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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 Cardiganshire (Cribyn, Bwlch-y-fafda, Mydroilyn, Llanarth, Cwrtnewydd and Llanwnnen) until his retirement in 1883. His pupils in Cribyn included John Islan Jones John Islan Jones (17 February 1874 – 28 May 1968) was a Welsh Unitarian minister, academic and writer. Life Jones was born on 17 February 1874 in Cardiganshire, south Wales. He was educated locally in Cribyn and Llanwnnen, studying with ..., who went on to become a distinguished Unitarian minister and writer. His poems were published in four volumes: ' in 1854, ' in 1859, ' in 1866, and ' in 1883. References 1828 births 1909 deaths Welsh schoolteachers 19th-century Welsh poets {{Wales-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewi Hefin
Dewi may refer to either a Welsh or Southeast Asian name. Neither is pronounced as "dewy". Welsh name Dewi (, also or ) is an alternate or diminutive form of the Welsh masculine given name Dafydd ("David"). It is most famously borne by the patron saint of Wales, Saint David (). It may also refer to: *Dewi Bebb, a Welsh rugby player * Dewi Bridges, a Welsh bishop * Dewi Griffiths, a Welsh television producer and radio host * Dewi Morgan, a Welsh bard *Dewi Morris, a rugby player who played for England * Dewi Nantbrân, a Welsh friar * Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, a Welsh philosopher Asian name Dewi () is also the Indonesian and Malay version of the Hindu devi ("goddess"). It may refer to: *Dewi Danu, the Balinese water goddess *Dewi Sri, the Javanese goddess of rice and fertility *"Dewi", a single by Indonesian singer Once *Dewi Persik, an Indonesian dangdut singer *Dewi Sartika, an Indonesian educator *Dewi Sandra, an Indonesian singer and model *Dewi Sukarno, former wife of Indo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mydroilyn
Mydroilyn is a village in the parish of Llanarth, Ceredigion, Wales, situated along the B4342 road. The name of the village is derived from the confluence In geography, a confluence (also ''conflux'') occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel (geography), channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main ... of the Mydr and the Oilyn; two streams in the village. Of particular note, is the 200-year-old farmhouse Aelybryn, which once belonged to a Welsh landowner, the Anglican Holy Trinity Church, the Mydroilyn Independent Chapel, dated to 1898 by David Davies, the Y Ficar Wesleyan Chapel, dated to 1849, and the small 19th century corn-mill named ''Y Felin''. References Villages in Ceredigion {{Ceredigion-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 Deaths
Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escapes death by fleeing across drift ice, ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition, ''Nimrod'' Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, arrives at the Farthest South, farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back due to diminishing supplies. * January 11 – The International Joint Commission on US-Canada boundary waters is established. * January 16 – Members of the ''Nimrod'' Expedition claim to have found the magnetic South Pole (but the location recorded may be incorrect). * January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic (1903), RMS ''Republic'' sinks the day after a collision with ''SS Florida'' off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued. * January 28 – The last United States t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1828 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac succeeds the Comte de Villèle, as Prime Minister of France. * January 8 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized. * January 22 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington succeeds Lord Goderich as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * February 10 – " Black War": In the Cape Grim massacre – About 30 Aboriginal Tasmanians gathering food at a beach are probably ambushed, shot with muskets and killed by four indentured "servants" (or convicts) employed as shepherds for the Van Diemen's Land Company as part of a series of reprisal attacks, with the bodies of some of the men thrown from a 60 metre (200 ft) cliff. * February 19 – The Boston Society for Medical Improvement is established in the United States. * February 21 – The first American-Indian newspaper in the United States, the '' Cherokee Phoenix'', is published. * February 22 – Treaty of Turkmenchay: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitarianism
Unitarianism () is a Nontrinitarianism, nontrinitarian sect of Christianity. Unitarian Christians affirm the wikt:unitary, unitary God in Christianity, nature of God as the singular and unique Creator deity, creator of the universe, believe that Jesus Christ was Divine inspiration, inspired by God in his moral teachings and that he is the Redeemer (Christianity), savior of mankind,. but he is not equal to God himself. Accordingly, Unitarians reject the Ecumenical Councils and ecumenical creeds, and sit outside traditional, mainstream Christianity. Unitarianism was established in order to restore "Restorationism, primitive Christianity before later corruptions set in". Likewise, Unitarian Christians generally reject the doctrine of original sin. The churchmanship of Unitarianism may include Liberal Christianity, liberal Christian denominations, denominations or Unitarian Christian denominations that are more Conservatism, conservative, with the latter being known as Biblical unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Islan Jones
