Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer Born at Gwynfryn, Bwlch-gwyn, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 November 1881, the son of John Carrington (a descendant of one of the families that migrated from Cornwall to work in the Denbighshire lead mines) and Winifred (née Roberts), a native of Bryneglwys. He spent his early years at Gwynfryn and was educated at Bwlch-gwyn school. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a printer at Hughes
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer Born 31 May 1880 at Hen Giât, Llandegla, Denbighshire, fourth of the six children of William and Mary Ann Davies. His father was a quarryman, who was badly injured in Moel Faen quarry but continued to work there and subsequently in Mwynglawdd chalk quarry, to ward off destitution. In 1893 the family moved to Pentre'r Bais (Gwynfryn) and in 1896 to Bwlch-gwyn. When he was 14 years old Edward
DAVIES, JOHN BREESE (1893 - 1940), writer, musician, and a specialist in cerdd dant Born 22 February 1893 at Gwynfryn, Dinas Mawddwy, Meironnydd, son of Thomas Tegwyn Davies, author of Dinas Mawddwy a'i hamgylchoedd (1893). His mother, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair. He attended Dinas Mawddwy Elementary School and Dolgellau Grammar School until an illness kept him bedridden for five years and left him lame for the rest of his life. During his confinement he
DAVIES, JOHN DANIEL (1874 - 1948), editor and author Born 12 January 1874, at Gwynfryn, Aberderfyn, Ponciau, Denbighshire, one of the seven children of Daniel Davies and his wife. Having completed his schooling he was apprenticed to David Jones, printer, at Rhosymedre, and afterwards to Richard Mills, printer of the Rhos Herald. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of William Humphreys ('Elihu'), of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 April 1900. He settled in
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician later he married Sephora Davies, a native of Gwauncaegurwern, Carmarthenshire, a school-teacher, and they had two sons. The marriage was a happy, supportive relationship. They lived at Gwynfryn Park Terrace, Merthyr Tydfil. His hobbies were walking and swimming. He died at Merthyr Tydfil general hospital on 25 February 1972 and was buried at Mountain Ash in his native Cynon Valley. His estate was
EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire Jeffrey Glynn, the taciturn Anglican of Gwynfryn by Pwllheli, and to draft a will for Edward Williams of Meillionydd in 1677, under which a capital sum was to be set apart to found a grammar school at Pwllheli, with Edwards himself as one of the feoffees in trust. He was appointed deputy-mayor of Caernarvon in 1668, and sheriff of the county in 1696. These accessions to office and his close familiarity
EVANS, MALDWYN LEWIS (1937 - 2009), champion bowler placed fourth. In the second championship held in 1972 he succeeded in winning 12 out of 15 games to take the title, where he recorded a comfortable 21-6 win against David Bryant (born 1931), the defending champion. Mal Evans was also an international bowler, and represented Wales from 1965 until 1983. His brother Gwynfryn ('Gwyn') (born 1931), a chartered public finance accountant and chief executive
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary . Jenkins, and he afterwards attended St. Helen's Road Board School, Swansea. He worked for a while as weigher at his father's mine before being apprenticed as a chemist. He began preaching under the ministry of G. Pennar Griffiths. He was a student in Watcyn Wyn's Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, and then went to Plymouth college (which later transferred to Bristol). He was accepted by the London Missionary
GRIFFITHS, PETER HUGHES (1871 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 6 August 1871 at Ffynnon Ynyd, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, son of the Rev. John Griffiths and Anna, his wife. He was educated at Parcyfelfed, Carmarthen, and then became a shop assistant at Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, where he began to preach. After a further period of education at Gwynfryn school, Ammanford, and Trevecka College he became assistant minister at the English Presbyterian
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1859 - 1940), Unitarian minister and Hebrew scholar Born at Cwmllynfell and educated at Gwynfryn school, Carmarthen Presbyterian College (1882-6), and Yale, U.S.A. (1886-91 or 92) where he graduated B.D. and Ph.D. In his early days he was an Independent, but on his return to Wales from the U.S.A. he became a Unitarian, was a missionary in North Wales (1892-3), minister at Pontypridd (1893-1900), and later minister of a number of Unitarian churches
HOWARD, JAMES HENRY (1876 - 1947), preacher, author and socialist and Mary Davies, Bonymaen, Llansamlet, and he was a collier himself for some time. He had received his early education in the school at Cockett, but when he decided to become a minister, he went for further education to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, kept by ' Watcyn Wyn ' (Watkin Hezekiah Williams and then to the Academy at Newcastle Emlyn, kept by John Phillips, son of the famous Evan Phillips. From

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