Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist John R. Lloyd, the cartoonist and, later, his brother-in-law. Eames already had an interest in journalism and it is not surprising that the contacts he made at Caernarfon turned his mind towards journalism. When R. Gwyneddon Davies went to America for three months in 1902, he chose Eames to write, in his place, the leading article and a weekly column in the North Wales Observer. In September 1902
EDWARDES, DAVID (c. 1630 - 1690), landowner and deputy-herald Of Rhyd-y-gors, Carmarthenshire, only son of David Edwardes, c. 1630. He married Elizabeth, daughter of David Morgan of Coed-llwyd, Pembrokeshire. An able genealogist and armorist, he was on 1 August 1684 appointed by Clarenceux king-of-arms to be deputy-herald for Cardiganshire, Brecknock, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Glamorganshire. He travelled widely in Wales and England, consulted
EDWARDES, DAVID EDWARD (1832 - 1898), translator master's degree in 1865. His chief contribution to literature is his translation of the Alcestis of Euripides into Welsh, for which he shared with David Rowlands (Dewi Môn) a prize of £100 at the Aberdare eisteddfod of 1885. Both translations were published in a single volume by the National Eisteddfod Society in 1887. Edwardes held curacies at Laugharne 1866-9, Llandeloy 1869-72, Dinas, Pembrokeshire
EDWARDS family Stansty, This family boasted continuous occupation of the same area from 1317, when David ap Meilir is said to have bought the manor of Stansty, to 1783, when his direct line died out. The surname was first stabilized by JOHN EDWARDS (1573 - 1635), son of David ab Edward; his executorship of the will under which his neighbour Sir William Meredith established a 'lectureship' at Wrexham suggests Puritan
EDWARDS, Sir FRANCIS (1852 - 1927), baronet and M.P. Born 28 April 1852, fourth son of Edward Edwards of Llangollen. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Oxford, he graduated in 1875. In 1880 he married Catherine, daughter of David Davis, Maes-y-ffynnon, Aberdare; there was one daughter of the marriage. He served as J.P. and D.L. for Radnorshire, and in 1898 was high sheriff of the county. He represented Radnorshire in Parliament, 1892
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales
EDWARDS, DAVID (1660 - 1716), Independent minister He lived at Abermeurig, in the vale of Ayron, and was a landed proprietor in the parishes of Nantcwnlle and Llanddewi-brefi. He was a friend and neighbour of John Jones, farmer, of Llwyn-rhys, the leading Independent in central Cardiganshire. Edwards was a competent scholar and was ordained assistant minister to David Jones (c. 1630 - 1704?), at Caeronnen, Cellan, and other churches in the
EDWARDS, DAVID (1858 - 1916), journalist
EDWARDS, DAVID, bridge-builder - see EDWARDS, WILLIAM
EDWARDS, DAVID MIALL (1873 - 1941), theologian and writer
EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner

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