Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN (1929 - 1997), footballer Ivor Allchurch was born on 16 October 1929 at 66 Waun-wen Road, Swansea. He was the sixth of seven children born to Charles Wilfred Allchurch (1894-1956) and his wife Mabel Sarah (née Miller; 1895-1982), who were both originally from Dudley in the West Midlands. His younger brother Leonard 'Len' Allchurch, (1933-2016) was also a well-known professional footballer and Welsh international. Their
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian David's in Brecon. His remains were cremated in Bradford on the day of his funeral. In his obituary which appeared in the Evening Post on the 15 July and in the Methodist Recorder and Y Tyst on the 22 July the Reverend Ivor Thomas Rees, Swansea, described David Bowen as a 'great Christian' and 'a peace-loving mediator'. David (or Dave as he liked to be called) was a most unassuming person, a convinced
BOWEN, IVOR (1862 - 1934), K.C., county court judge
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor performances on screen (Becket, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Where Eagles Dare), but it is fair to say that by the beginning of the 1970s poor films were appearing more frequently than ones with merit. A turning-point in Richard's life was the accident in 1968 that paralysed his elder brother, Ivor, who had been a companion and a father-figure to him. When Ivor died in 1972 there followed a clear
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer major in the Royal Engineers (1916-19); he was wounded, and awarded the M.C. Having resumed his career in London, he directed jointly with the author, G.B. Shaw, the original production of St. Joan (1924), his wife playing the leading role. He and his wife toured South Africa in 1928, and the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand in 1932. In 1938 he produced Henry V at Drury Lane for Ivor Novello
DAVIES, CLARA NOVELLO (Pencerddes Morgannwg; 1861 - 1943), musician published an explanatory book entitled You can sing; this work was dedicated to her son, Ivor Novello (1893 - 1951). She had a voice-training school in New York, and, in 1924, she formed the Novello Davies Artist Choir to take part in concerts. In 1928 the Welsh Ladies Choir was invited to sing at Windsor Castle; it also received a similar invitation on 26 April to the Paris Exposition in 1937. The Choir
DAVIES, DAVID IVOR - see NOVELLO, IVOR
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer from his vicar. He studied under William Shakespeare who was an authority on voice production. In 1889 he married Annie Francis Rayner and the two visited Clara Novello Davies in Cardiff. There he was given an audition by John Davies, Clara Novello's husband, who secured contracts for him to sing in a series of concerts. He started his career as a professional singer in Cardiff. In 1888 he joined the
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel was born at 3 Prince Street, Margam on November 7 1927, the son of Stephen John Emmanuel (1905-1941), a steelworker, and his wife Ivy Margaretta (née Lewis, 1908-1941). He had a younger sister and brother, Mair and John. When he was less than a year old the family moved to Pontrhydyfen, the village in which the actor Richard Burton was born, and the two became friends. On May 11
EMRYS-ROBERTS, EDWARD (1878 - 1924), first professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Welsh National School of Medicine created much resentment locally, and, according to the memoirs of one of the senior physicians, Ivor Davies, in the appointment of Emrys-Roberts 'lay the fons et origo of the subsequent disagreement between the hospital and the college' during the 1920s. It is fair to say that the primary responsibility for the feud lay with Scholberg whose unwillingness to 'forgive' the College authorities for
EVANS, IFOR (IVOR) LESLIE (1897 - 1952), principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Born 17 January 1897, son of William John Evans of Aberdare and Mary Elizabeth (née Milligan) his wife. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse and studied in France and Germany where, in 1914, he was interned for the duration of the war at Ruhleben prison camp, where he learned Welsh and changed his given name Ivor to Ifor. He worked briefly in the coal trade in Swansea before going up

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