Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAFYDD Y COED (fl. 1380), poets minor poems prove him to have been a resident of South Wales. One of his poems is a satire upon Rhayader (now in Radnorshire), and in an anonymous lampoon upon him in the ' Red Book ' (col. 1361) Llandovery is named.
DAFYDD, MEURIG (fl. second half of the 16th century), professional bard, staunch Papist, and one of the most important literary characters in Glamorgan Dafydd in the development of the bardic system pictured by Iolo himself and incorporated by him in his work on the mysteries of the bards of the Isle of Britain, are now completely discredited.
DAIMOND, ROBERT (BOB) BRIAN (1946 - 2020), civil engineer and historian in his arm, which led to its amputation. This occurred just as he was starting his 200-page Menai Suspension Bridge book, which he remarkably finished in less than nine months, typing with just his left hand. With characteristic good humour he declared that he could now use his Telford costume to also pose as Lord Nelson or Captain Hook. Bob Daimond died on 19 February 2020 at home in Llansadwrn
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress Eleanor Daniels was born on 28 December 1886 in Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of David Daniels, a hay merchant and publican, and his wife Margaret. She was brought up at the Fountain Inn, 36 (now 40) Thomas Street in Llanelli. The family were members of Capel Newydd Methodist chapel, and Welsh was her first language. She learnt to recite in chapel and achieved her first success in a
DAVID (d. 1139?), bishop of Bangor After the removal of Hervé there is a gap in the history of this see; no bishop was recognized by Canterbury until 1120. In that year, Gruffudd ap Cynan, now on good terms with the king, wrote to the archbishop, saying that one David had been chosen by himself and the clergy and people of Wales, with the royal assent, and asking that he should be consecrated. The request was granted; on 4 April
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher from 1980 onwards, and it now no longer exists. Llyfrau'r Dryw was responsible for the successful 'Crwydro Cymru' series of travel books, to which Aneirin himself contributed three excellent volumes, Crwydro Sir Gâr (1955) and Crwydro Bro Morgannwg in two volumes (1972 and 1976). In 1962 the two brothers established a new Welsh magazine, Barn. Aneirin was its editor for a while, and contributed a
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1826 - 1905), Baptist minister, writer, and printer edition is preserved in Bristol Baptist College, and Davies now translated it into Welsh, adding supplementary information. It is in the form which Davies gave it that modern researchers (including the writers in the present dictionary) use and cite Joshua Thomas's book.
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet , namely the vocabulary of poetry itself, with 'the poem' standing as a symbol of creativity and of virtue against philistinism and despair. His third volume, Deuoliaethau, ('Dualities') appeared in 1976, the culmination of the work of the previous five years; it showed how the poet's experience of geographical fragmentation had now stabilised into an internal symbolic landscape. The volume is divided
DAVIES, CHARLES NICE (1794 - 1842), Independent minister and college tutor the boy (of 12) an ensign. Both went out (1808) to India, where the lad displayed a remarkable talent for learning languages. The step-father was killed, and the young man (now a lieutenant) wounded, at Mysore in 1814; but he recovered to take part in the Peninsular War. Returning to England, he married, and took to religion; he began preaching in 1820, and was minister at several places in England
DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools (1826 - 1872) at Swansea, but was in 1868 made assistant inspector of schools, removing in 1870 to Cheltenham and in 1877 to Bristol. In 1882 (though his actual removal took place in 1883) he was posted to the Merthyr Tydfil district (under William Edwards, 1851 - 1940), but lived at Cardiff. His exile had deepened his love for Welsh, and he now sought to have it taught (not merely used) in the
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES (1893 - 1956), economist months before the Welsh Nationalist Party (now Plaid Cymru) was founded in 1925, while he was unaware of the existence of a nationalist movement in Wales. He returned from Denmark a convinced nationalist in favour of an economic policy of co-operation which placed ownership and control of the means of production in the hands of the workers themselves. After an unsuccessful attempt at establishing a
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian Born 6 February 1875 in Glanrhyd, Cwrtnewydd, Cardiganshire. The house is now called ' Langro ', and has a small plaque on it to mark his birthplace. He was one of the two sons of Evan Davies, blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth (née James). He was educated in the village school and from the age of 14 until he went to University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1894, he was a pupil teacher there

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