Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor got the role which made him a huge household name - that of Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn 'Shut Up' Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Ironically, Davies was not the first choice for the role, which was originally offered to Leonard Rossiter, who turned it down. The show's creator, David Croft, had remembered his portrayal of a Sergeant in Badge of Fear and Spike Milligan's Adolf
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster vale of Cletwr, and from that time on was known as 'Dafis Castellhywel.' Here he kept a school for over thirty years and his reputation as a teacher spread throughout Wales; for many years candidates for Anglican orders were ordained direct from the school. The names of 111 of his former pupils are to be found in the list of subscribers to Telyn Dewi. He was a friend of Richard Price, Edward Williams
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller , derives from The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis a Balaclava Nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr Edited by Jane Williams (Ysgafell). Originally brought out in two volumes in 1857, it was reissued by Honno Press in 1987 and 2015. The latter edition is the first since 1857 to restore the full original text. Jane Williams's preface had been omitted from previous reprints, and cuts and changes had been
DAVIS, RICHARD (1658 - 1714), Independent minister lay itinerants, were repugnant to the more academic of his fellow- ministers; (3) his insistence on 'congregational' church-government and his hostility to 'a Presbyterian classis' greatly influenced English Congregationalists in their decision to abandon the ' Union ' of 1690 between Presbyterians and Independents. Daniel Williams was one of Davis's chief critics. In 1692 the Common Fund stopped
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician - general editor H. Haydn Jones), Saith o Ganeuon enwog Brahms (with Welsh words by T.H. Parry-Williams); and Forty Welsh traditional tunes, issued by the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones
DILLWYN family and craftsmen of the Nantgarw potteries, and began to manufacture porcelain (see Williams, Guide to the Collection of Welsh Porcelain at the National Museum of Wales, with portrait of Dillwyn). But Dillwyn, though he experimented in improving the 'body' of the Swansea ware, was primarily a naturalist, and published works of considerable scale and importance on botany and conchology; he was elected
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, Willis, Bangor, 112). Anthony Wood describes him as 'learned,' but no work of his has survived save some undergraduate verses in memory of a fellow-student, Sir Edward Lewkner (died 1605), a connection of Sir Richard Lewkner the Welsh judge and Pembrokeshire magistrate (Williams, Welsh Judges, 33; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, I, iii, 82). The bequest to his college of funds for the purchase of some
DONNE, JAMES (1764 - 1844), cleric and schoolmaster Thomson, an Edinburgh merchant; his second wife (1798) was Alice, daughter of John Croxon, Oswestry. 'While master of Oswestry he recovered for the School … 26 acres of land which had been lost through the remissness of former Masters.' He resigned the headship of Oswestry in 1833 and returned to Llan-y-blodwel, where he died 23 January 1844. Two sons, James and Stephen, became clergymen, the latter
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist adopted his mother's surname. The earliest of Lewis Dwnn's poems is dated 1568 and the latest 1616 (Peniarth MS 96 (441, 586)). His wife was Alice, daughter of Meredydd ap Dafydd, and it is possible that James Dwnn the poet was the eldest of his six children. The best evidence of Lewys Dwnn's early interest in genealogy is to be found in his own introduction to his book of pedigrees where he names the
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist journalist (and Quaker) Griffith Williams, whom she married in 1955, a marriage of great joy and, for the writer that Marion then became, an abiding source of strength and encouragement. Making their home in Pimlico they had briefly the benefit of a cosmopolitan interlude that has its resonances in her later work. They both secured appointments in Cardiff, Marion as a radio producer with the BBC in 1955, a
EDERN DAFOD AUR, made a small dosbarth (arrangement or grammar) of the orthography of the Welsh language and of the form of words Many copies of this are extant. The copyists claimed, sometimes, that he was Edern, son of Padarn Beisrudd, that is, that he was the father of Cunedda Wledig. On the other hand, John Davies of Mallwyd said that he flourished c. 1280. EDWARD WILLIAMS (Iolo Morganwg) was the first to state categorically that Edern's work was the grammar which is associated with the names of Einion Offeiriad and

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