John Islan Jones (17 February 1874 – 28 May 1968) was a Welsh Unitarian minister, academic and writer. Life Jones was born on 17 February 1874 in Cardiganshire, south Wales. He was educated locally in Cribyn and Llanwnnen, studying with the poet David Thomas ("Dewi Hefin") until he was about 10 years old. He then worked as a farm servant and a stonemason until 1896, when he attended a school in Cribyn run by a Unitarian minister called David Evans, leaving in 1898 with a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford. After graduating in 1901, he transferred to Manchester College, Oxford to study for ordination. He won a scholarship to Marburg University and Jena University, but illness meant that he had to leave Germany before his doctorate was complete. He was a Unitarian minister in Accrington from 1906 to 1909, Bolton from 1909 to 1917 and Hindley from 1917 to 1939. He then retired to Wales, but was asked in 1945 to become Principal of Carmarthen Carmarthen (, ; , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanwnnen
Llanwnnen is a village, parish and community located in the county of Ceredigion Ceredigion (), historically Cardiganshire (, ), is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the West Wales, west of Wales. It borders Gwynedd across the River Dyfi, Dyfi estuary to the north, Powys to the east, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire t ..., Wales. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 490. It is one of the more Welsh communities in Ceredigion with around 70% of the population having some form of Welsh identity according to the 2011 census. References Villages in Ceredigion {{Ceredigion-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cwrtnewydd
Cwrtnewydd, also spelled Cwrt-newydd or Cwrt Newydd, is a village in the community and parish of Llanwenog, towards the south of the county of Ceredigion, Wales. Cwrtnewydd is on the B4338 road, north of the A475, just to the west of the town of Lampeter and to the northwest of Llanybydder. Notable people * Abel Morgan (1673–1722), Welsh Baptist minister, born in Cwrtnewydd * David Bevan Jones (1807–1863), (AKA Dewi Elfed), Baptist minister in Cwrtnewydd, bard, and leading figure in the Latter Day Saint movement * David Thomas (1828–1909), (AKA Dewi Hefin), poet and teacher, schoolmaster in Cwrtnewydd * (1875–1964), poet and local historian, born in Cwrtnewydd * Edgar Evans Petty Officer Edgar Evans (7 March 1876 – 17 February 1912) was a Welsh Royal Navy petty officer and member of the "Polar Party" in Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated ''Terra Nova'' Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912. This grou ... (1912–2007), operatic tenor, born in Cwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanarth, Ceredigion
Llanarth is a small village and community in Ceredigion, Wales. It is on the A487 road and is about from both Aberaeron and New Quay. The community includes the village of Synod Inn. Church The parish church of St David's, once dedicated to St Fylltyg, is a Grade II* listed building. It was renovated in 1872. A stone in the churchyard is sometimes pointed out as bearing the Devil's footprint. According to legend, he was trying to steal one of the church's bells one night but woke the vicar, who drove him off. He left the footprint as he fled. Amenities Llanarth has a petrol station, post office, a primary school, a public house, a butcher, a convenience store and a garden centre. Notable residents * John Evans (died 1779), born at Meini Gwynion, curate of Portsmouth. * Daniel Lewis Lloyd (1843–1899), schoolteacher and cleric, Bishop of Bangor, buried in Llanarth. * Dafydd Jones (born 1979), Welsh rugby international and Llanelli Scarlets player was brought up in Lla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 language, Welsh term bardd ('poet') originally referred to the Welsh poets of the Middle Ages, who might be itinerant or attached to a noble household. Some of these medieval poets were known by a pseudonym, for example Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr ('Cynddelw the Master Poet'), fl. 1155–1200 and Iolo Goch ('Iolo the Red'), c. 1320 – c. 1398. The practice seems to have very ancient antecedents, as in the names of the presumably 6th century poets Talhaearn Tad Awen, Blwchfardd and Culfardd, mentioned by the Welsh historian Nennius alongside Taliesin and Aneirin, the last referred to as ''Aneurin Gwenithwawd'' ('Aneurin of the Corn Poetry'). The revival of bardic names became something of a conceit following the reinvention of medieval tradition by Iolo Morganwg in the 18th century. The usage has also extended to Breton langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cribyn
Cribyn is a small village in Ceredigion, Wales, about 7 miles (11 km) north of Lampeter and with the villages of Troed y Rhiw, Mydroilyn and Dihewyd to the north. History and amenities Once a thriving community with two pubs, a garage and a post office, it is now largely reduced to a dormitory town or commuter village for Lampeter. The primary school in the village, founded by local hero Gwilym Butler-Wilkins, has maintained its status as primarily Welsh speaking since its establishment in 1876. Cribyn has one of the few Unitarian chapels in Ceredigion, which was established in 1790 by Dafydd Davis Castellhywel and Evan Davies, Cwmbedw. There was an old cottage next to the Nonconformist chapel which was older than the chapel, and a school was held here for many years until the primary school was founded. Four parishes meet in Cribyn, and most parishioners went to the parish church in Llanfihangel Ystrad until the present church was established at the end of the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
