Ioan Tegid

He was born at Bala and educated there and at the grammar school in Carmarthen, going on to Jesus College, Oxford.

He was also a Hebrew scholar, publishing a translation of the Book of Isaiah in 1830.

Tegid won a cup at the Cardiff Eisteddfod of 1834.

[1] In 1842 he moved to Nevern in Pembrokeshire and in 1848 became a canon at St Davids Cathedral.

His poetry was published posthumously, in collected form, with a very short biography, by his sister's son the Rev.