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  • DANIEL, WILLIAM RAYMOND (1928 - 1997), association football player Ray Daniel was born 2 November 1928 at Plasmarl, Swansea, the youngest of William and Cissie Daniel's (née Norman) three children. The family lived in a part of the director's house at the British Mannesmann Tube Co., Ltd, steelworks where the father was a storeman. The Liberty Stadium, home of Swansea City FC, is located on the site of the works. Ray Daniel began his career as an amateur with
  • EVANS, DANIEL (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792 - 1846), cleric and poet to ill health, returned home to his parents, and never took up another appointment as long as he lived. He published: Awdlau: gan … Daniel Evans, bardd i Anrhydeddus Gym-deithas y Gwyneddigion, Llundain, 1810 (no. 9 in ' Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion'); Gwlad fy Ngenedigaeth and Attebiad 'Ioan Tegid,' 1819? (a poem trying to persuade ' Tegid ' not to leave Wales for the East Indies); Awdl
  • DAVIES, JOHN (1700? - 1792), cleric A contemporary of Daniel Rowland, Llangeitho, and one of the Evangelical school. He was educated at S. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was rector of Sharncote (not Escourt), Wiltshire, for twenty-seven years, 1765-92 (see J. Owen, Memoir of Daniel Rowland, 179). He heard Daniel Rowland preach and his description of the preacher is probably the best on record. He translated into English eight of
  • DANIEL ap LLOSGWRN MEW, poet ('Prydydd y Moch,'). Nothing further is known of this Daniel. A striking example of the ' Titanism ' which Matthew Arnold observed in Welsh poetry is to be found in the elegy on Owain Gwynedd in the lines: 'And were I able to exchange reproofs with God, I should be well supplied with material.'
  • REES, DANIEL (1855 - 1931), journalist
  • OWEN, DANIEL (1836 - 1895), novelist Born 20 October 1836 at 53 Maes-y-dref, Mold, Flintshire, the youngest of six children. His father, a coal miner, lost his life, as did two of his sons, when the Argoed coal mine was flooded; Daniel Owen's mother belonged to the family of Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant). He received but little education in his childhood. When he was twelve he began a five years' apprenticeship to a tailor; later
  • JONES, DANIEL (1725? - 1806), poet
  • PROTHEROE, DANIEL (1866 - 1934), musician Born 5 November 1866 at Ystradgynlais, Brecknock, the son of Daniel and Eleanor Protheroe. His first instructors in music were Philip Thomas, J. T. Rees, and D. M. Lewis. A good vocalist, he won prizes when he was quite young at national eisteddfodau held in Swansea and Merthyr Tydfil, 1880-1. When he was only 16 he conducted the Ystradgynlais choir which won the prize at the Llandeilo eisteddfod
  • DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner Gwyn Daniel was born on 1 August 1904 in the village of Bryn, Port Talbot, the first child of Thomas Daniel (1875-1952), a coalminer, and his wife Sarah (née Walters, 1879-1922). Their second child, Mary Margaret (May) was born in 1909. The family worshipped at Bryn Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Gwyn was a pupil at the local elementary school before attending the County School for Boys
  • WILLIAMS, DANIEL POWELL (Pastor Dan; 1882 - 1947), founder and first president of the Apostolic Church The only Welshman to establish a world-wide church; born 5 May 1882 at Garn-foel, a smallholding near Pen-y-groes in the Amman valley, Carmarthenshire, one of twelve children of William and Esther Williams. As the father lost his sight when Daniel was only ten years old, he had to leave school a few months later in order to increase the family's income in some way, but the lad's weekly wage as a
  • BOWEN, DAVID (1774 - 1853) Felinfoel, minister Born at Bryn Bach, Felinfoel, 11th December 1774. He was baptised by Daniel Davies, Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, 14 May 1797 and he started to preach in 1798. He was ordained by Titus Lewis and Joshua Watkins, Carmarthen, on 25 August 1806 to be joint-minister with Daniel Davies and he lived at Pantlludw. In 1831 Seion, Llanelli was formed as a church and Bowen was selected by the congregation to
  • DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools Born 26 June, 1902, in Bangor, the elder of the two sons of Morgan Daniel (1864 - 1941), Independent minister, and Anna, his wife. J.E. Daniel was educated at Friars School, Bangor and nurtured in the classical tradition. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and in 1922 he took a first class in Classical Moderations and the following year, a first class in Literae Humaniores