Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES, WILLIAM JENKIN (1858 - 1919), Unitarian minister, man of letters, and musician Born at Trecynon, Aberdare, 30 January 1858. He was educated at the Trecynon day schools and at the school maintained by R. Jenkin Jones; he became a pharmacist - hence his interest in the trees and plants of Llandysul parish. After a preparatory period under William James (1848 - 1907) he went to the Unitarian College at Manchester (1878-1881), and later spent a year at Owens College as a
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor Windsor Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town in the East End of London, the son of Anyan Davies and his wife Maggie (née Jones). He had one sister, Glenys. Both his parents were Welsh speakers. In 1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the family moved back to Anyan Davies's home village of Nant-y-Moel in Ogmore Vale. Windsor attended Ogmore Grammar School, and
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, manuscripts, many of which are now deposited in the N.L.W. Among them is the famous ' Book of Llan Dav,' which is fully described by E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123 et seq. Part of the collection was briefly described by John Cordy Jeaffreson in the Appendix (pp. 418-26) to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i, 1877-8, and in the Annual Report of the N.L.W. for 1946
DAVIS family, coalowners throughout his life to the main Wesleyan connexion, the younger David Davis was drawn into the schism which led, in the Aberdare district, to the short-lived emergence of the 'Wesleyan Reform' connexion (see under William Jones, 1814? - 1895), and built the ' Reformers ' a chapel at Aberdare which, eventually, became Congregationalist. Of his daughters, the eldest, Mary, married the then vicar of Aberdare
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 London two days before their wedding, where she stayed in the house of John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), with whom she claimed distant kinship. During the following period in London, where she worked as a domestic servant, she briefly became engaged to an upholsterer whom the Autobiography designates only as H___. In November 1820, she was hired as maid to the wife of the captain of a merchant ship sailing
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician concerts held by the department. He succeeded Sir Walford Davies in the chair in 1926. He died 20 August 1948, the day upon which his retirement from the college was to take effect. He composed a large number of works and arranged other music. His principal works include Gwenllian (opera), 1924; Tir na n'Og a lyrical ode by T. Gwynn Jones; Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata); Cân a Moliant (Hymns and tunes
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer question (F. G. Payne in N.L.W. Jnl., i, 42-3) and who is mentioned several times in Dee's diary. He also called Thomas Jones, 'Twm Shôn Catti' with whom he was acquainted, 'cousin'. Dee graduated from S. John's College, Cambridge, 1544/5, and was nominated one of the original Fellows of Trinity College on its foundation in 1546. He visited the Low Countries in 1547, and was a student at Louvain from
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist Son of Edward and Catherine Jones, born 24 July 1824 at Y Foty, his grandfather's farm in the hills between Llandderfel and Bethel, Meirionethshire. His parents moved to Tan-y-ffordd, a cottage near Llandderfel. In due course he left his home to look for work and, after a great deal of wandering, was employed by the firm of J. F. and H. Roberts [see Roberts of Mynydd-y-gof ], Manchester, as a
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, (died 1573?) and widow of Thomas Jones ('Twm Sion Catti,' c. 1530 - 1609), acquiring through her considerable property at Ystrad Ffin, Carmarthenshire. He served as sheriff for Carmarthenshire in 1581 and for Cardiganshire in 1587 (while at Lamphey), and again for Cardiganshire in 1611 (while at Ystrad Ffin). ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2nd earl of Essex and 3rd viscount Hereford (1567 - 1601) Son of the 1st
DEWI WYN o EIFION - see OWEN, DAVID

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