Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, TOM EIRUG (Eirug; 1892 - 1951), Congl. minister, writer and poet ), edited by one of his sons, Alun Eirug Davies. His poems were published posthumously in Cerddi Eirug (1966). He married in 1920 Jennie Thomas (a fellow-student at Bangor), the eldest daughter of R.H. Thomas, (Presb.) minister, Llansannan, and they had eight children. Both he and his wife had a long struggle with ill health in middle age. She died in 1948, and he died 27 September 1951.
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, The family of Davies of Gwysaney is descended in direct line from Cynric Efell (fl. 1200), the elder of the twin sons of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys, who, on the death of his father, succeeded to the lordship of Eglwys Egle, a division of the lordship of Bromfield, a part of Ruabon, and of Ystrad Alun Uwch Gwysaney (later known as Moldsdale). Cynric married Golle, daughter and heiress of
EDWARDS, GRIFFITH (Gutyn Padarn; 1812 - 1893), cleric, poet and antiquary periodicals. A volume of sermons by him, Deg-ar-hugain o Bregethau, was published in 1854. He was the editor of the collected works of John Blackwell, Ceinion Alun, 1851, and wrote a history of the parishes of Llangadfan, Garthbeibio, and Llanerfyl. He died 29 January 1893.
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor ; Siân Phillips, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Flora Robson; Emlyn Williams, Alun Owen and Christopher Fry. Meetings with Cardiff City Council progressed and locations were discussed. The plan was for a nine hundred seat theatre, art gallery and restaurant, rehearsal rooms, a two hundred seat student theatre and a large outdoor auditorium in Sophia Gardens, adjacent to Cardiff Castle. This centre was
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer four sons David, Colin, Edwin, and Alun sharing their parents' enjoyment of weekend and holiday retreats to a white-washed cottage in the Mountains of Mourne. Like many of Fleure's students, Evans's academic interests focussed initially on relationships between prehistoric and proto-historic communities and their natural environment, and in 1931 he was awarded an MA (Wales) for a thesis entitled 'A
EVANS, GERAINT LLEWELLYN (1922 - 1992), singer Eisteddfod in Swansea in 1982. Since 1966 he had had a summer home at Aberaeron, and he retired there completely at the end of his career, being very much at home in the community and on good terms with the townspeople. He married Brenda Evans Davies (1920-2010) from Cilfynydd on 27 March 1948, and they had two sons, Alun and Huw; in his autobiography Geraint Evans praises his wife for her support and her
FOULKES, ISAAC (Llyfrbryf; 1836 - 1904), newspaper proprietor and publisher Goronwy Owen. In his cheaper publications, especially the shilling series 'Cyfres y Ceinion,' were included the works of Hiraethog, Ceiriog, Elfed, and many others; the smaller threepenny series, 'Cyfres y Clasuron Cymreig,' included such well-known works as Y Bardd Cwsg, Llyfr y Tri Aderyn, and the poetry of John Blackwell (Alun), etc. He also contributed to the Transactions of the Honourable Society
FOXWIST, WILLIAM (1610 - 1673), lawyer, judge and Member of Parliament Thomas family of Coed Alun and Aber.] The will of William Foxwist, St. Albans, dated 1673, was proved that year.
GLAN ALUN - see JONES, THOMAS
HANMER family Hanmer, Bettisfield, Fens, Halton, Pentre-pant, concentrated the whole complex of estates in the Fens branch. JOHN HANMER (1575 - 1629) Bishop of St Asaph (1624) and chaplain to James I (1615), was the grandson of Katherine Hanmer of Halton (great-grand-daughter of Sir David Hanmer, above), and of Richard ap David ap Howel Goch of Pentre-pant, Selattyn, near Oswestry - a descendant of the 12th cent, lords of Iâl and Ystrad Alun - whose sons took on the
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Alun Hoddinott was born in Bargoed on 11 August 1929, the son of a schoolteacher, Thomas Ivor Hoddinott, and his wife Gertrude (née Jones). The family moved to Gorseinon and he received his education at Gowerton Grammar School, which boasted a strong musical tradition. He began the violin at a young age and was one of the first members of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales, formed in 1946. In
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier Harlech, former UK ambassador to the United States, and leading Welsh QC, Alun Talfan Davies. Its name reflected, however, a continuing London reluctance to accept breakaway ventures in the 'provinces' with an insistence from the authorities that the word Commercial be added to the original designation. After the secondary banking crisis which the bank came through unscathed another ultimately

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