Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, RICHARD (1635 - 1708), Quaker , Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, and his brother Thomas Lloyd and other leading Friends accompanied him in journeys to Merioneth and the counties of South Wales. His marriage took place in 1657 at Horsleydown, Southwark. He died 22 January 1708 and was interred in the Friends' burial ground at Cloddiau Cochion.
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, that the 'Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodist Connexion' was drawn up in March 1823. He married 8 June 1825 at S. Peter's church, Carmarthen, Eliza, daughter of David Charles I. He died 17 May 1841, and was buried at Aberystwyth. Of his sons, the youngest, ROBERT JOSEPH DAVIES (1839 - 1892), freeholder, born 2 August 1839 at Llanbadarn Fawr, was educated at
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Mynorydd; 1826 - 1901), sculptor and musician attended singing classes arranged by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu, 1795 - 1871). He became leader of the Welsh Choral Society after Dan Jones. As a sculptor he exhibited about 40 times at the Royal Academy. He made busts of many Welsh preachers, and statues, that of Thomas Charles of Bala, now in front of the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Bala, being his work. He died 22 September 1901, and was buried in the
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, estate, obtained on 20 April 1581 from the College of Heralds a confirmation of the family arms, and also the crest borne by his descendants. He married (1) Catherine, daughter of George Ravenscroft (of Bretton, Flintshire, and (2) Elizabeth, widow of John Haynes. By his first wife he had three sons, of whom the second, THOMAS DAVIES, became a lieutenant-colonel for Charles I and constable of Hawarden
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster - 'even at Carmarthen my last two years were spent in attending principally to the Grammar School.' He was minister at Llwyn-rhyd-owen from 1801/2 to 1810, and it was this appointment which was probably the bone of contention between 'Dafis Castellhywel' and Charles Lloyd (1766 - 1829). He was minister at Coventry (1810-19) and Evesham (1819 - 18 July 1853). He translated (part of) Coke's Scripture
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller English people unable to pronounce 'Cadwaladr'. She adopted 'Davis', as had her older siblings in a similar situation, because it derived from her father's first name and thus used the traditional Welsh patronymic system. A well-known preacher with the Calvinistic Methodists, Dafydd Cadwaladr was a member of Selina Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion and a close friend of the Rev. Thomas Charles of Bala
DAWE, CHARLES (DAVIES) (1886 - 1958), choral conductor Charles Dawe was born on 16 March 1886 in Taibach, Port Talbot, the second of three children of Elizabeth Dawe (b. 1848/9). His father, whose name is not known, died when Charles was a young child. Dawe worked in local industries while taking an interest in music in his leisure time. Early in 1912 he married Edith May Evans (1891-1987), a singer from Cwmafan who had enjoyed considerable success
DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar Born in Wrexham, 7 April 1884, the eldest of four sons of Charles Dodd, the headmaster of the local British Victoria elementary school, and his wife, Sarah (née Parsonage). One brother, Arthur Herbert, became Professor of History at UCNW Bangor, and another, Percy William, was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1919-31. He was educated at his father's school and went on to Grove Park School
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, , but his brother JOHN DOLBEN (of Caeau Gwynion) became through his daughter Emma (married Rev. Hugh Williams of Llantrisant) the grandfather of Sir William Williams the Speaker (1634 - 1700). Another brother, WILLIAM DOLBEN (died 1643), after receiving a pardon from Charles I in 1625 for crimes of violence, was dismissed from the county bench and the aldermanship of Denbigh as a ' common barrator
DRISCOLL, JAMES (1880 - 1925), boxer British champion in 1910. In 1912 he also won the European title. During the 1914-18 war he served with the Welsh Horse, and later became chief instructor to the Army gymnastic staff. Driscoll attempted to resume his boxing career in 1919, but his age, coupled with ill health, resulted in his defeat at the hands of the youthful French contender Charles Ledoux. He died at Cardiff, 30 January 1925.
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist the sons of C.P. Scott, he founded in 1920 the Manchester Guardian Commercial Supplement, a commercial weekly, which first appeared in June 1920 and became very popular, especially for its supplements, in the commercial world. This publication was issued up to 1939 and it gave publicity to Charles Tonge's suggestion that white lines should be painted on roads in order to control traffic. Eames
EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, , perhaps through the influence of Sir John Trevor I, of Trefalun, whom he ultimately succeeded as surveyor (17 December 1632) - his tenure of the office being marked by a ruthless efficiency which materially helped in Charles I's reorganization of the Navy. On 30 August 1630 he bought the estate of Pentre-clawdd. He died at Chatham on 27 August 1638, and is commemorated by an inscription and a well

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