Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist fantell fraith, in collaboration with his summer school class in Harlech in 1942; and also Ynys Afallon, a partially-metrical play on the history of Wales, which he himself considered to be his most ambitious experiment. He did not compose many poems. Nevertheless, it is as a poet that he is remembered because he left a message for his own age in his few poetical works, and in one poem in particular
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster main purpose. The family home was initially in Scott Street, then at 'Gwynant', Dumfries St., Treherbert. He married Olwen Williams, the daughter of Uriel Roger Williams, a shopkeeper, in Porth in January 1942; the couple had two children, Susan and Geraint. He worshipped at the Blaencwm Welsh Chapel, Tynewydd, and was its secretary for more than forty years. He was awarded the MBE for services to
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder noticed; ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942) married (1) Thomas Edward Ellis and (2) the Rev. Peter Hughes Griffiths; WALTER ERNEST LLEWELLYN (1874 - 1941) was a physician; and ELIZA (Lily) (1876 - 1939) married J. E. Hughes (1865 - 1932).
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar of the Divinity tripos in 1940 followed by an M.A. in 1942. He was ordained minister in Fowlmere Chapel, Cambridgeshire in 1941, and continued as part-time tutor in his college. He married Eurwen Llewelyn, also a miner's daughter from Glanamman, in 1941. They remained in Cambridge until 1946 when he was appointed tutor in New Testament at Yorkshire United College, Bradford, a training college for
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge , Lisa and Shan. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1940. Later, however, he was transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Department. Despite the disruption of wartime, Edmund-Davies did not lose contact with non-military legal practice. In 1942 he was appointed to the recordership of Merthyr Tydfil, and in 1944 he was appointed to
EDWARDS, EDWARD (Pencerdd Ceredigion; 1816 - 1897), musician the town. He spent some time at Tredegar, Monmouth, but returned to Aberystwyth. He formed a choir at Tabernacle chapel; this choir, by its performances of the 'Messiah,' 'Creation,' 'The Seasons,' and the 'Twelfth Mass,' did much to raise the standard of music in the town. Pencerdd Ceredigion died 16 September 1897 and was buried in the Aberystwyth cemetery. JACK EDWARDS (1853 - 1942), bookseller
EDWARDS, JOHN (1882 - 1960), politician and barrister but he lost the seat to Ramsay Macdonald in 1921. He stood as an independent candidate for the University of Wales seat in 1923 but George M.Ll. Davies was elected. He was called to the bar in Gray's Inn in 1921. He was the High Sheriff for Cardiganshire in 1942. Edwards had an interest in Welsh drama and published a play, Galw'r môr (1923), as well as a memoir of his father, Edwards Castellnedd
EDWARDS, JOHN MENLOVE (1910 - 1958), rock climber , founded the Rock Climbing Club. He soon became one of the leading figures during the second golden age of climbing in Snowdonia. He was the pioneer of the 'three crags' of Llanberis Pass and was the author of the Climbing Club handbooks on Cwm Idwal (1936); Tryfan (1937) and Lliwedd (1939) in collaboration with Wilfrid Noyce; and Clogwyn du'r Arddu (1942) with J.E.Q. Barford. Exceptionally strong, he
EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament Buchenwald in 1945 and represented British colliers in the ceremony to unveil a memorial to the villagers of Lidice in Czechoslovakia. He was elected secretary of the parliamentary group representing coal mining areas in 1942 and chairman of the parliamentary group of Labour trade unionists in 1964. Following the Labour Party victory of 1945 he became parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Labour. It
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist first collection The Stones of the Field, 1942 (the jacket of which was drawn by Eldridge). After two years (1940-42) at Tallarn Green (in what was then Flintshire), where R. S. Thomas was curate-in-charge at St Mary Magdalene's Church, the couple moved to Manafon in Montgomeryshire, where Thomas became rector at St Michael's. Their only child, Gwydion Andreas (1945-2016) was born there. Eldridge
ELLIS, EDWARD LEWIS (1922 - 2008), historian and biographer Wales, Aberystwyth, in October 1941 primarily to study history, but was called up to serve in the royal navy from 1942 until the end of the war. Here he served as a gunnery officer and attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1945 he returned to Aberystwyth to continue his undergraduate studies and graduated with an exceptionally good First Class Honours degree in history in 1947. In the same year Ellis
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author esgyrn (1955), a volume of essays on contemporary subjects. He was the author of The Development of higher education in Wales (1935) and a pamphlet Blind guides? (1942) under the pseudonym ' Timothy Stone ', dealing with the future of the University of Wales. He was a member of the commission set up in 1960 to review the administration of the University of Wales. He was president of the Old Students

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