Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician Born 30 April 1883, at Skewen, Glamorganshire, son of Morgan de Lloyd, an insurance agent. The family moved several times before eventually settling down at Penparcau, Aberystwyth. While they lived at Carmarthen David attended Pentrepoeth board school. From early childhood he showed remarkable musical ability. In 1894 J.S. Curwen attended the South Wales Tonic Sol-fa Conference held at Carmarthen
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist , but the marks of the decline of the poetic art are only too obvious in his works. Most of these, written in his own hand, are to be found in Peniarth MS 96. His songs were addressed to leading personalities in every part of Wales, but special attention should be paid to his panegyric to ' Caer Dyf' (Cardiff), 1601, his cywyddau addressed to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd, and bishop William Morgan, 1600
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge Herbert Edmund Davies was born on 15 July 1906 in Mountain Ash (Aberpennar), Glamorganshire, the third son of Morgan John Davies, a coal miner, and his wife Elizabeth Maud (née Edmunds). Known as Edmund Davies, he changed his name to Herbert Edmund Edmund-Davies in 1974 when he was given a life peerage. His mother died when he was eight, and in the following years he was partly brought up by his
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
EDWARDS family Stansty, sister MARGARET (died 1651), an ardent disciple of Morgan Llwyd, married John Jones (1597? - 1660) the regicide, whose son John was a friendly correspondent of the archdeacon. Another sister, CATHERINE, married Watkin Kyffin, through whom her brother Jonathan tried in vain, on attaining his Fellowship, to induce the 2nd Sir Thomas Myddelton (to whom Kyffin was agent at Chirk) to send his son to Jesus
EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters insanity. He completed the writing of the autobiography on 1 July 1691; what his history was after that is not known. Y Ffydd Ddi-ffuant has won a secure place for itself among Welsh prose classics. It cannot be denied that Charles Edwards is the chief writer of Welsh prose between the days of Morgan Llwyd and those of Ellis Wynne.
EDWARDS, JOHN (fl. second half of 17th century), preacher and 'strict' Baptist of Abergavenny, and by trade a shoemaker preach at Llan-gors, Brecknock (Cathedine according to Calamy), but was superseded by the Anglican incumbent Thomas Morgan, 9 December 1660. He withstood the hardship of the period of religious persecution which followed, and on 10 August 1672, under the Declaration of Indulgence, his home at Abergavenny was licensed as a meeting house. The date of his death is not known, but there is a reference to
EDWARDS, JOHN (1799 - 1873?), musician Born at Cwmbran-fach in the parish of Llansadwrn, Carmarthenshire. A shoemaker by trade, he spent his life in Llangadock, Carmarthenshire. Taught the elements of music by Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, he was precentor at the local Methodist chapel for many years, during ten years of which he acted also as parish clerk. He conducted classes in music almost every evening in some village or other; he was
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician , Denbighshire, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was taught music by Dafydd Siencyn Morgan, he studied the musical grammars of Tans'ur, Calcott, etc., and became a good musician. In 1836 he published Original Sacred Music, the first book of hymn-tunes for the use of Anglican congregations in Wales; in 1843 a second series appeared. He wrote a large number of hymn-tunes, amongst the most popular
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian was buried at Philadelphia. Morgan Edwards, a conspicuously able and scholarly minister, did much for education: (1) at Philadelphia, of whose college he was M.A. and Fellow; (2) in the college (now Brown University) at Providence, Rhode Island (of which he was M.A. and Fellow), the charter of which he helped to secure and for which he collected thousands of pounds in England and elsewhere. He also
EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament London in 1919 where his fellow students included Aneurin Bevan and James Griffiths. In 1927 he became the full-time secretary of the Penallta Lodge and in 1932 miners' representative for east Glamorgan. In 1938 he became a member of the council of the British Miners' Federation, representing the South Wales Miners' Federation on that body. A year later, following the death of Morgan Jones, he was
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters

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