Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician had joined the Labour Party as a youth in 1928, became president of the West Wales Federation of the Labour League of Youth in 1935, and secretary of the Gower Constituency Labour Party in 1948, subsequently becoming its agent. He was elected the Labour MP for the Gower constituency in the general election of 1959, retaining the seat until his death in 1982. He was extremely active both in his
DAVIES, JENNIE EIRIAN (1925 - 1982), journalist Carmarthenshire and she made quite an impression in the General Election of 1955 when she gained 7.8% of the vote, and in the by-election of 1957 when she increased her share of the vote to 11.5%. This was a significant step for the party since Carmarthenshire was regarded as a Liberal stronghold, and it can be seen to have prepared the way for Gwynfor Evans's win in 1966. Jennie published three books for
DAVIES, RICHARD (1818 - 1896), M.P. out as Liberal candidate for the Caernarvon boroughs at the election of 1852 (full account by Owen Parry in the volume Er Clod, ed. by T. Richards, 1934, 135-50). The seat was an old-established Tory preserve, under the thumb of neighbouring magnates, and Davies was beaten by 93 votes - yet the election was a landmark in the political history of Wales in the 19th century Davies's success was to come
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman mistress. She earned £40 per annum in the position. Although her family was not, it would seem, especially politically active, Davies spent her formative years in the distinctive political atmosphere engendered by the long and bitter 1898 coal strike and the election of Keir Hardie as the ILP MP for Merthyr Tydfil in the 'khaki' general election of 1900. Her political awakening occurred in the context of
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Council in 1931. He later became an alderman of the Council and served as its Mayor in 1945-46. He remained a member of the council until 1949. In a by-election in 1934 Davies was elected the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil as successor to Richard C. Wallhead MP who had represented constituency as the ILP MP since the general election of 1922. Over the years Davies enjoyed substantial majorities at each
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Independents. He returned to Oxford, this time to Mansfield College, and between 1940 and 1943 immersed himself in theology under the guidance of Nathaniel Micklem, Principal of Mansfield, and the liberal theologian C. J. Cadoux, church historian and New Testament scholar. He married Rosemarie Wolff in 1943, a nurse at Oxford and member of the Lutheran Church, who had fled Hitler's Germany because of her
DILLWYN family Liberal Party's support of Irish Home Rule. He died 19 June 1892; his only son Henry (1843-1890) and one of his daughters, Sarah (Essie, b. 1852) had predeceased him, but he left two daughters, Mary (Minnie 1839-1922) and Amy (1845-1935).
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner Amy Dillwyn was born on 16 May 1845 into a wealthy and distinguished Swansea family, the daughter of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dillwyn (née De La Beche). Her father was a scientist, industrialist and long-serving Liberal MP for Swansea who campaigned for Disestablishment in Wales. Her mother reputedly contributed to the designs of the Cambrian Pottery owned by her husband. Amy
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer Pembrokeshire by just 129 votes from the sitting 'Liberal' MP Gwilym Lloyd George. Donnelly had succeeded in taking advantage of radical sentiment in the highly marginal constituency and of local Liberal disapproval of Lloyd George's over-close association with the Conservative Party. Donnelly built up a considerable personal following in the county, where many admired his enormous energy, organisational
EDWARDS, Sir FRANCIS (1852 - 1927), baronet and M.P. -5, 1900-January 1910, and December 1910-18. He was created a baronet in 1907. An ardent Liberal, he took an active part in the agitation for disestablishment. In 1913 he published a volume of translations from Welsh lyrical poetry entitled Translations from the Welsh. He died 10 May 1927.
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician politically active in Flintshire from the 1930s onwards, being elected a councillor and later an alderman on the county council. He was one of three local political leaders who dominated the politics of the county for many years - the other two being the Conservative Sir Geoffrey Summers and the Liberal Thomas Waterhouse. He was a staunch supporter of Flintshire's Director of Education, Haydn Williams and
EDWARDS, JOHN (Meiriadog; 1813 - 1906), poet and editor settling down at Llanfaircaereinion, Montgomeryshire, in 1844; there he married Elizabeth Watkin. He was an ardent Baptist, and in politics an uncompromising Liberal. During his lifetime he was an acknowledged authority on Welsh grammar and syntax, and a master of cynghanedd. A most successful eisteddfod competitor and winner of many chairs, he was also a popular adjudicator. He edited Yr Hyfforddwr for

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