Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa Caversham Park mansion. During his period the works grew immensely, and enormous quantities of iron were manufactured and great quantities of coal raised to feed the furnaces. His attitude during the celebrated riots at Merthyr tended to exasperate and defy the men. He left Treforest iron-works to his son FRANCIS, the Forest of Dean to HENRY, and the Cyfarthfa works to his youngest son, Robert Thompson
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor 8 November 1954. The funeral was at Llanfair Kilgeddin church, Abergavenny. He was unmarried. Geoffrey Crawshay touched Welsh life at many points, but to his contemporaries he was perhaps best known and most highly regarded for his generous support and encouragement of the youngster of promise in every field of interest.
CUDLIPP, PERCY (1905 - 1962), journalist junior reporter to editor and he created a particular niche in his first appointment as editor in his encouragement of specialist correspondents in an extended field of news and specialist coverage, a format which was adopted by most national and regional newspapers. He was drama critic and humorous columnist of The Sunday News, London, 1925-29, and special writer and film critic of The Evening
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet century, he sang to a number of the leading princes of Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth, and in this respect he is the earliest poet known to have taken the whole of Wales as his field. He also sang awdlau to God, and his 'Song to Tysilio' is largely in praise of Meifod. His only other extant religious poem is the 'Deathbed song.' His poetry is mainly characterized by a quality described by W. J. Gruffydd
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master Hirion form he concentrated on smoothness and simplicity of language, but in his cywyddau gorchest he is much too excessive in his use of cymeriadau; and in his awdlau he is content with nothing less than the most elaborate cynghanedd and the severest classical measures. Most of his poems are cywyddau of love, and in this respect he followed tradition by writing serenades and satires addressed to
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd once more, in 1277, David was re-established in Wales, though on that occasion it was by way of reward from the Crown for the part he had played in bringing about Llywelyn's humiliating defeat in that year. Actually, for a promise of part of Snowdonia David secured only a renewed promise of a reversion thereof, and meanwhile he had to content himself with temporary grants of royal territory in north
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet must be admitted that he could have lived until about 1360 or even later. Dafydd ap Gwilym was one of a number of poets composing in the new cywydd metre in the second quarter of the 14th century. His most prominent contemporaries were Madog Benfras, Gruffudd Gryg, Gruffudd ab Adda, Iorwerth ab y Cyriog and Iolo Goch. Although these poets all display the same creativity in the field of love and
DAFYDD GAM (d. 1415), Welsh warrior Bower, he had a part in the royal victory over Owain Glyn Dŵr at Pwll Melyn, near Usk, on 5 May 1405 (Scotichronicon, ed. W. Goodall, 1759, ii, 452). This date throws doubt upon the familiar story of his treacherous attack upon Owen at the parliament of Machynlleth in 1404; it has other doubtful features, and, in any case, is not heard of until the time of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (died 1667). That
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (d. before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard , three elegies (one on the death of king Henry VII), a cywydd describing ' Ysgraff Porthaethwy,' i.e. the ferry over the Menai Straits, and two 'flyting' poems; sixteen of the above are printed in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1935.
DAFYDD, ROBERT (1747 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher; a weaver Born at Cwmbychan, Nanmor, Meironnydd, son of a weaver named Dafydd Prichard. When about 21 he was affected by a sermon preached by John Robert Lewis, and learned to read in the circulating school kept at Beddgelert by Robert Jones (1745-1829), of Rhos-lan. He then went to live and work in Llangybi parish, Caernarfonshire, married, and set up house at Tyddyn Ruffydd. His name appears as one of
DAI LLWYD (fl. 1485) Cwm Bychan, harpist and warrior He composed the air ' Ffarwel Dai Llwyd ' when leaving home to join the army in its march to Bosworth Field.

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