Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, THOMAS WITTON (1851 - 1923), Baptist minister, and Semitic scholar Born 28 February 1851 at Nant-y-glo, Monmouthshire, of illiterate but pious parents. The family moved to Witton Park, co. Durham (whence he took his middle name); his elementary schooling there was the only education afforded him before he was over 21. In 1872 he entered the Baptist College at Pontypool; there, in addition to pursuing the prescribed courses, he diligently read Coleridge and
DAVIES, TUDOR (1892 - 1958), singer the British National Opera Co. and remained with that company for the rest of his career. He portrayed Rudolfo in London in 1922, and in 1924 he sang the leading role in the first public performance of Hugh the Drover (Vaughan Williams) in His Majesty's Theatre. He was principal tenor in Sadler's Wells, 1931-41, and with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, 1941-46; and as a resident member of the company
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, he was but 15 years of age, he married, at the parish church of Gresford, Denbighshire, on 29 July 1631, Anne, daughter and co-heiress (with Eleanor, wife of Kenrick Eyton of Eyton, Denbighshire) of Sir Peter Mutton. Robert Davies had just turned 17 years of age when his father died, whereupon he was placed under the joint guardianship of his father-in-law, and of his uncle, colonel Thomas Davies
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea Born 23 March 1882, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Edwards, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The family moved to Lancashire in 1884 and C.A. Edwards was apprenticed in 1898 in the Lancashire and Yorkshire railways foundry. Such was his interest in the properties of metals and alloys that he was appointed assistant to Dr. H.C.H. Carpenter at the National Physical Laboratory in 1905. In 1907 he was co
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor ) against the 'opening' of specifically Welsh endowments at Jesus College, Oxford. In 1883 he co-operated zealously in the foundation of a university college for North Wales - his insistence that this college should be entirely 'secular' (and also non-resident) might seem to be contrary to his previously-expressed views on religion in the schools, but was not really so. The Dean was cut down in his prime
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru named, he edited A catalogue of Star Chamber proceedings relating to Wales (1929), which gives some indication of the field - Welsh history - in which he would have desired to work had he not vowed to serve the Urdd to the best of his ability. He was co-author (with E. Tegla Davies) of Llyfr y bobl bach (1924), a book for young children; author of Yr Urdd 1922-43 (1943); a short autobiography Clych
EDWARDS, LEWIS (1809 - 1887), principal of Bala Calvinistic Methodist College, teacher and theologian edited Yr Esboniwr and in 1847 helped to bring out Y Geiniogwerth. More important than this, however, was the establishment, in co-operation with Roger Edwards and Thomas Gee, of Y Drysorfa, 1845, on the lines of Blackwood's Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Quarterly Review. It is impossible to estimate the intellectual growth of Wales in the 19th century without taking into account his most
EDWARDS, Sir OWEN MORGAN (1858 - 1920), man of letters , and often in the small hours of the morning. In 1890 he was co-editor of Cymru Fydd, but in 1891 started publishing Cymru on his own account, following this with Cymru'r Plant, 1892, Wales, 1894, Y Llenor, 1895, and Heddyw, 1897. He also published small books in Welsh, such as Cartrefi Cymru, 1896, and set to work to reprint considerable selections of the Welsh classics, notably in his series
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines Born at Penshaw, Gateshead, co. Durham, in March or June 1815, one of the six children of Ralph Elliot, under-manager of Whitefield colliery and his wife Elizabeth (née Braithwaite). At the age of 9 he began working 14 hours a day underground. When he was 19 years old he went as a promising trainee to the office of Thomas Sopwith, underground inspector at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, returning to
ELLIS, MORGAN ALBERT (1832 - 1901), Welsh-American preacher and editor ., Cincinatti, Ohio, etc.; he then went westwards and ministered in San Francisco and in Coal Creek, Colorado. When the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Methodists was formed in Columbus, Ohio, in 1869, Ellis became its first secretary. He edited or co-edited Y Cyfaill, Baner America, and Blodau yr Oes a'r Ysgol; he was part-owner of Blodau yr Oes. He died 1 June 1901 at Pueblo, Colorado.
ELLIS, PHILIP CONSTABLE (1822 - 1900), cleric uncompromising Anglo-Catholicism not only led him to refuse to co-operate in any way with Dissenters (a matter on which he came into conflict with some clergymen of an older stamp), but also involved him in a heated controversy with his bishop (Christopher Bethell); the bishop, though himself a High-Churchman, accused Ellis of 'exciting a mischievous agitation,' but had to drop an attempt to discipline him in

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