Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors a new Salvation Army Citadel in Merthyr was laid in memory of him in 1936 and he is also commemorated by the J.M. Berry Technical College which was built by his eldest son. HENRY SEYMOUR BERRY, 1st Baron BUCKLAND (1877 - 1928) industrialist Business and Industry; their eldest son, born 17 September 1877 in Gwaelod-y-garth, Merthyr Tydfil. In 1892 he was a monitor at Abermorlais Boys' School and
BERRY, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1869 - 1945), minister (Congl.) and writer Bangor university college, where he took the first part of the B.A. degree course of London University, and, in 1892, he entered Bala-Bangor Theological College. He contributed to the college magazine (of which he was the first editor) light and witty sketches of students and events. His only pastorate was at Bethlehem, Gwaelod-y-garth, Glamorganshire, to which he was invited 3 August 1896. He married
BOWND, WILLIAM, Arminian Baptist He lived at Garth Fawr in the parish of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, but worshipped with the Arminian Baptists of Radnorshire. There is no record of his having received a stipend for his ministry after 1658. He debated publicly with Alexander Parker and John Moon, the Quakers, at Scurwy, a farm near Rhayader (see the article on HUGH EVANS (? - 1656). After his early death his widow married William
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer (1942-44). In 1945 he was knighted, and he also received honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow (1954), Wales (1959) and Oxford (1966). He lived at 98 Swan Court, London, but stayed occasionally at his inherited property, Bron-y-garth, Porthmadog, before it was sold in 1949. He died 16 May 1969.
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner of his stand as a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Cardiff Education Committee dismissed him from his teaching post. Following a period as a clerk, Glamorgan Education Committee appointed him to teach at Cogan School, Penarth. In 1952 he became headteacher of Gwaelod y Garth School. Gwyn Daniel died following a heart attack in Bangor on 31 October 1960 while visiting UCAC
DAVIES, HUGH (Pencerdd Maelor; 1844 - 1907), musician and Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 1 September 1844 at Garth near Ruabon. He left school when he was 8 years of age and went to work in J. C. Edwards's brickfields, of which, in due course, he became deputy manager. He was taught music by Joseph Owen, schoolmaster of Rhos, who used to come over to hold a class at Acrefair. He worked hard to master the tonic sol-fa notation and obtained the degree of G.T.S.C. He composed some
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
EDMUNDS, MARY ANNE (1813 - 1858), teacher school at Ruthin. In January 1849 she was transferred to Bangor to start the British school at Garth, where she laboured successfully for six years. In 1850 she married John Edmunds 1815 - 1886, born at S. Davids, headmaster of the Garth school and, before that, of the Ruthin school. They had two sons. She died 22 March 1858, and he afterwards set up in business at Caernarvon, and died there 10 March
ELLIS, JOHN GRIFFITH (1723/4 - 1805), Methodist exhorter societies; as such, he reports to Howel Harris from Penllech, 20 April 1748, but in a P.S. it is said that he would not be at the Carmarthen Association in May following - a hint of something gone wrong. Ellis is conjectured to have been disciplined by Harris in July 1749. But he was present with William Griffith of Cefn Amwlch at Garth, Brecknock, in November 1748, and preached, so William Jones
EVANS, THEOPHILUS (1693 - 1767), cleric, historian, and man of letters Newcastle Emlyn. In 1728 he resigned and was made rector of Llanynys cum Llanddulas, Brecknock. In 1738 he resigned and was given the living of Llangamarch, Brecknock, which was joined with Llanwrtyd and Abergwesyn. About the same time he was made domestic chaplain to Marmaduke Gwynne of Garth. In 1739 Llanfaes, Brecon, was added to his other livings. In 1763 he made over Llangamarch to his son-in-law
EVANS, THOMAS (Tomos Glyn Cothi; 1764 - 1833), Unitarian minister the first specifically Unitarian minister in Wales Born at Capel Sant Silyn, Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire, 20 June 1764. His early education was neglected; for a short time he was a farmer's boy, after which he followed his craft as a weaver. He used to go from fair to fair in Glamorgan to sell his cloth, and that was how he came into contact with the poets of that county. He was at the gorsedd of Mynydd y Garth, midsummer, 1797. From his earliest
GRIFFITH, WILLIAM (Gwilym Caledffrwd; 1832 - 1913), quarryman and musician Born at Penisa'r allt, Tre-garth, Llandygai, Caernarfonshire. He received instruction in music from John Morgan, Pen-y-groes, Tre-garth; he also studied the text-books of Mills and Alawydd. In 1860 he emigrated to the U.S.A., settling in Middle Granville. He published Y Canigydd Cymreig in 1866 and, in 1879, Graded Anthems, the latter including two anthems composed by himself; in 1888 he

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