Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd to Llywelyn : in 1263 he joined Henry III, an action repeated in relation to Edward I in 1274 after an unsuccessful attempt, in association with the princes of lower Powys, to encompass Llywelyn's death. Yet, after Llywelyn's triumph in 1267 when he was officially recognized as Prince of Wales by Henry III, Llywelyn agreed to restore to David his former influence and status in Welsh affairs; and
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard dictus dominus david ap hoell ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Rector ecclesie pariochialis de llanallgo in comitatu anglesega' (N.L.W. Carreglwyd document 1824). An elegy on him by Ieuan ap Madoc seems to suggest that he died in 1527 or early in 1528 - Ieuan ap Madoc refers in his elegy to the death of two other contemporary bards, Tudur Aled (died 1526) and Lewis Môn (died 1527). Edward Lhuyd says that Dafydd
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard which were part of the 'dower' of the Welsh bard. Nevertheless, little would have been known of him if Iolo Morganwg had not 'resurrected' him and made him into one of the chief figures in the bardic annals of the county. Edward Dafydd was, says Iolo, one of those who had arranged and 'ordered' ' Dosparth Morgannwg,' that is, the Glamorgan system of poetic measures as they are found in Cyfrinach
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator ganrif, tracing the development of the ideas of grammarians, lexicographers and linguists regarding the beginnings and development of language and the inter-relationship of languages. She discussed the attitudes which stemmed from classical and Biblical sources such as those of John Davies, Mallwyd, and Edward Lhuyd, and the influence of continental scholars such as Pezron and Leibniz on the thinking
DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician
DAVIES, DAVID (1791 - 1864), Independent minister and Academy tutor one of the chief propagators in South Wales of the views of Edward Williams of Rotherham (1750 - 1813). There is a biography of David Davies, by William Jones of Swansea, 1867.
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) Born 11 May 1880, only son of Edward Davies and Mary, daughter of Evan Jones, a Calvinistic Methodist minister who was closely related to John Jones of Talysarn (1796 - 1857. He was the grandson of David Davies (1818 - 1890, the Welsh industrialist of the Victorian period, whose energy and enterprise he inherited. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, he entered the House of Commons at 26 years
DAVIES, DAVID (1818 - 1890) Llandinam, industrialist and Member of Parliament University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and in 1875 was elected treasurer, a post which he held till 1887. He was returned unopposed in 1889 to represent Llandinam on the first Montgomeryshire county council. In 1851 Davies married Margaret Jones, of Llanfair Caereinion. They had one child, EDWARD (1852 - 1898). Davies died 20 July 1890. Davies was a 'self-made' capitalist in an age of expansion. The
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph Catherine (wife of William Holland of Abergele - see Holland families, 10), her children (Piers, William, and Edward), and his brothers Hugh, Griffith, and Owen. He died immediately after completing his will, on 16 October 1573, and was buried at Abergele.

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