Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge disestablishment (he gave legal advice on the drafting of the Church's new constitution). In 1938, on the other hand, he entered into the serious dispute with the Archbishop of Wales - Dr Charles Green - and the other Welsh bishops over the content of the pastoral letters issued by them about the illegality of solemnising the second marriages of those members of the Church who were divorced (a side effect of the
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales through the News of the World. In the bitter winter of 1947 his chapel became a refuge for dozens of men who would otherwise have perished. He visited weekly, every Friday, the public houses of Swansea to collect money to enable poor children from Swansea to enjoy Guy Fawkes night and to be taken by him to the circus. Atkin could not be content within any movement or organisation. He was a maverick, an
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette behalf of the Cymric Suffrage Union. During the same month, Rachel and the Ranee of Sarawak, Margaret Brooke, conducted a series of open-air meetings in Hertfordshire. Although there are few reports of the content of her speeches, Rachel focused on the general issues surrounding the cause of votes for women and on the status of imprisoned suffragettes, calling for them to be treated as political
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince success; in 1138 they failed, even with the aid of a Danish flotilla, to break down the persistence of the garrison of Cardigan, and Cadwaladr was content to reap the fruits of victory and to occupy northern Ceredigion as his share of the spoil. A little later he appears in a somewhat surprising light as an ally of earl Randolph II of Chester in the attack upon Lincoln of 2 February 1141, which resulted
CADWALLON (d. 633), prince Northumbria at his feet and was so signal as to suggest that the hour had come to re-establish British supremacy in the island. But the opportunity, the last of its kind, was not wisely used. Cadwallon showed no statesmanship and was content to ravage the country, sparing neither age nor sex and paying no regard, though himself a professing Christian, to the Christianity already introduced there by a Roman
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master Hirion form he concentrated on smoothness and simplicity of language, but in his cywyddau gorchest he is much too excessive in his use of cymeriadau; and in his awdlau he is content with nothing less than the most elaborate cynghanedd and the severest classical measures. Most of his poems are cywyddau of love, and in this respect he followed tradition by writing serenades and satires addressed to
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd once more, in 1277, David was re-established in Wales, though on that occasion it was by way of reward from the Crown for the part he had played in bringing about Llywelyn's humiliating defeat in that year. Actually, for a promise of part of Snowdonia David secured only a renewed promise of a reversion thereof, and meanwhile he had to content himself with temporary grants of royal territory in north
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Ddau Lais ('The Two Voices') seemed foreign to readers in terms of form and content, consisting mainly of challenging poems which sought to interpret the complexities of modern industrial and urban existence. In 1975 he published a volume of his own poems, Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill. This is a personal and intensely meditative collection, in contrast to the earlier socio-political themes, and
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller . For example, while the Autobiography says she was five years old when her mother died, the parish register for Llanycil records her mother's burial on 10 February 1800, when Cadwaladr was ten. The 'Preface' to the Autobiography by Jane Williams (Ysgafell), one of Wales's first female historians, indicates the extent of her contribution to the book's content. Williams appears to have filled in, where
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar contributions. With Rachel Bromwich and drawing on the unfinished work of Idris Foster, he prepared an edition of the tale in 1988; the English-language edition (1992) reflects the thinking of the two editors to a greater degree. The edition of another text that reveals the depth and detail of Simon Evans's research is Historia Gruffud vab Kenan (1977). The discussion ranges over the content and literary
EVANS, DAVID (1879 - 1965), public servant and hymn-writer well into his retirement. Much of his work was commemorative in content, sometimes an event of national significance such as the Welsh Religious Revival, but more usually to mark the death of a relative or friend. The death of his grandfather in 1898 stimulated an elegy of no fewer than 21 stanzas, each one eight lines in length. At about the same time, perhaps encouraged by John Finnemore, he

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