Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician . Callaghan is the only British Prime Minister to have served in the Royal Navy. During leave from the navy, he was invited to meet the Executive Committee of the Cardiff South constituency (renamed Cardiff South East in 1950 and Cardiff South and Penarth in 1983) as a possible parliamentary candidate. His friend Dai Kneath of Swansea (a member of the IRSF Executive Committee) introduced him to the
DAI LLWYD (fl. 1485) Cwm Bychan, harpist and warrior He composed the air ' Ffarwel Dai Llwyd ' when leaving home to join the army in its march to Bosworth Field.
DAI MAESMOR (fl. 16th century), a harpist
DAI O'R ONLLWYN - see FRANCIS, DAVID
Dai Tenor - see JONES, DAVID JOHN
DAVIES, DAI - see DAVIES, DAVID
DAVIES, DAVID (1896 - 1976), cricketer and cricket umpire Dai Davies was born at Llanelli on 26 August, 1896, the youngest of 11 children. His mother, Margaret Davies, was a widow in 1901. He was educated at the Pentip Church of England School, Sandy, Llanelli. He married Mary Elizabeth Davies in 1924 and they had one daughter, Margaret. Dai Davies was, together with Emrys Davies, one of the first two home-bred professional cricketers to play for
DAVIES, DAVID EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire Emrys Davies was born at Sandy, Llanelli on 27 June, 1904, the son of Thomas Davies, a tin-worker, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Pentip Anglican School, Sandy, Llanelli. He married Gertrude Moody in 1927, and they had a son, Peter, who won a Rugby Blue at Cambridge University and captained the Glamorgan Seconds in the 1950s. Emrys Davies was, together with Dai Davies, one of the first two
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist , where she met David James (Dai) Davies (1893-1956). They rapidly developed a deep and loving relationship and symbiotic intellectual partnership. In Dublin from August 1924, with Margaret Cunningham, warden of Trinity Hall, she organised an influential campaign to establish an Irish Folk High-School, intending to marry Dai and both teach there. Frustrated by State support for denominational education
FRANCIS, DAI - see FRANCIS, DAVID
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Dai Francis was born on 5 February 1911 at Glynhelig House, New Road, Pantyffordd in Seven Sisters, near Neath in the Dulais Valley, the second of the six children of Thomas Francis, a coal hewer, and his wife Winifred (née Morgans). Thomas Francis had voted regularly for the Labour Party from 1918 onwards and was the only one in the village to buy the Daily Herald each morning. Welsh was the
GRENFELL, DAVID RHYS (1881 - 1968), Labour politician

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