welsh-speaking people
Thomas Richard Lloyd
1820 births | 1891 deaths | alumni of jesus college, oxford | welsh anglican priests | welsh-speaking peopleThomas Richard Lloyd (1820 – 10 May 1891) was a Welsh Anglican priest, who spent his entire ministry in one parish, and eisteddfod participant.
Lloyd was born in Denbigh and studied at Ruthin School and Jesus College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1843, the year he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford, and priested in the following year. He was appointed as curate of Llanfynydd in the parish of Hope, Flintshire in 1843 and became rector in 1845. He served the parish until his death on 10 May 1891, advocating abstinence, and participating in eisteddfods as a member of the gorsedd; his bardic name was Yr Estyn.
Henry Parry (cleric)
1760s births | 1854 deaths | alumni of jesus college, oxford | welsh anglican priests | welsh antiquarians | welsh-speaking peopleHenry Parry ( c.1766 – 17 December 1854) was a Welsh clergyman and antiquarian.
Life
Parry was the son of Henry Parry, from Llanuwchllyn in Merionethshire, Wales and was educated at Jesus College, Oxford ( matriculating on 1 June 1786, when he was recorded as being 20 years old, and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1790). After his ordination as a priest, he was vicar of Llanasa, Flintshire from 1798 to 1854. In addition, he was a rural dean, and was made a canon of St Asaph's Cathedral in 1833. In addition to his parish work, he was active in eisteddfods and was an antiquarian; he also edited the second edition of the Grammatica Britannica by John Davies of Mallwyd, and this was published in 1809 (212 years after the first edition). Parry died on 17 December 1854.Dic Goodman
1920 births | welsh poets | welsh-speaking peopleRichard Goodman Jones (born 20 January 1920) is a Welsh poet, better known as Dic Goodman. He is a resident of Mynytho on the Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd.
His life
Richard was born to his mother Kate, and his father of his same name who died within 3 months of Richard's birth in a farming accident. Though Kate soon remarried, Richard remained an only child. Richard was brought up in Mynytho, where he attended Foel Gron primary school. He has never disassociated himself with the area. In 1952 he married Laura Ellen Jones (also of Mynytho) and fathered two children; Sian and Dafydd. Aged 87, he currently lives in Mynytho with his wife and has two grandchildren by his son Dafydd, named Gwyneth Angharad and Alan Goodman.