet. She became in 2001 the first woman to win the bardic chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Teaching
Originally from Cardiff, Hopwood graduated with first-class honours in ...
(born 1964)
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Hugh Hughes (Y Bardd Coch o Fôn) (1693–1776)
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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 Ce ...
(1832–1887)
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Jonathan Hughes (1721–1805)
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Richard Cyril Hughes (born 1932)
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Thomas Rowland Hughes
Thomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) (17 April 1903 – 24 October 1949), was a Welsh broadcaster, novelist, dramatist and poet. He was the son of a quarryman from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire ( Gwynedd today), in north Wa ...
(1903–1949)
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Edward Morgan Humphreys (1882–1955)
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Humphrey Humphreys
Humphrey Humphreys (24 November 1648 – 20 November 1712) was successively Bishop of Bangor (1689–1701) and Bishop of Hereford (1701–1712).
Life
Born 24 November 1648 in Hendre, Penrhyndeudraeth, the eldest son of Richard Humphreys and M ...
(1648–1712)
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Dafydd Ifans
Dafydd Ifans (born 21 April 1949) is a contemporary Welsh language novelist and translator, born in Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, west Wales.
Personal life
Dafydd Ifans was born in Aberystwyth, Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country tha ...
(born 1949)
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Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) Daniel James (23 January 1848 – 16 March 1920), also known by his bardic name of Gwyrosydd, was a Welsh poet and hymn-writer, best known for writing the words of the popular hymn, "Calon Lân" (published in 1892).
Early life
Daniel James ca ...
(1848–1920)
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Edward James
Edward Frank Willis James (16 August 1907 – 2 December 1984) was a British poet known for his patronage of the surrealist art movement.
Early life and marriage
James was born on 16 August 1907, the only son of William James (who had inherite ...
(c. 1569 – c. 1610)
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Evan James (Ieuan ap Iago) (1809–1878)
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David Jenkins (1912–2002)
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John Jenkins (Gwili)
John Jenkins (8 October 1872 – 16 May 1936) was a Welsh poet and theologian. Known by his bardic name of Gwili, he served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1932 to 1936.
Early life and education
Gwili was born at Hendy ...
(1872–1936)
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Robert Thomas Jenkins
Robert Thomas Jenkins CBE (31 August 1881 – 11 November 1969) was a Welsh historian and academic.
Life
Jenkins was born on 31 August 1881 in Liverpool. He moved with his family to Bangor, Gwynedd, when his father was appointed clerk to th ...
(1881–1969)
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John Thomas Job
John Thomas Job (21 May 1867 – 4 November 1938), was a Welsh minister, hymn-writer and poet.
He was born at Llandybie in Carmarthenshire, and educated locally. He went on to Trefeca College to train as a Methodist minister. In 1894, he marri ...
(1867–1938)
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Bedwyr Lewis Jones
Bedwyr Lewis Jones (1 September 1933 – 28 August 1992) was a Welsh scholar, literary critic and linguist.
Jones was born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but brought up in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn, north Wales. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford ...
(1933–1992)
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Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll) (1803–1868)
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David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1899–1968)
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Elizabeth Watkin-Jones
Elizabeth Watkin-Jones (13 July 1887 – 9 June 1966) was a Welsh children's book author, who wrote in the Welsh language.
Life history
Watkin-Jones was born in Nefyn, Caernarfonshire as Elizabeth Parry, the only daughter of Jane and Henry Pa ...
(1888–1966)
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Gwilym Richard Jones (1903–1993)
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Harri Pritchard Jones (1933–2015)
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John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)
John Jones (10 November 1766 – 21 May 1821), better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales.
Glan-y-gors was an accomplished and ...
(1766–1821)
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John Jones (Ioan Tegid) (1792–1852)
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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, Denbighshi ...
(1810–1869)
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John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) (1836–1921)
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John Robert Jones (1911–1970)
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Lewis Jones (Patagonia)
Lewis Jones (30 January 1837 - 24 November 1904) was one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. The city of Trelew was named after him.
