Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, RICHARD (1628 - 1704) Nanhoron, Llŷn, Puritan squire with Cavaliers and Anglicans must not make us forget that Edwards was a loyal life-long Puritan, as witness his welcome in 1672 to his Puritan kinsman Henry Maurice (1634 - 1682), the son of Methlan, near Aberdaron, the pains he took to help Maurice's widow over the leasing of the Gwynfryn lands in 1688, and his assistance in securing the services of a South Wales Independent (Daniel Phillips, 1680
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Padarn; 1786 - 1857), poet preserved: and that all should not fall into oblivion', there was no need to include his contribution to the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819, which had already appeared in Awen Dyfed (1822). In his ode for this meeting, 'on the death of the outstanding military officer, Sir Thomas Picton', he commemorated Picton's career in the West Indies, including his promotion to 'Famed governor.../ In Trinidad
ETHÉ, CARL HERMANN (1844 - 1917), scholar , where he was also Professor of French Language and Literature until 1894. He married British national Harriet Dora Phillips in 1899. His seventieth birthday in February 1914 was honoured with an article in The Times. At the outbreak of war in September 1914, Hermann Ethé and his wife were on holiday in Munich, returning to the United Kingdom with the assistance of the American Consul in Dresden and
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, JOHN SILAS (1864 - 1953), priest and astronomer Born 11 March 1864, son of Evan Evans, Blaen-llan, Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire. Educated locally he proceeded to the school kept by Alcwyn C. Evans at Carmarthen, and afterwards to the old grammar school, Lampeter. He gained the Phillips and Treharne scholarships to St. David's College, Lampeter, and graduated B.A., 1885 with honours in divinity, winning the Welsh and science prizes. He taught at
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author exuberant uncle for advice and guidance; he was his teacher as an elocutionist and he nurtured in him a love of literature. His mother was raised in Bethel Independent Chapel, and when her husband died aged 48 in 1917, when her eldest son was eight, she returned to the Independents in Bala. Mrs Talwyn Phillips, the previous minister's widow, his Sunday school teacher, together with the guidance of the new
GREEN, BEATRICE (1894 - 1927), political activist Russian trade unionists to miners for relief in the Lockout. It was a lengthy trip from 27 August to 16 October 1926 during which the British women visited workplaces, clubs, hospitals and schools and explored many aspects of Soviet life. According to Marion Phillips the trip was for Green 'a crowning happiness in her life' during which she blossomed as a speaker, writer and activist. Green sent in two
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (1782 - 1858), Independent minister of Towyn, Llanegryn, and Llwyngwril. In 1811 he married Sarah Phillips. In 1841 he moved to Rhodiad and S. Davids where he laboured until his death on 11 April 1858; he was buried at Ebenezer, S. Davids. He published Trefn Eglwys dan y Testament Newydd, 1811. Together with John Roberts of Llanbryn-mair (1767-1834), and others, he was responsible for what was called the 'new system.' Their views
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister Trades and Labour Council. He campaigned powerfully against British involvement in World War I. Griffiths studied at the Marxist Central Labour College, 1919-21, at the same time as Aneurin Bevan and Morgan Phillips. He then returned to the coalface, and spent four nights a week giving classes in economics and industrial history. During the inter-war period be quickly rose to prominence within the
HARRY, MILES (1700 - 1776), Baptist minister charged with causing a riot at Pontypool, was acquitted at the Monmouth Assizes in August 1739. He collaborated with his brother John Harry and with John Phillips in a Welsh version (1725) of Alleine's Some Discoveries. He has had no biographer, but his successor at Pen-y-garn, David Jones (1741 - 1792), wrote an elegy: 'Marwnad y Parchedig Mr. Miles Harries o Drosnant' (Carmarthen, 1777).
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor , Greville, and the Foleys, whilst Sir Thomas Picton condescended to fight a duel with him over a quarrel which originated in a ball-room. Charles and his older brother Thomas (1750-1813) have been called 'two of the best-known agriculturists in Wales' of the time, pioneering land improvement measures, such as draining wetlands, but both also acted as Commissioners of Enclosures for Pembrokeshire
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal in January 1951 and in 1957 marked the ter-jubilee of the College with the publication of his book entitled, The South Wales Baptist College (1807-1957). He married Gwladys Marion Phillips from Caersalem, Llanelli, in 1951. Two sons, Philip Maelor Himbury and Dewi Michael Himbury were born to them. The family settled in Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan and while there Mervyn Himbury had

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