Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior , Newton (near Brecon), Tre-gaer, Buckland, and Penderyn, until the male line died out and the surname disappeared. The last sheriff to bear it was Hoo Games of Newton (1657). Through the marriage of his daughter Gwladus to Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan, died 1469), Dafydd Gam was forefather of all the Herberts.
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU, MATHE, or MATHEW (fl. 1601-1629), poet and strolling minstrel A native, according to J. H. Davies, of Cilpyll, Llangeitho. Poems attributed to him include some in honour of the families of Morfa Mawr in Anglesey (1601) and Llewenni in Denbighshire (1602). In Glamorganshire, the Mansells of Margam, the Powells of Llandow, and the Phillipses of Gelli'r-fid, Llandyfodwg, were similarly honoured so, too, in Pembrokeshire, Thomas ap Richard of Marloes and the
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet France. As the fighting in France ceased in 1453, Thomas Roberts maintains that the departure of Dafydd Nanmor from North Wales must be assigned to some time before that year, and he regards the poems to Gwen o'r Ddôl as the bard's earliest compositions (The Poetical Works of Dafydd Nanmor, xvii-xix). The bard received patronage in South Wales, in the homes of Rhys ap Meredudd of Tywyn, near the mouth
DAFYDD Y COED (fl. 1380), poets Four substantial awdlau by him and smaller poems of a satirical nature have been preserved in the ' Red Book of Hergest.' He sang to Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd of Glyn Aeron (fl. 1386-97), Hopkin ap Thomas of Ynysdawe (fl. 1360-90), and Gruffudd ap Llywelyn from Uwch Aeron. Moses Williams's estimate in his Repertorium Poeticum that he flourished about 1380 is confirmed. The above awdlau and the
DAFYDD, OWEN (1751 - 1814?), rustic poet and ballad-writer Llwyn Uchedwel, near Glais, in the Vale of Swansea; later still he moved to Cefn Myddfai, Llangyfelach, and Melin Gurwen. His last home was at Melin-y-gurnos, in the Vale of Swansea. In 1869 a monument was erected over his grave in the parish churchyard, Ystradgynlais, according to which he was born in 1751 and died 29 March 1813. Thomas Levi (Y Traethodydd, 1866, 406) says that he died 29 March 1813
DAFYDD, PHILIP (1732 - 1814), Methodist exhorter of Newcastle Emlyn dissenting ministers were accused of 'collaboration' with the French; a scurrilous 'ballad' of his against these dissenters provoked the wrath of William Richards of Lynn (1749 - 1818) in his pamphlet The Triumphs of Innocency, 1798 - see on this matter J. J. Evans, Dylanwad y Chwyldro Ffrengig ar Gymru, 174-9, and Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1930, 30-2. According to Methodistiaeth Cymru
DAFYDD, RICHARD WILLIAM (fl. 1740-1752), Methodist exhorter headed by John Richard of Llansamlet against the dispositions made by the Association in 1743, and both Whitefield and Howel Harris wrote remonstrating with him. In 1744 he was appointed visitor to the societies at Gorseinon and Pembrey. He is known to have been at Llandyfaelog in 1744 and Thomas William (1717 - 1765) met him there in 1747. We catch a last glimpse of him in 1752 when he was preaching
DAFYDD, THOMAS (fl. 1765-1792), elegist and hymnist official record of his recognition as exhorter; nor was he one of the men named Thomas David, whose letters are found in the Trevecka collection. His elegies contain useful information on Methodist personalities of his day. These elegies, and his hymns, are contained in some twenty booklets published between 1765 and 1792; these are described by Garfield H. Hughes in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical
DAIMOND, ROBERT (BOB) BRIAN (1946 - 2020), civil engineer and historian , gave numerous lectures, and appeared regularly on TV and radio news and documentaries talking about the Menai Strait bridges. Shortly before his death he published the book The Menai Suspension Bridge: The First 200 years, a comprehensive history of the world-famous bridge. The engineer Thomas Telford was a hero of his. For an ICE-sponsored celebration of Telford's 250th birthday in 2007 Daimond wore
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner Gwyn Daniel was born on 1 August 1904 in the village of Bryn, Port Talbot, the first child of Thomas Daniel (1875-1952), a coalminer, and his wife Sarah (née Walters, 1879-1922). Their second child, Mary Margaret (May) was born in 1909. The family worshipped at Bryn Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Gwyn was a pupil at the local elementary school before attending the County School for Boys
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools , followed by a first class in divinity in 1925. In the same year, a ' fellowship ' was created for him at Bala-Bangor College and on the death of Dr. Thomas Rees, he was appointed a full professor on 28 July, 1926, to be responsible for the courses on Christian doctrine and the philosophy of religion. In 1931 he was freed from his work to study with Rudolph Bultmann in Marburg. He remained at Bala-Bangor

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