Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist department of grassland agronomy at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. He did not con- fine himself to experimental work, but made a survey of the grassland and waste lands of Wales which was published in A survey of the agricultural and waste lands of Wales in 1937, under the editorship of R.G. Stapledon and with the financial help of David Lloyd George. Between November 1936 and March 1938 he made a
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist eisteddfod supporter and was made an hon. white-robed member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Pwllheli in 1955. He followed the missionary campaigns of Stephen and George Jeffreys in Wales and London. He was baptised in Llanelli and while he lived in London he worshipped at Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and did social work with the Salvation Army. He married (1) Margaret, daughter of William Trefor Davies, minister of
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks, a children's prime-time animated show. He also made many personal appearances on game shows and on other comedians' shows, some of which were not without controversy. From the mid-1980s onwards, Davies played more serious acting roles, such as George Vance in The New Statesman, David Lloyd George in Mosely, General Tufto in Vanity Fair
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, estate, obtained on 20 April 1581 from the College of Heralds a confirmation of the family arms, and also the crest borne by his descendants. He married (1) Catherine, daughter of George Ravenscroft (of Bretton, Flintshire, and (2) Elizabeth, widow of John Haynes. By his first wife he had three sons, of whom the second, THOMAS DAVIES, became a lieutenant-colonel for Charles I and constable of Hawarden
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Born at Goitre-isaf, Betws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, 14 February 1745, son of Timothy Jacob, he was accepted as a member at Cilgwyn 'in the year 1763 in the 18th year of his age.' He was taught by David Jones (Llanybydder), T. Lloyd (Llangeler), and Joshua Thomas, and further (1763-7) at the Academy (Grammar) School and the Academy at Carmarthen then under Jenkin Jenkins; he was, for a time, an
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller made to the narrative. According to her autobiography Betsi Cadwaladr spent her early years on her father's farm. She was treated badly by her elder sister who ran the household after their mother's death in 1795-6, and ran away to the house of her father's landlord, Simon Lloyd of Plas-yn-dre in Bala. She lived there for five years, receiving a good education and training as a domestic servant
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician Born 30 April 1883, at Skewen, Glamorganshire, son of Morgan de Lloyd, an insurance agent. The family moved several times before eventually settling down at Penparcau, Aberystwyth. While they lived at Carmarthen David attended Pentrepoeth board school. From early childhood he showed remarkable musical ability. In 1894 J.S. Curwen attended the South Wales Tonic Sol-fa Conference held at Carmarthen
DE SAEDELEER, ELISABETH (1902 - 1972), textile artist Elisabeth de Saedeleer was born on 17 August 1902 in Sint Martens Latem, a village near Ghent in Belgium, the second of five daughters of the painter Valerius de Saedeleer (1867-1941) and his wife Clementina (née Limpens, 1867-1930). At the age of 12, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, she and her family left Belgium together with Gustave van de Woestijne (1881-1947) and George
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, Northumberland, much Devereux property in Carmarthenshire passed into Percy hands, including the six ' Percy rectories ' of south Carmarthenshire, notorious to Puritans of the next century for their fat incomes and neglected parishioners; Llan-y-bri, a chapel of ease pertaining to one of them, was later secured for a body of Independents through the offices of William Evans (died 1718). Sir GEORGE DEVEREUX (fl
DILLWYN family VENABLES -LLEWELYN; on the Venables (a Cheshire family originally) see Williams, Hist. of Radnorshire (2nd ed., 383-4). Lady Venables-Llewelyn was the daughter of Richard Lister Venable (1809 - 1894), vicar of Clyro, who figures in the diaries of Francis Kilvert, and whose brother George Stovin Venable (1819 - 1888), classical scholar and writer in the Saturday Review, is in the D.N.B. - his fight with
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, councillors and civic officials. DAVID DOLBEN (1581 - 1633), bishop of Bangor Religion Son of Robert Wyn Dolben (great-grandson of the first Robert Dolben above) and of Jane, daughter of Owen ap Reinallt of Glyn Llugwy. He entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1602, holding one of the scholarships founded by Dr. John Gwyn (died 1574), and graduated B.A. 1606, M.A. 1609, and D.D. 1626. Ordained by George
DOLBEN, WILLIAM LLOYD Rhiwedog (fl. 19th century) - see LLOYD

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