Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABRAHAM, RICHARD (fl. 1673-1700), poet
BELL, RICHARD (1859 - 1930), M.P. and trade union leader Born 29 November 1859 at Penderyn, Brecknock, son of Charles and Mary Bell. His paternal grandparents were Scots who moved from Lincoln to the Pantmawr farm at Ystradfellte. Shortly after 1860 his father, a quarryman, joined the Glamorgan police force and went to Merthyr Tydfil, where Richard had his scanty early education. He first worked as an office boy in the Cyfarthfa iron-works, but in 1876
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician singing. A small group of his political papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Coleman married (1) in 1949 Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963 - they had one son; and (2) in January 1966 Margaret Elizabeth Morgan - they had one daughter. His second wife survived him. Their home was at 'Penderyn', 18 Penywern Road, Bryncoch, Neath. Donald Coleman died on 14 January 1991 and was
CYNOG (fl. 500?), saint was, according to legend, the son 'of Brychan, founder of the kingdom of Brycheiniog, and Banadlwedd, daughter of a king of Powys. He is chiefly commemorated in Brycheiniog, where Defynnog, Ystrad Gynlais, Penderyn, Battle, Llangynog, and Merthyr Cynog, are all named after him, the last being reputed his place of burial. These churches, with their chapels, account for a large part of the modern
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior , Newton (near Brecon), Tre-gaer, Buckland, and Penderyn, until the male line died out and the surname disappeared. The last sheriff to bear it was Hoo Games of Newton (1657). Through the marriage of his daughter Gwladus to Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan, died 1469), Dafydd Gam was forefather of all the Herberts.
DAVIES, JAMES EIRIAN (1918 - 1998), poet and minister -preacher, although unconventional in his style and his dress. Ordained as a Methodist minister in 1949, he ministered in three pastorates, Hirwaun and Penderyn, Cynon Valley (1949-1954), Brynaman (1955-1961) and Bethesda, Mold and Nercwys in Flintshire (1962-1981). Before beginning his ministry, in 1949 he married Jennie Howells of Llanpumsaint, a talented young woman who was very active in Welsh
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster Born at The Tramway, Hirwaun, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 May, 1863, the youngest son of Lewis and Amy Davies. His father was a refiner in the Crawshay Ironworks at Hirwaun. The son was educated at Penderyn elementary school, where he became a pupil teacher. He won a scholarship to Bangor Normal College, where he remained for 2 years (1881-82) and then returned to Hirwaun as headmaster of the
DIC ABERDARON - see JONES, RICHARD ROBERT
DIC DYWYLL - see WILLIAMS, RICHARD
DIC PENDERYN - see LEWIS, RICHARD
DIC TRYFAN - see WILLIAMS, RICHARD HUGHES
DIC Y DAWNS - see ABRAHAM, RICHARD

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