Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, RICHARD (Tafolog; 1830 - 1904), poet and critic ,' 'Tangnefedd,' 'Yr Iachawdwriaeth,' 'Tragwyddoldeb.' Very little of his poetry is of lasting value, but it is an example of the philosophical aspect of the Romantic revival which it was the custom of the age to embody in long poems. His articles in Y Geninen are interesting as giving the standpoint of the followers of Islwyn, the school known as 'the New Poets.' He died 5 February 1904.
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1818 - 1891), Wesleyan minister Born at Denbigh, 1818, son of David and Anne Davies. He was admitted to the ministry in 1843. He edited Y Winllan, 1854-5, and was editor of Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd for two periods, 1859-65 and 1875-86. He was secretary of the province of North Wales, 1858-65, and chairman of the same province, 1866-86. He published a memoir of Samuel Davies ' the 1st ' under the title Samuel Davies a'i Amserau
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic gatherings. Politically he was a Whig of the Walpole school : this explains largely why, in his essay 'Rhyddid,' he failed to understand the significance of the French Revolution. He died 5 December 1849.
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, 1644-5-6 and 1660, and his name appears among those deemed qualified to be made a Knight of the Royal Oak at the Restoration. He died 4 October 1666 and was buried at Mold. There were six sons and seven daughters of his marriage, of whom the oldest son, MUTTON DAVIES (1634 - 1684), soldier, inherited Llannerch Park from his mother, and there, in the reign of Charles II, made beautiful gardens after
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller members were ill or injured. She also delivered several babies. As she grew older she spent more time back in Britain, working first as a servant in north Wales in 1844-5 and south Wales in 1849. She then spent approximately a year as a nurse at Guy's Hospital in London, later hiring as a private nurse in patients' homes. In the autumn of 1854 she read a newspaper report of the Battle of the Alma, the
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist next two years in the University College at Cardiff, and the two following years at Brecon. In February 1891 he accepted a call to Saron Congregational church, Birchgrove, where he was ordained, 5 and 6 July 1891. In the following year the young church at Carmel, Morriston, invited him to be their minister on his free Sunday, once every month. In 1904 he confined his ministry entirely to the church
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer question (F. G. Payne in N.L.W. Jnl., i, 42-3) and who is mentioned several times in Dee's diary. He also called Thomas Jones, 'Twm Shôn Catti' with whom he was acquainted, 'cousin'. Dee graduated from S. John's College, Cambridge, 1544/5, and was nominated one of the original Fellows of Trinity College on its foundation in 1546. He visited the Low Countries in 1547, and was a student at Louvain from
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, (1648) and took refuge (c. 1653-5) at Gwydir, Llanrwst, where his mother's sister Grace and her husband Sir Owen Wynn employed him as agent and his kinsman Sir Thomas Myddelton the Roundhead general lent him money. Secretly ordained at Oxford in 1656, he obtained preferment after the Restoration, becoming dean of Westminster (1662), bishop of Rochester (1666), and archbishop of York (1683). He had a
DWNN, JAMES (c. 1570 - c. 1660), poet burning of Mathafarn House by Cromwell's soldiers in 1644, and to the four cywyddau on holy days - 'ar yr epistol ddydd gwyl y Gwirionedd,' 'y Sul gwedi yr Natolig,' 'ddydd Calan,' and 'dydd gwyl Ystwyll' (NLW MS 7191B (262-5)).
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist Marion Eames was born in Birkenhead, 5 February 1921, the second of three daughters of William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979). Her maternal grandparents had moved to Merseyside from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, followed as a very young man by her father. Her upbringing was that of a Welsh-speaking family, her parents members of Woodchurch Road chapel
EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, November 1647) for the office of protonotary and clerk for Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire on the ground of the 'delinquency' of his predecessors in reversion to the office, and in 1654 he added the stewardship of Oswestry, but he himself was under formal charge of delinquency from 1653-5 (though the case was never concluded) and from the king's execution till 1657 he was out of local politics
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd Ednyfed ap Cynwrig (died 1246), claiming descent from Marchudd, was a member of one of a group of kindreds long settled in Rhos and Rhufoniog. As seneschal (in Welsh, distain) of Gwynedd c. 1215-1246 (A History of Wales, ii, 684-5), his political and military services to Llywelyn the Great were rewarded, not only by the grant to Ednyfed himself of bond vills in Anglesey, Nantconwy, Arllechwedd

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