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Likewise Gwyn reports that gentlemen, merchants, bankers, colliery owners, shipowners, shipbuilders, and master mariners flourished.
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley ( 23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915 ) was an English physicist.
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born in Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England in 1887.
Moseley's mother was Amabel Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, who was the daughter of the biologist and conchologist John Gwyn Jeffreys.
The rugby ground has two main entrances, the south entrance, and the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates ( north entrance ), which was unveiled on 26 December 1949 in honour of the Welsh international rugby player Gwyn Nicholls.
Gwyn Jones notes that " no true town has been found and excavated " and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on " finds of Norse weapons " and the presence of " a large Viking Age cemetery " nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki " by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso " The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso-A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.
In Welsh mythology, Gwyn ap Nudd abducted a maiden named Creiddylad.
On May Day, her lover, Gwythr ap Greidawl, fought Gwyn to win her back.
* November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England ( b. 1650 )
* Dartford Grammar School is founded by William d ' Aeth, Edward Gwyn and William Vaughn.
* January 5 – King Charles II of England gives the title Duke of St Albans to Charles Beauclerk, his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn.
* Gwyn Jones.
The name " Fionn " is related to the Welsh name " Gwyn ", as in the mythological figure Gwyn ap Nudd, and to the continental Celtic " Vindos ", an epithet for the god Belenus.
* Professor T. Jones-Pierce, " Aber Gwyn Gregin ", Caernarvonshire Historical Society Transactions ( volume 23, 1962 )
* Jones, Alun R. & Gwyn Thomas ( Eds.
Composer Sir Edward Elgar lived at Plas Gwyn in Hereford between 1904 and 1911, writing some of his most famous works during that time.
The Egyptologist J. Gwyn Griffiths concluded that several elements of this account were taken from Greek mythology, and that the work as a whole was not based directly on Egyptian sources.
But in the late 20th century, J. Gwyn Griffiths, who extensively studied Osiris and his mythology, argued that Osiris originated as a divine ruler of the dead, and his connection with vegetation was a secondary development.

Gwyn and Williams
However, in this vein, Robert Silverberg located the Mormon's use of Mound Builder culture within a larger cultural nexus and the voyage of Madoc and " Welsh Indians " was set in its changing and evolving sociohistorical contexts by Gwyn Williams.
* David Gwyn Williams, Welsh poet, novelist, translator and academic
Historian Gwyn Williams comments " This is a complete farrago and may have been intended as a hoax ".
However, Gwyn Williams in Madoc, the Making of a Myth, makes it clear that Madoc is not mentioned in any of Gutun Owain's surviving manuscripts.
* Williams, Gwyn A.
* Williams, Gwyn A., Madoc, Oxford, 1987
Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Harold Edwards, Robin Fedden, G. S. Fraser, Diana Gould, Charles Hepburn, Robert Liddell, Olivia Manning, Elie Papadimitiou, Hugh Gordon Porteus, George Seferis, Ruth Speirs, Bernard Spencer, Terence Tiller, Gwyn Williams.
McAllister had not had sufficient time to get to know his new players, so the selection duties were primarily on technical director Gwyn Williams, who had presided over Leeds ' 1 – 0 away defeat to Southend United.
Although the Welsh language was certainly used at the time, Gwyn A. Williams argues that even at the time of the erection of Offa's Dyke, the people to its west saw themselves as Roman, citing the number of Latin inscriptions still being made into the 8th century.
* Gwyn A Williams, The Welsh in their History, published 1982 by Croom Helm, ISBN 0-7099-3651-6

Gwyn and When
When Arthur heard of this, he forced Gwyn to release the noblemen and made peace between the two adversaries.
When earthquakes ravage their kingdom, he and his twin sister, Gwyn, set out to discover the origin of the tremors.
When two stagehands came onstage to carry off Valeria's corpse at the play's end, Gwyn jumped up and assumed her genuine identity, though still in costume, to deliver the Epilogue.

Gwyn and was
The first holder, Gwyneth Lewis, was followed by Gwyn Thomas
He was occupied with this conquest until he chose to take a wife, eventually marrying Cigfa, the daughter of Gwyn Gohoyw.
Ruled by Arawn, or much later by Gwyn ap Nudd, it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where disease is absent and food is ever-abundant.
Over time, the role of king of Annwn was transferred to Gwyn ap Nudd, a hunter and psychopomp, who may have been the Welsh personification of winter.
Gwyn was victorious and, following the conflict, captured a number of Gwythyr's noblemen including Nwython and his son Cyledr.
According to Culhwch and Olwen, Gwyn was " placed over the brood of devils in Annwn, lest they should destroy the present race ".
The celebrated fourteenth-century bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym refers to Gwyn in a number of texts, suggesting that the character was widely-known in Wales during the medieval period.
In Welsh mythology, Gwythyr ap Greidawl was a rival of Gwyn ap Nudd, a deity connected with the otherworld.
Sometime before the main events of Culhwch and Olwen, Gwythyr was engaged to marry Creiddylad, daughter of Lludd, who was stolen from him by her brother, Gwyn ap Nudd.
In later tradition, the role of king of Annwn was largely attributed to the Welsh psychopomp, Gwyn ap Nudd.
A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.
This was the first example of Amis's fondness for symbolically " pairing " characters in his novels, which has been a recurrent feature in his fiction since ( Martin Amis and Martina Twain in Money, Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry in The Information, and Jennifer Rockwell and Mike Hoolihan in Night Train ).
Asser may have been familiar with a work by St Jerome on the meaning of Hebrew names ( Jerome's given meaning for " Asser " was " blessed "), so it is possible that Asser's birth name was " Gwyn " ( or " Guinn "), which is Welsh for " blessed " ( or " blessedness ").

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