Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARDD COCH - see ELIAS, THOMAS
BARDD COCH - see HOWELL, DAVID
BARDD COCH LLANGRALLO - see HOWELL, DAVID
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician kept a personal diary, and he was consequently well placed to comment on current events. Such comments are found in 1940, Lloffion o ddyddiadur (1941) and Dyddlyfr 1941 (1942). Similarly in Calendr coch (1946) he gives an account of his campaign as a Plaid Cymru candidate in the parliamentary election in 1945. These books are interesting because they present the author's immediate reaction to the
CARW COCH - see WILLIAMS, WILLIAM
CYNFRIG ap DAFYDD GOCH (fl. c. 1420), poet Several of his cywyddau are preserved, among them two in praise of Wiliam of Penrhyn, a cywydd gofyn, and one to Tudur ap Iorwerth Sais (Rhys ap Cynfrig Coch in Cwrtmawr MS 244B (52), Gruffydd Gryg in Llanstephan MS 11 (105), Peniarth MS 64 (122), NLW MS 3047C (793)).
DAFYDD ap BLEDDYN (d. 1346), bishop episcopal records known as ' Llyfr Coch Asaph ' (The Red Book of Asaph) was compiled; the manuscript itself has disappeared, but its contents are known from three late transcripts in N.L.W. The bishop seems rarely to have left his diocese; he was, however, present at the consecration of Roger of Lichfield at Halesowen in June 1322. He was engaged in litigation in December 1330 with the lord of Powys as to
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet lords in south-west Wales, and the Fitzmartin family in the lordship of Cemais in particular, since the twelfth century, and some of the names suggest that they were patrons of poets and were even skilled in the craft of poetry themselves. Dafydd was a native of the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr in north Ceredigion, and according to tradition he was born in a house called Brogynin near Penrhyn-coch. Some
DAVIES family, smiths (1727), and Oswestry church (1738). Other gates and screens attributed to them with certainty are at Plas Coed-llai, Mold; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Erddig Hall, Wrexham; and Emral Hall, Bangor Iscoed; and with a high degree of probability, gates at Castell Coch, Welshpool; Abbey House, Shrewsbury; Malpas church, Cheshire; Carden Hall, Malpas; Plas Llan-rhudd; and a number of others.
DAVIES, DAVID JACOB (1916 - 1974), minister, author and broadcaster Welsh Unitarian Chapel in the town, yr Hen Dŷ Cwrdd ('the Old Meeting House'). The family lived at 2 Tudor Terrace on the Gadlys. He worked closely with Lilian Davies, a Welsh teacher at the Girls' Grammar School and member at yr Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, to establish a Welsh-medium school in Aberdare, and the school was opened at Cwmdare in 1949. He established the Carw Coch literary society in the town and at
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (Gwyndaf; 1868 - 1962), poet, tutor of poets and antiquary farm near his birthplace. He married (1) Elin Davies, Bryncaled, and (2) Kate Ann Jones, Bryn Coch, Llanuwchllyn, a descendant of John Jones ('Tudur Llwyd'), Weirglodd Gilfach, a local poet and antiquary. They had one daughter, Megan. Gwyndaf spent the last years of his life at Glan'rafon, a cottage at the foot of Carndochan. He was elected a deacon of Yr Hen Gapel (Congl.), Llanuwchllyn, and was a
DAVIES, STEPHEN (d. 1794), revived the defunct 17th century Baptist church at Carmarthen Gate church, now at Tabernacle chapel. But Davies and his party kept their hold on the Priory Street meeting-place, and also on Tŷ Coch in Llangynog parish, and duly ordained Davies as their pastor - not before 1778, however (Joshua Thomas, op. cit., 67), did the Baptist Association grant them formal incorporation. A chapel was built in Priory Street in 1786 - -the predecessor of the present Penuel

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