Welsh Journals

252 BYE-GONES. June, 1883. structor, Jones. One day the two met in the mill, when Jones asked him if he had composed the canon yet. He replied, 'No, 1 cannot get any words.' Jones then sug¬ gested, ' Why don't you take the words in Welsh, "Not unto us, O Lord—Nid i ni, O Arglwydd ?" ' In an hour,' said Mr. Jones to the Times reporter, ' he came back with the entire canon written out,all complete. Price and I sang it there together in the mili.' Then he continued : ' Four of us went on a trip to Wales in 1865— Price and myself, Robert James, who married Parry's sis¬ ter, and Parry. In '66, having returned to this country, Parry was trying to raise money to go to the Boyal Musi¬ cal Academy in London, and, upon our advice, gave a course of vocal concerts throughout the country—at New 1 ork, Philadelphia,aDd all the leading cities. Meanwhile he was composing the cantata of the Prodigal Son, send¬ ing it to me in slips to be re-written. He won 20 guineas on this composition and a gold medal. He raised enough money for a two-years' course at the Royal Academy, and went there in '6S. He took one course be¬ ginning in '71 and another in 77, when he went to Gam bridge, was examined, and granted the degree of Doctor of Musif\ He is possessed of wonderful memory—wonder¬ ful. Why, I have known him to sit down at a piano,and, without music, play one of his entire compositions—the oratorio of Emmanuel—consisting of 264 pages. Soon after his graduation he was chosen Professor of Music in the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. While at Danville he worked at rubbing at the rolls in the mill. He was 27 years of age when he went to the Academy, and is now 42.' After his professorship in the University College of Wales, he retired, and now has a musical college of his own at Swansea, he and his son instructing 100 pupils. He has composed 100 songs, 60 anthems and choruses, 50 con¬ gregational tunes, and a number of quartetts, duos, trios, and glees, several pieces for the organ and piano, four overtures for a full orchestra, th:ee sonatas for the piauo, one grand symphony for a full orchestra, six cantatas, a Welsh opera in three acts—which was produced in London —' Blodwen,' or ' White Flower,' and the oratorio 'Emanuel,' " Ipeath; oi the "ucitCL-able JUcIukaccm Oibc. We regret to record the death of Archdeacon Clive, rector of Blymhill, and formerly vicar of Welshpool, after a fortnight's illness. The deceased archdeacon had made himself very popular amongst his parishioners, by whom his death will be sincerely mourned. The son of the late Mr. William Clive, M.P,, of Styche, the Archdeacon, who had reaohed his eighty-ninth year, formed one of the few remaining linkswith the last century, and his grandfather, Mr. Richard Olive, M.P., was born in the previous cen- tury,in the reign of William the Third. Archdeacon Clive was a cousin of the first Earl of Powis of the present creation, the grandfather of the present Earl. The Archdeacon's grandfather, Mr. Richard Clive of Styche, M.P. in several parliaments for Montgomeryshire, was born at Styche, 11th February, 1693-4, and died in 1763. He married in 1724, Rebecca, daughter and co-heir of Mr. Nathaniel Gaskell of Manchester, by whom he had a family of thirteen children, of whom three lived to be over ninety. The eldest was the celebrated Robert, Lord Clive of Plassey, who was born 20th September, 1725, who has two grand daughters now living, both over ninety. The youngest son, William, born in 1745, the father of the subject of this memoir, was for many years M.P. for Bishop's Castle, and he and his fourth son, Henry, were tenants of their native place, Styche, between them for 107 years. He was born on the 29th August, 1745, and died 23rd June, 1825, having married at Moreton Saye, 25th August, 1790, his cousin, Elizabeth Clive, daughter of Mt John Rotton of Dufheld, Derbyshire, by Elizabeth., daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Clive, vicar of Duffield, an¬ cestor of the Clives of Herefordshire. His second son, Win. Clive, was born 14th March, 1795, spent his early years at Eton College, graduated at S. John's College, Cambridge (of which he had become nearly the senior member) in 1817, and proceeded M. A. in 1820. In 1818 he took holy orders, and in 1819 he obtained preferment as Vicar of Welshpool, which living he held for forty-six years, during a great portion of that time acting as Archdeacon of Montgomery, and also for a while as Canon Residentiary of St. Asaph, In 1865 he resigned this benefice, and was appointed Rec¬ tor of Blymhill, on the nomination of the present Earl of Bradford. In 1824 he was appointed Domestic Chaplain to Hugh, third Duke of Northumberland, and for a short time he held with Welshpool, the benefices of Shrawardine and Montford. These parishes can testify, as well as Blymhill, to the good works which Archdeacon Clive has carried on during the sixty-four years in which he has been beneficed. He was universally beloved by all classes, and many will deplore his loss as a personal one, and his genial courtesy and purity of his life will not for long be forgotten. Within a fortnight of his death he was about as usual, and on the last Sunday he was up, he took part in the Church Services, and administered the Bread of Life at the Holy Communion. After a short illness, he passed quietly to his rest on the 24th May. By his marriage with Marianne, fourth daughter of the late Mr. George Toilet of Betley Hall, Staffordshire, and sister of the late Mr. Charles Wicksted of Betley, and of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire, he leaves an only daughter, Marianne Caroline, wife of the Hon. and Rev. John Bridgeman, rector of Weston, who has an only son, William Clive, now a student in the sixth form at Eton. JUNE 6, 1883. NOTES. BARDIC CONGRESS AT KERRY.—The Rev. Mr. Jenkins, rector of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, convened a meeting at his house in Feb., 1821, " to encourage the inspirations of the awen, and to promote the publication of a few useful works connected with Welsh literature." The party consisted of the Rev. Walter Davies, Rev. W. J, Rees, Rev. D. Richards, Rev. T. Richards, Mr. Robert Davies (Robin Nantglyn), Mr. John Howells (loan ab Ilywel), Mr. Aneurin Owen, and Mr. Taliesin Williams; the two latter being the sons of those distinguished veterans in the ranks of Welsh literati, Mr. Owen Pughe and Mr. Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan. Some of the parties present were well-known as successful votaries of the Welsh muse. G.G. UDAL AP RHYS.—This is probably a pseudonym, but it is given as that of the author of an interesting volume of travels published in the last century. The title page runs thus : " Account of some remarkable places and curiosities in Spain and Portugal by Udal ap Rhys. London, printed for John Osborn in Paternoster Row. M.rcc.XLix." In a hasty glance through the volume I was not able to detect anything which would give a clue to the writer's nationality; but as a specimen of what is to be found therein the following may perhaps be of interest : "Velillaisa smalltown upon the North side of the river Ebro. It is remarkable for a miraculous bell, which tolls of itself when any extraordinary calamity is coming upon the kingdom of Spain. Mention of its remarkable