… IEWIS MORRIS…
… IEWIS MORRIS…
… A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (I75I—I95I) By R. T. JENKINS and HELEN M. RAMAGE…
… A History of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and of the Gwyneddigion and Cymreigyddion Societies (I75I—I95I) By R. T. JENKINS and HELEN M. RAMAGE Y CYMMRODOR VOL. L. LONDON THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF CYMMRODORION 10 BEDFORD Square I95I…
… IN 1939, Miss Helen Myfanwy Jones (now Mrs. Ramage), Lloyd George Research Student in Welsh History at the University College of North Wales, was…
… IN 1939, Miss Helen Myfanwy Jones (now Mrs. Ramage), Lloyd George Research Student in Welsh History at the University College of North Wales, was awarded the degree of M.A. for a dissertation on the history of the Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society had at first intended to print this piece of research work as it stood but war and other obstacles cut across the intention. By the time the possibility of printing the work…
… I have myself written the chapters dealing with the earlier societies. I-III are based on Mrs. Ramage's work, but I have worked over the…
… I have myself written the chapters dealing with the earlier societies. I-III are based on Mrs. Ramage's work, but I have worked over the whole of the sources, including Mrs. Ramage's transcripts of MS. material in the British Museum, the National Library of Wales, and other libraries, and I have to thank her for saving me much time and trouble by her readiness to lend me her transcripts. She has also lent me MS.…
… CONTENTS PREFACE iii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi NOTE ON THE SOURCES vii CHAPTER I: "ANTIENT BRITONS" I CHAPTER II THE MORRISES OF ANGLESEY 16…
… CONTENTS PREFACE iii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS vi NOTE ON THE SOURCES vii CHAPTER I: "ANTIENT BRITONS" I CHAPTER II THE MORRISES OF ANGLESEY 16 CHAPTER III THE FIRST CYMMRODORION SOCIETY 45 CHAPTER IV GWYNEDDIGION AND CYMREIGYDDION 91 CHAPTER V THE SECOND CYMMRODORION SOCIETY 138 CHAPTER VI THE THIRD CYMMRODORION SOCIETY 174 EPILOGUE 223 APPENDICES (I) THE CONSTITUTIONS" OF I755 227 (omitting the Welsh versions of the "Introduction and of the "General Heads.") (2) LIST…
… LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: LEWIS MORRIS I. The WELSH SCHOOL AT CLERKENWELL By courtesy of the St. Pancras Borough Council from a water-colour in…
… LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece: LEWIS MORRIS I. The WELSH SCHOOL AT CLERKENWELL By courtesy of the St. Pancras Borough Council from a water-colour in the Heal Bequest 2. THE BANNER OF THE 1751 SOCIETY In the possession of the Honourable Society formerly preserved at the Welsh Girls School, Ashford 3. WILLIAM VAUGHAN of CORS-Y-GEDOL, FIRST CHIEF PRESIDENT By courtesy of the Right. Hon. Lord Mostyn, owner of the original painting 4. OWEN JONES (OWAIN…
… NOTE ON THE SOURCES The chief MS. sources used by Mrs. Ramage were i. The Cymmrodorion and" Myvvrian" MSS. in the British Museum (see…
… NOTE ON THE SOURCES The chief MS. sources used by Mrs. Ramage were i. The Cymmrodorion and" Myvvrian" MSS. in the British Museum (see pp. 36 and 166-7); more specifically B.M. Add. MSS. I4,927; 14,929; 'I4,949; I5,0I5; I5,02I I5,022; 15,029 I5,030; I5,060; I5,089. 2. MSS. in the National Library of Wales, more specifically Crosswood MSS. (the papers of Gwallter Mechain) 97 I737; i 804-8 I860; I894-5. Panton MS. 74. Mysefin MSS. (W. O. Pughe).…
… A History of The Cymmrodorion I. "ANTIENT BRITONS THE Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, when it decided to publish this bi-centenary memorial,…
… A History of The Cymmrodorion I. "ANTIENT BRITONS THE Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, when it decided to publish this bi-centenary memorial, was far from wishing to confine its compilers to a bare historical account of the Society itself. Rather, it instructed them to relate the history to its background-to sketch, as far as space permitted and materials were available, the story of Welshmen in London during the past two centuries, and…
… London Welshmen in 1873 were like Richard Morris of Anglesey, who left his Welsh home in 1721 or 1722 and died in 1779 without…
… London Welshmen in 1873 were like Richard Morris of Anglesey, who left his Welsh home in 1721 or 1722 and died in 1779 without once revisiting it. Yet the old ideal of a home from home had not perished, and in that year the present Honourable Society ^as established to realise it. Nostalgia, however, or home-sickness, is far too often a faith without works. Natural (indeed inevitable) as it is, it must needs quickly…