Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian appointed first assistant librarian under Sir John Ballinger at the young National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. When Ballinger retired in 1930 Davies succeeded him as chief librarian, a position which he held until his death. The task which faced him was a formidable one - to continue and develop the work, so successfully begun, of building up in Wales a national library which would rank among the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric found in Nodau y gwir Gristion (Carmarthen, I. Daniel, n.d.). He is believed to have translated into Welsh John Newton's book, Twenty six Letters on Religious Texts, by Omicron (Carmarthen, J. Ross, 1777). He died 17 August 1787 and was buried in the churchyard of S. Thomas's, Neath. David William, Peter Williams, and Williams of Pantycelyn, wrote elegies on his death.
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Born at Bangor, 2 May 1849, son of William Davies, clerk, and the nephew of John Davies (Gwyneddon, 1832 - 1904). From Garth elementary school he went to the office of the North Wales Chronicle, the local weekly, and his progress was such that at the age of 20 he succeeded his uncle as editor of Cronicl Cymru, a subsidiary paper. On its decease in 1872 he became the representative of the
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor until he retired. Davies's first major role was in the ATV series Probation Officer as Bill Morgan, with the cast including Sir John Hurt, Honor Blackman, Glyn Houston and Judy Geeson. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s he appeared in many smaller roles on television, in such series as Moulded in Earth, Orlando, Coronation Street, The Newcomers, Conqueror's Road, Smith, The Onedin Line, Canterbury
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster (Iolo Morganwg), Thomas Roberts, of Llwyn'rhudol, John Jones of Glan-y-gors, and Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi); and through his influence many in his neighbourhood became supporters of the French Revolution. In 1801-2 there was dissension in his churches, and the more advanced elements built the Unitarian chapels at Pant-y-defaid and Capel-y-groes. He retired 16 January 1820 after having been a
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
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist easy writer of prose. He won the 'Tir Iarll' eisteddfod chair in 1913, his lyrics were awarded the prize at the Port Talbot national eisteddfod, 1932, and his lyrics and cywydd at Neath, 1934. He contributed much to Y Tyst and Y Darian, and to local newspapers. One of his hymns is included in Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd (no. 1049). In 1914 he issued a second edition of Lloffyn Addfed (John
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer , prince of Wales. Though there seems to be no evidence in support of the statement in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1858, 472, that he was a native of Bugeildy (corrupted to ' Beguildy'), near Knighton, Radnorshire, his biographical writings show that he numbered many Welshmen among his special friends, including some of the Herberts, John David Rhys, and Morris Kyffin. There is, besides, at least one letter
DENNIS, HENRY (1825 - 1906), mining engineer, colliery owner, etc. with John Taylor and Son, mining engineers, who entrusted him with the work of constructing a tramway from the Llangollen slate quarries to the Shropshire Union Canal at Llangollen. After spending a short time in Spain, where he was engaged in lead mining, he returned to Denbighshire and became manager of Bryn-yr-owen colliery, near Rhosllannerchrugog, then owned by John Taylor and Son. He
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

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