Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM JENKIN (1858 - 1919), Unitarian minister, man of letters, and musician Gaskell scholar. He became successively Unitarian minister of Dowlais (1882-9), Gelli-onnen (1886-9), Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Bwlch-y-fadfa, and Graig, Llandysul (1889-96), and Mount Pottinger, Belfast (1896-1903). He then retired and travelled abroad. In 1894 he won the prize at the Llandysul eisteddfod for a history of the parish. This work, which ran to over 350 pages, was subsequently published under the
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster assistant master at the school. Towards the end of 1768 he became, jointly with David Lloyd (1724 - 1779), minister of Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Ciliau Aeron, Allt-y-blaca, Pen-rhiw, and Mydroilyn, and later on of Bwlch-y-fadfa as well, making his home at Plas-bach, Ciliau Aeron, where he married Anne Evans of Foelallt, grand-daughter of ' Squire Davies ' of Plas-bach. About 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the
DE LA POLE, OWEN (d. 1293) - see GRUFFYDD ap GWENWYNWYN
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
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, councillors and civic officials. DAVID DOLBEN (1581 - 1633), bishop of Bangor Religion Son of Robert Wyn Dolben (great-grandson of the first Robert Dolben above) and of Jane, daughter of Owen ap Reinallt of Glyn Llugwy. He entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1602, holding one of the scholarships founded by Dr. John Gwyn (died 1574), and graduated B.A. 1606, M.A. 1609, and D.D. 1626. Ordained by George
DWNN, GRUFFYDD (c. 1500 - c. 1570), country gentleman The most distinguished of the Dwnns of Carmarthenshire and the first to live at Ystrad Merthyr, near Kidwelly, a mansion erected in 1518. He was twice married and had eight children, the eldest of whom was 11 years old in 1533, but he lived to see his family disintegrate in the many epidemics of the period. Poets like ' Syr ' Owen ap Gwilym, Harri ap Rhys ap Gwilym, Thomas Vychan, Wiliam Llŷn
DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet Of Modlyscwm (or ' Muddlescombe'), Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. His grandfather was the Henry Don who was an adherent of Owain Glyn Dŵr (Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 41). The documents of the period 1436-46 make frequent mention of Owain Dwnn. He had a sister Mabli, the first wife of Gruffudd ap Nicholas of Dynevor, and both Owain and Gruffudd were imprisoned as followers of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Dwr. Rhys was executed at Chester in 1412. The greater part of their lands were forfeited to the Crown and came into the possession of the Griffiths of Penrhyn, also descended from Ednyfed Fychan through Tudur ab Ednyfed. A remnant of the Tudor lands at Penmynydd remained in the possession of the descendants of Goronwy ap Tudur (died 1382) through his daughter Morfydd and her husband, Gwilym ap
EDWARDS, DAVID (1858 - 1916), journalist and manager, 1901-2. Returning to Nottingham, he was editor and managing-director of the Express and Evening News from 1908 till his death, 22 February 1916. To the above summary of his career (taken from Who Was Who) it should be added that with R. A. Griffith and J. Owen Jones, he was one of the authors of the pseudonymous The Welsh Pulpit…by a Scribe, a Pharisee, and a Lawyer, 1894 - Edwards was
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar knowledge of things Welsh, but was primarily a Grecian. He projected an edition of Xenophon's Memorabilia, published, 1773, an essay on Socratic ethics as mirrored in that book, and by the time of his death had printed the Greek text with a Latin version; his work was seen through the press in 1785 by his friend and fellow-Cymmrodor Henry Owen (1716 - 1795). Enw. C. says he died 2 September 1783, 'in
EDWARDS, GWILYM ARTHUR (1881 - 1963), minister (Presb.), principal of the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and author Born 31 May 1881 at Caernarfon, son of Owen Edwards, Presb. minister, a native of Llanuwchllyn (and cousin of Sir Owen M. Edwards,, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. The father emigrated to Australia to regain his health, but his wife died before she could take her family to join him in Melbourne. The three sons were brought up by her parents in Dolgellau. He was educated in the county school
EDWARDS, HUMPHREY (1730 - 1788), physician and apothecary Son of Robert Edwards, rector of Llan-rug from 1725 to 1733. Robert Edwards had a small collection of Welsh manuscripts (NLW MSS., Panton 29, 81 et seq.); his daughter Margaret was the wife of Nicholas Owen, rector of Llandyfrydog, and mother of Nicholas Owen, rector of Mellteyrn from 1799 to 1811. Humphrey Edwards was interested in English literature and on 2 January 1782 was lent two volumes of

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