Gwilym Tilsley

Gwilym Tilsley

Rev. Gwilym Richard Tilsley (1911-1997), commonly known by his bardic name of "Tilsli", was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1969 and 1972.

He was born in Tŷ Llwyd near Llanidloes and educated at Manledd primary school, Llanidloes County School, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Wesley House, Cambridge,before entering the (Wesleyan) Methodist ministry.

As a Methodist minister, he served in Commins Coch near Machynlleth (1939 to 1942), Pontrhydygroes in Cardiganshire (1942 to 1945), Aberdare (1945 to 1950), Colwyn Bay (1950 to 1955), Llanrwst (1955 to 1960), Caernarfon (1960 to 1965), Rhyl (1965 to 1970) and Wrexham (1970 to 1975) before retiring to Prestatyn. This experience of the itinerant life of a Methodist minister in both north and south Wales inspired the two heroicpoems to the industrial worker which brought him to prominence:in 1950 he won the chair at the Caerphilly Eisteddfod for a poem "Moliant i'r Glöwr" in praise of the miner,and in 1957 he won it again at Llangefni with the poem "Cwm Carnedd" about the life of the slate quarryman.

Tilsli wrote the words for several Welsh hymns, including "Am ffydd, nefol dad, y deisyfwn".

He married Anne Eluned Jones (1908-2003) in 1945. A son, Gareth Maldwyn Tilsley, was born in 1946.

Works

* "Y glöwr a cherddi eraill" (1957)


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