Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author , and particularly for her frankness in discussing parts of women's lives still taboo in Welsh literature, such their sexuality, and related subjects like adultery and abortion. Anesmwyth Hoen won the Llyfrau'r Dryw competition in 1941, yet in his review E. Tegla Davies asked if the author could 'moderate and economise upon those areas which could cause misunderstanding and pain'. In her more factual
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer ), and Ar ddisberod (1954). His autobiography, Gyda'r Blynyddoedd, was followed by a volume of further reminiscences, Gyda'r hwyr, and Y Ffordd, and Y Dyhead which contain some of his sermons. He published more than 40 books and booklets in all. Tegla regarded himself as a rebel all his life. Although he was one of the most prominent preachers and one of the most influential men of his denomination, he
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist ' became very popular; they appeared in Breton in 1936. He worked widely for Welsh publishers, illustrating volumes by Daniel Owen, E. Tegla Davies, Meuryn, John Ellis Williams and many others, and he was a cartoonist for Welsh newspapers and periodicals. Apart from his commercial work, he was a noted artist in oils and watercolour, and his canvases, many of Anglesey and Snowdonia, are found in homes
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru named, he edited A catalogue of Star Chamber proceedings relating to Wales (1929), which gives some indication of the field - Welsh history - in which he would have desired to work had he not vowed to serve the Urdd to the best of his ability. He was co-author (with E. Tegla Davies) of Llyfr y bobl bach (1924), a book for young children; author of Yr Urdd 1922-43 (1943); a short autobiography Clych
EVANS, DAVID TECWYN (1876 - 1957), Meth. minister -editor (with E. Tegla Davies) of Llestri'r Trysor (1914) and in 1920 published a translation of T.R. Glover's Jesus of history. He also published a commentary on I Corinthians (1926) for Sunday schools, a collection of prayers (1945), many sermons in magazines and books, and his memoirs, Atgofion Cynnar.
JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician . Jones married in 1936 Dyddgu, the daughter of Reverend Dr E. Tegla Davies, and there were three children of the marriage, one son and two daughters. They lived at 23 Glyngarth Court, Glyngarth, Menai Bridge. He died 4 July 1989.
MICHAEL, JOHN HUGH (1878 - 1959), minister (Meth.), Professor in Methodist colleges in England and Canada, Biblical exegetist , such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Albert Einstein, James Moffatt and Wilbert Howard, who was for a period one of his fellow-students at Didsbury. Another fellow-student at Didsbury was Edward Tegla Davies who described him as being well over six foot tall, broad, with a princely head, a firm yet gentle character and defender of the weak. Having spent years in Toronto, he became a supernumerary there and
MORGAN, ELENA PUW (1900 - 1973), novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children many literary friends, including the English novelist John Cowper Powys, who had settled nearby, and the Welsh writers Iorwerth C. Peate, Moelona, E. Tegla Davies and Kate Roberts. Morgan's fiction was produced for magazines and for competitions in the National Eisteddfod, and was written during a brief ten-year period in her life (c.1930-1940) when she had the time to write. In later life, sadly
MORRIS, CAREY (1882 - 1968), artist wife wrote, and he made the illustrations for Taith y pererin, an adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress by Edward Tegla Davies. He died 17 November 1968 and was buried in Llandeilo churchyard.
ROBERTS, WILLIAM JOHN (1904 - 1967), Methodist minister and ecumenist the following year. 'Heavy attack on Manchester area. Carried on Kearsley service until it became impossible'. The diaries also show his leisure interests, stamp collecting (briefly), and particularly walking (he never learned to drive a car) and there are references to his strong friendships with some of the giants of Welsh Methodism, such as E. Tegla Davies and D. Tecwyn Evans (neither of whom
TEGLA - see DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA
THOMAS, DEWI-PRYS (1916 - 1985), architect Law (1943) and Caneuon Siôn (1943) by T. Rowland Hughes; Hunangofiant Tomi by E. Tegla Davies (1947); and Havoc in Wales; the War Office demands (1947) by Gwynfor Evans. He was also a political cartoonist. His booklet The history and architecture of Lisvane Parish Church was published in 1964. The Liverpool School of Architecture invited him back in 1947 as a lecturer and he was later appointed a

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