Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Australian tennis authorities for using indecent language! In doubles, Battrick reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1968 and 1970. He twice represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup in 1970 and 1974. In 1970 he won the prestigious British Hard Court Championship in Bournemouth defeating the Croatian Željko Franulović (born 1947) in four sets: 6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 6-0. Perhaps his greatest successes
BERTIL, PRINCESS LILIAN (DUCHESS OF HALLAND), (1915 - 2013) Lilian Craig (née Davis), Princess Lilian of Sweden; Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland by Anthony Buckley (1953) in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director schoolmaster was 'exercising astonishing influence upon show business in the United States.' Burton's friends included Noel Coward, Dorothy Parker, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. He had become estranged from Richard Burton when the actor became involved with Elizabeth Taylor. Burton had been especially close to Richard's wife Sybil and their two daughters. However, the bond between the teacher and former
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher ; two of the daughters were Elizabeth Davis 'of Balaclava ' and Bridget (1795? - 1878), who was maid to lady Llanover in London and at Llanover, and is buried at 'Capel Ed' near Llanover (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, June 1918); they were born at Penrhiw, a farm which Dafydd Cadwaladr rented from the Rev. Simon Lloyd. About 1780 he began preaching. He knew his Bible by heart
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter regulations. He eventually received a ticket of leave on 20 April 1854, and was conditionally pardoned on 31 October of the same year. A person representing himself to be 'Dai'r Cantwr' was soliciting alms in Wales in 1848, and this may be the origin of the popular belief that the convict returned to Wales. 'Dai'r Cantwr's career after his pardon has not been ascertained. He was then known as 'Taff Davis
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr, born 24 May 1789 and christened 26 May at Llanycil (Bala). All our knowledge of her life comes from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis (two vols., 1857), compiled by Jane Williams, Ysgafell, from notes of her conversation. Left by the death of her mother (c. 1795-6) to the care of an elder sister whom she detested, Elizabeth quickly became a rebel. Though taken
DAVIES, JOHN (1772 - 1855), school teacher and missionary Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He joined the Methodists and used to worship at a private house called Penllys. When a call went out for teachers for the island of Tahiti, he volunteered for the work, was accepted, and, with his wife, set sail, 5 May 1800. Elizabeth Davis records a visit which she paid him in Tahiti. He came from the same neighbourhood as the hymnist Ann Griffiths [some of his work is included in
DAVIES, JOHN (1860 - 1939), Welsh bibliographer and genealogist but had been unable to arrange and publish before his death in 1913. In 1927 he issued a reprint (fifty copies, printed at Aberystwyth by John Jones) of Myfyrdod ar Einioes ac Angeu (Caerfyrddin, 1798), the translation by David Davis, Castell Hywel, of Gray's Elegy. A number of his manuscripts are preserved in the National Library. They include an authorindex to Cymru (O.M.E.) (NLW MS 6042D); an
DAVIES, JOHN (1795 - 1858), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Born in 1795, son of David Davies (1764? - 1828) of Llan-y-bri. He was educated at home, at the local grammar school, and at Carmarthen Academy (1815-19). While at college he became a Unitarian and began to preach in the Unitarian chapel in the town. In January 1820, when David Davis of Castellhywel (1745 - 1827) retired, he was invited to minister to his churches - Llwyn-rhyd-Owen, Pen-rhiw
DAVIES, RHYS (1795 - 1838), engineer and industrialist its name and fame, or to honour Rhys Davies. In 1890, the owner of the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond explained that a former owner had so named it 'in compliment to Mr Davis who was educated at the celebrated Welsh establishment'. Within weeks of beginning work on a new rolling mill for the Belle Isle Manufacturing Company, near Richmond, Rhys Davies was stabbed to death by a fellow worker. On 18
DAVIES, THOMAS RHYS (1790 - 1859), Baptist minister Born at Penwenallt, Kilgerran, Pembrokeshire, 19 May 1790, son of Dafydd Davis, Tre-fawr, Llanfyrnach. He was educated by Dafydd Stephen at the 'Capel Bach,' Llechryd; by Walters, son of the parish priest of Llanfihangel-pen-bedw; and at the school kept at Cardigan by Evan Jones (1777 - 1819). He was baptized in the river Morgeneu in 1806 and began to preach in December the same year. In 1811 he

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