Early life
Jones was born in Caernarfon and worked as a printer in Holyhead, where he was ...
(1897–1939)
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Richard Goodman Jones (Dic Goodman) (1920–2013)
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Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (1848–1906)
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Robert Maynard Jones (Bobi Jones) (1929–2017)
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Thomas Jones (Dinbych) (1756–1820)
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Thomas Gwynn Jones
Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones C.B.E. (10 October 1871 – 7 March 1949), more widely known as T. Gwynn Jones, was a leading Wales, Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh language ...
(1871–1949)
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Thomas Llewelyn Jones (1915–2009)
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Morris Kyffin
Morris Kyffin (c. 1555 – 2 January 1598) was a Welsh author and soldier, brother of the poet Edward Kyffin. He was also a student and friend of Doctor John Dee. Kyffin was a member of a literary circle that included the Queen's Godson Sir J ...
(c. 1555–1598)
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Thomas Levi (1825–1916)
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Alun Lewis (1915–1944)
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Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Denver Davies (born 1959), known professionally as Gwyneth Lewis, is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005. She wrote the text that appears over the Wales Millennium Centre.
Biography
Gwyneth Lewis was b ...
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Henry Lewis (1889–1968)
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Hywel David Lewis (1910–1992)
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Robyn Lewis (born 1929)
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Saunders Lewis
Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist, supporter of Welsh independence and was a co-found ...
(1893–1985)
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John Lloyd-Jones (1885–1956)
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Alan Llwyd
Alan Llwyd (born 1948), original name Alan Lloyd Roberts, is a Welsh poet, literary critic and editor. He is one of the most prolific Welsh-language poets in the last quarter of the 20th century. He is also known under the Bardic name Meilir Emr ...
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Angharad Llwyd
Angharad Llwyd (15 April 1780 – 16 October 1866) was a Welsh antiquary and a prizewinner at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. She is generally considered one of the most important collectors and copiers of manuscripts of the period.
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(1780–1866)
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Morgan Llwyd
Morgan Llwyd (1619 – 3 June 1659) was a Puritan Fifth Monarchist and Welsh language poet and prose author.
Biography
Morgan Llwyd was born to a cultured and influential family in the parish of Maentwrog, Gwynedd. His grandfather, Huw ...
(1619–1659)
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Robin Llywelyn (born 1958)
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Dafydd Llwyd Mathau
Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. 1601–1629) was a 17th-century Welsh poet and strolling minstrel. It was thought by the bibliographer John Humphreys Davies (1871–1926) that he may have been from the Llangeitho area of Ceredigion (Cardiganshire).
Po ...
(fl. earlier 17th c.)
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Wiliam Midleton (fl. 1550–1600)
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Gareth Miles
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Derec Llwyd Morgan
Derec Llwyd Morgan (born as Derek Lloyd Morgan; 15 November 1943) is a Wales, Welsh academic who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Biography
Morgan was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School, (now Ysgol Dyffr ...
(born 1943)
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Elena Puw Morgan
Elena Puw Morgan (1900–1973, née Davies) was a Welsh writer. She became the first woman to win the Literary Medal at the National Eisteddfod, with the novel ''Y Graith'' (The Scar) in 1938. In addition to novels for an adult audience, Morga ...
(1900–1973)
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Eluned Morgan Eluned Morgan may refer to:
*Eluned Morgan (author) (1870–1938), Welsh writer
*Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely (born 1967), Welsh politician
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Eluned ...
(1870–1938)
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John Morgan (1688–1733)
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Prys Morgan
Prys Morgan FRHistS FSA FLSW (born 1937) is a Welsh historian.
Biography
Prys Morgan was born in Cardiff in 1937, the son of academic T. J. Morgan. His parents first met at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1926. Like his late brother, Rhodr ...
