Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller , a second party of nurses led by Mary Stanley, of whom Betsi Cadwaladr was one, was recruited and left London on 2 December 1854. Nightingale was not informed of this until a week before their ship arrived at Istanbul, when it was too late for them to be turned back. As a result, they found themselves unwanted, with inadequate accommodation and nothing to do. Cadwaladr, bored and frustrated, blamed
DAVIS, RICHARD (1658 - 1714), Independent minister
DAWE, CHARLES (DAVIES) (1886 - 1958), choral conductor a career as a music teacher and voice coach. He became an American citizen in 1927. At some point after emigrating to the U.S.A. he adopted his mother's maiden name Davies as his own middle name. The spelling 'Davis' is found in American sources. In 1921 he founded a male choir, the 'Orpheus Male Chorus', in Cleveland,: the choir gave its first concert in March of that year. Two years later, in
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist Born 16 December 1864 at Bryncethin, near Bridgend, his father, Thomas, being farmer of the smallholding of Cae-helyg Bach, a collier at Park Slip, and a lay preacher, and his mother, Mary, a member of the David family of Pencoed. On his father's side, he was descended from the illustrious families of Gamage and Dawkins. His mother died in 1877, his father was killed in the colliery, 14 August
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary Owens College, Manchester, 1874-1909. He was elected F.R.S. in 1867, and honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 1882; he was awarded the Lyell medal of the Geological Society, 1889, and the Prestwich medal, 1918, and was knighted, 1919. He married (1886) Frances, daughter of Robert Speke Evans, and (1922) Mary Poole. He died at Bowdon, Cheshire, 15 January 1929. Dawkins was a pioneer in the study of
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician Morgan of Aberystwyth. He often adjudicated at national eisteddfodau. In 1919 he returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer in the music department when Sir H. Walford Davies came to occupy the vacant chair. The numerous extra-mural activities of the professor threw more work on to the shoulders of the lecturer and de Lloyd became responsible for the choral society, the college orchestra and the weekly
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, steward of the household of Mary, Princess of Wales, and C. J. of South Wales; in 1526 chamberlain of South Wales and of the counties of Cardigan and Carmarthen. He was also high steward of Builth and steward of Old Carmarthen. In 1531 a large share of the confiscated estates of Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd (see under Rice of Dynevor) fell to Devereux, who thus 'assumed the leadership of West Wales ' (Laws
DILLWYN family which he was mayor in 1839), he was one of the founders of the Royal Institution of South Wales; and he published in 1840 a small book on the history of the town. He died 31 August 1855. He had married (1807) Mary, daughter of John Llewelyn, of Pen-lle'r-gaer, Llangyfelach; the family of LLEWELYN, originally of Ynys-gerwn (Neath), had succeeded to the Pen-lle'r-gaer estates c. 1790, on the extinction
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
DONALDSON, JESSIE (1799 - 1889), teacher and anti-slavery activist Jessie Donaldson was born on 18 February 1799 in Ware, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Samuel Heineken (1768-1856), a London lawyer, and his wife Jannet. She was baptised on 11 April at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Swan Yard, Ware. Later the family moved first to Bristol, then to Swansea where they made their home in Dynevor Place. From 1829 she and her sister, Mary Ann, ran a school for
DONNE, JAMES (1764 - 1844), cleric and schoolmaster succeeded his father as headmaster at Oswestry. Donne corresponded with a group of Welshmen who were interested in cultural matters, among these being Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), W. J. Rees of Cascob, Hugh Davies (author of Welsh Botanology), Rowland Williams, Ysgeifiog, John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), and others.

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