Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALLEN, EVAN OWEN (1805 - 1852), writer Born at Pant-y-llin, near Llanrwst, Caernarfonshire, the son of a farmer. He published in Seren Gomer. He also wrote poetry but none of this has been published. He died 18th December 1852 in Ruthin.
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors loan of £100 from his elder brother, he started an entirely new periodical, Advertising World. He then asked his younger brother, JAMES GOMER BERRY, to come to assist him with the second issue, thus starting a partnership which lasted over 35 years. Four years later the periodical was sold to enable them to set up a small publishing company, Ewart, Seymour and Co., Ltd.; they also acquired their
BERRY, JAMES GOMER - see BERRY
BEVAN, THOMAS (Caradawc, Caradawc y Fenni; 1802 - 1882), antiquary in the shop at the Clydach works, Brecknock (generally known as the Llanelly works). There he met several Welshmen who were interested in Welsh literature and the eisteddfod - David Lewis (son of the Rev. James Lewis, of Llanwenarth), Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morganwg), and John Morgan, the 'Rhifyddwr Egwan' of Seren Gomer. He owed much, however, of his knowledge of literary style to the
CHARLES, HENRY (1778 - 1840), theologian, littérateur, and mathematician Seren Gomer. He was a versewright of the homely kind, and his versatility is shown by his skill as a mathematician. He died in 1840, aged 62, and was buried at Brawdy. His will, proved on 26 December 1840, contains bequests to Trefgarn Owen chapel and the London Missionary Society.
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer finest British country diarists, and a selection of his contributions, Welsh Country Diary, was published in 1993 by Gomer Press. Condry's best work evokes the natural world with great vividness and was based on personal experience and scientific understanding. Sometimes it was accompanied by wry comment, but he was always the objective observer and never used nature to reflect or enhance his own
DAVIES, DANIEL (1797 - 1876), Baptist minister to Wales in 1817 and began to preach to Methodist congregations. In 1821, however, he was baptized in the river Taff by David Saunders II (1769 - 1840), of Merthyr Tydfil and the same year was established as minister of a (Welsh) Baptist congregation in London. Towards the end of 1826 he was appointed to succeed Joseph Harris (Gomer) at Swansea, and there he laboured until 1855. From 1855 to 1860
DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER (1878 - 1958), missionary and representative of the British Missionary Society (B.M.S.) in Wales and spent the rest of his life at Mumbles, where be became a member of the Welsh (B) church, Capel Gomer, in Swansea. In November 1914 he married Margaret Parker, a deaconess at Bloomsbury (B) Church. They had two daughters. He died 4 May 1958, soon after being elected an hon. member of the B.M.S.
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister amusing stories of his warm but good-humoured theological disputations with the colliers. Styling himself ' Ieuan ap Dewi,' he wrote much on theology to Seren Gomer, published a book Rhifedi ac Undod Duw (Cardiff, 1846), and started in 1827 a serial Family Doctor, which fell flat. He died 22 October 1850 (Enw. F.). His wife, CATHERINE NAUNTON, was a daughter of David Naunton (1777 - 1849), Baptist
DAVIES, JAMES (Iago ap Dewi; 1800 - 1869), printer and poet Born near Pencader, Carmarthenshire, he received no educational advantages when a child, and spent his youth as a farm labourer. He joined the Pencader Congregational church. At about 20, he forsook farming, and became an apprentice with John Evans, printer, Carmarthen, of the Seren Gomer office. Here he met kindred spirits with a love for the muse, e.g. W. E. Jones (Gwilym Cawrdaf) and William
DAVIES, JOHN (Brychan; 1784? - 1864), poet, publisher, and promoter of the friendly society movement he himself preferred the 'free' to the 'strict' metres. He wrote much to Seren Gomer, and was a diligent purveyor of anthologies (including his own poetry along with that of others); these were all printed for him at Merthyr Tydfil - the best account of them will be found in Ashton, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig, 609-11. They were: Llais Awen Gwent a Morganwg, 1824; Y Gog, 1825 (later editions, at
DAVIES, JOHN PHILIP (1786 - 1832), Baptist minister, commentator, and divine limiting the power of the Atonement itself. Over the pseudonym Mab Dewi Ddu he took a prominent part in the Fullerian controversy in Seren Gomer, 1822-3. He published several articles and sermons in Seren Gomer (1818, 1822-3, 1824, 1825), together with a translation of a book by A. Fuller on revelation. After his death D. Rhys Stephen published his theological writings with a short memoir. J. P. Davies

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