(born 1937)
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William Morgan (1545–1604)
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Lewis Morris (Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn) (1701–1765)
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Richard Morris (1703–1779)
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John Morris-Jones
Sir John Morris-Jones (17 October 1864 – 16 April 1929) was a Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet.
Morris-Jones was born John Jones, at Trefor in the parish of Llandrygarn, Anglesey the son of Morris Jones first a schoolmaster ...
(1864–1929)
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Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais)
Thomas Evan Nicholas (6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971), who used the bardic name Niclas y Glais ( en, 'Nicholas of Glais'), was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society.
Early life
Nicholas was b ...
(1879–1971)
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Owain Owain
Owain Owain (11 December 1929 – 19 December 1993) was a Welsh novelist, short-story writer and poet. He also founded ''Tafod y Ddraig'' (The Dragon's Tongue), which became the Welsh Language Society's main voice from its birth in the 1960s ...
(1929–1993)
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Robin Llwyd ab Owain
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Writing
In ...
(born 1959)
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Daniel Owen
Daniel Owen (20 October 1836 – 22 October 1895) was a Welsh novelist. He is generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century, and as the first significant novelist to write in Welsh.
Early life
Daniel Owen was bor ...
(1836–1895)
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David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) (1784–1841)
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David Owen (Brutus)
David Owen (December 1795 - 16 January 1866) known by the pseudonym Brutus, was a Welsh satirical writer, editor and preacher.
He was born in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire where he was brought up as a Congregationalist. Thereafter he spent perio ...
(1795–1866)
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Gerallt Lloyd Owen
Gerallt Lloyd Owen (6 November 1944 – 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet who lived in Llandwrog. He is considered to be one of Wales's leading "strict-metre" poets.
Works
Owen began as a "political poet" in the 1960s, often using medieval ...
(born 1944)
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Goronwy Owen (Goronwy Ddu o Fôn) (1723–1769)
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William David Owen (1874–1925)
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William Owen Pughe
William Owen Pughe (7 August 1759 – 4 June 1835) was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his ''Welsh and English Dictionary'', published in 1803, but also known for his grammar books and "Pughisms" (neologisms)."The Inventio ...
(1759–1835)
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Gwenlyn Parry (1932–1991)
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John Parry (1776–1851)
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Robert Parry (1540–1612)
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Robert Williams Parry (1884–1956)
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Thomas Parry (1904–1985)
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Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (1887–1975)
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Meirion Pennar (1944–2010)
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John Price (1502–1555)
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Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
The Reverend Thomas Price (2 October 1787 – 7 November 1848) (known by the bardic name of Carnhuanawc) was a historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century. Price was also "an essayist, orator, naturalist, educationalis ...
(1787–1848)
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Caradog Prichard
Caradog Prichard (3 November 1904 – 25 February 1980) was a Welsh poet and novelist writing in Welsh. His daughter, Mari Prichard, was married to the late Humphrey Carpenter.
Caradog Prichard was born and grew up in the Gwynedd slate-quarrying ...
(1904–1980)
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Rhys Prichard (Yr Hen Ficer) (1579–1644)
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Edmwnd Prys
Edmund (Edmwnd) Prys (1542/3 – 1623) was a Welsh clergyman and poet, best known for Welsh metrical translations of the Psalms in his ''Salmau Cân''.
Life
Prys was born in Llanrwst, Denbighshire 1542 or 1543, son of Siôn ap Rhys ap Gruff ...
(1543–1623)
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Gwilym Puw (c. 1618 – c. 1689)
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Eluned Phillips
Eluned Phillips (27 October 1914 – 10 January 2009) was the only woman to win the bardic crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales twice, a feat she accomplished in 1967 at Bala and 1983 at Llangefni.
Phillips was born in Cenarth, on the same ...
(1914-2009)
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Evan Rees (Dyfed)
Evan Rees (1 January 1850 – 19 March 1923), known by the bardic name Dyfed, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
Life
Rees was born at Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, the son of James and ...
(1850–1923)
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Ioan Bowen Rees
Ioan Bowen Rees (13 January 1929 – 4 May 1999) was a Welsh poet, mountaineer and political activist.
