Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar Born in Wrexham, 7 April 1884, the eldest of four sons of Charles Dodd, the headmaster of the local British Victoria elementary school, and his wife, Sarah (née Parsonage). One brother, Arthur Herbert, became Professor of History at UCNW Bangor, and another, Percy William, was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1919-31. He was educated at his father's school and went on to Grove Park School
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, councillors and civic officials. DAVID DOLBEN (1581 - 1633), bishop of Bangor Religion Son of Robert Wyn Dolben (great-grandson of the first Robert Dolben above) and of Jane, daughter of Owen ap Reinallt of Glyn Llugwy. He entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1602, holding one of the scholarships founded by Dr. John Gwyn (died 1574), and graduated B.A. 1606, M.A. 1609, and D.D. 1626. Ordained by George
DOLBEN, WILLIAM LLOYD Rhiwedog (fl. 19th century) - see LLOYD
DONALDSON, JESSIE (1799 - 1889), teacher and anti-slavery activist imprisonment for doing so. Through her abolitionist work, Donaldson became acquainted with some of the key figures of the movement, such as formerly enslaved people Frederick Douglass, Ellen and William Craft, campaigner William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Douglass and the Crafts later visited Swansea to give lectures and it is possible that Donaldson may
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer -Severn, Gloucestershire, and Bembridge School on the Isle-of-Wight. He was much influenced by the ideas of William Morris and joined the Labour League of Youth while still in his teens. He left school in 1938 and worked as an office-boy at London. In his youth he was also a keen player of cricket and rugby football. He became secretary of the London Grasshoppers Rugby Club on leaving school. At the age
DOWNMAN, JOHN (1749 - 1824), painter Wrexham, where his daughter had married and where she died in 1840. He married the daughter of William Jackson, Exeter, composer, and organist at Exeter cathedral. He painted subject-pictures in water-colour and oil, amongst them being 'A lady at work,' 'Death of Lucretia,' 'Rosalind.' Bartolozzi engraved a large number of his portraits - 'Duchess of Devonshire,' 'Lady Duncannon,' 'Mrs. Siddons,' etc
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel the Soul and the Body', composed in the period 1375-82, Iolo Goch refers to three 'men of Cydweli' as 'princes of battle', almost certainly evoking Henry Dwn and his family. Lewys Glyn Cothi names Henry Dwn in a poem to Gwilym ap Gwallter, whose mother was Dwn's granddaughter. Not unlike some others of his class, Henry Dwn could be heavy-handed and contentious, and he was often undeterred by legal
DWNN, GRUFFYDD (c. 1500 - c. 1570), country gentleman MS 70 and Peniarth MS 109, etc. He was obviously a patron of the bards, but it should be noted that William Salesbury also stayed at Ystrad Merthyr when he was at Abergwili.
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist influence of friends the post of deputy to Robert Cooke, Clarenceux king-at-arms, and William Flower, Norroy king-at-arms, to work (in his own phrase) 'as debyt Herawt at Arms for the three provinces of Kymry.' Flower died in 1588 and Cooke in 1592, but, in spite of all the difficulties he has enumerated in his foreword 'To the Reader,' Dwnn continued to collect his pedigrees until 1614, devoting the same
DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet Of Modlyscwm (or ' Muddlescombe'), Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire. His grandfather was the Henry Don who was an adherent of Owain Glyn Dŵr (Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 41). The documents of the period 1436-46 make frequent mention of Owain Dwnn. He had a sister Mabli, the first wife of Gruffudd ap Nicholas of Dynevor, and both Owain and Gruffudd were imprisoned as followers of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester
DYKINS, WILLIAM (Dirwynydd; 1831 - 1872), poet and prose-writer
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist Marion Eames was born in Birkenhead, 5 February 1921, the second of three daughters of William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979). Her maternal grandparents had moved to Merseyside from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, followed as a very young man by her father. Her upbringing was that of a Welsh-speaking family, her parents members of Woodchurch Road chapel

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