Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALBAN, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1882 - 1965), chartered accountant and administrator to 1916, when he resigned to become secretary and controller of the Welsh National Memorial Association established by David Davies, aft. Lord Davies (1880 - 1944), and his sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret to commemorate King Edward VII and to combat tuberculosis in Wales. He acted as accountant for the Ministry of Food in Wales, 1918-19. He resigned from his post with the Memorial Assoc. in 1922
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician Beata Brookes was born on 21 January 1930 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, the daughter of George Brookes, a farmer and property developer, and his wife Gwendoline. She attended Lowther College in Abergele and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. She also won an American State Department scholarship to study politics in the USA. This was followed by a brief visit to Australia to study local
CUDLIPP, PERCY (1905 - 1962), journalist Street, the hub of British journalism, knew him as an accurate writer and a conversational wit whose instinctive mimicry of the famous was greatly appreciated. He became a frequent broadcaster both on radio and television and his love of verse from his earliest days was reflected in his book, Bouverie Ballads (1955). He married, 1927, Gwendoline James and they had one son. He died 5 November 1962.
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) crusade for world peace. In 1911, together with his sisters, the Misses Gwendoline E. and Margaret S. Davies of Gregynog Hall, he founded the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association which, under his direction, developed into a nation-wide scheme with many sanatoria and hospitals. The Llandinam family also endowed the University Chair of Tuberculosis at the Welsh National School of Medicine
DAVIES, EDWARD OWEN (1864 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author mental and moral science in 1889, going afterwards to Mansfield College, Oxford, and the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Gottingen, and Kiel. He was called to the pastorate of Garston Welsh chapel, Liverpool, in 1893, and was ordained in 1894. In 1897 he was appointed lecturer in dogmatics at Bala Theological College, remaining there for ten years. In 1904 he married Mary Gwendoline, daughter of
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress
DAVIES, MARGARET SIDNEY (1884 - 1963), art collector and benefactress sister of Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies; born Llandinam, 14 December 1884. Although many of her activities were joint ones with her sister, she was herself an amateur painter of ability. ' Miss Daisy ', as she was generally called, was rather more conventional in her tastes than her sister, but after the latter's death she developed her collection of paintings to include Bonnard, Kokoschka, Sisley
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author . Asaph in November 1936, and the following year he was licensed as a lay reader. He wrote regularly for Y Llan, and served as secretary to the Llan and Welsh Church Company for a short period. He contributed articles to Yr Haul (mainly as ' Timothy Stone'), Y Llenor, Barn, etc., and wrote many articles for DWB. He married, 20 April 1949, Mary Gwendoline Headley, and they had one son and one daughter
EVANS, THOMAS JOHN (1894 - 1965), local government officer and an administrator within the Baptist denomination 1958 in order to facilitate the integration of the treasury functions within the County Council. He was married at Tabernacl, Carmarthen on 23 November 1923 to Margaret Gwendoline Hodges (27 June 1894 - 22 March 1951), a childhood acquaintance in the church, who bore him one daughter. The small volume, Gwen - A tribute of love and remembrance (1951), that he published privately, was his personal
JONES, DORA HERBERT (1890 - 1974), singer and administrator in France as a Red Cross nurse under the supervision of the sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies of Llandinam. She later became secretary to Lord Wimborne, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and undertook confidential work on his behalf in Dublin. She had returned to London before the General Election of 1918 to organise Herbert Lewis's campaign as a candidate for the University of Wales seat, and was
JONES, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal entry into the Baptist College in Bangor and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated in the Arts in 1923 and in Theology in 1926. That year he accepted a call to pastor the Welsh Baptist church in Ebenezer, Mold, and he was ordained to serve there and in its mission in Maes-y-dre. In April 1928 he married Edith Gwendoline Jones from Penuel, Bangor. They had one daughter, Luned. Tom
NICHOLAS, JOHN MORGAN (1895 - 1963), musician played it for some hours one evening, only to find that his commanding officer was listening in the shadows, a scenario that was repeated many times. In 1920 he was appointed Music Organiser for Montgomeryshire, a post funded by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies of Gregynog, and pioneered the development of music teaching in Montgomeryshire schools. Four years later, in 1924, he moved to Clwyd Hall, the

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