Born in Dolgellau, Rees studied at the grammar school, then at Bootham School in York. He won a scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford, befo ...
(1929–1999)
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Thomas Rees (1815–1885)
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Thomas Ifor Rees (1890–1977)
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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 ...
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David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)
David Richards (22 January 1751 – 12 May 1827), better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born at Glanyrafon near Bryn-crug in the parish of Tywyn in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), north-west Wales.
He took an ...
(1751–1827)
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Thomas Richards (1878–1962)
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Gruffydd Robert
Gruffydd Robert (1527–98) was a Welsh Catholic priest and humanist scholar who in 1567 wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar while in exile in Italy with his uncle and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog.
Life
Gruffydd Robert was born in Caernarfonshire (G ...
(before 1532 – after 1598)
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Brynley Francis Roberts (born 1931)
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David Roberts (Dewi Havhesp) (1831–1884)
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Emrys Roberts Emrys Roberts may refer to:
* Emrys Roberts (Liberal politician) (1910–1990), Welsh Liberal politician and businessman
* Emrys Roberts (Plaid Cymru politician) (born 1931), Welsh nationalist political activist
* Emrys Roberts (poet) (1929–2012), ...
(1929–2012)
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Kate Roberts (1891–1985)
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Samuel Roberts (writer)
Samuel Roberts (6 March 1800 – 24 September 1885), or simply S.R., was a Welsh minister, known also as a political and economic writer. He was involved in an attempt to set up a Welsh colony in Tennessee, but this was disrupted by the Ame ...
(1800–1885)
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Wiliam Owen Roberts
Wiliam Owen Roberts (born 1960) is a Welsh language novelist and writer of plays for radio, television and theatre.
He was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, and studied Welsh Literature and Theatre Studies at the University of Wales from 1978 to 1981.
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(born 1960)
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Dafydd Rowlands (1931–2001)
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John Rowlands (author) (born 1938)
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William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (1802–1865)
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Edward Prosser Rhys (1901–1945)
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Morgan Rhys
Morgan Rhys (1 April 1716 – 9 August 1779) was a Welsh hymn-writer.
Rhys was born in Cilycwm as one of six or seven children of Rhys and Anne Lewis.
At first one of Griffith Jones's travelling schoolmasters, he afterwards kept school on his ...
(1716–1779)
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Siôn Dafydd Rhys (1534 – c. 1609)
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William Salesbury
William Salesbury also Salusbury (c. 1520 – c. 1584) was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh New Testament.
Early life
Salesbury was born some time before 1520 (possibly as early as 1 ...
(c. 1520 – c. 1584)
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William Saunders (1806–1851)
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Simwnt Fychan (c. 1530–1606)
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David Thomas (Dewi Hefin)
David Thomas (bardic name Dewi Hefin) (4 June 1828 – 9 March 1909) was a Welsh poet and teacher.
Life
Thomas was born in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, south Wales. He went to school in Cribyn and later ran schools in various places in Cardiganshi ...
(1828–1909)
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David Thomas (1880–1967)
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Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) (1802–1863)
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Gwyn Thomas (1936–2016)
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Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan)
Robert Thomas (1809 - 1880), also known by the bardic name Ap Vychan, was a Welsh Independent minister, poet and man of letters. He won the chair at the national eisteddfod on two occasions.
Biography
Ap Vychan was the third child of a well-ed ...
(1809–1880)
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Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000)
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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 ...
(1832–1878)
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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 ...
(1834–1879)
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Angharad Tomos
Angharad Tomos (born 19 July 1958) is a Welsh author and prominent language activist. She is a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award.
Biography
Tomos was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, in 1958, and raised with her four sisters in Llanwnda near Caerna ...
(born 1958)
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Urien Wiliam (born 1929)
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Colin H Williams
Colin H. Williams (born 1950 in Barry, South Wales, UK) is a senior research associate at the VHI, l St Edmund's College, the University of Cambridge, UK. He was formerly a research professor in sociolinguistics, and later a honorary professor ...
