Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary sometimes by man. He took part (with J. Magens Mello) in excavating a cave in Cresswell Crags near Worksop and again demonstrated the contemporaneity of man with animals now extinct, and discovered a piece of bone with an incised representation of the head of a horse - the first example of the art of cave-man to be found in Britain. His work in this field was summarized in Cave Hunting, 1874, and Early
DE FREITAS BRAZAO, IRIS (1896 - 1989), lawyer 1 Lombard St, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana). She attended St Ursula's Roman Catholic school in Georgetown from 1910 to 1916. Due to travel restrictions during World War I she did not start university immediately and returned to Barbados to study at Queen's College for two years. After a short period studying in Toronto, in 1918 she commenced her studies at the University College of Wales
DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar in a world beyond time and space. Later, in The Coming of Christ (1951), in discussing the second coming he states that it is an event beyond history. Yet, there is little doubt that he modified his earlier position and was obliged to concede that there remained something to be hoped for. The Johannine phrase 'the time is coming and now is' has been suggested as summing up his mature view on the
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, Abbot, bishop of London, in 1607, he became successively vicar of Hackney (1619) and Llangernyw (1621), and prebendary of S. Asaph (1626), and was elected a capital burgess of Denbigh in 1627. On the death of Lewis Bayly, he was elected to the vacant see of Bangor, receiving consecration at the hands of Abbot, now archbishop of Canterbury (March 1632), and resigning his living of Llangernyw. He was a
DOWNMAN, JOHN (1749 - 1824), painter . He died 24 December 1824, aged 74, at Wrexham. Editorial note 2023: John Downman is now known to have been born in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire, and was baptized there on 12 September 1749. He is believed to have attended a school at Ruabon in Denbighshire.
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel his lands. Yet he in turn complained of the oppressions of now Sir John Skydmore as steward of Cydweli. Skydmore was accused of plotting Dwn's murder, and whether the charge was true or not, he was removed from office in 1415. Henry Dwn died in November 1416.
DYFRIG (fl. 475?), saint malady. The boy developed into a scholar of great repute, and founded the monastery of ' Hennlann ' (now Hentland on the Wye), where he instructed disciples from far and wide for seven years. His second establishment, which was near his birthplace, was called ' Mochros ' (now Moccas); there he remained for many years. Finally, oppressed by bodily afflictions and advancing years, he withdrew to live a
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. Born 15 January 1770, son of John Edwards (died 1789) of Greenfields, Machynlleth (now Plas Machynlleth). He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, 8 December 1787, was lieutenant-colonel in the Montgomeryshire Militia, high sheriff of Merioneth, 1805, and of Montgomeryshire, 1818. Between 1832 and 1841 he fought four elections as a Whig in an attempt to win and keep the Montgomery boroughs
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian was buried at Philadelphia. Morgan Edwards, a conspicuously able and scholarly minister, did much for education: (1) at Philadelphia, of whose college he was M.A. and Fellow; (2) in the college (now Brown University) at Providence, Rhode Island (of which he was M.A. and Fellow), the charter of which he helped to secure and for which he collected thousands of pounds in England and elsewhere. He also
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes printed at Trevecka, appeared in 1790. An occasional well-turned couplet in his cywyddau proves that he was conversant with the works of the 15th and 16th century poets. He had collected a number of manuscripts, which he sold to William Owen Pughe and which are now at the British Museum. Twm o'r Nant was a prominent competitor in the early eisteddfodau patronized by the Gwyneddigion Society. In the
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Caerfallwch; 1779? - 1858), lexicographer Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary (Holywell, printed and published by P. M. Evans, 1850). In this dictionary will be found a host of words invented by himself to correspond to new English words appearing in the various spheres of knowledge. Now, a century after his death, committees are engaged in trying to do the same thing. Incidentally, it would appear that Caerfallwch himself invented the
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect . The first two built Newport bridge, finished in 1801. Among others constructed by them were Llandilo, Edwinsford, and Bedwas. William Edwards wrote but little. Six of his hymns were published in 1747. [These hymns are now thought to be by William Edwards of Cwm-du, Breconshire, see the biography by H. P. Richards below.]

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