Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1871 - 1940), poet and author
DAVIES, WILLIAM HUBERT (1893 - 1965), musician Born 24 May 1893 at Abersychan, Monmouthshire, and educated at West Monmouth Grammar School, Pontypool. At the age of fifteen he won a Sainton open scholarship to study the violin at the Royal Academy of Music; he was a pupil of Hans Wessely and later at Dresden of Leopold Auer. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the string trio which was formed by Henry Walford Davies at the University College
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, castle, 1643, was ' servant of King Henry ' and had command of a regiment under Sir Charles Morgan, lord-general of king Christian V of Denmark (1646 - 1699), a portrait of whom, painted by Cornelius Jonson, hangs at Gwysaney. Many interesting letters written by him from the Continent are still preserved at Gwysaney, and transcripts of these and of other letters to him are in the National Library of
DAVIS family, coalowners father had been. He took a prominent part in inducing Henry Richard to seek election as Member of Parliament for the Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare district (1868) and, like his brother, Lewis, was invited to contest the second seat there when Richard Fothergill ('III ') retired in 1880. A good employer, he kept the Davis collieries open throughout the ' lock-out ' of 1875, and subsequently became vice
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster minister for fifty-two years. He published a translation of Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Man, 1779, another of Gray's 'Elegy,' 1789, Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth, 1792, and in 1824 a volume of his own verse entitled Telyn Dewi. He died 3 July 1827 and was buried in Llanwenog churchyard. DAVID DAVIS (1778 - 1846), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Religion Education 'Dafis
DE SAEDELEER, ELISABETH (1902 - 1972), textile artist Sacred Heart of Koekelberg, one of Belgium's most famous Art Deco monuments. In her career she made tapestry after the designs of many internationally renowned artists such as Ossip Zadkine, Michel Seuphor and Marc Chagall. The quality of her work and clientele secured her a solid reputation, and in 1927 she was asked by Henry van de Velde to teach at La Cambre, the newly founded art and design school
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer Born 13 July 1527, in London; son of Rowland Dee, a gentleman server to Henry VIII. He was a grandson of Bedo Ddu of Nant-y-groes, Pilleth, Radnorshire and he retained his connection with the locality. The Dees hailed from Radnorshire (see J. D. Rhys, Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones, 60); Dee himself constructed a pedigree purporting to show his descent from Rhodri Mawr
DENNIS, HENRY (1825 - 1906), mining engineer, colliery owner, etc.
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, , Little England, 272), and his position there was safeguarded in the Act of Union (27 Henry VIII, c. 26 § 39). He was involved in disputes with William Barlow, bishop of S. Davids, in 1538, with Henry Somerset (see Somerset family), 2nd earl of Worcester over the stewardship of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog in the same year, with the boroughs of Haverfordwest (1536) and of New Carmarthen (1540), one result of
DILLWYN family sessions. (2) LEWIS LLEWELYN DILLWYN (1814 - 1892) Born 19 May 1814, was educated at Bath, married (1838) Elizabeth, daughter of the geologist Sir Henry de la Beche (his father's friend), and was himself something of a geologist; he lived at Hendrefoilan. While his brother, and still more his nephew, worthily represented the traditions of the squirearchy with which they were connected by marriage, Lewis
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner Dillwyn's uncle was John Dillwyn-Llewelyn of Penllergare [sic] who, along with his wife Emma Thomasina Talbot, his sister Mary Dillwyn and his daughter, Amy's cousin, Theresa Story Maskelyne, was a pioneer of early photography. Her grandfathers were the naturalist Lewis Weston Dillwyn and geologist Henry De La Beche. On the Dillwyn side, the family were originally Quakers and her great-grandfather was
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, This family, probably not of Welsh origin and appearing in early records as 'Doulben,' first settled in Denbighshire after Henry VII's grant of Segrwyd to ROBERT DOLBEN for his services against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath (1497). His grandson and namesake became recorder and steward of Denbigh, and others of the family entered trade there, supplying the borough with a succession of common

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