Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller London two days before their wedding, where she stayed in the house of John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), with whom she claimed distant kinship. During the following period in London, where she worked as a domestic servant, she briefly became engaged to an upholsterer whom the Autobiography designates only as H___. In November 1820, she was hired as maid to the wife of the captain of a merchant ship sailing
DAVIS, ISAAC ('Aikake') (1756 - 1810), mariner and royal advisor chief but missed. Davis, along with the firearms and ammunition, were taken to Kamehameha, a battle-tested chief who was just beginning his military campaign to conquer the archipelago. Wondering what happened to the Fair American and his son Thomas, Simon Metcalfe sent Englishman John Young ashore to investigate. However, Young was subsequently captured by Kamehameha who made use of Davis and Young
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist easy writer of prose. He won the 'Tir Iarll' eisteddfod chair in 1913, his lyrics were awarded the prize at the Port Talbot national eisteddfod, 1932, and his lyrics and cywydd at Neath, 1934. He contributed much to Y Tyst and Y Darian, and to local newspapers. One of his hymns is included in Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd (no. 1049). In 1914 he issued a second edition of Lloffyn Addfed (John
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer , prince of Wales. Though there seems to be no evidence in support of the statement in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1858, 472, that he was a native of Bugeildy (corrupted to ' Beguildy'), near Knighton, Radnorshire, his biographical writings show that he numbered many Welshmen among his special friends, including some of the Herberts, John David Rhys, and Morris Kyffin. There is, besides, at least one letter
DENNIS, HENRY (1825 - 1906), mining engineer, colliery owner, etc. with John Taylor and Son, mining engineers, who entrusted him with the work of constructing a tramway from the Llangollen slate quarries to the Shropshire Union Canal at Llangollen. After spending a short time in Spain, where he was engaged in lead mining, he returned to Denbighshire and became manager of Bryn-yr-owen colliery, near Rhosllannerchrugog, then owned by John Taylor and Son. He
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, A Norman family, one branch of which settled in Herefordshire soon after the Conquest, and eventually acquired important interests in south and central Wales. WALTER DEVEREUX, 1st viscount Hereford (c. 1491 - 1559) The eldest son of John, lord Ferrers, to whose title he succeeded in 1501, adding to it in 1550 that of viscount Hereford. He became a member of the Council of Wales in 1513; in 1525
DEVONALD, JOHN (1863 - 1936), musician
DILLWYN family by 1800 (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 65 - but the statement there that the poet Ieuan Deulwyn was of this family cannot stand). Of the remainder, who retained their name, a WILLIAM DILLWYN, a Quaker, emigrated to Pennsylvania c. 1699 (History of the County of Brecknock 70). His son, JOHN DILLWYN, had a son WILLIAM DILLWYN (1743? - 1824), who returned from
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner Dillwyn's uncle was John Dillwyn-Llewelyn of Penllergare [sic] who, along with his wife Emma Thomasina Talbot, his sister Mary Dillwyn and his daughter, Amy's cousin, Theresa Story Maskelyne, was a pioneer of early photography. Her grandfathers were the naturalist Lewis Weston Dillwyn and geologist Henry De La Beche. On the Dillwyn side, the family were originally Quakers and her great-grandfather was
DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar in the Welsh language and his knowledge of it. Doubtless this benefitted him in his work of translating the scriptures. In June 1925 he married Phyllis Mary, the widow of John Elliott Terry, and a son and a daughter were born to them. He died 22 September 1973. A service of thanksgiving for his life was held in Westminster Abbey on 25 January 1974. This was the first time a Free Church minister had

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