Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer , exerting all his influence to get the latter's son returned as M.P. for Caernarvonshire against his rival, the younger John Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, Llyn. The bishop had seriously underestimated the power of the Llyn faction, for they not only easily won the election of 1620, but carried the war into Court circles and the debates of Parliament. In Parliament, too, the bishop was guilty of poor tactics
BEYNON, ROSSER (Asaph Glan Tâf; 1811 - 1876), musician in eisteddfodau in various parts of Wales. He died 3 January 1876 and was buried in Cefn cemetery, Merthyr Tydfil.
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, , daughter of John Griffith, Cefn Amwlch. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and on 27 October 1639 entered St. John's College, Cambridge (following his elder brothers John and Hugh), under the tutorship of his uncle William Bodwrda, and holding a scholarship founded by Dr. John Gwyn in 1574 from rents in Maenan, on the nomination of his second cousin Robert Wynne, Bodysgallen, as 'neerest in relation of
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS (1920 - 2004), Labour politician help to the Lancashire aviation industry, but also to love him for what he was, a thoroughly good and decent man. He was awarded the CBE in 1995. He married in 1945 Patricia Hylda, the daughter of Alfred Bastiman of Scarborough, Yorkshire, and they had two daughters. They lived at 5 Cefn Road, Rhosnesni, Wrexham. He died on 16 August 2004.
CHARLES, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister Little is known about him; he was a nephew of Philip David, and therefore presumably a Monmouthshire man. The name appears on the list of Carmarthen Academy students in 1745. In 1749 he succeeded Richard Rees as pastor of the newly incorporated congregation at Cefn-coed-cymer, an offshoot of Cwm-y-glo. He was an Arminian, and probably later on an Arian. D. 19 May 1790. His uncle's diaries have
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family Of Lloyd of Dolobran, near Meifod, Montgomeryshire; son of Dafydd Llwyd ab Ieuan (on whom see the article Lloyd of Dolobran) and his wife Eva; husband to Alice, daughter of Dafydd Llwyd of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr. A number of his poems, in the strict metres, remain in manuscripts. They include some to Gilbert Humphrey of Cefn Digoll, Montgomeryshire (1596), Hywel and Siôn Fychan of [Llanfair
DAFYDD, OWEN (1751 - 1814?), rustic poet and ballad-writer Llwyn Uchedwel, near Glais, in the Vale of Swansea; later still he moved to Cefn Myddfai, Llangyfelach, and Melin Gurwen. His last home was at Melin-y-gurnos, in the Vale of Swansea. In 1869 a monument was erected over his grave in the parish churchyard, Ystradgynlais, according to which he was born in 1751 and died 29 March 1813. Thomas Levi (Y Traethodydd, 1866, 406) says that he died 29 March 1813
DAVID, PHILIP (1709 - 1787) Penmain, Independent minister 1787. The church kept a level membership of about 100 throughout his pastorate. He was a man of conservative and crabbed temperament, and his manuscript diaries are highly interesting, reflecting as they do the prejudice of 'dry Dissent' against the Methodistical tendencies which were winning the day among Welsh Independents in Philip David's later years. Philip Charles of Cefn-coed-cymer was a
DAVIES, ALUN WYNNE GRIFFITHS (1924 - 1988), musician and critic reviews to numerous journals, including Y Ddinas (the journal of the London Welsh), Musical Opinion and Welsh Music. At the time of his death he was the music critic of the Western Mail. A genial man, he enjoyed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. In 1976 he married a member of his London choir, Margaret Watts from Craig Cefn Parc, and they had two sons. He died suddenly in Cardiff on 12 June
DAVIES, EVAN (Eta Delta; 1794 - 1855), Independent minister Born 1794 at Cefn, Llanbrynmair, nephew of Thomas Davies of Llanuwchllyn (minister of the ' Old Chapel ' there). He was educated at Newtown Academy and began his career as a missioner in the neighbourhood of Bilston. During the absence of its minister, J. Breese, he worked for a year at Tabernacle chapel, Liverpool. He was ordained minister at Llanrwst in 1827, moved to Llannerch-y-medd in 1834
DAVIES, JACOB (1816 - 1849) Ceylon, Baptist missionary Born at Cefn-mawr, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 22 February 1816. In April 1835 he joined the Baptists and was baptized by immersion. He began to preach in 1837 and in 1840 passed into the Baptist College, Bradford. When he had completed his course he volunteered for the mission field. In 1844 he was chosen to work in Ceylon and reached that country in September of the same year. He made a

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