Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1949), local historian . He contributed much to Cymru, Yr Haul, Lleufer, Y Ford Gron, Heddiw, Y Dysgedydd, and Bathafarn. He also helped J. Bodfan Anwyl in the preparation of the fifth edition of Spurrell's dictionary. His chief work was Hanes plwyf Llanegryn, published in 1948. He married Mary Matilda Roberts (1888-1974), and they had one daughter, Mairwen (1922-2004), and one son, Gwilym Prys Davies (1923-2017).
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1756 - 1823), compiler of an unpublished history of Glamorgan remained in the form of 'collectanea' dispersed all over Glamorgan, is clear from an examination of those portions of it which survive among the G. T. Clark and Traherne-Mansel-Franklen MSS. in the National Library of Wales. A memorial tablet to him was unveiled in the Neath public library in March 1923. The historian knew Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg, 1747 - 1826), some of whose Glamorgan notes are
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister ) and was general secretary of the province from 1865 to 1875. His first wife was Jane Williams, Ty Newydd, Abergele (died 26 January 1854, aged 33); William Edwards Davies was their son. His second wife was Mary Humphreys of Aberystwyth (died 1875), widow of Hugh Humphreys of Holywell. He himself died shortly after his second wife, 13 August 1875, and was buried with her at Aberystwyth.
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian Born at Plas Gwyn Schoolhouse, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, 11 October 1887, the third child and younger son of William Davies and his wife Jane (Evans), both natives of Llanafan, Cardiganshire. His father, formerly the Earl of Lisburne's gamekeeper, was then similarly employed at Broom Hall, near Pwllheli. When he was five his father entered the service of Sir Osmond Williams, Castell
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric Born at Stangrach, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. On the title-page of the elegy written upon him, William Williams of Pantycelyn stated that he died 'in the Sixtieth Year of his Age,' but the only likely entry in the parish register concerns the christening of one ' Gulielmus filius Jonathan David,' 24 August 1729. We do not know where he was educated nor when he was ordained, but it is said that
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist , Llanelli, and in 1903 he began to keep a diary in short-hand, a practice he retained throughout his life. He was ' Llyn y Fan ' in the prose medal competition at the Llanelli national eisteddfod in 1962, when he was encouraged to publish the diary which he submitted. Selections, edited by J. Ellis Williams, appeared under the title Berw Bywyd in 1968. The original diaries were destroyed. In 1905 he moved
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor got the role which made him a huge household name - that of Battery Sergeant Major Tudor Bryn 'Shut Up' Williams in the sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Ironically, Davies was not the first choice for the role, which was originally offered to Leonard Rossiter, who turned it down. The show's creator, David Croft, had remembered his portrayal of a Sergeant in Badge of Fear and Spike Milligan's Adolf
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster vale of Cletwr, and from that time on was known as 'Dafis Castellhywel.' Here he kept a school for over thirty years and his reputation as a teacher spread throughout Wales; for many years candidates for Anglican orders were ordained direct from the school. The names of 111 of his former pupils are to be found in the list of subscribers to Telyn Dewi. He was a friend of Richard Price, Edward Williams
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller , derives from The Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis a Balaclava Nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladyr Edited by Jane Williams (Ysgafell). Originally brought out in two volumes in 1857, it was reissued by Honno Press in 1987 and 2015. The latter edition is the first since 1857 to restore the full original text. Jane Williams's preface had been omitted from previous reprints, and cuts and changes had been
DAVIS, RICHARD (1658 - 1714), Independent minister lay itinerants, were repugnant to the more academic of his fellow- ministers; (3) his insistence on 'congregational' church-government and his hostility to 'a Presbyterian classis' greatly influenced English Congregationalists in their decision to abandon the ' Union ' of 1690 between Presbyterians and Independents. Daniel Williams was one of Davis's chief critics. In 1692 the Common Fund stopped
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician - general editor H. Haydn Jones), Saith o Ganeuon enwog Brahms (with Welsh words by T.H. Parry-Williams); and Forty Welsh traditional tunes, issued by the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones

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