Ian King
I have lived in Dolgellau since 1988 and have run a town website at dolgellau.wales since 2000. Nannau.com was launched in April 2014 and this site in May 2018. I also have a Nannau Facebook Page if you want to post any comments.
William Vaughan of Corsygedol (1707-1775) by James Fellowes
William Vaughan of Corsygedol, Merioneth (1707-1775) by James Fellowes (1710-1751).
The portrait was painted circa 1751.
Image Courtesy of The National Museum of Wales.
Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 2nd Baronet
Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 2nd Baronet (1768-1843).
He was elected MP for Merioneth in 1792 and held his seat continuously through fourteen Parliaments until 1836. He was appointed High Sheriff of Merionethshire 1837/1838.
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Sir Robert Howell Vaughan, 1st Baronet, by William Parry
Sir Robert Howell Vaughan (1723-1792) by William Parry (1742-1791).
The portrait was painted circa 1784, when he was around 60 years of age.
Image Courtesy of The National Museum of Wales.
WILLIAM PARRY 1743-1791 -...
Ceubren Yr Ellyll – 1813 Engraving by John Parry
“I mark’d a broad and blasted Oak,
Search’d by the lightning’s livid glare,
Hollow its stem from branch to root,
And all its shrivell’d arms were bare.”
Ceubren Yr Ellyll or The Spirits Blasted Tree...
Lower Lodge
Lower Lodge (aka Deer Park Lodge or South Lodge)
Lower Lodge is a small, two-storey building, with one room on each floor. It is built in a vaguely similar style to the...
Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll by Thomas Pennant
A description by the historian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798):
Howel Sele, of Nannau, in Merionethshire, first cousin to Owen, was an adherent of the House of Lancaster. Owen and his chieftain had been...
Depictions of Derwen Ceubren yr Ellyll
Within the trunk of this venerable oak (according to Welch tradition) the body of Howel Sele, a powerful chieftain, residing at Nannau in Merionethshire, was immured, by order of his rival...
Panorama Of The Beauties…
Excerpt from the Book “Panorama Of The Beauties, Curiosities and Antiquities of North Wales”, by J. Hemingway. Published in 1839.
In the garden* and park of Nannau there stood, within these few...
