Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar the beginning of his career, and that it was in in a theological college in England, and not in his own country, that his first academic opportunity came. He was invited back to deliver the W.M. Llewelyn Memorial Lecture in Brecon Memorial College in 1954, the Sir D. Owen Evans Memorial Lecture in Aberystwyth in 1964, and the Pantyfedwen Lecture in Swansea in 1968. He was president of the Welsh
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr was its devoted servant for the remainder of his life. He was a colleague of Sir Hugh Owen's and it was through him that the latter carried out his work for Wales, as the correspondence (in the possession of the family) clearly shows. He wrote a memoir of Sir Hugh Owen, 1885. In 1867 he was appointed to the staff of the North and South Wales Bank and worked for a time in Liverpool, Welshpool, and
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Pennar Davies was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 12 November 1911, only son of Joseph and Annie (née Moss) Davies. He had three sisters. His father was a miner from the Rhondda Valley and his mother from the Anglicized part of Pembrokeshire, English was the language of the home. The family were poor, partly due to Joseph's mining injuries as well as to the depressed state of the industrial
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor until he retired. Davies's first major role was in the ATV series Probation Officer as Bill Morgan, with the cast including Sir John Hurt, Honor Blackman, Glyn Houston and Judy Geeson. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s he appeared in many smaller roles on television, in such series as Moulded in Earth, Orlando, Coronation Street, The Newcomers, Conqueror's Road, Smith, The Onedin Line, Canterbury
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, castle, 1643, was ' servant of King Henry ' and had command of a regiment under Sir Charles Morgan, lord-general of king Christian V of Denmark (1646 - 1699), a portrait of whom, painted by Cornelius Jonson, hangs at Gwysaney. Many interesting letters written by him from the Continent are still preserved at Gwysaney, and transcripts of these and of other letters to him are in the National Library of
DAVIS family, coalowners , the later dean H. T. Edwards, and the second, Catherine, married Sir Francis Edwards. LEWIS DAVIS (1829 - 1888) was intended for the law, but (as has been said) was soon drawn into his father's concerns. In 1867 he settled down at Ferndale. He was a deeply religious man, and a pillar of Wesleyanism at Ferndale and at Cardiff - see his biography, A Noble Life, by David Young. With his brother, and
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Castellhywel''s eldest son. Born, according to Walter J. Evans (NLW MSS 10327B), 2 April 1778. He was educated at home and at Carmarthen Academy (1796-1800), and settled at Neath, where he opened a school [ 1801 ] and became the first minister of the Unitarian congregation in that town. Here, he fell under the influence of Joseph Priestley and, in 1802, founded the Unitarian Society of South Wales, although
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician Morgan of Aberystwyth. He often adjudicated at national eisteddfodau. In 1919 he returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer in the music department when Sir H. Walford Davies came to occupy the vacant chair. The numerous extra-mural activities of the professor threw more work on to the shoulders of the lecturer and de Lloyd became responsible for the choral society, the college orchestra and the weekly
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, steward of the household of Mary, Princess of Wales, and C. J. of South Wales; in 1526 chamberlain of South Wales and of the counties of Cardigan and Carmarthen. He was also high steward of Builth and steward of Old Carmarthen. In 1531 a large share of the confiscated estates of Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd (see under Rice of Dynevor) fell to Devereux, who thus 'assumed the leadership of West Wales ' (Laws
DEVONALD, JOHN (1863 - 1936), musician Born at Aberdare, 13 May 1863. He belonged to a musical family and possessed a good voice. He was admitted a member of the Aberdare United Choir when he was 11 years of age. In the Cardiff eisteddfod, 1883, he won the prize for singing Handel's 'Is not his word like a fire?' He was elected a member of the United Welsh Choir formed in 1880 to sing Joseph Parry's 'Emanuel' at Cambridge and in

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