(1238–1283). Prince of Gwynedd. Third son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, younger brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Llywelyn the Last). Intermittently in conflict with his brother and in alliance with Edward I, but in 1282 started revolt against English dominance and assumed the style Prince of Wales after his brother’s death at Cilmeri. Hanged, drawn and quartered by Edward in 1283.

(c.1315–50) The greatest of the medieval Welsh poets.

Secretary of the North Wales Quarrymen’s. Union 1896. Great friend of Ellis, Tom and Edwards, Sir Owen M.

(1818–1890) Industrialist from Llandinam, Montgomeryshire. In 1887 he formed the Ocean Coal Company, which by 1914 was a major producer of steam coal in the Rhondda.

1880–1967), Methodist minister and author from Llandegla, near Wrexham.

(1905–1953). Miner, teacher and poet from Rhymni, Glamorgan.

Roman Catholic priest from Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire. Worked in north Wales during Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, and hanged, drawn and quartered for his priesthood at Beaumaris on 27 July 1593.

One of the leaders of the movement for Irish independence in the nineteenth century. Organiser of the Irish Land League.

Believers in the existence of a god, but who denied the revealed religion of Christianity.

That area of land which was worked directly by the lord of the manor’s servants.