Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist Patagonia. He served many institutions in Wales. As treasurer he gave valuable guidance to Urdd Gobaith Cymru (Welsh League of Youth) c. 1950, to U.C.W. (1954-68) and to Coleg Harlech (1957-68). He became chairman of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales; was a member of the Councils of U.C.W. and N.M.W.; and Welsh representative of the Independent Television Authority for two terms, 1956-64. He
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer on the boards of several companies including as a founding director, together with Richard Burton, of Harlech Television (HTV). He regularly attended HTV board meetings in the 1960s and 1970s, helping to shape the development of independent television in Wales. He was also noted for his socialist politics and became a close friend of the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, who nominated Baker for
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, Brogyntyn in the defence of Harlech Castle for the king, and was one of the Commissioners appointed by him to sign the articles of surrender in March 1647. He died in 1659. Arthur's third son, HENRY, was the father of JOHN BLAYNEY, who was sheriff in 1716. John Blayney married Anne, daughter of Arthur Weaver of Morville, Salop, the sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1667. Their youngest son and eventual heir
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer national eisteddfod concerts and at the Harlech festival, and he became a favoured singer of some of the major composers of his time. At the request of Edward German he took the part of the Earl of Essex in his opera Merrie England in Bournemouth, and he was invited by Edward Elgar to sing at an early performance of his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius. Another composer who admired him was D. Vaughan
BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author The only daughter of J. R. Ormsby-Gore (1816 - 1876), 1st baron Harlech. She was first married in 1863 to the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (died 1865); their son, Lloyd, succeeded his grandfather in 1869 as 4th baron Kenyon. Her second marriage in 1880 was to the Reverend Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley-Owen, of Tedsmore, West Felton (died 1910). Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen took an active interest in Welsh cultural
DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION (fl. 1440-1468), soldier and commander of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses His fame rests on his defence of Harlech castle for the Lancastrians (1460-8) during the Wars of the Roses. His father, Ieuan ab Einion of Cryniarth and Hendwr in Edeirnion, Meironnydd, was a descendant of Llywelyn ap Cynwrig of Cors-y-Gedol; his mother, Angharad, was daughter and heiress of Dafydd ap Giwn Llwyd of Hendwr; his wife was Margaret, daughter of John Puleston of Emral, Flintshire
DAFYDD ap IEUAN (IFAN) ab OWEN (fl. 1560), poet Fl. 1560, according to NLW MS 606E). His poetry associates him with Harlech, and, more especially, with Trawsfynydd. Cywyddau and an englyn by him are preserved in Cwrtmawr MS 238B, Cwrtmawr MS 244B, NLW MS 643B, NLW MS 666C, NLW MS 3487E, and B.M. Add. MSS. 14966, 14985; among them is an englyn to the town of Harlech, and a 'cywydd of remonstrance against the world written by a man who had sold
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman of Wales, Aberystwyth, and in 1973 the University of Wales awarded him an honorary doctorate of law. He took a keen interest in television, and was a director of Harlech TV 1967-1983, serving as vice-chair under the chairmanship of Lord Harlech, and chairing its Welsh Board 1978-1983. A close associate of Sir Julian Hodge, he was a director of the Commercial Bank of Wales from 1971 to 1996, serving
DAVIES, HUMPHREY (d. 1635), vicar of Darowen, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts Son of David ap Griffith, a cleric hailing from the Harlech district, and Jonet, daughter of David ap Thomas of Maes-y-neuadd. He is said to have been rector of Llanfyllin for a few months in 1571 and to have left to study at Cambridge. His career at Cambridge appears to have been confused in the reference books with that of a native of Leamington Hastings who bore the same name. Judging by the
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist fantell fraith, in collaboration with his summer school class in Harlech in 1942; and also Ynys Afallon, a partially-metrical play on the history of Wales, which he himself considered to be his most ambitious experiment. He did not compose many poems. Nevertheless, it is as a poet that he is remembered because he left a message for his own age in his few poetical works, and in one poem in particular
DAVIES, JOHN (1882 - 1937), secretary of the South Wales District of the W.E.A., 1919-1937 Committee and was closely associated with Thomas Jones (1870 - 1955) in the foundation of Coleg Harlech, serving on the council of the college from its inception. He was a member of the Committee on Rural Education in Wales established in 1927 by the President of the Board of Education. During the depression of the 1930s he was actively involved in efforts to relieve distress in the south Wales coalfield
DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1567 - 1644), one of the greatest of Welsh scholars his death - at Harlech, according to William Maurice (Cefn-y-braich, Llansilin) - on 15 May 1644. He was buried at Mallwyd on 19 May. His will has been preserved. His published work belongs to the years 1620-1 and 1632-3. The 1620 edition of the Welsh Bible is known as Richard Parry's Bible, but it is thought today that much of the credit for the uniformity and correctness of the language used

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