Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal Prydwen Harrison of Penmaen-mawr on 1 October 1935 and they had three children, Gwynn, Mair and Ann. Whilst living in the Rhondda Valley, Bowyer became very aware of the crisis of Wales in the context of the world's anguish, and there were few who could understand or appreciate their minister's strong convictions, especially with regard to the cause of peace and the safeguarding of the Welsh language
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist
DAVIES, DEWI ALED EIRUG (1922 - 1997), Congregationalist minister and professor of theology his B.D. degree in 1950 with a distinction in Christian Doctrine. He served as Congregationalist minister at Bethlehem, St Clears (1950-52), Radnor Walk, London (1952-59), Llanbryn-mair (1959-65), and at the Tabernacle, Morriston (1965-70). He continued his theological studies during these years, gaining the M.Th. degree of the University of London in 1955, and the M.A. degree of the University of
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist , and also as a candidate for his party in east Rhondda in 1945, and west Rhondda in 1950 and 1951, shortly before he was taken ill. In 1940 he married a Tonypandy grammar school teacher, Mair Rees of Ffos-y-ffin, Aberaeron, and they made their home in Aeron, Brithweunydd, Trealaw, where their three daughters Megan, Mari and Manon were born. He enjoyed gardening, was good company, and read extensively
DAVIES, JOHN (Peirianydd Gwynedd; 1783 - 1855), engineer, carpenter, smith, clock-maker, poet, and musician Born 1783 at Hafod-y-foel, Llanbryn-mair, brother of the Rev. Evan Davies ('Eta Delta'). In 1820 he set himself up in business at Dôl-goch, Talerddig, in the same parish, as a manufacturer of wool-making machinery. He supplied woollen mills in every county in Wales with machines for carding, combing, and weaving; at one time there were branches of his business at Dolgelley and Carmarthen. His son
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, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet
DAVIES, THOMAS (TEGWYN; 1851 - 1924), tailor, book-collector and writer Born 11 November 1851, at Ty Gwyn, Abercywarch; his parents were Hugh and Elizabeth Davies. His wife, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair, and his son John Breese Davies was a specialist in cerdd dant. He was a tailor by trade, and among the houses at which (according to the old-time practice) he worked was the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy in the days of D. Silvan Evans, who
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor Ivor Emmanuel was born at 3 Prince Street, Margam on November 7 1927, the son of Stephen John Emmanuel (1905-1941), a steelworker, and his wife Ivy Margaretta (née Lewis, 1908-1941). He had a younger sister and brother, Mair and John. When he was less than a year old the family moved to Pontrhydyfen, the village in which the actor Richard Burton was born, and the two became friends. On May 11
EVANS family, printers Wales), a man of some consequence locally. His wife, Ellinor (or Ellen), daughter of John Jones, Esgair Evan, Llanbryn-mair, died 6 April 1793. It used to be said that he emigrated to America in 1793, after he had lost his wife and his government post; he was, however, at Machynlleth in November of that year and stayed there until the end of the year or the beginning of 1794. In the latter year he
EVANS, DAVID (fl. 1750), poet of Coed-bychan, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire. He was one of the descendants of Humphrey Davies of Llanbryn-mair. Some of his verse appeared in the almanacs published by Evan Davies (Philomath, fl. 1720-50). There is one of his poems in NLW MS 14402B: 'Chwech o Benhillion a ddanfonwyd mewn llythyr o Flanders yn amser y Frenhines Anne, at fy Mam, ac mi welais gyffhelyb i'r peth ar ôl hynnu
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer Merêd was born his father and eldest brother Jac moved to work at the Foel granite quarry, and a month before the little boy's first birthday he moved with the rest of the family to live with them in Bryn Mair, Tanygrisiau. It was an impoverished community, but it was also rich in many ways. The quarry was an arduous place to work. His father was increasingly unwell for the last three years and died

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