Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer Pembrokeshire by just 129 votes from the sitting 'Liberal' MP Gwilym Lloyd George. Donnelly had succeeded in taking advantage of radical sentiment in the highly marginal constituency and of local Liberal disapproval of Lloyd George's over-close association with the Conservative Party. Donnelly built up a considerable personal following in the county, where many admired his enormous energy, organisational
DUNAWD (fl. 6th century), saint . With his three sons Deiniol, Cynwyl, and Gwarthan, he founded the monastery of Bangor Iscoed on the banks of the Dee in Flintshire, and became its first abbot. Sir John E. Lloyd, however, rejects this tradition and prefers to regard Saint Deiniol as the founder of Bangor Iscoed. Ann. C. record the death of ' Dunaut rex ' in the year 595. But Bede states that Dunawd (' Dinoot ') was still abbot of
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist He himself says (Heraldic Visitations, i, 26) that he was descended from David Dwnn of Kidwelly (brother of Owain Dwnn), 'who went to Powys after slaying the Mayor of Kidwelly,' and through his wife Angharad Lloyd became owner of Cefn y Gwestyd. One of the Cefn y Gwestyd family, namely Gwenllian, daughter of Rhys Goch Dwnn, married Rhys ap Owain ap Morus and so became Lewys's mother. The son
DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet Of Modlyscwm (or ' Muddlescombe'), Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. His grandfather was the Henry Don who was an adherent of Owain Glyn Dŵr (Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 41). The documents of the period 1436-46 make frequent mention of Owain Dwnn. He had a sister Mabli, the first wife of Gruffudd ap Nicholas of Dynevor, and both Owain and Gruffudd were imprisoned as followers of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist John R. Lloyd, the cartoonist and, later, his brother-in-law. Eames already had an interest in journalism and it is not surprising that the contacts he made at Caernarfon turned his mind towards journalism. When R. Gwyneddon Davies went to America for three months in 1902, he chose Eames to write, in his place, the leading article and a weekly column in the North Wales Observer. In September 1902
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales
EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician mines and slate quarries of north Wales where he set up branches of the T.G.W.U. and the Labour Party. He was elected a member of Penmaen-mawr Rural District Council which he served as chairman. In the general election of 1929 he acted as agent to Thomas ap Rhys who opposed D. Lloyd George as Labour candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs. While Edwards was unemployed in 1932 he was appointed a full
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician parliamentary elections but he refused, believing he could have a greater impact through other means. However, he helped a number of young politicians to pursue their careers in the party. He was instrumental in securing the nomination of Eirene Lloyd Jones (later Eirene White), as a Labour candidate for the Flintshire constituency in 1945, using all his influence and, probably, some devious methods. Despite
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru portrait by Alfred Janes in 1956; he received the Cymmrodorion gold medal in 1956; and an honorary LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1959. He married, 18 July 1923, Eirys Mary Lloyd Phillips, Liverpool, and resided at Neuadd Wen, Llanuwchllyn until 1930, and thereafter at Aberystwyth. They had two sons, Owen and Prys. He died at his home, Bryneithin, 23 January 1970, and was buried at
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. , George Henry Vane, later 5th marquess of Londonderry.
EDWARDS, JOHN (1882 - 1960), politician and barrister but he lost the seat to Ramsay Macdonald in 1921. He stood as an independent candidate for the University of Wales seat in 1923 but George M.Ll. Davies was elected. He was called to the bar in Gray's Inn in 1921. He was the High Sheriff for Cardiganshire in 1942. Edwards had an interest in Welsh drama and published a play, Galw'r môr (1923), as well as a memoir of his father, Edwards Castellnedd

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