Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet learnt in his youth in the neighbourhood of the Vale of Clwyd. In the 18th century it was maintained that his was the gravestone in the church of Tremeirchion, bearing an inscription containing the name David F' Hovel (?) F' Madoc - but that is completely uncertain. According to tradition he was famed for his learning and as a soothsayer, and the famous Dr. John Dee maintained in 1582 that Dafydd Ddu
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior Dafydd fell into the hands of Glyn Dŵr is certain, but that was at a much later date; it was in June 1412, when the revolt was nearing its collapse, that the seneschal and the receiver of Brecon, with the assent of Llywelyn ap Hywel, the prisoner's father, were empowered to treat with Owen as to the ransom of 'David Gamm,' tenant in the lordship of Brecon (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 406). The release was
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet which they had imposed on the Welsh. Apart from his cywyddau there remain only his awdl to S. David (which is also vaticinatory) and a few englynion. There is a tradition that Henry Tudor spent a night with Dafydd Llwyd at Mathafarn on his journey to Bosworth, and that the poet's wife advised him (as if that were necessary) to foretell that prince's good fortune.
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Born in the parish of Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, according to a statement by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cwrtmawr MS 561C. In one of his poems, 'Cywydd i ofyn geifr,' he speaks of Morgan ap Hywel, Llanddeiniolen, as his uncle. A summarized account by Irene George (Lloyd-Williams) giving particulars about the bard's history and his poems appears in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard Beirdd Ynys Prydain, 1829. Iolo further maintained that it was at ' Gorsedd Bewpyr ' (the ' gorsedd ' held at Beaupré) in 1681 that this 'dosparth' was confirmed, with Edward Dafydd as one of the penceirddiaid (chief bards). All this is but a dream by Iolo. No work at all by Edward Dafydd is known to be later than 1665. Two persons of the name of ' Edward David ' were buried at Margam in 1678; it may
DAFYDD, JOHN (fl. 1747), hymn-writers Sons of David John (1698 - 1775) and Margaret Richard, his wife (1692 - 1774) John Dafydd was born in 1727 and was still living in 1771. The brothers are said to have been cobblers by trade and to have lived in Bedwgleision, Caeo, Carmarthenshire; the Methodist society of Caeo used to meet in their home. John is mentioned in the Trevecka records as an exhorter in the earliest years of the
DAFYDD, RICHARD WILLIAM (fl. 1740-1752), Methodist exhorter A native of Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, and a brother of David Williams of Lisworney (1717 - 1792). He is said to have preached in Anglesey in 1740 and to have been roughly handled there. It is certain that he was exhorting in 1742 and that, in 1743, when the Association met at Llanddeusant, he was appointed to supervise the societies in Carmarthenshire. He took an active part in the revolt
DAFYDD, THOMAS (fl. 1765-1792), elegist and hymnist official record of his recognition as exhorter; nor was he one of the men named Thomas David, whose letters are found in the Trevecka collection. His elegies contain useful information on Methodist personalities of his day. These elegies, and his hymns, are contained in some twenty booklets published between 1765 and 1792; these are described by Garfield H. Hughes in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical
DAGGAR, GEORGE (1879 - 1950), trade unionist and Member of Parliament
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DANIEL, DAVID ROBERT (1859 - 1931), publicist
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress the London Victoria College of Music and Drama in 1910, she attended Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy of Drama in 1912, winning the gold medal for elocution. The same year she had the honour of reciting at the Carmarthenshire Dinner held at the Criterion in London in honour of the Right Honourable Lloyd George, for which she was highly commended. In 1913 she was tempted to transfer her allegiance

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