Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar in the Welsh language and his knowledge of it. Doubtless this benefitted him in his work of translating the scriptures. In June 1925 he married Phyllis Mary, the widow of John Elliott Terry, and a son and a daughter were born to them. He died 22 September 1973. A service of thanksgiving for his life was held in Westminster Abbey on 25 January 1974. This was the first time a Free Church minister had
DONALDSON, JESSIE (1799 - 1889), teacher and anti-slavery activist Jessie Donaldson was born on 18 February 1799 in Ware, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Samuel Heineken (1768-1856), a London lawyer, and his wife Jannet. She was baptised on 11 April at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Swan Yard, Ware. Later the family moved first to Bristol, then to Swansea where they made their home in Dynevor Place. From 1829 she and her sister, Mary Ann, ran a school for
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist Marion Eames was born in Birkenhead, 5 February 1921, the second of three daughters of William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979). Her maternal grandparents had moved to Merseyside from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, followed as a very young man by her father. Her upbringing was that of a Welsh-speaking family, her parents members of Woodchurch Road chapel
EDGEWORTH, ROGER (d. 1560), Roman Catholic divine Born in Holt castle, Denbighshire. He went to Oxford about 1503, graduated B.A. in 1507, and in 1508 was elected a Fellow of Oriel College. He became a noted preacher in the university and elsewhere, and obtained several preferments including the chancellorship of Wells cathedral in 1554. During the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI he was moderate, but after the accession of queen Mary he
EDMUNDS, MARY ANNE (1813 - 1858), teacher Born 25 April 1813 at Carmarthen, daughter of William and Mary Jones. She was educated at a boarding school and also benefited materially from the invaluable instruction she received at home, where she acquired an exceptional knowledge of the Scriptures, was an avid reader of edifying books, and was well versed in Welsh hymnology; she possessed natural gifts of an unusually high order. For twenty
EDWARDS family Chirkland, Flintshire (1546) and Denbighshire (1547); he fought at Boulogne in 1544. The family clung to the old religion till the time of his son JOHN EDWARDS II (died 1585), of Plas Newydd or New Hall, who, although suspected in 1574 of sympathy with Mary, queen of Scots, and imprisoned in 1579 for having mass said in his house, publicly renounced the pope at Wrexham at the execution of Richard Gwyn in 1584. JOHN
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales , 1927, which give an interesting picture of Welsh rural life in the 19th century, and received the honorary degrees of LL.D. (Wales), D.C.L. (Oxon.), and LL.D. (Cantab.), besides being made an honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1920. He married, first, in 1875, Caroline (died 1884), daughter of Edward Edwards, Llangollen, by whom he had two sons and three daughters; second, in 1886, Mary
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea recommending the addition of oxygen to the air blown into iron blast furnaces, a practice which became common about fifty years later. Further research publications led to the award of a D.Sc. in 1913. In 1908 he married Florence Edith Roberts and their son was born in 1913. C.A. Edwards succeeded Carpenter as professor of Metallurgy in Manchester in 1914 and succeeded in combining government work on steel
EDWARDS, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and author Born 31 May 1881 at Caernarfon, son of Owen Edwards, Presb. minister, a native of Llanuwchllyn (and cousin of Sir Owen M. Edwards,, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. The father emigrated to Australia to regain his health, but his wife died before she could take her family to join him in Melbourne. The three sons were brought up by her parents in Dolgellau. He was educated in the county school
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor by his own hand, at Ruabon. A selection of his addresses was published in 1889 under the title Wales and the Welsh Church, with a memoir by David Jones which has been the main source of the present notice. Edwards was twice married: first in 1867 to Mary, daughter of D. Davis of Aberdare (for whom see Davis family of Hirwaun, Aberdare, and Ferndale) - she died in August 1871; and second in 1873 to
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru portrait by Alfred Janes in 1956; he received the Cymmrodorion gold medal in 1956; and an honorary LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1959. He married, 18 July 1923, Eirys Mary Lloyd Phillips, Liverpool, and resided at Neuadd Wen, Llanuwchllyn until 1930, and thereafter at Aberystwyth. They had two sons, Owen and Prys. He died at his home, Bryneithin, 23 January 1970, and was buried at
EDWARDS, JOHN (Eos Glan Twrch; 1806 - 1887), poet and prose-writer Born 15 April 1806, at Tyn-y-fedw, Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd. He received some education under Michael Jones and was a member of 'Cymdeithas Cymreigyddion Llanuwchllyn.' He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1828, lived for a while in New York, in Utica in 1831, and again in New York (1834-42), where he married Mary James, a native of Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire He moved to Floyd, N.Y., and engaged

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