Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer Geoff Charles was born on 28 January 1909 in Brymbo near Wrexham. His father John Charles (1870-1941) served as Secretary of the Brymbo Water Company from 1912-1941. His mother Jane Elizabeth (née Read) (1874-1968) was a Queen's Nurse. He grew up with younger brother Hugh and sister Margaret in the Old Vicarage, a house near the railway, a subject for which he soon developed a life-long
CORY family (died 1909), daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, Newport, Monmouth, by whom he had one daughter, FLORENCE MARGARET CORY, of The Duffryn, S. Nicholas, lady of the manor, and patron of the living (died 11 November 1936), and three sons: (1) HERBERT B. CORY (died 1927); (2) SIR CLIFFORD JOHN CORY, Bart., president of the South Wales Coalowners' Association, 1906 (died 3 February 1941); and (3
CORY family CORY, 3rd baronet, who died 17 March 1941.
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools Born 26 June, 1902, in Bangor, the elder of the two sons of Morgan Daniel (1864 - 1941), Independent minister, and Anna, his wife. J.E. Daniel was educated at Friars School, Bangor and nurtured in the classical tradition. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and in 1922 he took a first class in Classical Moderations and the following year, a first class in Literae Humaniores
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher sign fferyllydd (pharmacist) in the window. His shop and home were completely destroyed by one of the German bombing raids on Swansea in 1941. Aneirin and his family then moved to Tŷ-croes in Carmarthenshire, and he joined the staff of the BBC, initially as a part-time news reader, and then as a producer of radio talks and features. He returned to London for a while to follow his new career in
DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician and later acted as an adviser to the Board. In 1929 Davies was elected Liberal M.P. for Montgomeryshire and he represented the county for the rest of his life. He joined the National Liberals in 1931 but rejoined the Liberal Party in 1941. During World War II he was a strong supporter of the coalition Government. He was leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956. He was zealous in his support for
DAVIES, DAFYDD GWILYM (1922 - 2017), minister, lecturer and Baptist College Principal , Newcastle Emlyn, and Cardigan County School. At the age of seventeen he felt a calling to the Baptist ministry, and he spent the years between 1941 and 1952 preparing for the ministry, at Bangor Baptist College and the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and Mansfield College in Oxford. He gained B.A. degrees in Economics and Classical Greek before graduating B.D. - a higher degree at the time - in
DAVIES, DAVID JACOB (1916 - 1974), minister, author and broadcaster Wales, Aberystwyth in 1941 to study Education and Welsh. He was elected president of the Students' Union in 1944. During his time at Aberystwyth he served as pastor at the Unitarian chapel in New Street, preaching twice every Sunday. As a result of his success in a burlesque recital competition at the Inter-Collegiate Eisteddfod in Cardiff in 1941 he began broadcasting and writing scripts for the BBC
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric Church for succour and he was eventually accepted as a candidate for ordination. Following a course of study at St. Deiniol's Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, he was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1942. He was curate of St. John's, Newland, Hull from 1941 to 1943 and vicar of Emmanuel, West Dulwich from 1943 to 1947, of Holy Trinity, Brighton from 1947 to 1949, and of St. Mary Magdalen, St
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer milestone in the history of the Welsh novel because of its ordered plot and its penetrating study of a soul in anguish. It was translated into English by Nina Watkins as The Master of Penybryn (1975). He published only one other novel: the short satirical novel Gyda'r Glannau (1941). His short stories which appeared in magazines were collected together in Y Llwybr Arian (1934). Apart from a number of
DAVIES, FRANCIS (1605 - 1675), bishop of Llandaff , and lived and held his ecclesiastical courts at the episcopal manor of Mathern. He refounded the cathedral library, which had been destroyed during the Commonwealth, and installed the largest bell in the cathedral tower. He died 14 March 1675 and was buried before the high altar in Llandaff cathedral; his tombstone was revealed after the air-raid of 1941.
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet wide circle in north Wales as an eisteddfod adjudicator, a weekly newspaper columnist, a broadcaster and a W.E.A. tutor. He published two volumes of poetry: Yn Ieuenctid y Dydd (1941) and Y Dwyrain a Cherddi Eraill (1945). A third volume, Yr Ysgub Olaf (1971), was published posthumously. He had been awarded the degree of M.A. of the University of Liverpool in 1958 for a thesis on the life and work of

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