(born 1950)
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David John Williams
David John Williams (26 June 1885 – 4 January 1970) was one of the foremost Welsh-language writers of the twentieth century and a prominent Welsh nationalist.
Life
Williams was born at Pen-rhiw, a farmhouse near Llansawel, Carmarthenshire ...
(1885–1970)
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Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (1747–1826)
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Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn) (1867–1926)
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Gareth F. Williams (1955–2016)
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Glanmor Williams (1920–2005 )
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Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) (1769–1838)
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Gwynne Williams (born 1937)
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Ifor Williams
Sir Ifor Williams, (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry.
Early life and education
Ifor Williams was born at Pendinas, Tregarth near ...
(1881–1965)
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John Ellis Williams (born 1924)
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John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945)
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John Owen Williams (Pedrog)
John Owen Williams (1853–1932) was a Welsh Congregational minister and poet who served as Archdruid.
Pedrog was born in May 1853 in Madryn, near Pwllheli, the youngest son of Owen and Martha Williams, both of whom were in service locally. He ha ...
(1892–1973)
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John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) (1867–1924)
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Morris Williams (Nicander)
Morris Williams (20 August 1809 – 3 January 1874), was a 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
Will ...
(1809–1874)
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Moses Williams (1685–1742)
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Owen Williams (Owen Gwyrfai) (1790–1874)
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Peter Bailey Williams
Peter Bayley Williams (August 1763 – 22 November 1836) was a Welsh Anglican priest and amateur antiquarian. It is also claimed that he led the first rock climb recorded in the United Kingdom.
Life
Williams was the son of Peter Williams, one o ...
(1763–1836)
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Richard Bryn Williams (1902–1981)
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Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) (c. 1878–1919)
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Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu)
Robert Williams, bardic name Robert ap Gwilym Ddu (1766–1850) was a Welsh bard.
Life
Son of William Williams, he was born at Betws Fawr in the parish of Llanystumdwy, Caernarfonshire. His father was a small freeholder, and he succeeded him in t ...
(1766–1850)
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Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877)
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Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955)
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Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn)
Reverend Rowland Williams (March 1823 – 10 November 1905), commonly known by his bardic name "Hwfa Môn", was a Welsh clergyman and poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1895 to 1905.
Early life and educati ...
(1823–1905)
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Rhydwen Williams
Robert Rhydwenfro Williams (29 August 1916 – 2 August 1997) was a Welsh poet, novelist and Baptist minister. His work is mainly written in his native Welsh language, and is noted for adapting the established style and context of Welsh poetry from ...
(1916–1997)
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Thomas Marchant Williams (1845–1914)
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Waldo Williams
Waldo Goronwy Williams (30 September 1904 – 20 May 1971) was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the 20th century. He was also a notable Christian pacifist, anti-war campaigner, and Welsh nationalist. He is often referred to by his fir ...
(1904–1971)
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William Williams (Pantycelyn) (1717–1791)
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William Williams (Caledfryn)
William Williams (pen name "Caledfryn" or "Gwilym Caledfryn") (6 February 1801 – 23 March 1869) was a Welsh Congregational
Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches or Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Calvini ...
(1801–1869)
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William Williams (Creuddynfab) (1814–1869)
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William Williams (Crwys)
William Williams (4 January 1875 – 13 January 1968), better known by his bardic name of "Crwys", meaning "Cross", was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1939 to 1947.
Like all ot ...
(1875–1968)
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William Llewelyn Williams (1867–1922)
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Ellis Wynne
Ellis Wynne (7 March 1671 – 13 July 1734) was a Wales, Welsh clergyman and author. He is remembered mainly for one of the most important and influential pieces of Welsh language literature, Welsh-language literature.
Life
Born in Lasynys Faw ...
(1671–1734)
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Eirug Wyn (1950–2004)
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Author
An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states:
"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
Author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
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Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
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