Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress the tour ensured her return to the USA where she settled for the rest of her life. For a number of years she was involved in the productions of the well known Broadway firm of Comstock and Gest. She appeared, among other plays, in Heart of the Heather, Kitty McKay, Loyalty, and with Richard Bennett in Zach. A spell in musical comedy followed: she sang and danced in Kitty Darling and appeared in
DARLINGTON, THOMAS (1864 - 1908), scholar and inspector of schools the son of Richard Darlington, farmer, Burland, Nantwich, Cheshire; born 22 February 1864, and educated at Whitchurch grammar school, the Leys School, Cambridge, and S. John's College, Cambridge, of which he was a scholar. He obtained a first class in the classical tripos, part I (1884) and the Members' Latin Essay prize (1885), graduated B.A. (London) in 1884, being first in classics, and M.A
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian military interpreter, he was sent to learn Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among his colleagues there were John Silkin (1928-1987), the novelist Richard Mason (1919-1997), Peter Parker who was later the head of British Rail, and John Watkins who was to become a French lecturer at Bangor. He was quickly promoted in the 14th Army in Burma as an intelligence officer
DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council (in Wales and the UK) and the Bible Society. According to Richard H. Morgan in a tribute in the Welsh-language periodical Cristion he was equally powerful when preaching the Word in the pulpits of rural Ceredigion as he was fighting the corner of Wales in meetings of the Bible Society in Swindon. In his role as director of the Welsh Books Council he persuaded the various church denominations to
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Bryan Martin Davies was born in Brynaman, Carmarthenshire, on 8 April 1933, the son of Horace Davies (1900-1950), coalminer, and his wife Evelyn (née Martin, 1909-1997). He was raised in the close community of this Welsh-speaking coalmining area, and participated in its lively poetic culture which had produced luminaries such as the author of englynion, Gwydderig (Richard Williams), and the poet
DAVIES, DAVID (1741 - 1819), author of The Case of Labourers in Husbandry (London, 1795), is often identified with Dr. David Davies (1755 - 1828), headmaster of Macclesfield grammar school [on whom see Foster, Alumni Oxonienses]. The confusion has probably arisen because both were born at Machynlleth and educated at Jesus College, Oxford. David Davies [presumably the man who matriculated in 1761, aged 20, son of Richard Davies
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) . From 1919 David Davies was equally tireless in the pursuit of international peace, carrying on the tradition of the Welsh pioneers Richard Price, Robert Owen, and Henry Richard. A founder of the League of Nations Union, he later gained prominence as the foremost advocate of strengthening the League of Nations by the creation of an International Police Force. In 1932 he established the New
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric D. R. Davies was born 9 February, 1889, in Pontycymer, Glamorganshire, the third of the four children, two boys and two daughters, of Richard and Hannah Davies (née Bedlington Kirkhouse). His younger sister was Annie Davies who was one of the three young women singers who accompanied Evan Roberts during the 1904-05 religious revival in Wales. His father was a coal miner, but when David was aged 8
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD SEABORNE- - see SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph , fled overseas on Elizabeth's accession, leaving Davies still 'custos' of the diocese, in which capacity he filled several vacant livings (all in 1558), till the consecration of bishop Rowland Meyrick (see Meyrick family) in December 1559. In 1561 the translation of bishop Richard Davies (1501? - 1581) to S. Davids left the see of St Asaph vacant, and Thomas Davies was elected, and was hailed by
DAVIES, DONALD WATTS (1924 - 2000), pioneer of digital computing, and of packet switching for data communication ); with Derek Barber, Communication Networks for Computers (1973) which became a classic; with Barber, Price and Solomonides, Computer Networks and their Protocols (1979), a major contribution in this field; Security for Computer Networks (1984; 1989); and other books and joint papers in various scientific journals. He married in 1955 Diane Lucy E. (née Burton) and they had two sons and a daughter. He
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher Cardigan, by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, 1907; A Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, by Richard Fenton, 1903; and An Historical Tour of Monmouthshire, by Archdeacon William Coxe, 1904. He also compiled, edited, and published A General History of the County of Radnor, from the manuscript notes of Jonathan Williams and other sources, 1905, of which R. Mason, of Tenby, had published a much abridged edition

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