Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician World War II he was appointed Minister of Economic Warfare and he was responsible for creating the Special Operations Executive, an organisation to strengthen internal resistance in the countries occupied by the Germans. Dalton was moved to the Board of Trade in 1942 and his efforts there led to the setting up of the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the National Coal Board. He prepared for peacetime by
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman , Aberystwyth, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. In 1939 he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn. A Western Mail picture shows him wearing spectacles, and poor eyesight is probably why he did not do military service in the Second World War. On 25 July 1942 he married Eiluned Christopher Williams (1914-2003) in London. They made their home in Penarth, and had four children: Helen Talfan Davies, Janet
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher chapel that his interest in literature and theology was stimulated. He lived for a time in Swiss Avenue, Watford, where he prepared the first issue of Heddiw, a small magazine established by Aneirin and his brother Alun, and edited by Aneirin and Dafydd Jenkins. Heddiw ran for six years, 1936-1942, and published work by some of the foremost poets of the twentieth century, such as Gwenallt, R. Williams
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, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor and sank the ship on which she was returning from Australia. After barely two years in North Finchley, Emlyn Davies accepted an invitation to become the National Secretary of the Student Christian Movement in Wales. He moved to Wales in August 1942 and in September married a widow, Elizabeth Fretwell (née Bowden) from North Finchley. The wedding took place in Llandaff Road English Baptist church
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress Born Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1882; her father Edward (1852 - 1898) was the only son of David Davies, ' Top Sawyer ' (1818 - 1890. Her mother Mary, daughter of the Rev. Evan Jones, Trewythen, died in 1888 and three years later Edward married her sister Elizabeth (died 1942). Gwen Davies and her sister Margaret were educated at Highfield School, Hendon, and through foreign travel
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales broadcast annually on 18 May. By chance he became the first person to broadcast in Welsh - on St. David's Day 1923. He made good use of radio, the cinema and the press. Many important articles by him appeared in The Welsh Outlook, Yr Efrydydd, and Y Drysorfa; some of the Welsh ones were collected in Y Byd Ddoe a Heddiw (1938). His article in Y Drysorfa, 1942, on the Welsh Nationalist Party aroused
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner his aunt and uncle's farm. After two years, he took the decision to give this up, and enlisted with the Navy in 1942. On 4 August, he was posted to HMS Collingwood in Portsmouth. He was trained in radar and served on the submarine Excalibur. He never spoke about the war years but we know that his sense of Welsh identity was greatly strengthened and that he, like his parents, wanted Gwynfor Evans to
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar his long life. His Festschrift contains a select bibliography of his works which include: 'The Presence of God in Israel', in Studies in History and Religion, H. Wheeler Robinson Festschrift, ed. E. A. Payne; London, Lutterworth Press, 1942, pp. 11-29; 'The Yahwistic Tradition in the Eighth-Century Prophets', in Studies in Old Testament Prophecy, Theodore H. Robinson Festschrift, ed. H. H. Rowley
DAVIES, HENRY REES (1861 - 1940), antiquary chapter by him on this subject appeared in the Anglesey Inventory, 1937, of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments; his larger work, bearing the characteristically modest title A Review of the Records of the Conway and the Menai Ferries, was published posthumously by the University of Wales in 1942.
DAVIES, HYWEL (1919 - 1965), broadcaster Born in Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 2 February 1919, one of the four children of Ben Davies, Congl. minister and Sarah his wife. He was educated at Llandeilo grammar school and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. with honours in English literature. He first intended becoming a business man and was employed by the Lewis Co. of Manchester, but in 1942 he became an announcer and news
DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician his living as an accountant with I. Rowland Jones Ltd., 1931-39, as a personnel officer with ICI, 1942-47, the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labour, 1947-48, and later with the Aluminium Wire & Cable Co., 1948-59. He was also an official at the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labour, 1947-49. Davies was chosen secretary of Gowerton Welsh Congregational church in 1948. Ifor Davies

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